CONTRASTING STYLES
"HREE new jazz programmes starting this week all come from America. They feature Billy May, Art Van Damme and Dave Brubeck. Billy May, well known for his tesearch into Amefican and Indian music, recently took sOme time off to investigate the traditions of Dixie. The result was that he has now, produced his own version of the style in a disc called "Sorta Dixie." Mounting a big band with almost as mary woodwinds as a symphony orches-
tra, he uses his men in various ways. A lot of the time he has a front line Dixie concertino of four soloists playing against a twenty-one piece ripieno-or against sections of it. His numbers include "Oh By Jingo’--with the sultan’s theme from Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade breaking in, "Sugar Foot Strut," "South Rampart Street Patade"-with a hot piccolo solo, "Riverboat Shuffle," featuring a calliope, king of circus music, and "Sheik of Araby." (2YA, Monday, July 16, 10.0 p.m.) Art Van Damme’s programme "Manhattan Times," is a companion volume to the earlier "Maftini Time," and continues the style of light swinging rhythm that has made his group such a popular one. Art brings out the jazz possibilities of the accordion very well. For a long timé it was a marginal kind of instru-
ment and shared the fate of the harmonica, the flute, the oboe and even the violin as far as jazz and popular music was concerned. Here it is neatly blended into an attractive sound texture producing a solidly musical tone over a firmly swinging base. (2YA, Monday, July 16, 10.30 p.m.) The third programme, "Red, Hot and Cool," shows Dave Bruibeck in excellent form in a live recording made at the Basin Street Night Club in New York. The numbers show the tremendous rapport that exists between Brubeck and altoist Paul Desmond. "Lover" is particularly interesting, for here a new effect is tried out. Dave at the piano plays in 3/4, and Joe Dodge’s drum comes in with an insistent 4/4. The two rhythms hold their own time and the final effect is like some of the contrapuntel experiments begun many years ago by the Brubeck octet. (2YD, Thursday, July 19, 9.0 p.m.) ne EE AE ES ST
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 884, 13 July 1956, Page 27
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