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NEWS AND NEW RELEASES. Bobby Hackett will open at the Versailles (ex Southland) on Monday, fronting a ten-piece local band. I heard Bobby last week, and he's right in his prime, so his stay at the Versailles will be welcome to all of us who remember him from Nick's and the Theatrical Club; and will be a pleasant surprise to those who have yet to hear him in person . . . If you have a car, get down to Providence on Sunday, for the afternoon jam session at the Crown Hotel. These sessions have been extremely popular...
...BLUEBIRD). Wingly's seat choruses are featured on both sides, and Dixieland fans will get a kick out of the ensemble jam on the finishes. . . Cozy Cole and Chu Berry grace Cab Calloway's OREB recording A Chicken Ain't Nothing But a Bird. Tune was featured in the Southland floor show last year. . . lna Ray Button's new out offers two riff tunes: Five O'Clock Whistle and Make Me Know It (OREB). Band shows lots of promise, particularly in the rhythm section...
Boston night clubs are not so hot. The Southland is big, noisy, and has first-rate bands. The Cocoanut Grove and the Beachcomber are also cut on a lavish bias--but the floor shows at all of them are consistently poor. The only good floor show in town is to be found at the dirt-cheap Little Dixie, located in the center of Boston's Harlem, but it's not the sort of place to take your grandmother...
...agreed completely with me. He then went on to play for me, in the style that I have always considered to be tops on tenor sax, a full hour of "Limehouse Blues," Improvising all the while around a little riff that I swiped from Chu Berry down at the Southland last week...
Therefore you go down to the Southland to hear the Cab, you'll hear a band that is interesting on its own account, and has the only person in the world besides Ethel Waters that can make "Mrs. Otis Regrets" have that proper flavor...