Phantom Dancer :: 5:00pm 26th Dec 2020

Original air date - Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 22nd Dec 2020

CHRISTMAS

Chico Hamilton and his Quartet spread Christmas cheer on this week's non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV - The Phantom Dancer - with Greg Poppleton.

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This week's Phantom Dancer will be online after the 22 December 107.3 2SER Sydney live mix at 2ser.com. Chico Hamilton gretsch drums

CHICO HAMILTON

American jazz drummer and bandleader, Chico Hamilton came to prominence as sideman for Lester YoungGerry MulliganCount Basie, and Lena Horne. Hamilton became a bandleader with a quintet featuring the cello as a lead instrument, which you'll hear on this Phantom Dancer from a 1958 broadcast. Later, he lead bands that performed cool jazzpost bop, and jazz fusion. Hamilton started his career in a band with Charles MingusIllinois JacquetErnie RoyalDexter GordonBuddy Collette and Jack Kelso before he had finished high school. Engagements with Lionel HamptonSlim & SlamT-Bone WalkerLester YoungCount BasieDuke EllingtonCharlie BarnetBilly EckstineNat King ColeSammy Davis Jr.Billie HolidayGerry Mulligan and Lena Horne established his career. He appeared in You'll Never Get Rich (1941) as part of the backing group supporting Fred Astaire. Hamilton also performed on the soundtrack of the Bing Crosby and Bob Hope film Road to Bali (1952). Chico Hamilton drums

ALBUMS

He recorded his first album as leader in 1955 with George Duvivier (double bass) and Howard Roberts (jazz guitar) for Pacific Jazz. In the same year Hamilton formed an unusual quintet in L.A. featuring cello, flute/saxes/clarinet, guitarbass and drums. The quintet has been described as one of the last important West Coast jazz bands. A version of the quintet including flutist Paul Horn was featured in the film Sweet Smell of Success in 1957 and one including Eric Dolphy appeared in the film Jazz on a Summer's Day (1960), set at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. Hamilton revamped his group in 1961 with Charles LloydGabor SzaboGeorge Bohanon and Albert Stinson, playing what has been described as chamber jazz, with "a moderate avant-gardism." The group recorded for ColumbiaReprise and Impulse Records and also recorded the soundtrack for the industrial film Litho in 1962, the first American film to be shown behind the Iron Curtain. Hamilton formed a commercial and film production company in 1965, and went on to score the feature films Repulsion (1965), Mr. Ricco (1975), Coonskin (1975), By Design (1982), the television programs Portrait of Willie Mays and Gerald McBoing Boing, and scored hundreds of commercials for TV and radio. In 1986 Hamilton formed his sextet Chico Hamilton and the Young Alto's featuring Kenneth LamplEric Person and Marc Bernstein. The group performed at the 1986 JVC Jazz Festival, the Apollo Theater, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. He released Twelve Tones of Love on Joyous Shout! in 2009. In March 2011, he had a long recording session, resulting in 28 new tracks with his Euphoria group. Following a health setback in 2010, he and the group began weekly rehearsals at Hamilton's Penthouse A; which brought together the material which would comprise Revelation, an 11-track CD, released in 2011. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4y_9jxwRfA

22 DECEMBER PLAY LIST

Play List - The Phantom Dancer
107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream Community Radio Network Show CRN #468

107.3 2SER Tuesday 22 December 2020 12:04 - 2:00pm (+11 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 2SEA Eden Monday 3 - 4am 2MIA Griffith Monday 3 - 4pm 2BAR Edge FM Bega Monday 3 - 4pm 3VKV Alpine Radio Monday 6 - 7pm 7MID Oatlands Tuesday 8 - 9pm 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 - 11am 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 - 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 - 2pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 - 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 - 6am 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Sunday 5 - 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 - 6pm

