'4 x Tuesday, February 6, 1973 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Tuesda, Febuary , 1973THE MCHIGA DAIL Jarrett pounds out jazz at the Strata By BERT STRATTON Keith JaTrrett's a little musician who beats his piano into sub- mission, jumps around it, and pounds out the greatest of notes -sometimes the strangest com- binations, sometimes the mel- lowest. He gets into most of the possibilities, and by the end of the night the listener is into all kinds of possibilities of his own. Friday night at Detroit's Strata Gallery started off with Keith Jarrett playing a solo set-just him and the piano. And it's like a classical concert, except once in a while Keith starts singing along to his music - singing screechy bird-like sounds. It's different. And he keeps at it for 45 min- utes, which is actually toolong for my tastes, but it seems to work for most people. He works in and out of various moods and picks away at the keys, sometimes making a connection, sometimes missing. He gets a big hand, and he's off behind the curtains. There are flying curtains in the * Strata-they float in from around the walls, like sails. They work pretty well. The Strata is a box- shaped room with about 100 chairs in, it, and it's fine-it's going to have a little stage in front soon. Most of the people in the audi- ence are students-some from Wayne, some from Ann Arbor- it looks kind of like the old Can- terbury House crowd-except this time it's jazz. Not too many De- troit locals. Not too many hard- core. Not too many older people. It's mostly young people into jazz by the way of rock. About the other performers- there was Paul Motian on drums, Charlie Haden on bass, and Dew- ey Redman on tenor saxophone. - --E- All of these men are well es- tablished in their own right. And I guess Charlie =aden's got such a name for himself that he could head his own group if he wanted to. Or maybe does already, be- cause he usually works the music around to where he wants to take it anyway. Charlie Haden's a young white man who plays a lot with Ornette Coleman. And in a way Charlie's had to take a lot because he's white. Ornette used to get hassled by other blacks for using Charlie. Charlie Haden's Liberation Or- chestra record was one of the best albums released a couple of years ago.- The other night Charlie and the rest got off to a freaking start. I couldn't get the handle on the first tune-somewhere on the way to Mars-that's where it was go- ing. I was back in Motown wait- ing for the Shortway special. It came around eventually. It was a free-form nonchordal tune fea- turing Jarrett on soprano sax (which he also plays). At the beginning of the con- cert there was a little bit of bell ringing and gourd shaking, and some soprano saxophone play- ing (which Keith also plays).. Then Keith moved into some of his smooth piano work, lyrical and well pinned down to chords. Paul Motian got his drums going. About the drums-Charlie Ha- den kept, looking over at Motian and wincing. Charlie had ear plugs in his ears. And then about halfway through the second set, Dewey Redman showed up, just having gotten in from New York. I liked him a lot. He sounds like Ornette on tenor. He got the group moving in another direc- tion-playing intricate head ar- rangements, and then taking off on impossible solos. Sure, it was spacy music, but it wasn't on the roof. It was in- tricate jazz which was a pleasure to follow. The beat came and went, the rhythms turned around on themselves. The moods chang- ed. There was something for everybody. SUMMER JOBS Guys & Gals needed for sum- mer employment at National Parks, Private Cam ps, Dude Ranches and Resorts throughout the nation. Over 35,000 stu- dents aided last year. For Free Information on student assist- ance program send self-address- ed STAMPED envelope to Op- portunity Research, Dept. SJO, 55 Flathead Drive, Kalispell, MT 59901 -YOU MUST APPLY EARLY- 'k wer nts A scene from Maxim Gorky's "The Lower Depths" which will be presented this Sunday at the Poa Center by the Professional Theater Program. The New York City Center Acting Company also prese "The School for Scandal" Friday and Saturday evenings. Traffic's sideman j am up Shoot-out' By HERB BOWIE Over the years, Traffic's basic core has consisted of three people -Steve Winwood, Jim Capaldi, and Chris Wood. Time and again the trio has proven itself as vi- able as 'any the business, with Winwood's multi-faceted musical genius and Chris Wood's abili- ties on sax and flute giving the group a depth and range equal to those of just about any rock band around, no matter how large. Lately, though, the group seems to have felt a mysterious need for more musicians. The low spark of high heeled boys found it with three new members and its latest release, Shoot-out at the fantasy factory (Island SW-9323), con- tains the contributions of six members and two studio musi- cians. While some performers seem to have a real knack for collecting talent and molding it to their own needs-Van Morri- son is probably the best example in rock-Traffic demonstrates a conspicuous lack of any such ability. It seems that the more musicians Traffic collects, the more that things get out of hand. Low spark reflected this ten- dency. Several of the cuts on that album suffered from unnecessary elongation and generally poor playing. Still, the brilliance of the original trio showed through gorgeously in enough spots to thoroughly redeem the