The Gazette from Montreal, Quebec, Canada • 69

E-3 Trombonist's death a great loss for jazz RECORD ROUNDUP The GAZETTE, Montreal, Thursday, December 6, 1984 life ffls.r,:.. Jazz Notes LEN DOBBIN Jilted lover puts his hurt on vinyl When Vic Dickenson died Nov. 16, we lost one of the true individuals in jazz a trombone stylist like no one who came before. He was born Aug. 6, 1906, the most famous export that ever came out of Xenia, Ohio.

Early attempts at the organ thankfully failed and he turned to the trombone at an early age. He was playing with local bands at IS. He turned pro at 19 in Madison, with the Don Phillips band. He began to attract attention when he joined the very fine territorial band led by Speed Webb in the fall of 1929. He then joined Zack Whyte's Chocolate Beau Rrum-mels in 1930, the year he made his recording debut (as a vocalist!) on a Luis Russell date.

Jobs with the Kansas City Skyrockets and The Royal Syncopa-tors led to a three-year stay with Blance Calloway's band before joining pianist Claude Hopkins. Then it was Benny Carter and, in January of 1940, Count Basie. After a short stint back with Carter, he was heard in a number of influential bands over the years including those led by Sidney Bechet and Eddie Heywood. He moved to the West Coast in the mid-'40s and was heard with both giants of the tenor sax, Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young. The early '50s found him in Boston where a teenaged Phil Wilson had a chance to sit in with his idol Wilson still savors those nights today.

His appearances in Montreal at the Hotel Bonaventure in the company of Bobby Hackett are well remembered. Dickenson's career is well documented on vinyl with Wilson, Basie, Bi I lie Holiday, Wardell Gray, Jimmy Rushing, Pee Wee Russell and the World's Greatest Jazz Band to name just a few. His music will make up most of this week's Jazz 96. Next Sunday is a busy one on the concert scene here with Trevor Payne's Jubilation Gospel Choir doing two concerts at 4 and 7 p.m. at the Erskine and American United Church (Sherbrooke St.

at Crescent St.) with proceeds going to the auxiliary of Douglas Hospital. The same day, at 8 p.m. at Gesu Hall (1200 Bleury there will be a diverse concert, juxtaposing Stravinsky and Guy Nadon. The first half will have a large ensemble directed by Walter Boudreau in music by George Gershwin, Paul Vic Dickenson (right) with Bcbby Hackett: Played at Hotel Bonaventure. Hindemith and two pieces written especially for Woody Herman, Stravinsky's Ebony Concerto (which he recorded) and Leonard Bernstein's Prelude, Fugue Riffs (which he didn't, although Benny Goodman did).

The second half will feature Nadon's excellent band, Pollution de Son, with people like Maurice Mayer, Denny Christianson, Richard Beaudet and the leader's volatile drumming and humor in a program that will include the immortal Hey-Bop-A-Re-Bop and Nadon's vocal version of Oleo. Around town, pianist Wray Downes can be heard with Charlie Biddle at both the Voyageur Room of the Queen Elizabeth and at Biddies (2060 Alymer Gary Schwartz, Fred Hamilton and Alvin Ashley are the early feature at the latter spot. Drummer Jim Hillman is at the Grand Cafe (1720 St. Denis The Pierre Leduc-Ron Seguin duo (early) and the combo of an excellent trumpeter, Kevin Dean (at 10 p.m.), can be heard at Puzzles, Hotel du Pare. Continuing around town, the Norman ZubisDaniel Lessard duo is at the Voyageur while the Guido Pucci-Rudy Pontano duo is in La Barre, Hotel Maritime.

At the Tour de Ville Room, Hyatt Regency, it's Eli Krantzberg's fine trio and Rod Tremblay is at Le Bistro de la Cathedrale (43 St. Charles Longueuil). Finally, don't forget Allen Well-man at the Bijou (300 Lemoyne) and the big bands, Mondays, at the Blue Note (40 St. Paul St. Lena Home is featured tomorrow at 9 p.m.

