9 Year Old Drummer With Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters

My 9-year old son, Damon, playing drums for Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters, Courtyard Sessions, Seymour Centre, Sydney, 1 Dec 2012

Two pics of my 9 year old son, Damon, playing drums for Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters, Courtyard Sessions, Seymour Centre, 1 December 2012. Grahame Conlon, guitar. Darcy Wright, double bass.

Damon played on all three sets of jazz from the 1920s and 1930s with two of Australia’s most experienced and accomplished swing musicians. Darcy has played in the touring bands of Tony Bennett, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington and more. Grahame has played in the touring bands of Ernestine Anderson, Ricky May, James Morrison and more

You can find out more about Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters and the new album ‘Doin’ The Charleston’ on the band’s website www.bakelitejazz.com

CD Launch – ‘Doin’ The Charleston’ by Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters

Hello Bakeliters,

SUNDAY 28 OCTOBER – Greg Poppleton & the Bakelite Broadcasters launched their long-awaited new CD, Doin’ The Charleston at the Empire Cinema, Bowral

AND the CD is now available for you to hear and enjoy at Bandcamp and CDBaby.

WHEN you buy ‘Doin’ The Charleston’, you’re supporting independent music and we thank you

‘Doin’ The Charleston’ NEW CD by Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters – Buy online at Bandcamp and CDBaby

ON ‘Doin’ The Charleston’ you’ll hear, Greg Poppleton (vocals), Paul Furniss (soprano, alto and tenor saxes, and clarinet), Al Davey (trumpet and trombone), Grahame Conlon (banjo), Geoff Power (sousaphone), Rod Herbert (sousaphone) and Lawrie Thompson (drums and washboard)

GREG POPPLETON & THE BAKELITE BROADCASTERS entertained at the CD Launch with an 80 minute barnstorming show of 1920s and 1930s jazz and swing, with songs from ‘Doin’ The Charleston‘ like ‘Road To Gundagai‘, ‘Falling In Love Again‘, and ‘Sweet Lorraine‘, followed by the screening a new digital print of the 1952 Gene Kelly classic, ‘Singin’ In The Rain‘ set at the turn of the silent movie era

Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters CD Launch ‘Doin’ The Charleston’

Southern Highlands News Friday 26 October 2012

MEDIA RELEASE…

GREG POPPLETON &
THE BAKELITE BROADCASTERS
DOIN’ THE CHARLESTON NEWEST CD

WITH the same maverick spirit that produced ‘The Phantom Dancer’ (both the sold-out collectible CD and the award-winning, national radio show), ‘Doin’ The Charleston’, is the long-awaited second album from Greg Poppleton & The Bakelite Broadcasters

Recorded live-in-studio in just 5 hours, ‘Doin’ The Charleston’, is the first document of Greg Poppleton & The Bakelite Broadcasters as a purely 1920s 5-piece. There are more layers, more stylistic tangents than before, all coated in nth-dimensional, metaphysical, Jungian freakouts, with a DNA recovered from the very bones of smoking, catchy, 1920s pop

Whilst the undeniably authentic 1920s vocal style of Greg Poppleton is still at the forefront, there is an irrefutable pop sensibility creeping into the instrumentation of the new material that calls to mind the likes of C W Stoneking and Tuba Skinny

Greg Poppleton is very proud of the results, “For me, ‘Doin’ The Charleston’, is all about the songs, how they line up, intertwine, switch partners and promenade home”

Greg has expanded his 3.5 octave sonic palette with a long list of influences to forge his own sound. Heir to a tradition of finely-crafted, dramatic, confessional music that explores the ups and downs of life and love with a keenly-observed honesty that touches all who hear, Greg Poppleton is backed by what really is an all-star classic jazz band of world-touring musicians

