Alix Combelle French swing saxophonist, clarinetist and bandleader is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist from 1930s-40s commercial sides.

This show was to be mixed live-on-air 17 March 2020. However, the 2SER studio closed due to COVID. So this was the first live Phantom Dancer in over five months on 1 September 2020. Now Sydney is in lockdown again. So, since I can’t go into the studio, this will be the first Phantom Dancer of the second Sydney lockdown.

The Phantom Dancer is produced and presented by 1920s-30s singer and actor Greg Poppleton . You can hear it online from 12:04pm AEST Tuesday 29 June at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

The last hour is all vinyl.

ALIX

Alix Combelle, French swing saxophonist, clarinetist and bandleader came from a musical parisian family

His father, François Combelle, played classical saxophone with the Band of the Republican Guard.

Alix Combelle played drums in the late 1920s. In the early 1930s he played clarinet and saxophone in theater pit orchestras in Paris.

He was a member of a bands led by Gregor (Krikor Kelekian), Arthur Briggs, Michel Warlop, Guy Paquinet, and Ray Ventura.

He worked with visiting American musicians such as Benny Carter, Adelaide Hall, Coleman Hawkins, Freddy Johnson, and Danny Polo. He was a member of Bill Coleman’s band when it included Argentinian swing guitarist Oscar Aleman. He performed with French singers such as Charles Trenet and Jean Sablon and recorded with Philippe Brun. In the 1940s he led the band Jazz de Paris. His son, Philippe, was a drummer.

VIDEO OF THE WEEK

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29 JUNE PLAY LIST