Mr Pite goes into hospital this week to have his nose sorted out for the umpteenth time. He complains that he was bestowed with the Ford Edsel of noses ( it’s big and most of the time it doesn’t work). He’ll be bouncing back at the weekend to resume duties behind the drum kit and smell the roast beef at the Boisdale Canary Wharf Sunday Lunch . In the meantime try these:
So little rest for the wicked:
The Jazz Repertory Company’s new show Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller at Carnegie Hall 1939 premieres on May 14th at The Concorde Club in Eastleigh nr. Southampton. Then on Sunday 18th May the show can be seen at the Stables at Wavenden, in the build up to its London debut in November at Cadogan Hall.
Benny Goodman’s 1938 Carnegie Hall show is one of the most famous concerts in jazz history but the 1939 concert is not so well known even though recordings of it exist. Goodman and Miller shared the bill with the orchestras of Paul Whiteman and Fred Waring.
Benny Goodman at Carnegie Hall, 1938
Benny took the mickey out of Fred Waring’s very square music when his band hit the stage and he also did something rather cheeky – his second number in was Glenn Miller’s current hit Sun Valley Serenade. Miller was to follow and had the number in his programme so must have been seething in his dressing room – no wonder Benny Goodman was such a popular guy!
Glenn Miller's Sun Valley Serenade
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