21 May 2024
(Until 21 May)1940s Jazz Harpsichord – Phantom Dancer
Greg Poppleton Swing Radio Show
Jazz Harpsichord first appeared around 1940 when pianist Johnny Guarnieri played harpsichord in swing band leader Artie Shaw’s quintet “Gramercy Five”. 1940s Jazz harpsichord, by Primo Angeli, Sylvia Marlowe (born Sapira) and Ernesto Romanoni, is your Phantom Dancer feature this week.
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ANGELI
Primo Angeli plays jazz harpsichord in the Brockseiper track on this week’s Phantom Dancer. He was also pianist with drummer Freddie Brockseiper’s Orchestra at the time of the 6 July 1943 recording.
He studied music in Bologna and was a member of Nanni dal Dello’s orchestra which toured Germany in 1937.
Primo stayed in Germany, becoming part of the Berlin swing scene.
He recorded with the orchestras of Willy Berking, Hans Rehmstedt, and the Golden Seven.
From 1940 he recorded with the propaganda band Charlie and His Orchestra, in which Lutz Templin brought together the elite of European jazz.
His piano records with the bands of Benny de Weille and Franz Kleindin have a Teddy Wilson flavour.
He also played with his own combo.
After 1945, Angeli worked with his wife, singer Henriette Schäffler, in US Army soldiers’ clubs and as an organist at the Hotel Frankfurter Hof.
He moved to Munich, working for Bavarian Radio and opened an organ school.
MARLOWE
Sylvia Marlowe was the stage name of Sylvia Sapira. She was an American harpsichordist who played both Baroque repertoire and contemporary compositions by composers such as Alan Hovhaness.
She also released an album of jazz harpsichord in 1941.
In 1957 she founded the Harpsichord Music Society, Inc. to promote new works for harpsichord and award scholarships for the advanced study of harpsichord and its repertoire.
Composers commissioned by the society include Elliott Carter, Ned Rorem, Vittorio Rieti and Henri Sauguet.
ROMANONI
Ernesto Romanoni played jazz harpsichord and celeste in 1941 and 1942 recordings by violinist Helmut Zacharias und seine Solisten: Helmut Zacharias (vln,ldr) Ernesto Romanoni (harpsichord, celeste), Alfio Grasso, Meg Tevelian, Jani Nemeth (g) Cesare Cavaion (b)
In Berlin for the Zacharias band on November 29, 1941, he played harpsichord on a recording of the movie tune, Bei dir war es immer so schön, and later in 1942, Hallo, Hella.
He also recorded in Berlin in 1941 with Tullio Mobiglia mit seinem Bar-Orchester, including the slow foxtrot, Es wiegt sich ein Schiff im Wind.
21 May PLAY LIST
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Set 1 | Duke Ellington | |
Things Ain’t What They Used to Be (theme) + Bluetopia | Duke Ellington Orchestra | ‘2nd Esquire All-Star Jazz Concert’ Metropolitan Opera House NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 17 Jan 1945 |
The Air Conditioned Jungle | Duke Ellington Orchestra | ‘2nd Esquire All-Star Jazz Concert’ Metropolitan Opera House NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 17 Jan 1945 |
| Frustration | Duke Ellington Orchestra | ‘2nd Esquire All-Star Jazz Concert’ Metropolitan Opera House NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 17 Jan 1945 |
Set 2 | Ben Bernie | |
Lonesome Old Town + The Marine Hymn | Ben Bernie Orchestra | ‘War Workers’ Program’ WBBM CBS Chicago 15 Sep 1942 |
