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CONRAD GREGO, one of
the Colony's leading jazz musicians has decided to accept the Downbeat Scholarship awarded to him
last year.
Grego plays virtually every instrument in the band, but it is on the tenor saxophone that he has `made his rame.
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Grego has been described as a musician's musician.. A kind, gentle man of temperate tastes, be expresses himself articulately through his music than through mere, conversa tion.
His improvised passages hint of Johnny Hodges passionate lyricism, but his style retains all the fire and subtlety of Stan Getz
Grego's name is well-known in the Far East, and though he gets his chance for world-wide fame rather late in his career. we are certain he will make the best of his big opportunity.
Good luck Connie!
By CARE MYATT
GREGO FOR THE U.S.
treats the works of the masters with some reverence, unlike some of his predecessors.
A full orchestra of strings is unobtrusive by an supported thythm section and some of the best known American jazz soloists like Bob Cooper and Ronnie Lang. Tenor saxophonist Cooper solos prettily on Tchai- kovsky's "Serenade For Strings" Op 48 and "Waltz Of The Nutcracker Flowers" from the Suite.
Lang is heard on Tchaikov- sky's "Swan Lake" Op. 20. Other featured soloists include pianist trombonists Bobby Hammack,
Dick Muray McEachern and Nash, and guitarist Bobby Bain.
Many of you will like album and there are just as many of you who won't, but whichever way you look at it,
this
KONG LING. You cannot deny that it is dif-
Chinese singer Kong Ling's records are selling well, so much SO that the Diamond Music Company which pressed only a
ferent and exciting music.
"Concert With A Beat”: ON MGM E 3852.
THE":
limited number of these dises music of Broadway comes
are now having a hard keeping up with demand.
time
Her off-beat.chacha version
"C'est - Magnifique”. of
and "Voice of Love" are certain ta make the Hongkong Hit Parade charts next week.
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VONGRATULATIONS to Radio
to you with the compliments of Arthur Ferrante and Louis Teicher, an internationally known two-piano team.
Graduates of the Juilliard School of Music, they have made tours all
America and Europe.
over
their selections on this album aje those Broadway tunes which have not been played to death
on their wanderful efforts in a in the field pro propos composi- of the poor children of the tions, from "My Fair Lady"
From the show "The Music Colony, "Operation Santa Clans”
Ferrante and, Teicher and the "Christmas Cracker" Man" concert raised a grand total of gives us their own interpretations $50,000 in cash, and thousands of "TIH There
of toys for the less fortunate youngsters of Hongkong.
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Was You" and "Lida Rose": from "Gypsy" they play the lovely "Small World" and "Everything's Com. ing Up Roses" which Perry Como uses as his theme on his television show.
THIRST for knowledge, ex-
A wonderful, easy to listen to platation of wider fields album. I'm sure you'll enjoy has "made this ers one of mass Ferrante and Teicher's "From experimentation. While scientists Broadway Shows" as much as I have been playing around with did." rockets, so have our modern
On ABC Faramount: ABC 336. musicians been playing around with notes, seeking new and exciting sounds.
Throughout the years too there has been a constant “steal- ing" of classical.... music. for the adaption to modern tunes. Some of the big orchestras have jazzed up-classical compositions to the point where, the melody was mutilated. Fortunately these in- stances have been few and far
between.
MEET THE MEMBERS!
DAVID STEPHEN, 17, student, 10 Tai Hang-road, ground floor, Hongkong.
Now from the studios of MGM Records comes an album
WILLIE KODY,・ 18, with a. difference. The selections
372 Hennessy are all well loved classical com- student, postions, and the man directly road, 2nd floor, Wanchai, responsible for the album Hongkong.
pianist, composer and arranger,
David Rose--has taken the
tunes, supplied them with a STEPHEN LEE, 18, beat and in general brought student; 15-C Austin Ave.,
them up to modern day require Companion Court, Block might call this, but Rose at least |A, 3rd floor, Kowloon.
ments. Commercialisation you
Credit card to Antoinette Rozario
Reel Corner
KATEN OREILLY
EAN MARTIN is so good at making things look easy
producers saw him only as a stooge for Jerry Lewis's antics; but Dino-as his friends call him knew better land has proved his worth over the past few years.
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Dean Martin
2. FAY
Credit card to Roy Fay
THE PARTY
PROSER
S the champagne corks
As
the
You
pop, you know that the-party is going with a swing. That is, until party proser arrives.
Every party has one. know what I mean. He's in- variably red-faced and genial- koking; exuberance shining out of his eyes like the bubbles in soda pop. A jovial, jolly, seemingly good-hearted fellow. A hand-pumelling, back-lap- ping, sort of a chap.
His pet subjects are politics and religion, both normally taboo at party conversations. At least, to anyone but our thick-skinned friend:
The proser is a funny man', meaning that his specialty is in telling jokes. Most of them are ancient, and quite startlingly unfunny. He, at least, enjoys them and guffaws until his face takes on the appearance of boiled lobster.
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There's no, escaping him. His listeners are too polite to tell him, quite frankly, they've heard it all before. They re- press their feelings, and quietly move away in ones and twas feigning the excuse of a cocktail glass to be replenished.
The proser believes in 'cir- culating.' He feels it his duty to keep the party going.
Full of benevolence, he offers to help his hostess with the dis- tribution of food and drinks. Ko Foes crashing around in her kitchen, doing more harm than good.
Of course, he is thoroughly enjoying himself; he's in the swing of things. He's quite cer- tain that he's the most popular guest present. He considers himself the ideal party type; larger than life and a splendid mixer.
It's an amazing enigma that such proser ever wangles' an in- vitation to a party. -
But perhaps it is unavoidable he may be the husband of the hostess.
-Credit card to A. H. Ahmed.
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Today he is not only one of the top personalities of show business but he's rapidly becoming as known for his own parti- cular style of comedy as for. his singing voice.
He is so busy, so much on-the-go, that it is difficult to see when he ever gets any time to himself.
A STYLE ALL HIS OWN
When someone questioned him on this recently, Dino wisecracked
"I do manage
to get some rest — luckily I faint a lot!"
He's riding high in 1960 but it has taken him since 1946 to get there.
He tried a handful of jobs before he took up singing seri- cusly.
He was an amateur prize- fighter, a mill-hand and, when jobs were scarce, a croupier in a gambling house.
Like most young males of the period who could carry a tune, Dino began by doing imitations of Bing Crosby and other popular radio singers.
By doing so, he developed an easy, pleasant style of his own.
"It wasn't too good," he re- calls, "but it seemed to pay bet- ter than cleaning windshields and I took fewer, punches than in the ring, so I devoted more time to it.”
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