Paul Furniss weaves shimmering, infectious, toe-tapping anthems using soprano, alto, tenor saxophones and clarinet. Al Davey wails, growls and caresses on trumpet and trombone. He brings together the brightest elements and darkest undertones in a unique blend of unshackled two-beat. Grahame Conlon’s banjo demands attention weaving audacious fat chords around the pulsing, minimalist sousaphone loops of Rod Herbert and ARIA nominee Geoff Power and the chemically infused drum beats and sharp-edged washboard laid down by Bell band legend, Lawrie Thompson

The quintet make lullabies, lush dreamy vintage pop, and the powerful, bone-rattling immediacy of hot, danceable jazz. Vocal hooks are inescapable, lush productions uncannily authentic to the Roaring 20s, as sophisticated and pristine as anything on a 78 disc. ‘Doin’ The Charleston’s’ 14 tracks (including a bonus alternate take on the soaring St James Infirmary) trace a unique aesthetic universe that is fully-crafted and fully-realised, deftly walking the lines between joyous exhilaration and otherworldly rapture, pleasure-centre pop and total self-possession

Greg Poppleton & The Bakelite Broadcasters’ is a universe that invites exploration and demands revisiting

‘Doin’ The Charleston’ is a journey from darkness to light, from anger to love, from chaos to order

The CD is available on Bandcamp and CDBaby

PLEASE also visit the Broadcasters’ website www.bakelitejazz.com

Thank you
Greg

Greg Poppleton at Stage & Screen for the Doin’ The Charleston CD Launch

Bakelite Broadcasters 1930s Trio At The Powerhouse Museum

Enjoy some brief clips of the Greg Poppleton Bakelite Broadcasters Trio – two excerpts from a concert of 1930s songs at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney

I’ve posted this clip for those of you interested in making a booking, and who have asked to see the 1930s Trio live

The clips are brief because the buzz from the camera is very loud. The songs are These Foolish Things and I’m Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter. Tomorrow I shall film the 1920s Bakelite Trio for you – 1920s Vocals, Banjo and Clarinet/Alto Saxophone. Enjoy! Greg

The Bob Crosby TV Show & Benny Goodman with the NBC Symphony

What a finger-lickin’ good Phantom Dancer I have for you this week

We hear Johnny Desmond singing with the Glenn Miller Orchestra from London in German, Benny Goodman gets together with Arturo Toscanini & The NBC Symphony on Rhapsody In Blue, and lots of live radio swing from the 1930s by Lee Wiley, Hal Kemp, Ella Fitzgerald, Bob Crosby and more…

Oh, and this week’s Video Of The Week is a Bob Crosby TV Show from CBS LA in the 1950s. Enjoy!…

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show #10 2SER Tuesday 31 July 2012 12 noon – 1:30pm (+10 hours GMT) 2SER Saturday 4 August 2012 6 – 7:30pm (+10 hours GMT) Set 1 Walking My Baby Back Home Annette Hanshaw with Orchestra Comm Rec New York 20 Feb 1931 Sahara Wally Portingale All-In-Fun Revue Orchestra (voc) Jack White ‘Army On Parade’ 2CH AWA Network Sydney Oct 1943 So Help Me Earl Hines Orchestra (voc) Roy Harris Grand Terrace Room WMAQ NBC Chicago 3 Aug 1938 Long Ago And Far Away Glenn Miller Orchestra (voc) Johnny Desmond (in German) ABSIE (American Broadcasting Station In Europe) London 30 Oct 1944 Set 2 O! Sydney I Love You Eric Pearse & The 2FC Studio Broadcasting Orchestra (voc) Len Maurice Comm Rec Columbia 80rpm Sydney 1924 Open + Chinatown My Chinatown Phil Davis Orchestra ‘Fountain Of Fun’ WLW Cincinnati OH 5 Dec 1943 Jonesy Count Basie Orchestra ‘Treasury Dance Show’ American Legion Park Ephrate PA via WLAN ABC Lancaster PA 2 Sep 1954 Flying Home + Blue Flame (close) Woody Herman Orchestra Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 21 Aug 1944 Set 3 Rhapsody In Blue Arturo Toscanini & The NBC Symphony. Benny Goodman (cl) Earl Wild (p) WEAF NBC Radio City New York 1 Nov 1942 Set 4 The Yam Blue Barron Orchestra (voc) Charlie Fisher Radio Transcription New York 1938 One Two Button Your Shoe Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Ivie Anderson Cotton Club WABC CBS NY 18 Mar 1937 South Rampart Street Parade Bob Crosby Orchestra Swing Concert Congress Hotel WMAQ NBC Red Chicago 18 May 1937 Lover Come Back To Me Ella Fitzgerald Orchestra Roseland Ballroom WJZ NBC Blue 26 Feb 1940 Set 5 Don’t Fence Me In George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Johnny Fitzgerald Comm Rec Sydney 1944 Take My Heart Hal Kemp Orchestrs (voc) Bob Allen ‘Lady Ester Serenade’ WEAF NBC Red NY 26 Aug 1936 Did You Ever See A Dream Walking? The Ink Spots WEAF NBC Red NY 9 Aug 1935 Too Good To Be True Lee Wiley (voc) WABC CBS New York 1 Jul 1936 Set 6 Move (Hannah) Charlie Parker (as) Fats Navarro (tp) Bud Powell (p) Curley Russell (b) Art Blakey (d) Birdland WMCA NY 30 Jun 1950 Lullaby Of Birdland (theme) + Old Man River Lester Young Quintet Birdland WJZ ABC NY 5 Sep 1956

