Saturday, September 13, 1975 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five I PavFv i Bu ddy claims bright new style By MARY CAMPBELL team, Wilson and Rich, when he one laugh from the start until AP Newsfeatures Writer was 18 months old, goes back we got here. 1One daydream of the jazz mu- to the Bunny Berrigan Band I "They wanted to know if the sician is to open his own place, 1938, and bands of Artie Shaw, bus we were on was anything ti:twhere musicians would be treat- Tommy Dorsey, Benny Carter like buses used to be. They had ed right - he'd know what that' and Harry James, being some no idea of 1938, '39 and '40. We xmeans - and high-quality jazz of them more than once. He led used to put newspapers in the would reign. Also, he'd play his own first band in 1946. windows. In summer we'd take there himself and not have to His present young band mem- the paper out, and flies, mos- be traveling all the time. bers, who know those people as quitos and bugs would come in. For Buddy Rich, that day- legendary names, from reading They didn't have highway guard . >;dream is a reality. He opened about them and hearing their rails in those days. One time we Buddy's Place in New York, records, love to hear Rich rem- went around a mountain with a. seating 200, closed it after about inisce. "They like me to talk drunken bus driver. I think the <"'"a year and then in April opened about the time Bunny Berrigan only way musicians made it in x Buddy's Place again, this time fell off the stage and difficulties those days was to get so bombed m in the Penn Station area, ,seat- with the Dorsey Band. out that you couldn't realize a ing 375 "I didn't have my car with lot of things. Those were strange For this one, he had a band: me in Washington. I went into days. contractor put together a 16- the dressing room and said, "I "We'd travel 300 or 400 or 500 piece band of young musicians. got some bad news for you fel- miles in one jump, change into #.He got them from a Broadway las. I'm going back to New York our tuxedos on the bus and get show, a TV show, from record- on the bus with you tonight.' out and go to work. I think ing and jingle work. Rich is a They cheered. We had a four that's why I hate buses today. happy man. He says it's the anda half-hour drive and it was You'd work up a sweat on the best band he ever has led and......... . . . he's playing drumshbetter and better. "I don't go to work any more. I go to play. "These guys havegreat pride in their musicianship. They've Try this one on for size been locked up in recording Joseph Piva, owner of a marine specialities shop in New Bed- studios. They want other people ford, Mass. is a convincing example that "Jaws" mania is to know how good they are. At far from dead. Piva sold 40,000 sharks' teeth and several the end of the night somebody hundred sets of jaws this summer. And that's nothing to be always says, 'Let's play some down in the mouth over. The band has a new record al- bum out, "The Big Band Ma- chine," on Groove Merchant,f . . Rich's fifth with that label. iHs Declarer's optimism recordings stretch far back, E leads to contract over many labels. "The Roar of 74" also was with a big band but not to a win and the three prior to that were with combos. Big Bands sound By MARK FRIEDLANDER - 'better, Rich says. Rich is described in the "En- North clarer double-finessed the ten cyclopedia of Jazz" as having 4 7 6 which also held. A heart to the "phenomenal technique and dy- V A J 2 ace was followed by a club to namically swinging style on the * K J 10 9 3 the queen. drums and an electric person- .4.8 54 Then South cashed the king of ality." -:r' tt~h hearts felling the queen, his last {at t r y West East heart, and the ace of clubs for also has been described in oth- nine harrowing tricks. er terms, Rich says, in the r Q 4 3 V 10 8 7E A truly imaginative East crisply rapid way in which he 5 4 * A Q 6 would have defeated the con- talks, I m nicer now, than I .. 9 6 3 4 K J 7 2 tract by playing on declarer's used to be. I enjoyed being rot- ten when I was rotten. And I en- South optimism. At the second trick~ joy being less rotten now." A K Q J he would have won the jack of About his playing, he says, 1 K 9 6 S5 diamonds with the ace, not the "I'm playing better than I've * 8 7 2 oneen. making it appear that played in a long time. I was sat- 4 A Q 10 West held that card. isfied with the way I was play Pity poor South! After winning ing- up until this band. TwoI South West North East the sade return, he would have yearsago I thiught I wasn't go- 1 NT Pass 3 NT All Pass no reason to suspect treachery ing to get any better. Then II Opening lead: 3Q and would have led another realized I wasn't playing as' Pianist Vladimir Horowitz (above) may well be back to play diamond to finesse again for the good as this band. I'm playing Ann Arbor this year. The exuberant 71-year-old set off a Declarers are optimists; they queen. This to his dismay would better than I was a year ago; flurry of rumors to that effect recently, when he signed a have to be. If one can see a way also have lost, followed by a it builds up every night. Auto- demanding 20-concert contract with RCA for this season. to make his contract, no matter third, fourth and fifth soade matically, if 'I see I don't play Horowitz added to the confusion by mentioning Ann Arbor how slim, he must play for that beating the contract one trick, as good as they do, I improve..s distribution of cards to exist. Such deceptive plays work They may not keep me." as one place he intended to play. But University Musical Normally this works to declar- well aainst ootimistic declar- Rich announced at the end of Society Director Gail Rector says that no definite arrange- er's