Ernest Hutcheson – Australian Pianist & Julliard President – Phantom Dancer 31 January 2023

Ernest Hutcheson is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist in a broadcast from 1936. He was an internationally renowned concert pianist born in Australia and was president of Juilliard, the prestigious Arts school in New York City.

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 31 January) and weeks of Phantom Dancer mixes online at, at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

ERNEST

From his bio on the Steinway pianos’ website…

Ernest Hutcheson (1871-1951) was an Australian pianist, composer and teacher. Born in Melbourne, he toured as a child prodigy at the age of five. He later traveled to Leipzig and entered the Leipzig Conservatory at the age of fourteen to study with Carl Reinecke, Bernhard Stavenhagen, and Bruno Zwintscher. Prior to the outbreak of World War I he taught at the Stern Conservatory in Berlin, but in 1914 he settled in New York, where he made his U.S. debut.

He is believed to have been the first pianist to play three concertos of Ludwig van Beethoven in a single concert: his performances of Beethoven’s third, fourth and fifth with the New York Symphony Orchestra in the Aeolian Hall in 1919.

JUILLIARD

Hutcheson had studied under Carl Reinecke (who studied with Mendelssohn, Schumann and Liszt), Bernhard Stavenhagen (a pupil of Liszt) and Bruno Zwintscher (who studied under Moscheles, among others). He would become Dean and then President of the Juilliard School, teaching eminent pianists that included Bruce Hungerford and Abram Chasins. He wrote two important books, “The Literature of the Piano” and “The Elements of Piano Technique,” and it is thanks to Hutcheson’s support that Gershwin was able to have the seclusion he required at Chautauqua Institution in order to meet the deadline to finish his Piano Concerto in F.

He became a member of the faculty at the Juilliard School, and successively Dean (1926–1937) and President (1937–1945) of the school. At Juilliard, he championed the use of radio musical broadcasts in education.

Hutcheson was also associated with the Chautauqua School of Music in Western New York State. Hutcheson provided a much needed refuge for George Gershwin at Chautauqua while composing and refining the Piano Concerto in F. Thanks to Ernest Hutcheson’s kind offer of seclusion for Gershwin at Chautauqua where his quarters were declared off limits to everyone until 4 p.m. daily, Gershwin was able to successfully complete his piano concerto on time.

You’ll hear him broadcasting from Chautauqua in the clip above. (I prefer his piano interpretation of the Emporer Piano Concerto to Walter Gieseking in 1944)

Ernest Hutcheson wrote concertos for piano; 2 pianos; and violin, and many solo piano works, such as a transcription of Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries. His music has been little heard in concert or on recordings, but his Australian compatriot Ian Munro has recorded some of his piano pieces.

Hutcheson wrote important books The Literature of the Piano, The Elements of Piano Technique, and Elektra, by Richard Strauss: a Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score, among others.