‘Lord’ Buckley Eddie Condon’s Floorshow WPIX TV NY 1948

Good Morning, Afternoon and Evening to you, Phantom Dancers,

This week’s Phantom Dancer has live radio swing and jazz by Louis Prima, Cab Calloway, Bunny Berrigan & more. See the play list below

Phantom Dancer Video Of the Week: Audio from an Eddie Condon Floor Show, WPIX TV NY, 16 Nov 1948, introduced by Lord Buckley. Enjoy!

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital RadioCRN Show #7
2SER Tuesday 10 July 2012 12 noon – 1:30pm (+10 hours GMT)
2SER Saturday 14 July 2012 6 – 7:30pm (+10 hours GMT)
Set 1
Apurksody	Gene Krupa Orchestra	Comm Rec Los Angeles 12 Dec 1938
It’s A Wonderful World	Johnny Green Orchestra (voc) Beverley & Swing 14	‘Rhymo’ WABC CBS NY 26 May 1940
My Lucky Summer	Jack Birch & John Reed King	‘Gulf Spray Show’ WABC CBS NY 1940
After A While	Nora Martin (voc) Leonard Soos Orchestra	‘The Eddie Cantor Show” KFI NBC LA 21 Mar 1945
Set 2
Hallelujah!	Svenska Hotkvintetten	Comm Rec Stockholm Oct 1939
One O’Clock Jump	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Madhattan Room Hotel pennsylvania WABC CBS NY 20 Oct 1937
Tico Tico	Lena Romay (voc)	‘Personal Album’ AFRS Hollywood 1945
Clarinet Marmalade	Wild Bill Davison & others as announced	‘This Is Jazz’ WOR Mutual NY 3 May 1947
Set 3
Since He Traded His Zoot Suit For A Uniform	Mildred Bailey (voc) David Broekman Treasury Ensemble	Radio Transcription New York 1942
Accentuate The Positive	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Joya Sherrill	‘Date With The Duke’ ABC 1945
Falling In Love	Count Basie Orchestra	Birdland WCBS CBS NY 16 Dec 1956
What A Difference A Day Makes + Pavanne	Andy Russell (voc) Toots Cammarata Orchestra	‘Double Feature’ AFRS Re-broadcast New York 15 Oct 1944
Set 4
Vuelva	Cab Calloway Orchestra	Comm Rec New York 17 Oct 1939
Familiar Moe	Bunny Berrigan Orchestra	Trianon Ballroom WCLE Cleveland OH 9 Apr 1939
Central Avenue Boogie	International Sweethearts Of Rhythm (voc) Anna Mae Winburn	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Mar 1945
Night In Tunisia	Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra	Birdland WCBS CBS NY Jun 1956
Set 5
In My Arms	George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Joan Blake & Terry Howard	Comm Rec Sydney 1944
Look At Me Now	June Christy & Johnny Desmond (voc)	‘Eddie Condon Floorshow’ WNBT NBC TV NY 23 May 1949
Knee Deep In Stardust	Chuck Foster Orchestra (voc) Jimmy Castle	Radio Transcription New York 1940
It’s The Talk Of The Town	Harry James Orchestra	Meadowbrook Gardens Culver City CA KFI NBC LA 10 Feb 1946
Set 6
Sugarfoot Stomp	Benny Goodman Orchestra	Aircheck 21 Jun 1943
Cottontail	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	Aircheck 21 Jul 1944
The Blizzard	Louis Prima Orchestra	‘Spotlight Band’ Mitchell Field WJZ Blue New York 15 Jan 1945