advantage, enabling him to ers. When a defender can see his set at the Newport Jazz Fes- ments have been made for such an appearance. Rector, who make contracts 'he would other- that a five percent play is going tival that this was the best band was in New York last week when the contract was signed, wise have lost. But sometimes a to work, it is to his advantage he'd ever led. "I think they acknowledges, however, that there is great likelihood that wily defender who keeps this in to offer declarer a superior but should hear it. I go back to the Horowitz will perform again here sometime this school year, mind can use it against declarer losing alternative, school of band. leaders who nev-' and probably, we might add, to the same record-breaking in a spectacular manner.;er talked to the musicians. I m a leader who's also part of the' crowds. West opened the three of..band.' spades against South's contract :..,:;,... ::::::k Rich, now 58, who started ............................................... of three no-trump, East's nine with his parents' vaudeville losing to the jack. South then-- finessed in diamonds, leading from his hand to dummy's jack.1 East won the queen and shot back another spade. South won the trick with his queen when West wisely played low. That way when East got in with the ace of diamonds, he would have a spade left to return to defeat the contract. But South was also at the lable while this was going on, and he too deduced that it would TMARX- be fatal to play any further on.. diamonds. Always the ootimist declarer had to find nine tricks { ANIMAL CRACKERS itheohrtresi. slouched over drums gives you, bandstand and get on a cold bus while you were still wet.. There was no air-conditioning or heating system in the winter. I can remember sitting bundled up in the bus in the wintertime. It's funny and weird. Here I am. 40 years later. It didn't really hurt me." Rich had a heart attack in 1959, which sidelined him only for a while. He has a bad back,: which he says his karate prac-? tice doesn't harm. "My back's' UAC Conc \.&~ an occupational thing. Sitting -As for himself, "I've got the curvature of the spine, a doctor best of the concert touring and said. You put all your weight on , one location. I can play in Bud- your back. There's no way to dy's Place 26 weeks of the year get comfortable. You're sitting and pick the best places to play up high so you can reach every- the rest of the time and have thing." really a good year. Buddy's Rich's daughter, Cathy, is a Place gives big bands a chance singer, who has a single record, Ito be heard in -New York. We or- "Roxie," from the Broadway I ganized a band for Dizzy Gilles- show "Chicago," also on Groove; pie and he tore the place up. Merchant. An LP will follow. And in my band I surround my- "She's determined and got tal-f self with young people, share ent and she's beautiful," Rich ideas and music and stay says. "She'll do all right." i young." cert Co-op Presents an Evening with I 1973 & 1974 Downbeat Critics Poll; Composer of the Year .......... CHICK COREA 1973 &1974 Downbeat Critics Poll: Acoustic Bassist of the Year ...... STANLEY CLARK 1974 Melody Maker's Jazz Poll: Pianist of the Year ..... CHICK COREA 1974 Jazz Forum Magazine Poll: Jazz Musician of the World ....... CHICK COREA RETURN TO FOR EVER Featuring CHICK COREA STANLEY CLARK LENNY WHITE AL DIMEOLA Fri., Sept. 26, L Hill Aud. 8 p.m. Reserved Seats $5 $4.50, $3.50 TICKETS GO ON SALE TUES., SEPT. 16 Available at UAC Box Office in lobby of Mich. Union 10:30-5:30 daily 763-2071. Sorry, no personal checks. SMOKING & BEVERAGES STRICTLY PROHIBITED TIRED OF DECIDING E VERYTHING NOW? et etoOKn is only chance. Atter winning the spade, he led a heart, and when West followed. ........... low, finessed the jack. A club................... was led from dummy, and de- ', I1 TODAY at 1:30 & 8:00 OPEN at 1:00 WINNER OF 6 ACADEMY .-f AWARDS! AC OPOND PI WX DAVI LEAN'S FILM, DtOi COR ZHIIAGO TODAY at 1 -3-5-7-9 OPEN at 12:00 "A cross between Love Story and LastTango In Paris!" -P/aybovyMagazine Disributed byCINEMATION INDUSTR SAT-SUN-WED at 1-3:05-5:10-7:15-9:25 Open at 12:45 MON-TUES at 7 & 9:10 Open at 6:45 Mie to contractual Obligations Guest Night has been suspended The most unavailable Marx Brothers flick until the last year or so, ANIMAL CRACKERS is also one of their undeniably great efforts. Madcap experimenters in anarchy, the Marx Brothers always get their comic ways. SUN.: Anthony Asquith's PYGMALION Cie aGuld TONIGHT at OLD ARCH. AUD. 7, 8:30 & 10 ADM. ONLY $1.25 PREMIERE OF CHILDREN'S SATURDAY MATINEE FILM SERIES CHUCK JONES' 1971 THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH Dazzling color and visual beauty highlight this highly entertaining ver- sion of Norman Juster's popular bok. Daydreaming Patrick takes an educational (but amusing journey from a live world into a cartoon allegorical-fantasy land of letters, numbers, music, and sound. Great Pun! Plus, Bugs Bunny, Duffy Duck, Pork Pig & Wilie E. Coyote inI some classic Warner Brothers Cartoons, directed by Chuck Jones. COMING OCT. 11: RUN WILD, RUN FREE Plus a sequence from FANTASIA! CINEM A * This afternoon AUD. A Children 50c at 3 p.m. only ANGELL HALL Adults $1.00 INGMAR BERGMAN'S 1974 SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE , Bergman begins where most filmmakers leave off. His latest film, an exploration of the complexities of love and cohabitation, achieves an intimacy and impact unparalleled on screen. Liv Ullman's performance is, as usual, beyond superaltives. With Erland Josephson. Swedish; sub- titled. We know that schedule decisions are a problem right now and we would like to help. 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