THE MICHIGAN DAILY rts & Enterta nm ent Friday, November 21, 1975 Page Five Zappa's guitar sloppy; act needs work By STEPHEN HERSH wah-was pedal. And also miss-I It was Frank Zappa, in the ing was his former restraint.I persona of would-be guitarist He's probably decided to; extraordinaire, who played the emerge as a guitar wizard be-1 leading role in the Mothers of cause he figures that when peo-I Invention show at Crisler Tues- ple come to a Zappa concert,' day night.} it's him they want to see in Unfortunately, his guitar play-I action.l ing was a flop. That might be true - but iti Zappa made his grand en- can't work as long as he es-, trance onstage shaking his long chews onstage the kind of guitar; mop of dark, scraggly hair, and work that he does best. He1 introduced himself as "yours seems to be shooting for optim-! truly on guitar, Peter Framp- um commercial success, and it ton." won't work if he doesn't com- The truest things are said in mercialize in the right way. jest. Like Frampton or any num- There wasn't much of the ber of hard rock 'n' rollers, tight ensemble playing which' Zappa hogged the spotlight for Zappa is a master at crafting. most of the evening, playing lots What he does best is organize of extended, fast and heavy sharp and intricate instrumental riffs. Absent was his former passages, the kind that appear nimble, subtle style with lots of on his album Apostrophe. And chords in the solos and lots of sometimes just as appealing are Cinema Weekend the long, complicated vocal numbers, the kind that are m--, cluded on Just Another Bai d From L.A. Singer - saxophonist Napoleo. t Brock was the real star of the, show, by default. Clad in white leotard overalls, he danced and mimed almost constantly, throw-' ing himself into his work with, special abandon when it came. to mock-violating a four-and-a- half foot tall Raggedy Ann doll., His voice was strong, but it, was overshadowed by what he did with his body and his horn. Playing tenor saxophone, his style and that of the other sax player, Norman Bell, were very Mortor By JAMES FIEBIG 1926 was quite an eventful year. Gertrude Ederle swam the English Channel, Rudolph "the Sheik" Valentino died at the peak of his career and a new music form called "hot jazz" played everywhere. King Oliver accompanied a young man with a horn named Louis Armstrong on a tune called "Lippin a Cornet." Other There's not much new on the agenda, cinemagoers, so you might just as well stay home and enjoy America's favorite in- door sport-alone, in pairs or in groups. Nonetheless,, this week's "pick of the week" is Ten From Your Show of Shows, a collection Aud. 3, MLB, 7, 9; Wild Straw- berries, Aud. A, Angell, 7, 9; Footlight Parade, Old. Arch. Aud., 7, 9:05, Ten From Your Show of Shows, Aud. 4, MLB, 7:10, 8:50, 10:20; Slaughterhouse Five, Nat. Sci. Aud., 7:30, 9:30; Time Machine, Couzens' Hall Cafeteria, 8, 10. i f similar. "Stinkfoot" which he played There's no irony to that song, They blew tough, soulful solos Tuesday: no subtlety, no strange twist to which sounded eminently nor- My python boot was too tight. the plot or double meanings. nal most of the time, but which I couldn't get it off last night. But there were a few very at one point were decidedly The rest of that song has its effective numbers. "Camarillo weird and extremely effective. problems, but those two lines Brillo" featured crisp horn lines, ,That was during "What's the work well. There's double en- neat vocals, and some explosive Ugliest Part of Your Body?" tendre, and in "python boot" electronic warblings from key- 'rom Zappa's first album, dur- there's a nice hint of some board player Andre Lewis. ng which they used a tape-echo standge kind of sexual aberra- These are not halcyon days affect. tion. for Zappa. Although there's Zappa didn't exercise good But Zappa leaned heavily in probably nothing he can do to 'aste in choosing his selections. the show on perverse tunes with- keep from losing the extremely Now, good taste from Zappa out much redeeming social val- talented musicians that come commonly isn't considered nec- ue. "Illinois Enema Bandit," and go from his long-lived essary or even desirable. Many for example, relates the story group, he does retain near-ab- of his songs are perverse in of a man who breaks into sub- solute power over the Mothers. *a charming way. Consider a urban homes and forces women He ought to straighten out 'yric like this, from the song to ... well, you get the picture. their act. Shotazz ive new tourage to Ann Arbor to play to magic to the performance as he opera into the jazz classic it an ecstatic full house. played "suitcase" like he did in became. With Greene narrating between the old days on "The Wolverine Finally, the story ends with selections, the audience was led Blues." Drums couldn't be re- Jelly Roll's death in Los An- on a musical journey through corded b e c a u s e "the needle geles in 1941. He died financially Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" La would jump out of the war" broke because he had never Menthe's life. (He dropped the Milt Hilton, bass player, knew copyrighted any of his songs name La Menthe for profession- Jelly Roll in those days and that new "swing" people were al reasons. ... "didn't want to knew his "slap base" style. recording without having to pay be called 'Frenchy' ") His recreation had the audience royalties. Jelly Roll was undoubtedly one enthusiastically cheering after Morton was laid to rest in an x of the most colorful characters every bass solo-like "Grand- unmarked grave-in the rain- of his time. He owned 100 or pa's Spells." remembered