1920s Great Gatsby Jazz Band At Concrete Blonde

Sunday July 1: Greg Poppleton & his Bakelite Broadcasters played for Sunday Lunch at Concrete Blonde, Level 2, 33 Bayswater Road, Potts Point. Now, if you haven’t head of Concrete Blonde before, I want to tell you all about it a little later in this blog entry. Just to say now, if you’re in Sydney or visiting, it’s a must visit

But first, the Greg Poppleton & his Bakelite Broadcasters’ show. Here’s a snippet…

Warren Fahey AM, social historian, author, record producer, broadcaster and singer said about yesterday’s  Concrete Blonde show by Greg Poppleton & his Bakelite Broadcasters:

“Yesterday’s Jazz/Funk/Whatever Lunch at Concrete Blonde was another terrific day. Here’s Greg Poppleton and the Bakelite Broadcasters in action Greg sang all the top songs of the 1920s and 30s – many that I have grown up with. There were many happy faces in the audience and Greg’s interpretations, including dancing, swaying, staring and facial gymnastics made the music all the more interesting and amusing. They will be back!”

Concrete Blonde wrote on their Facebook page: “What a fantastic performance yesterday here! Love the bloke in the pinstripes and ……. phew, check out the size of that guy’s tuba”

Greg Poppleton & his Bakelite Broadcasters at Concrete Blonde

Now a few words about this great restaurant itself…

Concrete Blonde is one of those rare restaurants where the space makes you feel good (expansive, even!) the minute you walk in. It has both an indoor and outdoor area and the connection between these two spaces is remarkably seamless. As a space, its designers have successfully combined a sense of occasion and gathering with intimacy and privacy. Remarkable! (As I’ve just done). Part of the occasion is being able to see your dinner cooked. The kitchen is along one side of the space. There’s also a friendly and extensive bar. And a cellar behind glass in the dining area itself. Car parking is in the building, which makes it easy in busy Kings Cross. But I don’t drive. So there’s the 324 and 325 bus at the front door and the 311 bus and Kings Cross train station just around the corner! Plus there’s live music by name bands in jazz, funk, gypsy, folk and more. Free! Sunday lunch and Wednesday nights. As Symphony Sid used to say in between Charlie Parker/Miles Davis sets on his all-night, all-frantic WMCA bop show from the Royal Roost nightclub, New York – ‘what more could you want?’

I’ll tell you what more - the food and the friendly staff take your experience to a whole new level

And the menu is special

For Sunday lunch, the band chose the Beef with Yorkshire Pudding and the Duck. There was also a vegetarian choice that was very, very tempting. I’ve never had Yorkshire Pudding before, but I will be having it again. And our Mancunian drummer, Bob Gillespie, formerly musical director for Lovelace Watkins and drummer with Maynard Ferguson’s English Orchestra, and whose family makes Yorkshire Puddings at home, was mightily impressed. The beef just melted in my mouth. And despite the servings being generous, with two big serving boats of tasty roast potatoes and broccoli and carrots arriving at our table, nothing was left on anyone’s plate. In short, the chef made a Sunday Roast exciting – and delicious. That’s real skill and passion for food

