Original air date - Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 12th Jul 2022

Phil Napoleon, pioneer jazz trumpeter and band leader is this week's Phantom Dancer feature artist. Born Filippo Napoli, Napoleon led many recording sessions in the mid-1920s that helped build the popularity of jazz. He was a pioneer whose playing was influential on later trumpeters including Red Nichols and Bix Beiderbecke. Here's a 1925 recording of the Bass Ale Blues. Bass Ale was a popular tipple in Sydney in the 1920s and the uploader of this clip has included mugshots of Sydney suspects from the Sydney Police and Justice Museum collection... [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH27PbsMb2o[/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 12 July) and two years of Phantom Dancer mixes online at, at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

PIONEER

Phil Napoleon was performing publicly by age 5 as a classical trumpeter in 1906. In the 1910s, he was one of the first musicians in the northern US to embrace the new "jass" style brought to that part of the country from New Orleans. He formed "The Original Memphis Five" with pianist Frank Signorell in 1917 and was one of the most sought after trumpeters of the 1920s. The New York City-based Original Memphis Five were often in the recording studio in the acoustical recording era and made over 100 recordings in 1922-1923 alone. Though Napoleon's 1927 version of "Clarinet Marmalade" was a big success, The Original Memphis Five disbanded in 1928. He recorded with the Cotton Pickers and the Charleston Chasers and also worked with blues singers Leona Williams and Alberta Hunter. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIEa1Qrq0oM[/embed]

LATER CAREER

During the 1930s, Napoleon mainly worked as a session trumpeter, working in the RCA Radio Orchestra in the early 1930s In 1937, Napoleon unsuccessfully tried to form his own orchestra. He joined Jimmy Dorsey's Orchestra in the mid 1940s, and appeared with the band in the film Four Jills in a Jeep. Leaving Dorsey in 1947, he worked as a studio musician at NBC New York until 1949 when he reformed The Original Memphis Five, which you'll hear on this week's Phantom Dancer, broadcasting from Nick's, where he continued to play into the 1950s. His nephew, jazz pianist Marty Napoleon, worked with him often. On July 3, 1959, Napoleon and The Memphis Five performed at the Newport Jazz Festival. This was recorded and released as an album. "Napoleon's Retreat" was his own club which he opened in Miami, Florida in 1966. He continued to perform Dixieland jazz in the club up until the 1980s. [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TXf5Ie4rNI[/embed]

12 JULY PLAY LIST

Play List - The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINECommunity Radio Network Show CRN #553
107.3 2SER Tuesday 12 July 2022 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 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 - 11am 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	Duke Ellington
Theme + Blue Skies	Duke Ellington Orchestra	'Spotlight Bands' Buffalo NY Blue Network 27 Nov 1943
Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Al Hibbler	'Spotlight Bands' Buffalo NY Blue Network 27 Nov 1943
Rockin' in Rhythm + Close	Duke Ellington Orchestra	'Spotlight Bands' Buffalo NY Blue Network 27 Nov 1943
Set 2	Selling Diet Pills
Open + Little Girl	Marmola Entertainers	'Marmola Show' Radio Transcription 1934
It's the Girl	Marmola Entertainers	'Marmola Show' Radio Transcription 1934
Instrumental	Marmola Entertainers	'Marmola Show' Radio Transcription 1934
Drama + Little Girl + Close	Marmola Entertainers	'Marmola Show' Radio Transcription 1934
Set 3	Boyd Raeburn
Open + Cirribirribin	Boyd Raeburn Orchestra	'Meet the Band' WBBM CBS Chicago 14 Jun 1940
Roses in Picardy	Boyd Raeburn Orchestra (voc) Three Men and a Maid	'Meet the Band' WBBM CBS Chicago 14 Jun 1940
Medley: On the Alamo + Blue Skies	Boyd Raeburn Orchestra + Gertrude Niessen	'Meet the Band' WBBM CBS Chicago 14 Jun 1940
Dance of the Demons + Close	Boyd Raeburn Orchestra	'Meet the Band' WBBM CBS Chicago 14 Jun 1940
Set 4	Jazz Pioneer
Open + Instrumental	Phil Napoleon and his Memphis Five	'One Night Stand' AFRS re-broadcast Nick's New York City 20 Jul 1949
Peg o' My Heart	Phil Napoleon and his Memphis Five	'One Night Stand' AFRS re-broadcast Nick's New York City 20 Jul 1949
Bond Street (fron Fats Waller's London Suite)	Hank Duncan (piano)	'One Night Stand' AFRS re-broadcast Nick's New York City 20 Jul 1949
Royal Garden Blues	Phil Napoleon and his Memphis Five	'One Night Stand' AFRS re-broadcast Nick's New York City 20 Jul 1949
Set 5	1930s Shuffle Rhythm
Hot Lips (theme) + Rose Room	Henry Busse Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1935
IOn the Road to Mandalay	Jan Savitt Orchestra (voc) Bon Bon	Radio Transcription 1939
Lookie Lookie Here Comes Cookie	Henry Busse Orchestra (voc) Marion Holmes	Radio Transcription 1935
Good Morning	Jan Savitt Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1939
Set 6	1940s Swing Bands
Theme + Tea for Two	Bob Strong Orchestra	Glen Island Casino New Rochelle NY WOR Mutual NYC 5 Aug 1944
Theme + Giant Panda	Bobby Sherwood Orchestra	'One Night Stand' AFRS re-broadcast Jantzen Beach OR 1944
One Way Passage + Stardreams (theme)	Charlie Spivak Orchestra	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 7 Apr 1948
Set 7	Screaming Big Bands
Melancholy Lullaby (theme) + Old Man River	Benny Carter Orchestra	Trianon Ballroom South Gate CA KECA Blue LA 1944
Airmail Special	Billy Eckstine Orchestra	'Jubilee' AFRS Hollywood Feb 1945
Fish Fry	Benny Carter Orchestra	Trianon Ballroom South Gate CA KECA Blue LA 1944
Mr Chips + Blue 'n' Boogie (theme)	Billy Eckstine Orchestra	'Jubilee' AFRS Hollywood Feb 1945
Set 8	Bop 1949
Tiny's Blues	Chubby Jackson Orchestra	'Symphony Sid Show' Royal Roost WMCA NYC 12 Mar 1949
I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles	Jackie Kane & Roy Kral	'Symphony Sid Show' Royal Roost WMCA NYC 1949
Father Knickerbocker	Chubby Jackson Orchestra	'Symphony Sid Show' Royal Roost WMCA NYC 5 Mar 1949