Harry James and Arban’s – 3 October Phantom Dancer + ‘Leave It To Harry’ (1954)

If the 26 September show is anything to go by, the 3 October Phantom Dancer, one week before the annual 2SER Subscriber Drive, is going to be the best show ever.

This week you’ll Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye and tune in for Part 5 of the Harry James aircheck series 1953-54. Indeed, the entire Vinyl Hour of The Phantom Dancer is devoted to trumpet band leaders on live radio: Louis Armstrong, Harry James, Erskine Hawkins and Dizzy Gillespie.

Your non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV is presented by myself, Greg Poppleton, over radio station 107.3 2SER Sydney. I’ve been bringing you The Phantom Dancer since 1985.

You can now hear it live-streamed and online on Radio 2SER’s website: http://www.2ser.com/phantomdancer.

HARRY JAMES
Since we are up to Part 5 in our chronological review of radio airchecks by trumpeter Harry James, it is worth noting here that just like Fats Waller, discussed in last week’s Phantom Dancer play list notes, Harry James also had a classical background when learning his instrument.

Harry James was none for his great facility on the trumpet and his wonderful tone. Harry’s father was a circus band leader. He started teaching Harry trumpet when Harry was aged 10.  The lesson regime was that each day, he had to learn a page from the Arban’s book.

What’s the Arban’s book? It’s the instruction book for cornet, flugelhorn and trumpet written by the famous Joseph Jean-Baptiste Laurent Arban  before 1859.

Arban was a cornetist, conductor, composer, teacher and the first famed virtuoso of the cornet. He was influenced by Niccolò Paganini’s virtuosic technique on the violin and successfully proved that the cornet was a true solo instrument by developing virtuoso technique it.

Arban’s book consists of:  Introduction / First Studies / Playing Methods: Slurring or Legato Playing /  Scales / Ornaments / Advanced Studies / Tonguing / Phrasing: 150 Classic and Popular Melodies / 68 Duets for Two Cornets / 14 Characteristic Studies / Celebrated Fantasies and Airs Varies

See the full Phantom Dancer play list below.

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Thank you.

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney, Live Stream, Digital Radio Community Radio Network Show CRN #281 107.3 2SER Tuesday 3 October 2017 After the 2SER 12 noon news, 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) National Program: ArtSoundFM Canberra Sunday 7 – 8pm and early morning on 22 other stations. Set 1 Dance Bands on 1944-1950 Radio Small Town Boogie Barbara James (voc) Albert Fisher Orchestra Aircheck Sydney 1944 Sunrise Serenade (theme) + Let’s Do It Again Frankie Carle Orchestra (voc) Band ’Your Saturday Dance Date’ Marine Dining Room Edgewater Beach Hotel WMAQ NBC Chicago 12 Aug 1950 On The Beach At Waikiki + Aloha Oe Harry Owens Orchestra (voc) Prince Kawuhi and Chorus ’Sweet Leihani’ Mural Room Hotel St Francis KPO NBC San Francisco 1940s Set 2 Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye Theme + Just A Prayer Away Sammy Kaye Orchestra (voc) Billy Williams ’Sunday Serenade’ WJZ Blue Network NYC 15 Apr 1945 It’s A Great Feeling Sammy Kaye Orchestra (voc) The Kaydettes and Kaye Choir ’Sammy Kaye’s Showroom’ Radio Transcription Hollywood 1949 How Deep Is The Ocean? + I’m In The Mood For Love + Avalon + Close Sammy Kaye Orchestra ’One Night Stand’ Hotel Astor Roof AFRS re-broadcast 27 Aug 1945 Set 3 Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street 1941 Open + Ballin’ The Jack Henry Levine Dixieland Octet ’Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 18 Aug 1941 Peter and the Wolf Paul Laval Woodwinds ’Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 23 Jun 1941 Gone With What Wind + Close Paul Laval Woodwinds ’Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ WJZ NBC Blue NY 4 Aug 1941 Set 4 Swing Bands on 1943-46 Radio I’ve Got You Under My Skin Leo Reisman Orchestra ’Spotlight Bands’ National Press Club Washington DC Blue Network 23 Jun 1943 Open + Look For The Silver Lining Andy Russell (voc) Toots Cammerata Orchestra ’Double Feature’ AFRS Re-broadcast 2 Oct 1944 Tuesday at Ten + Close Ray McKinley Orchestra ’One Night Stand’ Century Room Commodore Hotel AFRS Re-broadcast 1946 Set 5 Louis Armstrong Theme + If I Could Be With You One Hour Tonight Louis Armstrong Orchestra ’Jubilee’ AFRS New York City Mar 1943 Super Tiger Rag Louis Armstrong and French Orchestra Comm Rec Paris 1934 Lazy River Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) LA ’Spotlight Bands’ Dallas TX Blue Network 17 Aug 1943 Royal Garden Blues Louis Armstrong All-Stars ’Damon Runyon Memorial Jazz Concert’ Blue Note ABC Chicago 11 Dec 1948 Set 6 Harry James on 1953-54 Radio Stomp and Whistle Harry James Orchestra (voc) Buddy Rich Aircheck Superior WI 29 May 1954 Down South Camp Meeting Harry James Orchestra Aircheck Hotel Astor Roof NYC 25 May 1953 Open + Stealin’ Apples Harry James Orchestra Aircheck Aragon Ballroom Chicago 18 Jun 1954 Back Beat Boogie Harry James Orchestra Aircheck Aragon Ballroom Chicago 20 Jun 1954 Set 7 Erskine Hawkins What Do You Know About Love? Erskine Hawkins Orchestra (voc) Ida James Comm Rec New York City 20 Oct 1938 Open + Eelibuj Boogie Erskine Hawkins Orchestra Paradise Restaurant WOR MBS NY 3 May 1938 Holiday For Strings + Trinidad Erskine Hawkins Orchestra ’One Night Stand’ Blue Room Hotel Lincoln New York City 1 May 1946 Set 8 Dizzy Gillespie Intro + Blue ’n’ Boogie Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker ’Symphony Sid Show’ Bordland WJZ NYC 31 Mar 1951 Minor Walk Dizzy Gillespie with Tony Proteau Orchestra Rex Theatre RTF Paris Feb 1953 Doodlin’ Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra Birdland WCBS CBS NY Jun 1956 Ool-Ya-Koo Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra Winter Palace Radio Sweden Stockholm 2 Feb 1948