album. Unfortunately, such is not the case With Shoot - out. Rebop Kwaku Baah has been retained on congas, and the services of the Muscle Shoals house band have been enlisted as well-David Hood and Roger Hawkins as the group's latest rhythm section, Jimmy Johnson and Barry Beck- ett as studio musicians. The re- sult is the worst album of Traf- fic's career. There. is so much wrong with this album-two songs over ten minutes with nothing to justify their lengths, generally only fair compositions, totally undistin- guished instrumentation, inex- pressive vocals-that it seems simpler, and much less painful, to dwel on what's good about the record, one song. "Evening Blue," although rath- er atypical Traffic, is one of the very best things the group has ever done. Although the subtle instrumen- tal textures that have marked the group's material in the past are at a minimum here, the song itself and Windoow's vocal are enough to stand on their own admirably. The lyrics are some of the best Winwood and Capaldi have ever come up with, beauti fully subtle and evocative. The music complements them per- fectly, adding a whole other di- mension to the mood of the-song, Winwood's vocal is simply phe- nomenal, with Stevie singing out clear and strong one moment, then sounding frail and wistful the next. Taken together, these various elements combine to ex- press a richly complex emotion that I won't even try to translate into mere words. I wish I could rave on, but there's simply nothing else worth mentioning. Back in the halcyon days of Traffic, its three mem- bers used to.live and work to- gether in an isolated cottage in the countryside of England, work- ing intimately with each other and their music, letting it slowly mature. If they even want to recapture the feeling of the al- bums that came out of those days, then they'd better take their new partners back to that cottage for a while; picking up a new set of sidemen each time they enter a studio just doesn't seem to work. West comes on in stunning folk style f.: local Poets- The Michigan Daily Arts Page is now accepting poetry for publication. Submit work to Arts Editor c o The Daily. "DEAL IN UNNATURAL SHADES FROM THE PSYCHE... A GOTHIC MYSTERY." -Time'Magazine Coor Dy VeLuxe~ L -ALSO- The stats of "Goodbye Columbus" the comedy "MADE FOR EACH OTHER" Next: "The Emigrants" HELL, UPSIDE DOWN Who will survive-in one of the greatest escape adventures ever! PANAVISION®@ COLOR BY DELUXE@ By LORRE WIEDLICH Hedy West walked onto the floor of the Ark Friday night about two hours late and slight- ly breathless, but smiling and friendly. The plane had been de- layed; local people had filled in for two sets; but Hedy's neces- sarily short performance made the long wait worth while for those people who had been pa- tient enough to remain. She began with "Little Bird," playing banjo and singing in her inimitable voice. Hedy's style is unique: Her voice is low and strong, sometimes more spoken than sung, and her accent, while deriving mainly from her native Georgia, incorporates a number of other influences. Her manner of singing changes about every two years or so, she explained between sets, but on Hoae a f ai for If you are interest- ed in r ev ie wings poetry, and music,. drama, dance. film. stories a bo u t the arts: o ntactA Michigan Dally. many songs she still uses the unique style of phrasing so pre- valent in her singing last year- a deliberate attempt to sing in a rhythm which differs from the rhythm she is playing on the banjo or guitar, to bring her words out in a rush, almost on top of each other. It's an excit- ing style, and she uses it well on songs like "The Whore's La- ment." Hedy sang mainly traditional songs, and in doing so she is not one of the many folksingers try- ing to steep themselves in a tra- dition not her own: she grew up with the music and learned many of her songs from her grand- mother. At the same time, though, she is not just an "authentic," an object for scrutiny by folklorists. She is a musician, working for her MA in composition and writ- ing a string quartet. And while she cannot read banjo music, one has the. feeling, listening to some of the things she does on the banjo, that her musical train- ing has carried over into her performance of the songs with which she grew up, creating some interesting questions for the folklorist and some good mu- sic for the listener. One of the nicest things about Hedv is her material. The many CIhi TUESDAY Capra Festival Platinum Blonde I NEXT: "SOUNDER" ballads she sings are always in complete, coherent versions, and some are unfamiliar even to the more knowledgeable amateur folklorists in Ann Arbor. "The Brown Girl" was stunning - an exciting vocal delivery heighten- ed by some excellent banjo pick- ing. Hedy spends much of her time in Germany and performed several German songs Friday night - a Communist marching song from 1932 and "Graben," a 1929 song about dying in trench- es during the war, a song that was chilling even ivithout being translated. It's only fair to give some re- cognition to the local perform- ers who filled in while Hedy was delayed. Tod Kabza is a skilled guitarist with a fine voice, al- though not yet a polished per- former. George Pedersen, while a lesser musician, was much more at ease with the audience and did a really nice job on a song that began: "Think of all the time wasted praying for the rain." 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