24 JANUARY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #582
107.3 2SER Tuesday 31 January 2023 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5UV Adelaide Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 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 3am – 4 and 6 -7pm 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am and Sunday 11pm Reading Radio (QLD) Friday 1am – 2 2RRR Ryde Friday 11am – 12 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Saturday 4am – 5am Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturday 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm 2SEA Sapphire Coast Eden Sunday 9 – 10pm
Set 1	Les Brown
Mexican Hat Dance	Les Brown Orchestra	‘Spotlight Bands’ Bowman Field KY AFRS Re-broadcast 7 Oct 1945
This I Love Above All	Les Brown Orchestra (voc) Gordon Drakes	‘Spotlight Bands’ Bowman Field KY AFRS Re-broadcast 7 Oct 1945
Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby	Les Brown Orchestra (voc) Butch Stone	‘Spotlight Bands’ Bowman Field KY AFRS Re-broadcast 7 Oct 1945
It Had to Be You + Mush Head	Les Brown Orchestra (voc) Doris Day	‘Spotlight Bands’ Bowman Field KY AFRS Re-broadcast 7 Oct 1945
Set 2	Charlie Barnet
Redskin Rhumba (theme)  + Charleston Alley	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 4 Dec 1959
But Beautiful	Charlie Barnet Orchestra (voc) Lynn Franklyn	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 4 Dec 1959
Moonglow	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 4 Dec 1959
Fair and Warmer	Charlie Barnet Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ Palladium Ballroom Los Angeles AFRS Re-broadcast 4 Dec 1959
Set 3	Duke Ellington Orchestra
Take the A-Train (theme) + Love Letters	Duke Ellington Orchestra (tb) Lawrence Brown	‘One Night Stand’ New Zanzibar NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 1944
Main Stem	Duke Ellington Orchestra	‘One Night Stand’ New Zanzibar NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 1944
Fishing for the Moon + Riff’n’Drill	Duke Ellington Orchestra (tp) Rex Stewart	‘One Night Stand’ New Zanzibar NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 1944
The Kissing Bug + Close	Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Joya Sherill	‘One Night Stand’ New Zanzibar NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 1944
Set 4	Ernest Hutcheson
Finale Mendelsohn Concerto in Gm	Ernest Hutcheson (piano) NBC Symphony Orchestra	‘The Magic Key’ WJZ NBC Blue NYC 18 Oct 1936
Spinning Song	Ernest Hutcheson (piano)	‘The Magic Key’ WJZ NBC Blue NYC 18 Oct 1936
Set 5	Bob Crosby
Summertime (theme) + Boogie Woogie Maxixe	Bob Crosby Orchestra	Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Mutual Chicago 29 Apr 1940
Oh, You Crazy Moon	Bob Crosby Orchestra (voc) Helen Ward	‘Camel Caravan’ WABC CBS NYC 11 Jul 1939
Reminiscin’ Time	Bob Crosby Orchestra	Blackhawk Restaurant WGN Mutual Chicago 29 Apr 1940
You Turned the Tables on Me + But None Like You	Charlie Spivak Orchestra (voc) Irene Day & Tommy Mercer	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 7 Apr 1948
Set 6	Miff Mole Trombone
Big Butter and Egg Man	Miff Mole and his Nixieland Six	‘For the Record’ WEAF NBC NYC
Keep Smilin’ at Trouble	Eddie Condon Group (tb) Miff Mole	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 20 Sep 1944
Peg o’ my Heart	Miff Mole and his Nixieland Six	Comm Rec Chicago 26 Jun 1928
Impromptu Ensemble	Eddie Condon Group (tb) Miff Mole	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ WJZ Blue NYC 9 Sep 1944
Set 7	Cab Calloway Records
A Minor Breakdown	Cab Calloway Orchestra	Comm Rec NYC 10 Dec 1937
Vuelva	Cab Calloway Orchestra	Comm Rec NYC 17 Oct 1939
Azure	Cab Calloway Orchestra	Comm Rec NYC 23 Mar 1938
Fifteen Minutes Intermission	Cab Calloway Orchestra	Comm Rec NYC 27 Jun 1940
Set 8	Modern Jazz on 1959 Radio
Open +Sid’s Ahead	Miles Davis	‘Bandstand USA’ The Spotlight Washington DC Mutual Network Feb 1959
In a Prescribed Manner	Buddy Rich	Birdland WABC ABC NYV 7 Nov 1959

Flip Philips Sax from Swing to Stravinsky – Phantom Dancer 10 January 2023

Flip Philips is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist in a broadcast from 1953 with Hank Jones (p/org) and Buddy Rich (d).

Joseph Edward Filippelli aka Flip Philips was a jazz tenor saxophonist and clarinettist who played swing, big band and Stravinsky.

The Phantom Dancer is your weekly non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV every week.

You’ll also hear Louis Armstrong this week with a set from 1945 radio and a set of his 1920s small groups.

LISTEN to this week’s Phantom Dancer mix (online after 2pm AEST, Tuesday 10 January) and weeks of Phantom Dancer mixes online at, at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/

FLIP

During the 1930s, Phillips played clarinet in a restaurant in Brooklyn. After that he was a member of bands led by Frankie Newton, Red Norvo, Benny Goodman, and Wingy Manone. He changed to tenor sax in his late 20s.

He was a regular soloist for the Woody Herman band in the middle 1940s and for the next ten years performed with Jazz at the Philharmonic.

