Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 22nd Oct 2019

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On this week’s Phantom Dancer presented by myself, Greg Poppleton, the second 2SER Supporter Drive 2019 show,  I’ve put together a non-stop mix of some of my favourite and rare swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio. The feature artist this week is trad trombonist Kid Ory in broadcasts from 1949, 54 and 55.

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kid ory

ORY

Edward ‘Kid’ Ory was a Louisiana French-speaking bandleader and one of the most influential trombonists of early jazz.

He started playing music with homemade instruments in his childhood. By his teens he was leading a well-regarded band in southeast Louisiana. He kept LaPlace, Louisiana, as his base of operations because of family obligations until his twenty-first birthday, when he moved his band to New Orleans.

TAILGATE

Ory was a banjo player during his youth. He said banjo skills helped him develop ‘tailgate’, his style of playing the trombone with a rhythmic line underneath the trumpets and cornets.

Ory had one of the best-known bands in New Orleans in the 1910s, hiring many of the great jazz musicians of the city, including the cornetists Joe ‘King’ Oliver, Louis Armstrong, who joined the band in 1919, and clarinetists Johnny Dodds and Jimmie Noone.

WEST

He moved to Los Angeles in 1919 and recorded there in 1921 with a band that included Mutt Carey, the clarinetist and pianist Dink Johnson, and the double bassist Ed Garland. Garland and Carey were longtime associates who would still be playing with Ory during his 1940s comeback which we’ll be hearing on this week’s Phantom Dancer.

kid ory club hangover

NORTH

In 1925, Ory moved to Chicago to play record with Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Oliver, Johnny Dodds, Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey. He mentored Benny Goodman and, later, Charles Mingus.

WEST AGAIN

During the Great Depression Ory retired from music. He did not play again until 1943. He ran a chicken farm in California. From 1944 to about 1961 he led one of the top New Orleans–style bands of the period. His sidemen during this period included Carey and Garland, the trumpeters Alvin Alcorn and Teddy Buckner; the clarinetists Darnell Howard, Jimmie Noone, Albert Nicholas, Barney Bigard, and George Probert, pianists Buster Wilson, Cedric Haywood, and Don Ewell, and drummer Minor Hall.

IMPORTANT

The Ory band was an important force in reviving interest in New Orleans jazz, making popular 1940s radio broadcasts—among them a number of slots on The Orson Welles Almanac program. In 1944–45 the group made a series of recordings for Crescent Records, which was founded by Nesuhi Ertegun for the express purpose of recording Ory’s band.

During the late 1940s and early 1950s, Ory and his group appeared at the Beverly Cavern in Los Angeles. In the mid-50s he played Club Hangover in San Francisco. Ory retired from music in 1966 and spent his last years in Hawaii.

VIDEO

This week’s Phantom Dancer video of the week is film of Kid Ory playing with Henry ‘Red’ Allen at the Salle Pleyel Paris in 1959.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8GTxSg93kM

22 OCTOBER PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio
Community Radio Network Show CRN #410

107.3 2SER Tuesday 22 October 2019
After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT)
National Program:
ArtsoundFM Canberra Sunday 10 – 11pm
Edge FM Bega Monday 3 – 4pm
7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 – 9pm
2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm
3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am
and early morning on 23 other stations.

Set 1
Selling Cars in 1936
Open + It’s You I’m Talking About
Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Bob Crosby
‘Ford V8 Revue’
Radio Transcription
1936
Open + On Your Toes
Fred Waring and The Pennsylvanians (voc) Glee Club and Johnny Davis
‘Ford and Lincoln Program’
WABC CBS NY
14 Apr 1936
I’d Rather Lead a Band + Close
Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Bob Crosby and The Freshman Trio
‘Ford V8 Revue’
Radio Transcription
1936
Set 2
Jazz from 1960 Radio
Open + Love Letters
Rodolfo Alchurron Quartet
‘Este es Jazz’
LR1 Radio Buenos Aires
28 Mat 1960
Get Out of Town
Patty MacGovern
‘Jazz International’
AFRTS Re-broadcast
Los Angeles
16 Jun 1960
Rhythm-a-Ning
Thelonius Monk
‘World Jazz Series’
Connie Mack Park
Hershey, Pennsylvania
CBS
3 Mar 1960
Set 3
Earliest Radio
Open + I’m a Dreamer, Aren’t We All?
Leonard Joy Orchestra
‘Coca Cola Top Notchers’
WEAF NBC Red NY
19 Mar 1930
Call Of The Freaks
Red Nichols Orchestra
‘Heat’
Radio Transcription
1 Aug 1930
Medley (includes If I Can’t Have You + I’ll Close My Eyes To The Rest of the World
Colonial Club Orchestra
‘Brunswick Brevities’
WABC CBS NY
Oct 1929
Set 4
Kid Ory
Theme + Royal Garden Blues
Kid Ory
Club Hangover
KCBS San Francisco
5 Feb 1955
Theme + Mississippi Mud
Kid Ory
Beverly Cavern Club
KGFJ Los Angeles
28 Jun 1949
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate + Chinatown, My Chinatown
Kid Ory
Club Hangover
KCBS San Francisco
6 Nov 1954
Set 5
Breakfast Radio 1935-55
Open + Habanera
Unidentified Orchestra
WJSV CBS Washington DC
21 Sep 1939
Pick Yourself Up + A Fine Romance
Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Skinnay Ennis
Morning Radio
Oct 1935
I Never Knew
Rayond Scott’s Captivators
‘Morning Music’
WABC CBS NY
10 Jan 1943
Open+ Rain
Dorsey Brothers’ Orchestra
‘NBC Bandstand’
WRCA NBC NY
1956
Set 6
Women Singers on the Air
Oh Babe, Maybe Some Day
Ivie Anderson (voc) Duke Ellington Orchestra
Cotton Club
WABC CBS NY
24 Mar 1938
They Can’t Take That Away from Me
Billie Holliday (voc) Count Basie Orchestra
Aircheck
Savoy Ballroom, Harlem
30 Jul 1937
Mad About The Boy
Lena Horne (voc) Fletcher Henderson Orchestra
‘Jubille’
AFRS Hollywood
1944
There’ll Be A Jubilee
Dinah Washington (voc) Lionel Hampton Orchestra
‘One Night Stand’
Trianon Ballroom
Culver City CA
AFRS Re-broadcast
16 Jun 1944
Set 7
1943 – 45 Australian Swing
Jungle Jive
George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Elsie Wardrope
Comm Rec
Sydney
Johnny Zero
George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Joan Blake
Comm Rec
Sydney
Say a Prayer For the Boys Over There
George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Joan Blake
Comm Rec
Sydney
There, I’ve Said It Again
George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Tassie Hamilton
Comm Rec
Sydney
Set 8
Charlie Parker
Scrapple From The Apple
Charlie Parker
‘Symphony Sid Show’
Royal Roost
WMCA NY
15 Jan 1949
What Is Bop?
Symphony Sid
‘Symphony Sid Show’
Royal Roost
WMCA NY
19 Feb 1949
Oo-Bop-Sha-Bam
Charlie Parker (voc) Band
‘Symphony Sid Show’
Royal Roost
WMCA NY
22 Jan 1949

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