only by a few mu- more suits and 50 pairs of shoes. Other Jelly Roll tunes played sician friends. Greene's group When he smiled you could see were "St e ambo a tsStomp," played a slow "Mamie's Blues," the diamond filling in his front "Sidewalk Blues," and "Buddy followed by a fast Dixie tune, incisor. Bolden's Blues" in which Herb like Jelly probably would have His ego was as flashy as his Hall played in that famous New wanted it had he had a New clothes, he had a great sense Orleans throaty style of clarinet. Orleans style funeral. of humor and he could banter One featured member of the The audience responded with with crowds all night about he band was Ephraim Resnick on a standing ovation and a very had "invented jazz." If he didn't trombone who duplicated Kid happy group of musicians play- really invent it, he certainly Orv's famous "tailgating" solo ed two encore numbers before made it better. Everyone knew in '"Black Bottom Stomp, retiring. that Jelly Roll could back up Greene had some delghtful Greene expressed well what any boast he made. solos like "Don't Leave the audience was probably feel- Most of the material played Here (But If You Do, Le ave mg: "If only Jelly Roll could at Power Center came from the a Dime For Beer) ," "Shreve- have been here tonight to see Red Hot Peppers' recordings of port Stomp," and the famous his music appreciated by a 1923, '26, and 28. "Tiger Rag." Greene demon- whole new generation. Drummer Tommy Benford ac- strated how this piece had tually played on the '26 and '28 evolved in Jelly Roll's mind James Fiebig reviews jazz recordings and lent a special from a minuet in a French regularly for The Daily. ADVERTISEMENT rig Arounmmd Town, drawn from kinescope of the Saturday - From Here to songs had titles like "If You '50s NBC comedy series starring Eternity, Aud. A, Angell, 7, 9; Can's Land Her on the Veran-a Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca. Casablanca, Old. Arch. Aud., 7, David Blomquist, The Daily's 9:05; Time Machine, Couzens But there was a very special Arts Editor, notes that Your ; Hall Cafeteria, 8, 10; Slaughter- band called the "Red Hot Pep- Show of Shows was the center of house Five, Nat. Sci. Aud., 7:30, pers" formed by a very special television comedy in the era of 9:30. man named "Jelly Roll" Mor- live broadcasts and greatly in- jISunday - A Nous La Liberte, ton. They were RCA Victor's: fluenced the work of several con- Aud. A, Angell, 7, 9; The Stran- number one recording group temporary comics, including ger, Aud. 4, MLB, 7, 9; Morocco, { and "Jelly Roll" Morton was Woody Allen (who wrote for the Old. Arch. Aud., 7, 9:05. the "World's Greatest Hot Tune program) and Dick Cavett. All weekend - 3 Days of the it'Just ask him; hed tell Cynthia Cheski speaks of Condor, Michigan (665-6290),oit Monty Python and the Holy Grail Mahogany, S t a t e (662-6264), Thanks to Bob Greene, a great as "unlike anything you've ever Monty Python and the Holy New Orleans jazz pianist, and seen . . . an extremely worthy Grail, Fifth Forum (761-9700), his friends, Jelly Roll's music effort, and hopefully indicative The Iceman Cometh, Campus has been recreated for thou- of the Python group's potential. (668-6416), The Human Factor, sands across the world to hear. Daily film critic James Valk Jaws, Hearts of the West, Roster Wednesday evening at Power highly recommends The Time Cogburn, Briarwood (769-8780). Center, Greene brought his en- Machine as first-rate science fiction as only the inimitable George Pal could direct. Casablanca is around again at Cinema Guild, and as everyone knows, this fine flick is well 0 worth the walk to the Old Archi- tecture Auditorium. Yours truly, Chris Kochman- ski, has high praise for Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run. Although it's a rather A Weekend Guide to Grea crudely disjointed film, some of the comedy vignettes are among1 the funniest I've seen. FEATURING THIS WEEK ... A little older and not as con- F troversial as when it first hit the silver screen, From Here to Eternity still packs a wallop as it relates a powerful wartime story. il 1 The acting is first-rate all arourrd, Fred Zinneman's direct- ing copped all the awards, and there's a torrid love scene on the beach that raised many an! eyebrow in 1953, the year of the: film's release. A Thousand Clowns, based on the old Broadway hit, has bra- vura performances from Martin Balsam, Jason Robards and some obnoxious little kid named Nick, but it's too familiar from repeated television plays. Don't waste your time.: Slaughterhouse Five may not be the best film to be shown: this weekend, but it's certainly: the most interesting. Based on Kurt Vonnegut's novel (a cam- pus necessity), the film has di- vided the critics since its pre- miere. George Roy Hill's direction is far superior to his hack job The Sting, and in most ways, this conception of Vonnegut's work is better than the novel Steak lovers with hearty appetites and limited budgets itself. Bill Gudenau's West Bank Steak House. The diverse menu i And so on to a complete list- Billgn au's Went eak Hue ThediverseB menuai ing of this week's films: rangng from Oriental Deep-fried Shrimp to B-B-Q Baby Friday - A Thousand Clowns, tender, juicy cuts of meat char-broiled to your taste. The Western motif of the restaurant creates a relaxi he v nndn tobloC nt ti ll, l nrt dP firnl dnc and it Eating I dank THE BEST STEAK HOUSE FEATURING OUR INFLATION "a -a oFIGHTER "dh". noSPECIAL " $1.49 - sBest meal for the ". ".. mmoney on campus HOURS: A m1m1 o.m.-9 p.m. Mon.-Sat. r-h" d M nnoon-9 p.m. Sun. 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