Original air date - Phantom Dancer :: 12:00pm 28th Jun 2022

Don Redman is this week's Phantom Dancer feature artist. Don Redman was a U.S jazz musician, arranger, bandleader and composer. He's hailed as the arranger who invented swing. He's the uncle of saxophonist Dewey Redman and great-uncle of saxophonist Joshua Redman and trumpeter Carlos Redman. 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 28 June) and two years of Phantom Dancer mixes online at, at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/ Here's Don Redman singing with his Orchestra in a Vitaphone short feature from 1933... [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsPkcwQdOng[/embed]

DON REDMAN

Don Redman's father was a music teacher. His mother was a singer. He started playing trumpet at age 3 and joined his first band at the aged 6. By the time he was 12, he was proficient on all wind instruments ranging from trumpet to oboe as well as piano. He studied at Storer College in Harper's Ferry (where the third video, The Don Redman Jazz Heritage Awards was filmed, see below.). He then studied at the Boston Conservatory. On graduating he joined Billy Page's Broadway Syncopaters in New York City.

SWING

Crucial to the developement of swing, Redman joined the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra in 1923 on clarinet and saxophones. He began writing arrangements for the Henderson Orchestra which created the Swing sound. A trademark of Redman's arrangements was the band playing harmony under written solos. He played brass and reed sections off each other in a call-response pattern, having one section punctuate the figures of another, and moved the melody around different orchestral sections and soloists. This innovative Swing sound forms the basis of much big band jazz writing. He left Henderson in 1927 to join McKinney's Cotton Pickers as their musical director and leader. He was responsible for their great success and arranged over half of their music. In 1931 he started his own orchestra.

ORCHESTRA

With his own band, Redman started at a residency at the Manhattan jazz club Connie's Inn. Redman signed with Brunswick Records and undertook a series of radio broadcasts - part of one you'll hear on this week's Phantom Dancer. He sang with his orchestra, sharing the microphone with the 'Black Crosby', Harlan Lattimore. By 1937, his orchestra featured 'The Swing Choir'. Redman's vocal style on his own songs like 'I Heard' and 'Try Getting a Good Night's Sleep' is recitative in style. Don Redman and Orchestra in the 1933 Betty Boop cartoon, "I Heard"... [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rABrHxCuT7M[/embed] Redman disbanded his orchestra in 1940 and concentrated on freelance work writing arrangements for Jimmy Dorsey, Count Basie, and Harry James. He traveled to Europe in 1946 leading an all-star band that included Don Byas, Tyree Glenn, and Billy Taylor. He appeared on Uptown Jubilee on the CBS Television network for the 1949 season. In the 1950s, he was music director for singer Pearl Bailey. In the early 1960s, he played piano for the Georgia Minstrels Concert and soprano sax with Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle's band. Don Redman's legacy continues - The Don Redman Jazz Heritage Awards, 2016... [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULxhKm6rBok[/embed]

28 JUNE PLAY LIST

Play List - The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #551
107.3 2SER Tuesday 28 June 2022 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 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	1940s Swing Radio
Sound Off (theme) + Sheik of Araby	Teddy Wilson and Red Norvo Band	'Sound Off' AFRS Hollywood 1944
Remember (theme) + Woodchoppers' Ball	Benny Goodman Orchestra (theme) Woody Herman Orchestra	'Jill's All-Time Juke Box' AFRS Hollywood 1945
When They Ask About You + Sound Off (theme)	Hal McIntyre Orchestra (voc) Gloria Vance	'Sound Off' AFRS Hollywood 1944
Set 2	Dixie
Open + Panama	Paul Tanner and his Solid Seven	'Yank Bandstand' AFRS Hollywood 1944
Down The Road Apiece	Art Hodes (piano)	'Dixieland Club' AFRS Re-broadcast5 Sep 1951
When The Saints Go Marching In + Getting Sentimental Over You	Dorsey Brothers Orchestra + Duke Ellington + Buddy Rich + Johnny Ray	'Stageshow' WCBS CBS TV NYC 1 Jan 1955
Set 3	Frank Sinatra
Open + With a Song in My Heart	Frank Sinatra	'Treasury Star Parade' Radio Transcription 1944
Great Day + You'll Never Walk Alone	Frank Sinatra	'Guest Star' Radio Transcription 1948
That Old Black Magic + Auld Lang Syne + Put Your Dreams Away (theme)	Frank Sinatra	'Songs by Sinatra WABC CBS NYC 31 Dec 1943
Set 4	Don Redman
Try Getting a Good Night's Sleep	Don Redman Orchestra (voc) Don Redman	Comm Rec NYC 26 Feb 1932
Odds and Ends	Don Redman Orchestra (voc) Don Redman	Casino de Paree WABC CBS NYC 22 Dec 1933
Redman Rhythm + Close (At the beginning of Redman Rhythm, the radio reception for this 1933 home disc recording improves)	Don Redman Orchestra	Casino de Paree WABC CBS NYC 22 Dec 1933
A Two Time Man	Don Redman Orchestra (voc) Don Redman	Comm Rec NYC 19 Sep 1932
Set 5	Let's Dance
Let's Dance (theme) + The Object of My Affection	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Buddy Clark	'Let's Dance' WEAF NBC Red NYC 1 Dec 1934
Honeysuckle Rose + Love is Just Around the Corner	Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Buddy Clark	'Let's Dance' WEAF NBC Red NYC 4 Jan 1935
Chicago	Benny Goodman Orchestra	'Let's Dance' WEAF NBC Red NYC 2 Feb 1935
Set 6	Radio Transcriptions
Tumbling Tumbleweeds	Jan Garber Orchestra (voc) Lee Bennett	Radio Transcription 1939
Cradle Song (Brahms)	Les Elgart Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1946
Love Song of Renaldo	Jan Garber Orchestra (voc) Fritz Heilbron	Radio Transcription 1941
Largo (Dvorak)	Les Elgart Orchestra	Radio Transcription 1946
Set 7	Selling Shoes and Aeroplanes
I've Got Five Dollars (theme) + One Man Band	Freddy Rich Orchestra	'Friendly Five Footnotes' Radio Transcription 1932
Somebody Stole My Gla	Freddy Rich Orchestra	'Friendly Five Footnotes' Radio Transcription 1932
A Happy Landing	Freddy Rich Orchestra	'Friendly Five Footnotes' Radio Transcription 1932
San	Freddy Rich Orchestra	'Friendly Five Footnotes' Radio Transcription 1932
Set 8	Modern Jazz
Night and Day	Django Reinhardt with Paul Baron's Orchestra	'This is Paris' NBC 1949
If I Were a Bell	Buddy Rich Quintet	Birdland WABC ABC NY 7 Nov 1958
Theme + Jordu	Stan Getz Quartet	'Bandstand USA' Red Hill Inn Pennsauken NJ Mutual 18 May 1957