Flip retired to Florida, but after fifteen years he returned to music, recording again and performing into his 80s.

He never lost the knack. On his final recording, made as the new millennium approached, he easily held his own alongside two of today’s big names, with a rounded, breathy tone that never weakened.

PHILIPS

Between 1944-46 he starred in Herman’s First Herd.

Headhunted by Herman, he became known for his contributions to the songs, The Good Earth, Apple Honey, Northwest Passage and many more.

Few musicians in the band were influenced by the new bebop sounds, but Herman’s knack of commissioning such talented young composer/ arrangers as Neal Hefti and Ralph Burns got the First Herd recognised as being in step with postwar progress.

Igor Stravinsky was impressed enough to write his Ebony Concerto specifically for the Herd; the story goes that, at a rehearsal, Phillips, apparently not the quickest of sight-readers, was told by Stravinsky, “What you are playing is very nice, but what I have written is much better.”

When the pressure of being continuously on the road caused Herman to disband at the end of 1946, Phillips worked with small groups, often featuring another ex-Herman star in trombonist Bill Harris, and joined Norman Granz’s JATP for concerts and tours.

During much of the next decade, he toured with Jazz At The Philharmonic (JATP), then at its peak as a high-profile roadshow, in which big-toned tenors were expected to egg the crowd on by indulging the instrument’s capacity to emit honks, squeals and earthshaking belches. One of the tunes used to bring the entertainment to a climax was Perdido, and a suitably rabble-rousing solo by Phillips, recorded at a JATP concert, linked the piece to him long after the event.

During this period, he often shared the stage with other top tenors, notably Lester Young and Ben Webster. They might have inspired his lighter touch on, respectively, blues and ballads, though Phillips was always able to adapt to his surroundings – with both Herman and JATP, he probably felt the need to blow at full throttle much of the time.

Here’s Flip Philips blowing at age 80

LATER

After joining Benny Goodman for a European tour in 1959, he decided to give up full-time playing. With his wife Sophia, he settled in Florida, making a living from non-musical jobs. He managed a beachside housing development and indulged his hobbies of golf and wood work. He also took up the bass clarinet.

But, by 1970, the jazz climate had altered in his favour. Bands were increasingly being formed by players of the past, and Phillips rejoined Herman for a gig at the Newport festival. He was a natural attraction at jazz parties run by wealthy aficionados.

The arrival of musicians whose styles harked back beyond bebop, let alone beyond John Coltrane, found Phillips joining Scott Hamilton on two-tenor dates. He often teamed up with guitarist Howard Alden, a fixture on the neo-swing scene.

Phillips thrived musically, showing he had lost nothing over the years, while adding the ease of expression that comes when you don’t have to prove yourself to anyone. On his last record, made at the age of 84, he sounds ultra-relaxed in the company of Joe Lovano, himself a poll-winning tenor, and James Carter. (From All About Jazz).

Highly recommend this thoroughly researched history of Flip Philips http://www.jazzarcheology.com/artists/flip_phillips.pdf

