Original air date - Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 11th Apr 2023

Bud Freeman was an American jazz musician, bandleader and composer. He is this week's Phantom Dancer feature artist. Bud Freeman was one of the first tenor saxophonists in jazz along with Coleman Hawkins. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcGDbdcQml0[/embed] The Phantom Dancer is your weekly non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV every week. LISTEN to this week's Phantom Dancer mix (online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 11 April) and two years of Phantom Dancer mixes online at, at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/ [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SawvMbEW0GQ[/embed]

SCHOOL

Freeman was one of the young musicians inspired by New Orleans ensembles and the innovations of Louis Armstrong to synthesize the Chicago style in the late 1920s. He was one of the 'Austin High Gang'. One hundred years ago, in 1922, five kids from Austin High School in Chicago, Illinois formed a little band: Jim Lanigan on piano, Jimmy McPartland on cornet, his older brother Dick McPartland on banjo and guitar, Frank Teschemacher on alto saxophone, and Bud Freeman on C-melody tenor saxophone. Bud was the greenhorn of the group and the only one who did not also play the violin. At the time, their ages ranged from Jimmy McPartland, who was fourteen, to Jim Lanigan and Dick McPartland, seventeen. Teschemacher was sixteen and Freeman was slightly younger. The boys, like many other students from their high school, frequented an ice cream parlor across the street known as “The Spoon and the Straw.” One of them would feed a nickel to the automatic phonograph and one day they discovered a record by the New Orleans Rhythm Kings. They were so enthralled by the sound of such authentic jazz that they played the record over and over. Then and there, they named their band "The Blue Friars," after The Friar's Inn on the Chicago Loop where the Rhythm Kings played. They went and heard King Oliver’s Creole Jazz Band live, rounding off their identity with New Orleans jazz. Sometimes the Austin High Gang played at Lewis Institute, which Dave Tough attended, and he added his drums to the little band. Later, Jim Lanigan picked up the bass through Chink Martin’s playing and soon became the band’s bassist; Teschemacher also began practicing the clarinet, his style showing traces of the glissandi from violin playing. Dave found Floyd O’Brien playing trombone at a University of Chicago jam session. Then, recruiting him and pianist Dave North, they named themselves Husk O’Hare’s Wolverines and were ready to play professionally. They got a job at White City, a large dance hall of Chicago’s south side amusement park, where they played until their disbandment at the end of the White City engagement. In 1927, Eddie Condon recorded the Austin High Gang as the "Mackenzie-Condon Chicagoans". These recordings catapulted the young musicians into the spotlight and they all subsequently developed acclaimed careers in New York, playing and recording with established musicians like Jack Teagarden, Pee Wee Russell, Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey. Of the original Austin High Gang, Jimmy McPartland and Bud Freeman sustained the longest careers in jazz [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNxk7vpkz8k[/embed]

EEL

By the 1930s, Bud Freeman was working in New York City, typically in the company of ex-Chicagoans, especially Eddie Condon, in whose band Freeman recorded a noted solo, “The Eel” (1933). By then he had developed a fluent, romantic style featuring sinuous legato melodies. His tenor saxophone sound was especially distinctive—full and smooth, with a rough edge and a large vibrato—and he played with a robust, at times almost violent swing. Along with a Chicago friend, drummer Dave Tough, Freeman played in the big bands of Tommy Dorsey (1936–38) and Benny Goodman (1938) before embarking on a freelance career as bandleader and soloist. He formed the Summa Cum Laude Orchestra (1939–1940) which you'll hear live from Chicago on this week's Phantom Dancer. Freeman led a U.S. Army dance band based in the Aleutian Islands during World War II, then lived in New York and Chile. He often reunited with Condon and other former Chicagoans in concert. Among his notable albums are The Bud Freeman All-Stars and the 1957 Cootie Williams–Rex Stewart album, The Big Challenge, which brought together Freeman and his great tenor saxophone rival, Coleman Hawkins. After touring with the World’s Greatest Jazz Band (1969–71), Freeman lived in England (1974–80) and performed there and in Europe; thereafter he was based in Chicago. He wrote two short volumes of reminiscences, You Don’t Look Like a Musician (1974) and If You Know of a Better Life, Please Tell Me (1976), and an autobiography, Crazeology (with Robert Wolf, 1989). The Eel... [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMk_km8COiw[/embed]