As for the restaurant space being an event in itself, making you feel good, and making you want to be there, I found this quote which goes some way in explaining why I felt so good the way I did the moment I walked through the doors: “Concrete Blonde is very excited and proud to announce that we have been short-listed (from over 600 entries) for the finals of the International Restaurant & Bar Design Awards. This is the only concept of its kind in the world and is dedicated exclusively to hospitality design. The Awards invites and receives entries from the world’s top architects, designers and hospitality operators. The judges recognise and reward entrants from all over the world for design excellence. The winners will be announced at an innovative ceremony at the Royal Institute of British Architects, London, 66 Portland Place on the 6th September 2012″

So Concrete Blonde is indeed a very special place. It’s warm and friendly. You’ll feel comfortable no matter what your restaurant background – whether you’re local or visiting, whether you’re a gourmand or someone like me on a very low income who only goes to a restaurant on very special occasions.  And if you are someone like me, well you can guess from the tone of this review, that I reckon Concrete Blonde is one exciting place that’ll take your special occasion to a whole new level and you’ll be happy to splash out with the hard-earns

Here’s their YouTube promo…

The Lounge Bar Lotharios At The 2012 Winter Ball

Sydney’s newest, most exciting, authentic 1920s Dance Orchestra, The Lounge Bar Lotharios, played at the prestigious 2012 Winter Ball

Held in the newly revamped and reopened Fairmont Resort, Leura, the Orchestra played original 1920s arrangements for dancing. We can play for your 1920s event, too. Contact Greg at Bakelite Jazz

In the band were Greg Poppleton, Sydney’s only authentic 1920s singer, Geoff Power, first trumpet and musical director, Al Davey, trumpet, Ian Baker, trombone, Paul Furniss, Alan Solomom and Glenn Henrich, soprano, alto, tenor saxes and clarinet, Grahame Conlon, banjo, Peter Locke, piano, Rod Herbert, sousaphone, Adam Barnard, drums. Here are some photos…

The Lounge Bar Lotharios Winter Ball 2012

Sydney’s Newest 1920s Dance Orchestra

The Lounge Bar Lotharios Reeds and Horn Sections

To book The Lounge Bar Lotharios for your 1920s Great Gatsby event, contact Greg through the Bakelite Jazz website

1920s The Lounge Bar Lotharios ‘Sizzle Reel’

Australia’s newest 1920s Dance Orchestra is – The Lounge Bar Lotharios – launched on 28 April. I sing with the band and recorded the show for the Orchestra’s ‘Sizzle – Reel’ below. I hope you enjoy it

Photos in the Sizzle Reel, and more I’ve posted below, were generously supplied by audience members Michael Scarlett and Ian McLeod. I also took a few myself. You can now see 4 albums of photos from the Lotharios’ launch on The Lotharios’ Facebook Page. Please visit and take a peek

The Lounge Bar Lotharios’ Official Website is www.sydney1920sdanceorchestra.com.au. That’s the best place you can go to enquire about having 1920s glamour and sparkle to your event

The Lounge Bar Lotharios have played the prestigious 2012 Winter Ball at the Fairmont Resort, Leura, The Moocooboola Festival, Hunters Hill, and the Blue Mountains Lithgow Oberon Tourism Awards in Katoomba

We’ll be playing the Sydney Jazz Club Annual Ball, Friday November 9 and for a 1920s Dance for the Canberra Centenary, Albert Hall, Canberra, 9 March 2013

And we’d like to play for you, too. Contact Greg for booking enquiries

The Lounge Bar Lotharios at the 2012 SJC Annual Ball Friday 9 November

Who Are The Lounge Bar Lotharios?