Set 1
Let's Dance (theme) + Jingle Bells
Benny Goodman Orchestra
Joseph Urban Room Congress Hotel WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 25 Dec 1935
Open + It Had To Be You + The Fairy On The Christmas Tree
Henry Hall and the BBC Dance Orchestra (voc) The 3 Sisters
BBC Regional Service London 25 Dec 1936
Set 2
Open + Maple Leaf Rag
Kid Ory
Club Hangover KCBS CBS San Francisco 25 Dec 1954
Theme + Blue Christmas
Jan Garber Orchestra (voc) Ray Cordell
Melody Mill WGN Chicago 1950
Weary Blues + Ad
Kid Ory
Club Hangover KCBS CBS San Francisco 25 Dec 1954
Set 3
Jingle Bells (open) + The Morning After
Chico Hamilton Quartet
‘Stars In Jazz’ AFRTS Re-broadcast New York 25 Dec 1958
Wrap your Troubles In Dreams
Chico Hamilton Quartet (voc) Georgia Carr
‘Stars In Jazz’ AFRTS Re-broadcast New York 25 Dec 1958
Blee Blop Blues + One O’Clock Jump (theme)
Count Basie Orchestra
Birdland WRCA NBC NY 16 Dec 1956
Set 4
Happy Holidays + Here We Come a'Caroling + Silent Night
Bing Crosby and the Norman Luboff Choir (voc) Paul Weston Orchestra
'Christmas Sing With Bing' KNX CBS LA 24 Dec 1957
Description of Ballarat's Carols By Candlelight + Joseph Mine, Help Me Cradle The Child Divine
Ted Furlong (station manager 3BA Ballarat) + The Ballarat YWCA Choir
Christmas Sing With Bing' KNX CBS LA via 3BA Ballarat 24 Dec 1957
Champagne Cocktail + Close (When Summer Is Gone)
Hal Kemp Orchestra
‘Chesterfield Time’ KNX CBS LA 24 Dec 1937
Set 5
Open + March of the Toy Soldiers
Phil Davis Orchestra
‘Fountain of Fun’ WLW Cinncinnati 19 Dec 1943
Jingle Bells
 Thrasher Sisters
‘Fountain of Fun’ WLW Cinncinnati 19 Dec 1943
Jack-Armstrong Blues
Louis Armstrong and Jack Teagarden
‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 25 Dec 1947
Embraceable You
 The Pied Pipers (voc) Harry James Orchestra
'Command Performance USA' AFRS 25 Dec 1945
Set 6
Swingin’ Them Jingle Bells
Fats Waller and his Rhythm
Comm Rec New York 29 Nov 1936
Jingle Bells
Glenn Miller Orchestra
Café Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WJZ NBC Blue NY 27 Dec 1941
Jingle Bells
Dave Brubeck
Birdland WABC ABC NY Jan 1954
Jingle Bells (theme) / Half Nelson / White Christmas / Little Willie Leaps
Charlie Parker (as) Kenny Dorham (tp) Al Haig (p) Tommy Potter (b) Max Roach (d)
‘Symphony Side Show’ Royal Roost WMCA NY 25 Dec 1948
Set 7
Open + March of the Toys
Phil Davis Orchestra
‘Fountain of Fun’ WLW Cincinnati 19 Dec 1943
My Silent Love
Lena Horne (voc) Count Basie Orchestra
‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 25 Dec 1945
Embraceable You
The Pied Pipers (voc) Harry James and the Music Makers
‘Command Performance USA’ AFRS Hollywood 25 Dec 1945
Yesterdays
Art Tatum (p)
‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 25 Dec 1947
Set 8
Open + 2 Latin American Christmas Songs
Chiquita
‘Chiquita’ AFRS Hollywood Dec 1946
O Come All Ye Faithful / Oh Little Town Of Bethlehem / It Came Upon A Midnight Clear / Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Frank Sinatra
‘V-Disc Christmas Selections’ New York 1944
Open + Let It Snow + Happy Christmas, Little Friend
Dinah Shore (voc) Frank deVol Orchestra
'Dinah Shore Show' WRCA NBC NY 22 Dec 1954
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