11 APRIL PLAY LIST

Play List - The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #593
107.3 2SER Tuesday 11 April 2023 12:04 - 2:00pm (+10 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 - 5:55pm National Program 5GTR Mt Gambier Monday 2:30 - 3:30am 3MBR Murrayville Monday 3 - 4am 4NAG Keppel FM Monday 3 - 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 - 4am 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 - 4am 2BRW Braidwood Monday 3 - 4am 2YYY Young Monday 3 - 4am 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 - 7pm 7MID Oatlands Monday 6 -7pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Tuesday 12am - 1am 2SEA Eden Tuesday 6 - 7pm 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 - 10am 2RDJ Burwood Wednesday 12 - 1pm 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 - 11am 2RRR Ryde Friday 11am -12 noon 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 - 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 - 2pm Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturdays 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 - 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 - 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 - 6pm
Set 1	Glenn Miller
Moonlight Serenade (theme) + Ain't You Coming Out?	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Marion Hutton + Tex Beneke	Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY WEAF NBC Red NY 15 Aug 1939
The Lamp is Low	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Ray Eberle	Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY WEAF NBC Red NY 15 Aug 1939
The Isle of Golden Dreams	Glenn Miller Orchestra	Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY WEAF NBC Red NY 15 Aug 1939
The Pagan Love Song + Moonlight Serenade (theme)	Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc)	Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY WEAF NBC Red NY 15 Aug 1939
Set 2	Kay Kyser
Hallelujah	Kay Kyser and his Band from the Carolines (voc) Band	Radio Transcription 1934
Swing Low Sweet Chariot	Kay Kyser and his Band from the Carolines (voc) Glee Club	Radio Transcription 1934
How Do I Know It's Sunday?	Kay Kyser and his Band from the Carolines (voc) Art Wilson and Band	Radio Transcription 1934
Simple Symphony	Kay Kyser and his Band from the Carolines	Radio Transcription 1934
Set 3	Selling Scholls
Open + What is This Thing Called Love?	Melodyland Orchestra	'Ambassadors of Melodyland' Radio Transcription 1931
Fallen Arch Story	Announcer	'Ambassadors of Melodyland' Radio Transcription 1931
Where the Golden Daffodils Grow + Close	Melodyland Orchestra	'Ambassadors of Melodyland' Radio Transcription 1931
Set 4	Bud Freeman
Theme + I Ain’t Gonna Give You None Of My Jelly Roll	Bud Freeman’s Summa cum Laude Orchestra	Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 20 May 1940
Secrets in the Moonlight	Bud Freeman’s Summa cum Laude Orchestra	Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 20 May 1940
Shake Down the Stars + Medley + Sierra Sue	Bud Freeman’s Summa cum Laude Orchestra	Hotel Sherman WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 20 May 1940
The Long Blues	Bud Freeman and Roy Eldridge	Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 1957
Set 5	Dance Bands
Open + It Was Just One of Those Things	Russ Morgan Orchestra	'One Night Stand' Biltmore Hotel Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 13 May 1946
In a Magic Garden	Raymond Scott Orchestra	Garden Room Palace Hotel KQW CBS San Francisco Apr 1944
Monday Morning	Jan Savitt's Top Hatters (voc) Carlotta Dale	KYW NBC Red Philadelphia 17 Oct 1938
Creepy Weepy	Raymond Scott Orchestra	'Music Depreciation' KHJ Don Lee Mutual Los Angeles 1940
Set 6	Muggsy Spanier 1953
Relaxin' at the Trouro (theme) + Royal Garden Blues	Muggsy Spanier	Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 18 Oct 1953
Riverside Blues	Muggsy Spanier	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 18 Apr 1953
I Ain't Got Nobody	Muggsy Spanier	Blue Note WMAQ NBC Chicago 25 Oct 1953
That's a'Plenty + Close	Muggsy Spanier	Club Hangover KCBS San Francisco 18 Apr 1953
Set 7	Dutch and Belgian Swing
A Strange Fact	De Ramblers with Coleman Hawkins	Comm Rec Hilversum Holland 26 Apr 1937
Washington Squabble	Fud Candrix Orchestra	Comm Rec Blankenberghe Belgium 27 Jun 1938
Crazy Rhythm	De Ramblers with Coleman Hawkins	Comm Rec Hilversum Holland 28 Apr 1937
The Oldest Swinger in Harlem	Duke Ellington Orchestra	Comm Rec Brussels Belgium 22 Nov 1940
Set 8	1950s Swing
Theme + Dizzy's Blues	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Birdland WCBS CBS NYC Jun 1956
Two Handed Blues	Erroll Garner Trio	Storyville WHDH Boston Dec 1953
Tangerine + Close	Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra (voc) Tommy Mercer and Dolly Houston	Cafe Rouge Hotel pennsylvania WRCA NBC NYC Dec 1955