ANN ARBOR GOLD AND SILVER EXCHANGE 216 S. Fourth Ave. 996-9059 I WE 'UY WANTE OnD OLD Pt4TINUM 9 wDPOCKET Any Item Morked 10 kt - 14 kt - 18 kt WATCHES DENTAL GOLD FOREIGN GOLD GOLD METALS CLASS RINGS WEDDING BANDS EYEGLASS FRAMES GOLD COINS GOLD PINS GOLD CUFF LINKS GROKEN JEWELRY 1$uDIAMONSDS GiOD ATCHES c~,Sii LVERwr any color stone. Tea Sets " Jewelry " indusrial Page 8-Friday, October 23, 1981-The Michigan Daily 4 We pay by weight Hours: Mon. thru Sat. 9:00 AM " 5:00 PM State certified 5~cates eo-iose I= CARTER 1 -NI-, 4M f, / krJ 0 Michigan Union BIrm. 2 shows! 8&1O: 30 Tickets are 6.50 general admission and are now at the Michigan Union Box Office and outlets. FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 763-6922 Bob James: Coming home. Photo by ARLENE KRIV on sale all CTC James' music no longer taboo' __ _ A' C.K. sPURLOCK AMP PRESENT I KNNY ROGERS r F .. ( r ! LIDOTTIE- 7~-WEST' 1- -a WJ.1 P= Nor --I =r= m = - - GALLAGH ER KING OF THE SLEDGE-O-MMatC : LIVE IN CONCERT GUEST STAR I (Continued from Page 1) . his previous solo albums (with the ex- ception of One-on-One with Earl Klugh), James decided it might be an appropriate time for a slight departure from the customary. "But I didn't want to go to an outside producer because I still wanted to maintain artistic con-.L trol." So, in a number of respects, Temperton was a logical choice as collaborator. Yet it was probably James' desire for artistic growth that played the biggest role in his decision to bring in Temper- ton as collaborator. "Ideally, what I'd like to do has enough similarity [to recent material], so that my style shows through-so I can maintain my own personality. It's tempting, once you've found a formula, to use the same musicians ... But the listening audien- ce is fickle and they say 'that's great, but let's go on.' As a creative person it's important to grow." AND IT IS this ability to grow, to adapt as an artist, that distinguishes Bob.James. As a result, he has also decided to tour more of late. "It's im- portant to keep the balance betweenli studio and live performances." Similarly, he has made another recent decision that has had a significant bearing on his evolution as an artist. Four years ago, James adven- turously signed a three-year contract with CBS records to heada subsidiary record production company of his own, entitled Tappan Zee Records. The deal was particularly compelling because it allowed the opportunity for complete artistic control and freedom not only in the production of James' own music, but in the presentation of other artists and the determination of much of their musical concepts, packaging and graphics. A year later, James told the Daily that, "If I ever thought the company was getting to the point where it was jeopardizing my artistic career and I was not able to do what I wanted as a musician, I hope I'd have the courage to abandon it completely." - REFLECTING ON THAT comment of three years ago, James remarked, "That was prophetic." Earlier this year, he chose not to sign a new con- tract with CBS to continue Tappan Zee. "It was just an experiment. It just wasn't possible to do both [music and business] well, and the only choice was to take on just the company. And it was then or not at all. I couldn't do that-keep it going. ..I'm much hap- pier now; I'm just a musician. James' present contented situation as an artist is the direct result of this ability to make a crucial artistic choice. "Often when there is a big decision that will affect your life, people are scared to say 'hold it, I'm not going to do it anymore.' I was fortunate that I had two things to do. But all this middle class morality that was ingrained into me, told me that music was unstable, that being an executive was more legitimate.... I'm confident now about doing my thing for the rest of my life." Yet James's present artistic sen- sibility is the culmination of much more than a few crucial decisions in the recent past. In fact, his current artistic conceptions and objectives bear a remarkable contrast to those he held upoi leaving the University. An avante-garde musician in and immediately after college, James once even played trumpet mouthpiece with- John Cage on a Cage composition. After leaving school he released his first album, a rather progressive wotk en- titled Explosion. THEN, WHEN JAMES released his first CTI (Creed Taylor Inc.) solo effort One(in 1974), a more readily discer- nable pattern of artistic evolution was established. The sudden departure from the avan- te-garde roots of the Explosion album to the distinctively more accessible.One, is logically marked by a significant IN THE ROUND' NOVEMBER 8 CRISLER ARENA -7 P.M. I_ Tickets are $15.00 and $12.50 and are available at the Michigan Union Ticket Office, Hudson's and CTC outlets. For mail order, send stamped, self- addressed envelope with a certified check or money order to Kenny Rogers Major Events, 530 South State, Ann Arbor, MI 48109. Good seats still available! A MAJOR EVENTS PRESENTATION Personal Managenment: Ken Kragen change in Jambs' artistic disposition. "The main difference is in knowingA j like to communicate with an audience. I:6 know now what\ I like to do and what I don't like. [In college,] I was still thinking about music as an art form, as a process in itself. But I didn't like the audience--they weren't important," James said. "I eventually realized that all the people that felt this way were not very interestingthemselyes. I can still do. what I want to do without' being.as pretentious as that." James also gave up worrying about artistic goals such a becoming "a Gershwin or Stravinsky." YET AMIDST ALL this change, Bob James was able to maintain his own ar- tistic integrity in spite of record com-, pany pressures and his own tremen- dous material success. 'I don't resent the pressure.from the company. I feel good about my position, because the music I like to make is the nIusic that is expected of me, so it's a very good marriage," James said. They're [the music company] thrilled.. .my artistic. freedom is compatible with my record contract.'' So, ironically, for James it's very material success that has produced an artistic freedom. "In sixteenw years; a' lot of things merge. The success I wasn't expecting became its own reason to pursue financial freedom-no more hack arranging jobs or jobs that I didn't want ... Now I can be basically selfish about what I do. I do what I want, to do," he said. "What I want to do" for Bob James the artist, he said, is allowing "a lot of people to get into my muic ... I don't like looking down on my audience." THUS, HE HAS reached that rare ar- tistic and material equilibrium. 'He is perched in the precarious balance of powerful and contradictadory forces. That such an artist as James exists is a sanguine note for Eclipse. Largely as a result of President Reagan's budget cuts, Eclipse was unable to obtain what members say was a badly needed National Endowment for the Arts grant this year. This grant would have been- directed toward non-revenue generating programs such as educational workshops, Bright Momen- ts concerts, and jam sessions, as well as the improvisational workshop for local musicians held every Monday. In short, according to Eclipse spokesman Max Dehn, "a non-profit arts group has been suddenly cut loose into the free-market context." Fortunately for Eclipse, James is "a big supporter of Eclipse. .. and so we talked about doing a benefit. I'm really looking forward to it," James said. And Eclipse's reaction? "I really respect the hell out of the guy for doing it," Dehn said. "Bob James is one of the few people who would ever put on a benefit for Eclipse." In the end, everybody wins. Eclipse is able to raise badly needed funds through the benefit concert. Bob James fans are treated, to the pleasure and rare opportunity of seeing a Bob James concert performance. And Bob James gets to play music both for himself nd for his audience. ' I i.._ NOV. 4 Hill Auditorium I Tickets are $11, $10, and $9 and are on sale now at the Michigan Union Ticket Office and CTC outlets., A MAJOR EVENTS PRESENTATION hk r .) enter THE pfind THe Typos in 0 the Daily "kon/test Its. eZ to w! n, just reedthru thu Daily & circl* evry tyPOgraf2cal error you csee. 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