Variety (January 1954)

Wednesday, ..January 13, 1954 Band Reviews STEWART SCOTT ORCH (4) Hotel President Kansas City, Mo. It’s a slick, smooth combo that Stewart Scott heads, as evidenced by fact that the crew is playing its third stand in the fancy Drum Room of Hotel President in little more than a year, and this one an extended engagement as were the' others. This time around, however, the leader is taking a new musical tack, with a setup geared for livelier, more varied tunes. Lineup has Scott on fiddle doubling sax, with Tim Hartnett anchor man at the piano. Wayne 'Brumfield embellishing on drums and Ray Boegmann filling in rhythms from the. string bass. Formerly Scott was using a pianoorgan combination without sax. While the organ had its strong points, the crew shows added versatility in its present Workings. Tunes of the day, as well as i standards and Latins, come in for solid play, and Scott, brings out more novelty work with this crew’. There is some hew emphasis on vocals. Scott himself doing ballads, Boegmann doing novelty tunes, and duo combining with Brumfield in trio work. Crew is strong on good dance rhythms as well as dinner music and is a very apt combo for this room. Quin. HARRY POZY BAND (8) Gatjrieaw. Club, Ottawa Kudos from acts and customers Is nothing new to this able crew holding the stand in the Gatineau Club. Equally adept at showbacking and playing for dancing, : the Pozy octet can. handle trickiest show arrangements, often without rehearsal of any kind, and works happily with the acts it backs. Style switches for the customers on the floor to a predominently slowblues in modern trend, featuring reed solos. Makeup of the Pozy outfit includes top local boys. Pozy himself, besides batoning, handles alto sax. On drums is diminutive Eddie Ackland with plenty showplaying background. Paul Schnobb’s 88irig is socko always. Norm Bigras and Paul Traversy. on baritone and tenor sax respectively, are okay in solo and group efforts, with Cecil Hughes and Eddie Hall nice on trumpets, working the brass portions. Art Rail's brass fiddle work is clicko. Gorm. Sumac's 1st Concert Tour Lists Carnegie Hall Date Yma Sumac will make her first Carnegie Hall. N. Y., appearance Feb. 17. This will be during a national concert tour, also her first in this country, in January and February. A company of 20 will assist, Miss Sumac, consisting ofr 16 musicians (including three Andean . drummers), three native .dancers and Moises V iVanco, who has not only arranged the music sung by Miss Sumac, but has also' composed original music which is included in the program. Kenneth Allen Associates is' presenting. 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Johnny Marino is the new trumpet player, with Howdy Baum's house crew at Casino Theatre. He replaces ! Hershey. Cohen, who quit to join { the Walter Gable outfit at Ankara . Fred Waring plays a public concert at Syria Mosque Jan. 25 and then stays over for three days as private attraction for Shrine members . . . Harvey Cousins has {replaced Henry Marconi on sax with Tiny Wolfe orch at Copa . . . Molly Paplle, organist and pianist, into the Fort Pitt Hotel lounge . . , Jack Mahon band has checked in at Bon-Ange Club for an indefinite engagement Scotland Lita Roza, Ted Heath's singer, i to appear in vaude at Glasgow j Empire in July. . .David Whitfield, I record artist, set for starring role with Bonar Cplleano in new road [ show due at Glasgow Empire in the spring. . .Ken Macintosh orch skedded for engagements at Empire Theatres in Glasgow and Edinburgh in March. Dick Denny orch pacted for summer season at Butlin’s Holiday Camp, Ayr . . . Johnny Semple's i-Dixielanders planning Scotland and North England tour ef onenighters . . . Benny Daniels orch at Palais, Edinburgh . . . Johnnie Ray likely to play return Visit to Empire, Glasgow. San Antonio Henry Brandon, whose band is ♦currently at the Anacacho Room j of the St. Anthony Hotel, making plans to leave the band biz and { settle here with possibility of opening a band booking agency ‘ *. • ®°b Cross, whose band preceded Brandon at the local hostelry, has already purchased a home here for permanent resi dence . .. . Emilio Caceres, hot jazz violinist, has organized a ninepiece band arid is currently touring the state. Sylvia Ortega is vocalist. Caceres is also doing a number of recording dates, — — ; — ! • ■ a Scott’s Audiorn Gets Into Loogplay Field Audi vox Records, indie label launched last year by bandleader Raymond Scott, is entering the longplay field with a set of Scott instrumentals. Several numbers in the set have been culled from a deluxe limited edition 78 rpm ah bum packaged by Scott several years ago. . Leonard Wolf, ex^Decca -promo* tion staffer, is operating the diskery for Scott. Revamped Detroit Orch In First Gotham Bow The newly-reorganized Detroit Symphony Orchestra will make its first New York appearance Friday (15> in Carnegie Hall. Reorganized in 1951 after several years’ layoff due to financial reverses, the Detroit Symphony now has a permanent conductor in Paul pa ray. Mischa Mischakoff, for 15 years concertmaster with Arturo Toscanini’s NBC Symphony, is concertmaster now with Detroit. Gotham concert, will include works by Capitol 8352 Weber, Wagner, Beethoven and Ravel. The New Dance Sensation! THE CREEP MILLER MUSIC CORPORATION SECRET Recorded By COLUMBIA #40108 M. WITMARK & SONS America's Fastest ' Selling -:Records!