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This Friday evening at the Roseland-State Ballroom you'll be able to hear Duke Ellington in more suitable surroundings than at the RKO Boston last week. He can make his own choices there and not worry about theatre managers. The Roseland is near Loew's State in Back...
...include the Duke among those who were disappointed with the Ellington engagement at the RKO Boston last week. That plushy platform which served as a bandstand might have looked dandy from out front, but it played hob with the section work. Dividing the brasses up with the trumpets on one side and the trombones on the other, putting the saxes in between, and splitting the rhythm section north, east, south, and west, all may have been artistically perfect, but it was acoustically lousy...
Most theatres have the bandstand mounted on rollers, so that it can come forward between the vaudeville acts. But not the RKO Boston. That jumble you heard was the music getting its feet tangled in the scenery. It's a pity, because the band sounded wonderful backstage. They ought to scrap the from part of the theatre and put the seats behind the band...
...RKO Boston...
Meanwhile, Duke Ellington has opened at the RKO Boston and needs no recommendation to his devotees. He has a now singer named Betty Roche (pronounced Roshay), who should develop into a fine singer as soon as she's assimilated a little more of that Ellington elegance...