08 November 2022
(Until 08 November)Jazz Piano Billy Maxted – Phantom Dancer 8 Nov 2022
Greg Poppleton's Phantom Dancer swing jazz radio show
Billy Maxted, U.S jazz arranger, and pianist, is this week’s Phantom Dancer feature artist. He wrote for Benny Goodman, Red Nichols and Claude Thornhill and led his own Dixieland band in the 1950s which we’ll hear live on this week’s Phantom Dancer.
The Phantom Dancer is your weekly non-stop mix of swing and jazz from live 1920s-60s radio and TV every week.
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Maxted began his career in 1937 as a member of the Red Nichols big band, for which he wrote arrangements.
From 1940 he played with Teddy Powell, Ben Pollack and Will Bradley (1941-42).
After serving in the U.S. Navy he wrote arrangements for the big bands of Claude Thornhill and Benny Goodman.
He led a band with Ray Eberle (1947-48) and soon after led his own Manhattan Jazz Band, which played Dixieland with Bob Zurke on boogie-woogie piano.
He was house pianist at Nick’s club in Greenwich Village from 1949-1960 from where he did a weekly broadcast over NBC.
In the 1950s he recorded for MGM, Brunswick, Cadence, and Seeco.
In 1958, British bandleader Reg Owen had a major hit on the American charts with Maxted’s upbeat instrumental composition, “Manhattan Spiritual”, released on the Palette label.
His sidemen included trumpeter Chuck Forsyth, trombonist Lee Gifford, either Sol Pace or Dan Tracey on clarinet, and (by 1958) bass saxophonist Johnny Dengler.
In the 1960s, he recorded for K&H and Liberty and as a sideman for Bob Crosby, Pee Wee Erwin, and Red Nichols.
8 NOVEMBER PLAY LIST
Play List – The Phantom Dancer | ||
107.3 2SER Tuesday 8 November 2022 | ||
Set 1 | Selling Bonds | |
Open + Trumpeter’s Lullaby | Ralph Marterie Orchestra | ‘Treasury Show’ WBBM CBS Chicago 26 Dec 1954 |
Two Sleepy People | Ralph Marterie Orchestra | ‘Treasury Show’ WBBM CBS Chicago 26 Dec 1954 |
Babysitter | Ralph Marterie Orchestra | ‘Treasury Show’ WBBM CBS Chicago 26 Dec 1954 |
| The Gal That Got Away | Ralph Marterie Orchestra (voc) Bill Walters | ‘Treasury Show’ WBBM CBS Chicago 26 Dec 1954 |
Set 2 | Coleman Hawkins | |
It’s the Talk of the Town | Coleman Hawkins Quartet | London House WBBM CBS Chicago 19 Jun 1963 |
Honeysuckle Rose + Close | Coleman Hawkins Quartet | London House WBBM CBS Chicago 19 Jun 1963 |
Set 3 | Art Lowrey | |
Open + Almost Like Being in Love | Art Lowrey Orchestra | ‘One Night Stand’ Hotel Chase AFRS Re-broadcast KMOX CBS St Louis 1957 |
The Girl Without a Name | Art Lowrey Orchestra | ‘One Night Stand’ Hotel Chase AFRS Re-broadcast KMOX CBS St Louis 1957 |
Monterey + Begin the Beguine | Art Lowrey Orchestra | ‘One Night Stand’ Hotel Chase AFRS Re-broadcast KMOX CBS St Louis 1957 |
April Love + Say No More | Art Lowrey Orchestra | ‘One Night Stand’ Hotel Chase AFRS Re-broadcast KMOX CBS St Louis 1957 |
Set 4 | Billy Maxted | |
Open + Tin Roof Blues (theme) + Tailgate Ramble | Billy Maxted and his Manhattan Jazz Band | ‘One Night Stand’ Nick’s AFRS Re-broadcast WRCA-FM NBC NYC 1957 |
When the Saints Go Marching In | Billy Maxted and his Manhattan Jazz Band | ‘One Night Stand’ Nick’s AFRS Re-broadcast WRCA-FM NBC NYC 1957 |
Set 5 | 1930s-40s German Dance Orks | |
Guter Mond | Hans Carste Orchestra (voc) Rudi Schuericke | Comm Rec Berlin 1940 |
Ich mache alles mit Musik | Kurt Wege Soloists | Comm Rec Berlin 1940 |
Bei dir war es immer so schön | Kurt Wege Soloists | Comm Rec Berlin 1938 |
Über die Dächer der großen Stadt | Hans Carste Orchestra (voc) Rudi Schuericke Terzett | Comm Rec Berlin 1939 |
Set 6 | 1930s Dance Bands | |
Down T’uncle Bill’s | Hal Kemp Orchestra (voc) Skinnay Ennis | Radio Transcription NYC 14 Dec 1934 |
Stompin’ at the Savoy | Isham Jones Orchestra | WOR Mutual NYC 24 Jan 1936 |
Babs | The Inkspots | WEAF NBC Red NYC 9 Aug 1935 |
Whistling in the Dark | Gus Arnheim Orchestra (voc) Loyce Whiteman | Radio Transcription Los Angeles 1931 |
Set 7 | 1940s Women Singers | |
Blue Rain | Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra (voc) Connie Morgan | ‘Spotlight Bands’ Columbus OH Blue Network 19 Nov 1943 |
I Cover the Waterfront | Sarah Vaughn | ‘Eddie Condon Floorshow’ WPIX TV NYC 13 Dec 1948 |
Love Me or Leave Me | Sarah Vaughn | ‘Eddie Condon Floorshow’ WPIX TV NYC 13 Dec 1948 |
It Had to Be You + Rocking Chair (theme) | Mildred Bailey | ‘Music till Midnight’ WABC CBS NYC 1944 |
Set 8 | 1960s Radio and TV Jazz | |
| Chicago | Benny Goodman Trio | WNBC NBC TV NYC 21 Aug 1967 |
| Sometimes I’m Happy | Tony Bennett (voc) Gene Krupa Trio | Radio Transcription 1963 |
| I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles + Rose Room | Charlie Shavers Quartet | London House WBBM CBS Chicago May 1962 |
