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Each concert will be devoted to a special type of jazz, and will be headed by a "master" of that style. Eddie Conlon is handling Chicago, Sidney Bechet New Orleans, Mary Lou Williams Kansas City Meade Lux Lewis boogie, and Art Hodes barrelhouse and blues...
Instead of fine musicians like Red Allen, Pete Brown, and Sidney Bechet, who have been setting the Ken a-rocking in the past three months, there will be a pussyfoot outfit under Nick Jerrit. Not that the band hasn't possibilities, but playing alongside J. C. Higginbotham and Pete Brown in yesterday's jam session, Jerrit's bunch was dismally uninteresting. There evidently won't be an end to the Sunday sessions, which is heartening. I don't think they'll be as exciting as previously, if for the simple reason that you can't build a whole afternoon...
These two Sunday sessions, though, are not alone in their glory this hot June exam week. Allen's band plays of an evening at the same Ken, where his man Don Stovall plays every pleasing alto. Tuesday time-honored Sidney Bechet will bring another colored group there as a relief band, and if that means no more floor show so much the better. There is Fats Waller at the Tictoc as well, not to forget Sabby Lewis at the hardy perennial Savoy...
After painstaking rehearsals, Mr. Bechet went to the Victor studios with his tenor and soprano saxophones, string bass, drums, clarinet. The piano was already there. He recorded each instrument's part separately, listening to and recording the preceding part as he played the next one (see cut, p. 40), The six parts were progressively dubbed together. "Man!" cried Mr. Bechet, when the job was done. "That ends three months of torture...
...band is a unique stunt, but except as a stunt it doesn't add new luster to Mr. Bechet, who is already a first-rate hot soprano saxophonist...