29 June 2021
(Until 29 June)Alix Combelle Second Sydney Lockdown – Phantom Dancer 29 June 2021
Greg Poppleton's Phantom Dancer swing jazz radio show
Alix Combelle, French swing saxophonist, clarinetist and bandleader is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist from 1930s-40s commercial sides.
This show was to be mixed live-on-air 17 March 2020. However, the 2SER studio closed due to COVID. So this was the first live Phantom Dancer in over five months on 1 September 2020. Now Sydney is in lockdown again. So, since I can’t go into the studio, this will be the first Phantom Dancer of the second Sydney lockdown.
The Phantom Dancer is produced and presented by 1920s-30s singer and actor Greg Poppleton . You can hear it online from 12:04pm AEST Tuesday 29 June at https://2ser.com/phantom-dancer/
The last hour is all vinyl.
ALIX
The French swing saxophonist, clarinetist, and bandleader came from a musical parisian family
His father, François Combelle, played classical saxophone with the Band of the Republican Guard.
Alix Combelle played drums in the late 1920s. In the early 1930s he played clarinet and saxophone in theater pit orchestras in Paris.
He was a member of a bands led by Gregor (Krikor Kelekian), Arthur Briggs, Michel Warlop, Guy Paquinet, and Ray Ventura.
He worked with visiting American musicians such as Benny Carter, Adelaide Hall, Coleman Hawkins, Freddy Johnson, and Danny Polo. He was a member of Bill Coleman’s band when it included Argentinian swing guitarist Oscar Aleman. He performed with French singers such as Charles Trenet and Jean Sablon and recorded with Philippe Brun. In the 1940s he led the band Jazz de Paris. His son, Philippe, was a drummer.
VIDEO OF THE WEEK
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29 JUNE PLAY LIST
Play List – The Phantom Dancer | ||
107.3 2SER Tuesday 29 JUNE 2021 | ||
Set 1 | St Patricks Day | |
Open + Swing High Swing Low | Peter van Steeden Orchestra and Chorus | ‘Town Hall Tonight’ WEAF NBC Red NYC 17 Mar 1937 |
Comedy Routine | Fred Allen | ‘Town Hall Tonight’ WEAF NBC Red NYC 17 Mar 1937 |
Serenade in the Night | Peter van Steeden Orchestra | ‘Town Hall Tonight’ WEAF NBC Red NYC 17 Mar 1937 |
Set 2 | 1950s Progressive Jazz Radio | |
Open + Let’s Get Away From It All | Andre Previn | London House WBBM CBS Chicago 1959 |
Lover | Lester Young, Mary Osbourne and group (voc) Babs Gonsalves | ‘Adventures in Jazz’ Birdland WCBS TV NYC 1952 |
My Funny Valentine + Close | Chet Baker | ‘Storyville’ Copley Square Hotel WHDH Boston 1954 |
Set 3 | 1950 Big Band Radio | |
Open + Toreador Song | Ralph Flanagan Orchestra | ‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 22 Sep 1950 |
Tenderly | Ray Anthony Orchestra | ‘One Night Stand’ Cafe Rouge Hotel Statler NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 12 Dec 1950 |
Hello Young Lovers + Close | Art Wayner Orchestra (voc) Ginny Powell | ‘One Night Stand’ The Latin Quarter NYC AFRS Re-broadcast 20 Nov 1950 |
Set 4 | Alix Combelle | |
Verlaine | Alix Combelle et le Jazz de Paris | Comm Rec Paris 31 Jan 1941 |
Every Tub | The Hot Club Swing Stars | Comm Rec Paris 14 Feb 1938 |
Oui | Alix Combelle et son Orchestra | Comm Rec Paris 16 Feb 1943 |
Reflets | Trio de Saxophones Alex Combelle | Comm Rec Paris 18 Dec 1940 |
Set 5 | Swing Era Singers | |
Open + Back in Your Own Backyard | Eddie Fisher | ‘Coke Time’ Jun 1958 |
Speak Low | Nan Wynn | ‘Kraft Music Hall’ KFI NBC LA 6 Jan 1944 |
I Wish I Didn’t Love You So + Close | Bing Crosby | ‘Philco Radio Time’ KECA ABC LA 19 Nov 1947 |
Set 6 | Hillbilly Radio | |
Open + You Can’t Break My Heart | Adolph Hofner | Aircheck San Antonio 1950s |
Open + Y’all Come | Roy Acuff and The Smoky Mountain Boys | WSM Nashville 1940s |
Bye Bye Blues | Hoosier Hot Shots | ‘National Barn Dance’ WLS Blue NBC Chicago 1938 |
Boots and Saddles + Close | Carson Robison and his Buckeroos | ‘Ford R&G Used Cars Show’ Radio Transcription 1949 |
Set 7 | 1940s Swing Radio | |
Theme + Later Tonight | Les Brown Orchestra | Hollywood Palladium KNX CBS LA Nov 1943 |
Blue Moon | Charlie Barnet Orchestra | ‘Downbeat’ AFRS Hollywood Feb 1944 |
Tess’s Torch Song | Count Basie Orchestra (voc) Thelma Carpenter | Blue Room Hotel Lincoln WABC CBS NY 17 Apr 1944 |
I’ll Never Smile Again | Tommy Dorsey Orchestra (voc) The Sentimentalists | ‘Tommy Dorsey and Company’ CBS 24 Jun 1945 |
Set 8 | Mod Sounds | |
| Where or When | Erroll Garner | ‘The Big Record’ CBS TV NYC 27 Nov 1957 |
Hello Dolly + Danke Schoen | Duke Ellington Orchestra | ‘One Night Stand’ Steel Pier Atlantic City NJ AFTRS Re-broadcast Jul 1964 |
Straight No Chaser | Miles Davis | ‘Bandstand USA’ Spotlite Washington DC Mutual 1959 |
