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Platoons of be-bop fans drop in regularly at WMCA studios to visit Sid's all-night, all-frantic show.
Sid defines the "new sounds in music "as "ultimate modern jazz."
IT'S A LONG WAY from Stravinsky to bebop— or is it? "Not if you're real gone," says Symphony Sid (Sid Torin), that wonderful, wonderful hep character whose new WMCA all-night, allfrantic show is the most serious threat to sleep since the discovery of insomnia.
Technically speaking, be-bop has been described as often-dissonant, staccato music which seldom follows a formal pattern. In other words, be-boppers aren't concerned with playing it "straight." And Stravinsky, a real "gone" composer to the followers of the latest rhythm rage, hates musical regimentation too.
Equipped with a battery of twelve telephones requiring two extra all-night operators, Sid handles an average of 2000 requests for records each night on his Midnight to Dawn patrol.
"We're peddling modern jazz," explains Symphony Sid, "not that synthetic commercial stuff." He means the music of Thelonious Monk (sometimes called the father of be-bop), the "wonderful" Dizzy Gillespie, Tad Dameron, Sarah Vaughan and Illinois Jacquet, the great jazz
man who recently composed a "real gone side" called "Symphony In Sid."
Sid, a handsome New Yorker, has been in radio for more than thirteen years although he's still in his early thirties. Born and brought up on New York's East Side, he became a salesman in record shops after graduating from Thomas Jefferson High School.
Soon he owned his own record shop on 42nd Street. He called his place the Symphony Shop, and one of his best customers was Station WBNX in the Bronx. One day the general manager offered Torin a fifteen-minute spot for a recorded jazz session. Two weeks later Sid sold the record shop.
After three and a half years on WBNX, Sid moved to WHOM in Jersey City where he gained thousands of rabid followers in a decade of broadcasting. Now he's in the "big time" with his all-night stint on America's leading independent station.
In addition to his radio activities, Symphony Sid is m.c. at the Royal Roost, Broadway's "Bop-era" House.