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fl Liner Notes I'D 5 BY RALPH J. GLEASOII Woody Herman is working up a show with 10 Years After, the British blues group. The Cream will definitely disband as a group. They will probably not even make another album together. They completed one in Hollywood after their U.S.

tour, but that's the end of it. All three members of the group will lead their own units in the future. Stevie Winwood has broken up Traffic, the British group, and may join guitarist Eric Capton. R.J.G. I i "They talk about gospel music like it was something new.

I came up through gospel music like Aretha Franklin," Erroll Garner, the remarkable pianist, was saying. "I was playin' that music in tents! With the Rev. Elder Beck in Pittsburgh every Sunday from morning all through the day. By the time he was through he'd taken up 15 collections. And I got that gig.

"We had a big woman played the organ. She walked like this!" Garner, his eyes shining, illustrated the walk across the floor of his hotel 1 hymns. But out in that tent with Elder Beck, that little old lady hit tin' that triangle! You wouldn't believe how she could make that thing sound! "And I had to play in between, there, in between the thing the organ player played. That was the whole idea, to get it all together. "What am I doing now? Well, I'm just trying to learn how to play the piano! I've got all the things in my head, all this music and I'm trying to get it out.

I've got a good group now. "Ike Isaacs on bass and Jimmy Smith on drums and Jose Manuel on conga drums and we're getting it together. I'm just a student of the piano, though. Trying to learn how to do it." a bass drum and a cymbal he held in one hand and another on the drum and he'd go WHAM! when Elder Beck was saying to the people, 'You doin' something And the bass drum would go WHOMP! He'd hit it and then Elder Beck would say, 'And I know what it and the cymbal would go right with him! "I never told anybody about that before, but when they talk about gospel like it's something new! I was playin' that sanctified music wrhen I was a kid. Aretha Franklin came out of something good and Sarah Vaughan, she came out of a different, more formal choir.

"I played the other churches too; I played 'Bock of Ages' and those suite. "And we had another woman played the tambourine. She could whisper and shake on it, and the woman who played the triangle, that ilty bitty piece of iron, she: could swing you into bad health! "I tell you, we played some music. "I never heard NO piano players 'til Earl Hines came down there to the Savoy Ballroom 'Direct from the Grand Later, Elder Beck got going so good he took THAT over. "I was just a kid.

You know what I'm saying to you? And I crawled in the window of that place and there was a guy charging you a buck to get in the window!" Garner roared with laughter and slapped his knee. "After Earl Hines got me all confused, Benny Goodman came to town with Teddy Wilson and that was something else What was this? "I never heard Fats Waller, I never got to hear him. I would have liked to hear him. But when I got to New York, I was right out of high school and I got to 52nd Street and there was Art Tatum playing in the Three Deuces with Slam Stewart and Tiny Grimes and right around the corner i Kelly's Stables Nat Cole and I run into another guy called Clarence Profit! "I was scared to Old-timer Erroll Garner. preaching.

And they could hum! Mmmmmmmmmmmm-MM! Up high or uuuu mmmmmmmmmm -mmmm! Down low and you could hear them, I mean they could carry. "And the drummer had death! I ran up and got myself a gig in the East Bronx! I hid out! Back in Elder Beck's tent we had a chorus of 15 but they sounded like 30. The way they sang. And they would hum behind him when he was Album of The Week BASIE STRAIGHT AHEAD, Count Easie (Dot DIP 25902). This is the album Basie has been talking about for the past few months as one of their best "straight ahead" jazz albums in recent years and he is right.

It is a swinger! The band loved making it The solos are good, also the arrangements and original compositions. Sam Nistico, a veteran of the Marine Corps band, did the chart work and he is a first-rale arranger-composer. R.J.G. Kali Peail EejoiU en jjS VEGfAS The Flamingo's Bill Miller has practically signed "Bonanza" TV star Lome Greene for a three-weeker early in "69 King-sized Nancy Austin, one of the stars of "Bottoms Up," leaves the show the end of the year to headline her own revue. Society bigwig Liz Whitney, came all the way from Southhampton, L.I., with a party of 12 to catch the closing Frank Sinatra show at the Palace, then flew right back Incidentally, The Leader's offspring is working down the Strip at the Frontier and the billing reads, "Sinatra Jr." At the Palace it reads, "Sinatra Sr." if 5 i Home to play a quickie five-day date at the Palace just before "Mame" comes in for a 24-weeker at the end of the month.

The Nov. 29 issue of Life Magazine carried a five-page picture-story layout on Circus Circus and its creator and operator, Jay Sarno. Yet, when the story broke, all hell exploded in the fancy Circus Circus offices among the three gents who supplied the money to build the $15 million Carnival and gaming salon. They resented Jay's crack: "I built Circus Circus even though I was surrounded by a bunch of goddam idiots." The boys who supplied the money haven't talked to Sarno since. The '69 edition of "Fol-ies Bergere" premieres Dec.

24 at the Tropicana where Marlene Dietrich has been working for the past 10 days on a one-show-a-night schedule. Buddy. Hackett at the Sahara, Juliet Prowse at the Flamingo, Mitzi Gay-nor at the Rivier Wayne. Newton at the Frontier, Minsky Burlesque at the Aladdin, Rowan and Martin at the Sands, Susan Hayward as "Mame" at Caesars Palace and "Casino de Paris" at the Dunes will be some of the Christmas and New Year's Eve shows on the strip. Downtown it will be the John Gary show at the LAS VEGAS The way we hear it from a pal in the nation's capital, noward Hughes will be firmly asked by the Justice Department to withdraw his bid to buy the Landmark Hotel even though the billionaire is trying to stay in there by offering to convert the hotel into a huge office building.

The Justice Department, however, is interested in the $20 million plus bid of Tangers Corp. of Los a firm that makes airplane parts and has savings and loan offices on the West Coast. Joe Peterson, who resigned his post as entertainment director of Circus Circus last week, gave as an excuse the press of other entertainment, business. Joe is the producer of "Bottoms Up," a gold-mine revue now playing Nero's Nook at Caesars Palace. Peace-loving Wayne Newton is roaring mad at the Las Vegas branch of the American Federation of Musicians, Local 369, which nixed his idea of doing a Christmas show from the Convention Hall in order to provide food and clothing for needy kids.

The union vetoed the idea when it learned that people could come in admission free if they brought an item of food or clothing. Said the angry Newton: "The union claimed it had no budget to pay the musicians, yet If Wayne Newton it had a fund to take care of them at the recent St. Jude Ranch for Boys benefit which Shecky Greene and I emceed." A point well taken without a retort from the guilty union. The Levin-Townsend Corp. which bought out Marv Kratter and his National Equities recently is planning a 15-story apartment high-rise on the grounds of its International Country Club.

Burton. Brown, exec veep of the subsidiary Nevada Equities, is also planning to sink in million to spruce up local Channel 5 if and when the FCC gives the green light. Dave Victorson, Caesars Palace producer, is still trying to get Harry Belafonte and Lena NANA Photo Shipper or Count? Count Basie was dressed a bit casually for a member of the nobility when he arrived in Dusseldorf, Germany, for a concert there recently with his jazz hand. Would you have recognized him? Sinatra Jr. jLaSEVTyi.

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