10 JANUARY PLAY LIST

Play List – The Phantom Dancer 107.3 2SER-FM Sydney LISTEN ONLINE Community Radio Network Show CRN #579
107.3 2SER Tuesday 10 January 2023 12:04 – 2:00pm (+11 hours GMT) and Saturdays 5 – 5:55pm National Program 5UV Adelaide Monday 2:30 – 3:30am 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 3am – 4 and 6 -7pm 2MCE Bathurst Wednesday 9 – 10am 1ART ArtsoundFM Canberra Friday 10 – 11am and Sunday 11pm Reading Radio (QLD) Friday 1am – 2 2RRR Ryde Friday 11am – 12 2ARM Armidale Friday 12 – 1pm 5LCM Lofty FM Adelaide Friday 1 – 2pm 6GME Radio Goolarri Broome Saturday 4am – 5am Denmark FM (West Australia) Saturday 10 – 11am Repeat: Wednesdays 10 – 11pm 7LTN Launceston Sunday 5 – 6am 3MGB Mallacoota Sunday 5 – 6am 3BBR West Gippsland Sunday 5 – 6pm 2SEA Sapphire Coast Eden Sunday 9 – 10pm
Set 1	Louis Armstrong
Ain’t Misbehavin’	Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) Louis Armstrong	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1945
Barrelhouse Bessie from Basin Street	Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) Louis Armstrong	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1945
Peanut Vendor	Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) Louis Armstrong	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1945
Coquette	Louis Armstrong Orchestra (voc) Louis Armstrong	‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 1945
Set 2	Tito Puente Mambo King
Esy	Tito Puente Orchestra	Birdland WABC NYC 1953
Babarabatiri	Tito Puente Orchestra (voc) Vincent Chico Valdes	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NYC 1953
Ron Kan Kan	Tito Puente Orchestra	‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NYC 1953
Set 3	Eddie Condon
I Found a New Baby	Eddie Condon Jazz Group	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1944
What Is There to Say?	Willie ‘The Lion’ Smith	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1944
Jazz Me Blues	Eddie Condon Jazz Group	‘Eddie Condon Jazz Concert’ AFRS Re-broadcast 1944
Set 4	Flip Philips
Three Little Words	Flip Philips (ts) Hank Jones (p/org) Buddy Rich (d)	Bandbox WMGM NYC (?) 19 Jan 1953
Carioca	Flip Philips (ts) Hank Jones (p/org) Buddy Rich (d)	Bandbox WMGM NYC (?) 19 Jan 1953
Sweet Lorraine	Flip Philips (ts) Hank Jones (p/org) Buddy Rich (d)	Bandbox WMGM NYC (?) 19 Jan 1953
Bugle Call Rag	Flip Philips (ts) Charlie Shavers (tp) Hank Jones (p/org) Buddy Rich (d)	Bandbox WMGM NYC (?) 19 Jan 1953
Set 5	1940s Women Swing Singers
Baby Boogie	Eliot Lawrence Orchestra (voc) Rosalind Patton	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 2 Dec 1947
Hollywood Bowl	Tony Pastor Orchestra (voc) Rosemay & Betty Clooney, Tony Pastor	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA Jun 1946
Beg Your Pardon	Harry James Orchestra (voc) Dinah Shore	‘Dinah Shore Show’ KNX CBS LA 4 May 1948
You Turned the Tables on Me + But None Like You	Charlie Spivak Orchestra (voc) Irene Day & Tommy Mercer	Palladium Ballroom KNX CBS LA 7 Apr 1948
Set 6	Louis Armstrong 1920s
That’s When I’ll Come Back To You	Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven (voc) Louis Armstrong & Lil Hardin	Comm Rec Chicago 13 May 1927
Savoyages’ Stomp	Caroll Dickenson’s Savoyagers	Comm Rec Chicago 5 Jul 1928
Too Busy	Louis Armstrong and his Hot Four (voc) Lillie Delk Christian	Comm Rec Chicago 26 Jun 1928
Basin Street Blues	Louis Armstrong and his Savoy Ballroom Five (voc) Earl Hines & Mancy Cara	Comm Rec Chicago 4 Dec 1928
Set 7	Ella Fitzgerald
Open + Who Ya’ Hunchin’?	Ella Fitzgerald Orchestra	Savoy Ballroom WJZ NBC Blue NYC 26 Feb 1940
You Hit The Spot	Chick Webb Orchestra (voc) Ella Fitzgerald	Radio Transcription 1936
It’s a Blue World	Ella Fitzgerald Orchestra (voc) Ella Fitzgerald	Savoy Ballroom WJZ NBC Blue NYC 4 Mar 1940
Rhythm & Romance	Chick Webb Orchestra (voc) Ella Fitzgerald	Radio Transcription 1936
Set 8	1950s Big Band Radio
Open + Dream a Little Dream of Me	Claude Thornhill Orchestra (voc) Patty Ryan	‘One Night Stand’ Steel Pier Atlantic City NJ AFRS Re-broadcast 24 Aug 1955
Limelight	Stan Kenton Orchestra	‘Concert in Miniature’ Moonlight Gardens WLW NBC Cincinnati 26 Aug 1952
Two O’Clock Jump	Harry James Orchestra	Hotel Astor Roof WCBS CBS NYC 25 May 1953