Wonder When My Baby’s Coming Home? | Ben Bernie Orchestra (voc) Gail Robbins | ‘War Workers’ Program’ WBBM CBS Chicago 15 Sep 1942 |
My Great-Great-Grandfather | Ben Bernie Orchestra (voc) Ben Bernie | ‘War Workers’ Program’ WBBM CBS Chicago 15 Sep 1942 |
Old Fashioned Swing + Idaho + Goodbye + Lonesome Old Town (close) | Ben Bernie Orchestra (voc) The King’s Jesters | ‘War Workers’ Program’ WBBM CBS Chicago 15 Sep 1942 |
Set 3 | Jazz Harpsichord | |
Open + Turkish March | Sylvia Marlowe | ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ Club Morocco WJZ NBC Blue 17 Dec 1941 |
Cymbal Serenade | Primo Angeli with Freddie Brockseiper Orchestra | Comm Rec Berlin 29 Nov 1941 |
Bir mir war es immer so schoen | Ernseto Romanoni with Helmut Zacharias | Comm Rec Berlin 6 Jul 1943 |
Pine Top’s Boogie + Close | Sylvia Marlowe | ‘Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street’ Club Morocco WJZ NBC Blue 17 Dec 1941 |
Set 4 | Stan Kenton | |
Open + Four Mothers’ Sound (Fascinating Rhythm) | Stan Kenton Orchestra | ‘Concert in Miniature’ Palm Gardens Columbus OH WTAM NBC Cleveland OH 19 May 1953 |
You Go to my Head | Stan Kenton Orchestra | ‘Concert in Miniature’ Palm Gardens Columbus OH WTAM NBC Cleveland OH 19 May 1953 |
Savannah | Stan Kenton Orchestra | ‘Concert in Miniature’ Palm Gardens Columbus OH WTAM NBC Cleveland OH 19 May 1953 |
Don’t Worry About Me | Stan Kenton Orchestra (voc) Chris Connor | ‘Concert in Miniature’ Palm Gardens Columbus OH WTAM NBC Cleveland OH 19 May 1953 |
Cool Eyes | Stan Kenton Orchestra | ‘Concert in Miniature’ Palm Gardens Columbus OH WTAM NBC Cleveland OH 19 May 1953 |
Frivolous Sal + Limelight (close) | Stan Kenton Orchestra | ‘Concert in Miniature’ Palm Gardens Columbus OH WTAM NBC Cleveland OH 19 May 1953 |
Set 5 | Jack Hylton Records | |
St Louis Blues | Jack Hylton Orchestra | Comm Rec London 5 Oct 1933 |
| Four Words | Jack Hylton Orchestra | Comm Rec Berlin 18 Jan 1929 |
Ellington Medly | Jack Hylton Orchestra | Comm Rec London 18 Nov 1933 |
Handsome Gigolo | Jack Hylton Orchestra | Comm Rec Berlin 10 May 1930 |
Set 6 | Cotton Club | |
Oh Babe Maybe Some Day + I Let a Song Go Out of my Heart | Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Ivie Anderson | Cotton Club WABC CBS NYC 8 May 1938 |
Dinah | Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Harry Carney | Cotton Club WABC CBS NYC 24 Mar 1938 |
Alabamy Home + If Ypu were in my Place | Duke Ellington Orchestra (voc) Ivie Anderson | Cotton Club WABC CBS NYC 22 May 1938 |
Downtown Uproar | Cootie Williams’ Jam Band | Cotton Club WABC CBS NYC 17 April 1938 |
Set 7 | Benny Goodman | |
Honeysuckle Rose | Benny Goodman Quintet (voc) Kay Starr | ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Jan 1948 |
A Sunday Kind of Love | Benny Goodman Quintet (voc) Kay Starr | ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood Jan 1948 |
I’m Always Chasing Rainbows | Benny Goodman Orchestra | ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 21 Jun 1944 |
After You’ve Gone + Goodbye | Benny Goodman Orchestra (voc) Lisa Morrow | ‘Jubilee’ AFRS Hollywood 21 Jun 1944 |
Set 8 | 1950s Jazz | |
| Little Jazz + Rockin’ Chair | Roy Eldridge Quintet | ‘Bandstand USA’ Cafe Bohemia WOR Mutual NYC Mar 1957 |
| Lady Be Good | Roy Eldridge Quintet | ‘Bandstand USA’ Cafe Bohemia WOR Mutual NYC Mar 1957 |
| Fine and Dandy | Slim Gaillard Quintet | ‘Symphony Sid Show’ Birdland WJZ ABC NYC 2 Jun 1951 |
