TEMPO di JAZZ

Radio Record, Volume XI, Issue 1, 10 July 1936, Page 12

TEMPO di JAZZ

PETER MAURICE sold 600,000 copies of "Isle of Capri" in the United. States alone. AJOR BOWES’ Amateur Hour is still the leading radio show in America, according to a ballot. Jack Benny, with the Johnny Green Orchestra, is second, with Rudy Vallee in third position, eS his latest work ("Reminiscing in Tempo." by Duke Ellington) I ean see, not a new Ellington, but another facet of that remarkable gem which is the mind of Duke Ellington-Enzo Archetti, EN BERNIE is said to smoke a cigar while conducting, and Ted Lewis wears a top hat and cape as he plays! BIGHTY-EIGHT per cent, of the musical works’ broadeast in the United States are of American origin, according to latest statistics. Four per cent. are British. Who said, "Art is universal’? PARLOPHONE (in Bngland) has just issued a booklet listing the personnels of the orchestras included in their "Rhythm-Style Series." As personnels. are very important to "swing" rhythm and jazz fans generally, this idea might well be copied all round. BILiy MERRIN .composed the incidental music to Sandy Powell's picture, "Can't You Hear Me, Mother?" When will New Zealand see this film? ‘At 18, Jack Hyiton conducted his : vwn orchestra with a classiecalpopular style which brought bim ex tended engagements at some of Lon don’s swankiest spots, including the Piccadilly Hotel and the Queen’s Hall Cabaret, FERDE GROFE, whose orchestrations for Whiteman and whose own "Grand Canyon Suite" attained national prominenwe and popularity, has composed a "Rudy Vallee Suite" in honour of Rudy's sixth anniversary as impressario of the commercial radio avut over whieh he presides. The new 3arofe work presents a musical picture of Vallee’s phenomenal career from early boyhood toa his present fame. OME years ago. hefore 1 exchanged my draftsman’s pencil for a baton, IT read somewhere that Pau! Whiteman took three hours to rehearse &@ song for presentation I definitely reeall how 1 marvelled and taughed at the time at the sillv idea that the greatest orchestra should spend three hours rehenrsing a piece that ran five minntes and often only three How ever, Mr. Whiteman if hé chooses ean sit hack and eniny the last and loudest laneh. for it freqnentiy requires as long as three weeks for ns te mond one number info same sambtanee af coarth{ ness. Fred Waring of ‘Pennsvivanjans" fame,