TEMPO di JAZZ

Radio Record, 5 June 1936, Page 10

TEMPO di JAZZ

HORGH BURGHSS, the trumpet virtuoso, has left the Romany Band for Percival Mackey’s new Show Band. ME. JACK HYLTON’S band is scoring a big suceess with the new number, "Lights Out." RICHARD HIMBER, one of New York's smartest society leaders, has banned al] vocal choruses and is presenting instrumental solos. HH Hawajian Islanders, four brothers:from Edghaston, Birming-ham--instrumentation, steel guitar, Spanish guitar, uke and string basshave appeared on the records, Or every conedivable occasion au England ig using a stock phrase, "You can’t do that there ’era.’. It tg the title of Huntley Trevor’ latest song success. STurr SMITH, a hot violinist who Is claimed to be greater than Joe Venuti, is now at the JInyx Clnb in New York with his coloured sextet, He is packing the house nightly. Stuff is a new discovery from Buffalo. "TO me a capacity house where a radio act is appearing resembles the crowd outside a prison when a mutderer is being executed. After all, the condemned man is no show, yet he fnvariably draws a ¢rowd." ~~. Julien Vedey. JN Duke Ellington’s latest musieal offspring, "Reminiscing in Tempo." we ara told he was influenced by thoughts of Delius, Stravinsky and Debussy. The work calls for concentrated study to truly appreciate it. "WHY is it?’ asks 2 London music publisher, "that in getting recognition for the work of British songwriters we find it four times as diffi-cult--have, in fact, to work eight times harder than is the case with the work of Americans?" ENRY HALL'S new swing singer, Vivienne Brooks, left a convent school three years ago to embark on a eareer of "Kennel Maid in Chief" on her mother’s dog-farm. ~JACK PAYND and His Band have opened a four-month tour of South Africa, M HUGUES PANASSIP’S "Le "Jazz Hot." a remarkable book which has heen called the Bible of swing music. was published in an English edition during April under the English title. "Hot Jazz," by M. Witmark and Sons, THE Anollo Theatre in Harlem, New York, continues to be the Mecca of all swing fans. T the past two months Duke Pllineton. GLonis Armstrong. Earl Hines. Clande Hovkinse and Luis Russell, with théit bands, have appeared on its staze.