Red Allen Chapters 9 - The Jazz Archive

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16th April - 5th May 1964 RED ALLEN TOUR IN ENGLAND WITH LOCAL BANDS
4/16/64, Manchester, Sports Guild, Sports & Social Center: guest parts with some local bands like with John Mitchell
orchestra lead from trumpeter Doug Whaley, added oldtime Ernie Tomaso; Art Taylor All Stars,
4/17/64 Fri., same location – Red Allen (t,v) & ALEX WELSH BAND (personnel see 5/5/64) – standard program:
Yellow Dog Blues; Rosetta; Just A Closer Walk With Thee; St.James Infirmary; Patrol Wagon Blues; Canal Street Blues;
St.Louis Blues; The Saints; - & At Jazz Band Ball; Indiana; Sweet Georgia Brown; Basin Street Blues; Spider Crawl; How
Long Blues; Bugle Call Rag; Who Stole The Lock; I Ain't Got Nobody;
4/18/64 Sat., same location – Red Allen (t,v) & SANDY BROWN BAND: Al Fairweather (t) Sandy Brown (cl) Danny Moss
(ts) Keith Ingham (p) Colin Bates (rhythm): - standard program & Jazz Me Blues; Rag Mop; Creole Love Call; Do Not
Nothing 'Til …; High Society; Cherry; Biffly Blues; House In Harlem; Sweet Substitute; Muskrate Ramble;
4/19/64 Sun., same location - Red Allen (t,v) & BRUCE TURNER JUMP BAND: Ray Crane (t) Pete Strange (tb) Bruce
Turner (cl,as) unknown (p) Jim Bray (b) John Armitage(d) – standard program & West End Blues; Tishomingo Blues; Cherry
Red; How Long Blues; All Of Me; Snowy Morning Blues; …
4/20/64 Mo., same location – Red Allen (t,v) & HUMPHREY LYTTELTON BAND: Humphrey Lyttelton (t) Tony Coe (cl,ts)
Joe Temperley (bars) Eddie Harvey (p,tb) Pete Blannin (b) Eddie Taylor (d) – standard program & …
4/20-4/21, days off; unknown date, one short news-reel for TV with music and interviews was made in Southhampton
4/23/64 Thur., Bath, Regency, Ballroom, - Red Allen (t,v) & Alex Welsh Band
4/24/64 Fri., Stoke-On-Trent, Trentham Gardens Pavillon, same as above
4/25/64 Sat. afternoon, Nottingham, Dancing Slipper, -same as above
Sat. evening, London, Mordon,at the Crown, same as above , Archie Semple (cl) added on five sides incl. Sweet Lorreine;
4/26/64 Sun., London, Marquee Club – Red Allen (t,v) & HUMPHREY LYTTELTON BAND: same as 4/20; Shiny Stocking;
Swingin' The Blues; (both without Allen); Struttin' With Some Barbecue; St.Louis Blues; Rosetta; Patrol Wagon Blues; Indiana; Sweet
Substitute; St.James Infirmary; Sweet Lorreine; Just A Closer Walk; & Lennie Felix (p) Red Price (ts): When The Saints;
4/27-30 unknown engagements around London
between 4/27-4/30 or 5/4 Carmel Court, London, Doug Dobell´s party – Red Allen played solos to old records ; ( there's
no balance between the rather quiet records and the loud RedAllen trumpet in the foreground.) John Chilton in “Ride Red Ride”
p181: „During his brief stay in London, Red attended a party given by some of his most dedicated fans, icluding record-shop
owner Doug Dobell, John Kendall, Eric Saunders and Ray Bolden. Some-one surreptitiously recorded part of his happy
gathering and Red can be heard blowing his trumpet in tandem with the sound of some of his most celebrated recordings,