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These things happen all the time, you say. Not when the main squeeze is Pretender Chrissie Hynde and the interloper is Jim Kerr of Simple Minds. And not when the jilted lover gets to read about his own break-up in the newspapers along with the rest of the world. Now that hurts. So Ray has taken his pain over the loss of his lover and their child and attempted to exorcise the heartache on vinyl.

Being Ray Davies supporter of the underdog, middle-class satirist, master of the wry understatement there isn't quite the bloodletting on Word Of Mouth you'd expect, but it's still a pretty desperate piece of goods. The title track describing how Davies heard about Hynde's marriage to Kerr in New York's Central Park the self-explanatory Sold Me Out, and brother Dave "blood is thicker than common law" Davies' composition Guilty, expiate the worst of the backlash bile. These are hard rock tunes in the power chord mode invented by the Kinks in 1964. The atmosphere brightens considerably with Good Day, a beautiful, slightly fey Ray Davies ballad in which loss is compared to stormy weather, the bitter-sweet Missing Persons, in which the lover is a child who strayed away, and the brilliant Summer's Gone, where the end of Davies' relationship may be seen as the last flower of his own youth. Harrowing, but ultimately cathartic stuff here in the best Kinks tradition.

Davies produced this set in workmanlike fashion, and it bears the distinction of containing the last backbeats laid down by original Kink Mick Avory before he left the group. If you like R.E.M., chances are you'll fall for Let's Active and their debut LP Cypress (I.R.S.). Which shouldn't come as any surprise really, given the close creative re-lationship between these two Georgia groups. Let's Active is the brainchild of Mitch Easter, guitar, wizard of low budget atmospherics, and owner of the Drive-In studio that launched R.E.M. to fame and fortune.

But Let's Active is also Faye Hunter and Sara Romweber and Cypress clearly expresses both male and female rock 'n' roll perspectives. This is a record to get under your skin; pegging it stylistically could be hazardous to your mental health. There are bits here that stretch back to vintage California ga-rageland rock, and bits that nod to Byrds, the British invasion, and the gurgling murk of the Velvets and psychedelia. Through it all, Easter's astonishing guitar sounds and Let's Active's talent for writing songs that leave an indelible impression on the brain pan, mark this as a group to watch.bullet.The New York Dolls made the best music of the glitter era of the early 70s, paved the way for punk and self-des- tructed. But singer David Johansen refused to go down for the count, resurfacing in the Apple as a straight rock 'n' roller under his own name, and and singer of very hot under the pseudonym of Buster Poindexter.

It's Johansen who's made it to vinyl in 1984; the LP is called Sweet Revenge (Passport) and it's just that for those who never counted this man out. Johansen with main collaborator Joe Delia has a wicked way with both the anthemic rock hook and the less-than-con-ventional lyric. Hot tracks include Ain't Workin' Anymore and The Stinkin' Rich (enough said), the stirring Heard The News and Big Trouble, and the lovely declaration of intent, In My Own Time. But there's really not a weak cut on this one. Short tuts: It's always a joy to hear from John Martyn, if only to know the troubled Scottish singer-songwriter is still alive.

Sapphire (Island) finds Martyn in his best form since the epochal Grace Danger in 1980. This self-produced effort pays liner note tribute to singer Robert Palmer but it's obvious Martyn, although still as boozy-voiced and melancholic as ever, has cleaned up his act. An unassuming record for late nights and snowy days. Philip Bailey is blessed with a set of the purest pipes in but that's not why Chinese Wall (Columbia) is off to such a fast start. Producer Phil Collins is why, and their duet Easy Lover is the track you're likely to hear on the radio.

Too bad, because Collins is uncharacteristically heavy-handed on this and too many other tracks here. Try Walking on the Chinese Wall, Children of the Ghetto and Show You The Way to Love for samples of Bailey's tremendous vocal talent. Great album jacket, though. Don Henley's new single Soys Of Summer (Geffen) is the greatest evocation of bored, rich bitch California beach culture since the Eagles' Hotel California. Henley's second solo LP Building The Perfect Beast is in the stores now.

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