The Lounge Bar Lotharios is a 1920s Orchestra like no other. Sydney’s only original and authentic 1920s singer with Sydney’s Top Ten world-touring classic jazz musicians playing original arrangements from the era for your listening and dancing pleasure

The Lounge Bar Lotharios play Dinah

Can you imagine what it would have been like dancing to the world’s best dance orchestras onboard the luxurious Ile de France, in an excitingly dangerous Harlem speakeasy like The Cotton Club, or rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous in the lap of luxury at the Great Gatsby mansion?

The Lotharios 1920s Horn Section

Curious? So were Geoff Power, world-renowned 1920s-style jazz trumpeter and Greg Poppleton, Sydney’s only authentic 1920s singer. So they hand-picked ten world-touring classic jazz musicians. And under maestro Geoff’s direction and with Greg’s authentic Jazz Age singing, they turned them loose on Geoff’s library of original sweet and stomping 1920s music dance scores

Geoff Power – Lotharios’ Musical Director

Greg Poppleton sings Kansas City Kitty

You’ve probably seen lots of 1920s bands on YouTube. Maybe you even have a CD or mp3 or two of the hot dance bands of the 1920s at home. Great, aren’t they?

But how do you get to experience the magic of a 1920s Dance Orchestra, live, today? Well, prepare yourself for a big surprise. A positively shocking one

The Lounge Bar Lotharios take you on a trip back in time. In an instant, you’ll find yourself attending a 1920s party where time has stood still. Just you, your fellow flappers and dappers and 20s maestro Geoff Power conducting three hotcha horns, three sinful saxes, piano, banjo, tuba, drums and Sydney’s amazingly authentic 1920s dance band singer, Greg Poppleton

Lotharios Reeds Paul Furniss Ron Nairn Alan Solomon

We look forward to playing for you at your wedding, function, event and party. To make your enquiry and book this exciting, new, 1920s Dance Orchestra, please contact singer Greg Poppleton via the Contact page at www.bakelitejazz.com

Benny Goodman, Glen Gray & The Flying Train

Hello Phantom Dancers,

Firstly, thank you to everyone who saw Greg Poppleton & his Bakelite Broadcasters at the Blue Beat last Wednesday. We certainly had a lot of fun

Secondly, the astute amongst you may have noticed the same two songs posted at the end of Phantom Dancer play lists over the last few weeks and this week, as well. Well, these two songs keep popping up every week because I keep running out of time to play them. However, fingers crossed, this Tuesday 21 Feb and Sat 24 Feb you’ll hear Glen Gray & Benny Goodman from the 1930s Camel Caravan radio series as promised

And for this week’s Phantom Dancer Video of the Week, a 1933 German film about a technological marvel, The Flying Train. It doesn’t actually fly, it reaches speeds of 150kph, and for the trainspotter, the film goes into loving detail about the train’s construction. Enjoy!

