Success Stories
| ANOTHER programme of Les Elgart’s dance music can be heard from 2YA at 10.0 p.m. on Monday, August 6. Les -Elgart was born in New Haven, Connecticut, studied music as a child and later joined Woody Herman’s band. After a period on the staff of the CBC, he resigned in order to give full time to his orchestra, which, in a little over a year, has become a great success. He writes of his band .. . "this is largely an ensemble band. We give them the melody but within a good musical context." The Calvin Jackson Quartet (2YD, 9.35 p.m., Thursday, August 9), made its New York debut in June, ’55, with a brief and unheralded engagement in the Basin Street Night Club. Before the Quartet went back to its home base in Canada it was re-engaged, signed to a record contract and booked for three major TV shows. A_ combination of music and showmanship is supposed to have done it. Calvin Jackson graduated from the Juilliard School of Music in 1941, and toured America twice with Larry Adler.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 887, 3 August 1956, Page 26
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180Success Stories New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 887, 3 August 1956, Page 26
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