Organise Your Jazz Party for Aug. 27.

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 4, 12 August 1927, Page 16

Organise Your Jazz Party for Aug. 27.

2YA Will Give Music from 9 to 11. Allen’s popular dance orchestra, featured below, will provide the music for a special jazz dance programme from 2YA on the evening of Saturday, August 27. There will be two solid hours of enjoyment from 9 to 11. Send out your invitations and let us know how you enjoy it.

A treat is in store for fisteners-in when Allen’s Orchestra is on the air, By giving the public what they want, this orchestra hag made itself one of the most popular combinations of its kind in Wellington, This popularity is as much due to the individual members as to the band as a whiole, Noisy jazz is unknown to the -orchestra, and all their numbers ere of the melodious type, but with plenty of pep and rhythm. They play ail thicir dances at the correct tempo, and of this

one of New Zealand’s leading ballroom dancing teachers says: "I consider Allen’s Orchestra most up-to-date. ‘They can always be relied upon to play the various dances at the cortect tempo, and therefore the orchestra should be much appreciated by all good dancers." Many other compliinents, too numerous to be mentioned, have been paid to the organisation, — They were heard on the air quite a number of times from 2YK, and their efforts were always appreciated hy listeners.in. and it is honed that this

orchestra will be a regular feature from 2YA, when a larger band of listeners will have the pleasure of "meeting the boys via the ain." The personnel of the orchestra conSists of:-Alan Wilson, piano; Hric Worth, yiolin; Jack MckHwen, _ first saxophone; Cyril Meliwen, second saxophone; Bert McEwen, third saxophone; Norm, Piez, first trumpet; Clarry Cummings, second _ trumpet; Bert Suteliffe, trombone; Goer, banjo; Mel. Wilkens, drums; Frank Liovd, bass. Conductor, J, Mcliwan,

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