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney Tuesday 21 February 2012 12 noon – 1:30pm (+11 hours GMT) Live stream on 2ser.com Saturday 25 February 2012 6 – 7:30pm (+11 hours GMT) Live stream on 2ser.com The Wireless Lobby Lud www.myspace. com/lobbylud Set 1 ‘Yes, What?’ Commercial Rex Dawe, Jim Williams, Ralph Peterson 5AD Adelaide 1938 Don’t Worry About Me Helen Carr (voc) Eliot Lawrence Orchestra ‘Jazz is My Beat’ AFRTS Re-broadcast 1958 Open + Buckle Down Buck Private WJSV Concert Orchestra (voc) Audience ‘Music Of Wartime America’ WJSV CBS Washington DC ‘ 1 Jul 1942 My Blue Heaven + Symphony Johnny Desmond (voc) Glenn Miller AAF Orchestra directed by Jerry Gray ‘I Sustain The Wings’ WRC NBC Washington DC 17 Nov 1945 Set 2 Let’s Get Away From It All Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) Frank Sinatra, Connie Haines, Jo Stafford & The Pied Pipers Aircheck Meadowbrook Ballroom Cedar Grove NJ Mar 1941 Open + Begin The Beguine Sonny Dunham Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Pennsylvania New York AFRS Re-broadcast 14 Apr 1944 Perdido + Close Randy Brooks Orchestra ‘One Night Stand’ Roseland Ballroom New York AFRS Re-broadcast 14 Jul 1945 Set 3 Open + Exactly Like You + Paper Moon + Put Your Little Head On My Shoulders + Close Don McNeil, Patsy Lee (voc) Jack Owens (voc) Eddie Valentine Orchestra ‘Guest Star’ Breakfast Club Chicago c 1950 Set 4 Wenn zwei wie du und ich Hans Rehmstedt Orchestra (voc) Rudi Schuericke Comm Rec Berlin Jul 1939 The Minor Goes A-Muggin’ Tommy Dorsey Orchestra ‘For The Record’ Carnegie Hall WEAF NBC NY 17 Apr 1944 Mad Monk Eddy South Trio ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1944 You Took Advantage Of Me + Tea For Two + Close The Three T’s – Jack & Charlie Teagarden + Frankie Trumbauer Hickory House WEAF NBC Red Network New York 2 Dec 1936 Set 5 Give Me Just Another Kiss George Trevare Orchestra (voc) Arthur Slade Comm Rec Sydney 1943 Robins & Roses Lee Wiley (Bunny Berrigan tp) WABC CBS New York 17 Jun 1936 When I Wish With You Duke Ellington Orchestra Aircheck Ciro’s Hollywood Jul 1947 Stardust + Close Fletcher Henderson Orchestra Cafe Society WNBC NBC NY 1950 Set 6 College Stomp Philippe Brun & His Swing Band Comm Rec Paris 28 Dec 1937 Weary Blues Glen Gray & The Casa Loma Orchestra ‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 2 Jan 1936 Big John Special Benny Goodman Orchestra ‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NY 16 Nov 1937

St Louis Blues – Greg Poppleton Bakelite Jazz

Happy New Year, Bakeliters!

Greg Poppleton & Bakelite Jazz had a great time playing 1920s – 1930s Hot Jazz and Swing for you in 2011. Thank you for enjoying our music live and on the YouTube clips you’ll find posted throughout this blog. In fact, just for you, there’s a New Year’s present of music we hope you’ll click on and enjoy a few pars down…

In 2011, the band played at such historic 1920s – 1930s occasions as the First Sydney Artists’ Ball and opening night of Art & About at the Art Gallery of NSW, connected with the ‘Mad Square’ exhibition of German Expressionist Art. We supported Mary Schneider in a big concert at the Sutherland Entertainment Centre and spent Melbourne Cup Day by the Harbour in the beautifully art deco Manly Pavilion

Great Gatsby theme parties became vogue in 2011 and will grow in popularity in 2012. Needless, to say, as Sydney’s only authentic 1920s singer, why would you book any other band than Greg Poppleton & Bakelite Jazz for your Great Gatsby party? Sydney’s only 1920s and 1930s singer with duo to sextet of world-touring musicians played some big ones in 2011, here’s a clip from the biggest

In 2012, the full band including Paul Furniss on saxes and clarinet and Al Davey on trumpet and trombone have been invited to perform at the Glen Street Theatre on 20 March as part of Glen Street’s ‘Music in The Glen’ series. We play the VE Day Ball at Elizabeth Bay House on 4 May. As well, you’re booking Greg Poppleton & Bakelite Jazz for your weddings and Great Gatsby theme corporate and private events. We thank you

And throughout 2011 and 2012 we’ll continue to be regulars at Penrith RSL. We’re tipped to be back this April. Keep an eye on the band’s News Page. And check out this clip from our last show there on 17 Dec 2011…

During the show above, drummer Bob Gillespie told me that these Bakelite Jazz YouTube clips posted throughout this blog brought him a ‘blast from the past’ ‘out of the blue’ ‘from the other side of the world’

Bob was the drummer in Maynard Ferguson’s English Band. And the bass player from that band rang Bob after 40 years, tipped off by the bass player’s son who saw Bob playing in Bakelite Jazz on YouTube. How’s that!