A DISAPPOINTMENT
Sir-Your par in the "Things to Come" section on the "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street " recital led me to expect something good in the jazz idiom. That expectation was misplaced. In the first place the show was borrowed from the National Broadcasting
Company’s weekly programme of the same name that has been running in America for at least two years. From the jazz point of view this never was much of a programme anyhow. The local NBC studio dance band, led by " Paul Laval" and "Henry Levine" (two very ordinary local musicians) masqueraded under the name of a Dixieland Group, and sounded about as much like one as a hen trying to imitate a dive bomber. In the second place the only local talent used in the New Zealand version was the compére, Doc. Ricardo McMutt. At least I think he was local. I cannot visualise the NBC of America using such a high old. piece of gorgonzola. In short, the show was corny. There were only two good things about it. The idea, which was misused, and Dinah Shore, an impeccable singer who could never put a foot wrong no matter what the accompaniment was like, But a better compére, with a better script, and better chosen records, could make this show a highlight of the week’s listening.
SATCH
(Orangapai).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 167, 4 September 1942, Page 3
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225A DISAPPOINTMENT New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 167, 4 September 1942, Page 3
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