proving that he had remembered arrangements recorded thirty years before
(0:21 Mike Pointon BBC-1996-intro about the following Party (private taped with cassette faults)) RA-CD-41
3:33 Jersey Lightning - Luis Russell ; RA(t) from 0:20-0:31; 1:05-1:17; 3:13-3:31 ---
4/5/58 NYC, Johnny Hodges (as) Billy Strayhorn (p) Jimmy Woode (b), Sam Woodyard (d) (from Verve-8358)
3:23 I Didn’t Know About You ( Ellington-B. Russell) RA(t) from 0:46-1:04; 2:36-2:49; ---
3:48 Gone With The Wind ) RA(t) from 0:00-1:07; 1:46-2:27; 3:03-3:20; 3:30-3:48 ---
4:02 Honey Hill plus Roy Eldridge (t) Vic Dickenson(tb) Ben Webster(ts) 0:24-2:20, 2:33; 2:44-2:46; 3:01-3:40 RA-CD-27
2:01 Donegal Cradle - Spike Hughes: RA(t) from 0:24-1:13; 1:43-2:00 RA-CD-41
2:39 Limehouse Blues - Fl.Henderson RA(t) from 0:00-0:37; 1:52-2:39 ---
3:11 Shanghai Shuffle - Fl.Henderson RA(t) from 0:33-1:00; 2:23-2:53; 3:09-3:11; ---
3:10 Big John Special by Fl.Henderson RA(t) at all RA-CD-26
2:54 Happy As The Day Fl.Henderson RA(t) from 0:31-0:32; 0:55-1:03; 2:02-2:24; 2:51-2:53 RA-CD-41
2:25 Happy Feet - Horace Henderson RA(t) from 1:30-2:06; 2:19-2:24 ---
3:36 Rhythm Crazy - H. Henderson: RA(t) from 2:00-2:14; 2:41-2:51; ---
3:05 Mahogany Hall Stomp by 3/5/29 L.Armstrong RA(t) at all RA-CD-27/ --- /
5/1/64 Fri., Westminster Central Hall - HENRY"RED"ALLEN & HIS ALL STARS: Red Allen (t,v) Mac Duncan (tb)
Sandy Brown (cl) Johnny Parker (p) Diz Disley (g) Jim Bray (b) Terry Cox (d)
*intermissions-narration 53:23 private tape; poor quality
4:57 HOW LONG BLUES -vRA (L.Carr) RA-CD-27/
-intro Parker-vRA(Brow&Parker)-Allen-Parker-vRA(Brown&Parker)-Disley
*1:15 1:59 JUST A CLOSER WALK WITH THEE (trad.) -intro Parker-Allen&Brown --- /
*0:20 4:45 CANAL STREET BLUES (King Oliver) --- /
-intro Parker-ens.-Duncan-Allen-Brown-ens.
*0:50 5:23 WHEN THE SAINTS GO MARCHING IN -vRA&ch (trad.) --- /
-intro Cox-ens.-Brown-Cox brk-Duncan-Allen-vRA&ch-Parker-Bray-Cox-ens.
4:10 encores -THE SAINTS -intro Cox-vRA&ch-Brown-Allen-Disley~Cox-ens.-Brown code- --- /
*1:05 2:30 JELLY ROLL BLUES (Jelly Roll Morton) --- /
-Parker-Allen in ens.-Parker-ens.-Allen-ens.- /cut
*0:25 5:02 PATROL WAGON BLUES -vRA (P.Grainger)
-Parker-Allen&Brown-vRA(Brown)-Allen-vRA-Allen --- /
*0:19 4:32 HONEYSUCKLE ROSE (Razaf-Waller) RA-CD-26/ --- /
-Parker-Allen-Brown-Duncan-Allen-Allen in ens.-
*0:24 3:16 BIFFLY BLUES (Red Allen) --- /
-intro speech RA(Parker)-Allen in ens.-Parker--Allen in ens.-
*0:16 3:30 RIDE! RED! RIDE! -vRA&ch (Millinder-Allen) --- / --- /
-intro Parker-vRA&ch-Duncan~vRA&ch-grown-Allen in ens.-vRA(ens)-Allen in ens.-
2:10 encore: RIDE! RED! RIDE! -vRA&ch-ens.-Allen in ens.- --- /
6:26 ST. JAMES INFIRAMRY -vRA&ch (J.Primrose) --- /
-intro Parker-vRA-Allen in ens.-vRA-Allen-Brown-vRA&ch-Allen
a fine relaxed session with another UK-band; I do not know the tape owner for a better quality and perhaps some more of
the reviewed sides were taped like: Sweet Substitute; Rosetta; Wild Man Blues; Indiana;