w w w w w w -Iqr T 1IPF- 1p T #' T T MICH-ELLANY ROUND MIDNIGHT ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK including: Round Midnight/Body And Soul How LonHas This Been Going On? Chans Song (Never Said)/Fair Weather We do more than just publish typos INTERVIEW J. Heard Jazz drummer talks about racism, and rock- I was playing that shit when I was a kid!' Detroit native J.C. Heard began his professional drumming career in 1938 when he moved to New York to play with piano great Teddy Wilson. Heard quickly rose to the top of the jazz world, recording with Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and many others. In 1953, after an all-star jazz tour of Japan received an enthusiastic reception, including ticker-tape parade, Heard made Japan and the Orient his home for five years, touring extensively and appearing in three films. Heard, 69, has played every jazz and blues style and appeared on over 1,500 albums. He spoke on the phone with Arts Features Editor Alan Paul from his Troy home. Daily: What type of projects do you have going on right now? Heard: Playing with the big band. I have a 13-piece band, been at it for about five years. We just made a recording. Hopefully we can get it on the market so I can play universities, high schools, more concerts. We're a travelling band. D: Do you see that that type of music is dying out? H: No, it has never died out, just slowed down a bit on account of rock and roll and all that shit. But it never died out... and never will because it's America's greatest art form. It can't die out. D: Why do you think it is that it's not more... H: Well, there's politics today. Politics. They copy stuff quick and sell it to the kids. It's just like fast food hamburgers. They got a war going with hamburgers, fried chicken, pizza (laughs) ... Make the buck fast. D: Here it's almost the '90s and you're still playing. Do you feel like a survivor? H: Oh yeah. Yeah, and I feel young. I keep a young band. They're like my children, 19 and 20. The oldest guy in the band besides myself is 32. D: Why do you do that? Is it intentional? H: Yeah, because youth... youth's got that fire. It keeps me young, you know. They could play rock, but a lot of this rock stuff is only a trend and two years from now it's gone. You don't hear the same people, they all die out. Not many people survive at that. Like I said, it's a political situation. It's who you know. That's the main thing about that stuff.. I know alot of guys who switched over. Great jazz guys who got into fusion, jazz rock, but they still can play jazz. You know, guys like Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea. They're still great but they switched over and they're making a lot of money now. It's very hard in jazz to make the kind of money the rock guys make. D: Do you think the reason it's hard to make a lot of money in jazz is that it takes more of a trained ear? It takes more time to listen to it. H: Right. Today, people don't want to listen to nothing. They don't want to take the time and that's the bad part of the whole damn thing. See INTERVIEW, Page 29 MY FOURTH YEAR AT THE Daily is drawing to a close. By Daily standards, I am old. Very old. Almost all of the people who started writing for the paper in 1983 have moved on. My stories were edited by people current Daily-ites have never heard of. When I joined the Daily, things were desperate. The paper's ad revenues were dropping. The circu- lation was virtually non-existent. The Student Publications Building seemed like a financial bunker, where people who cared too much and worked too hard slashed out stories on ancient typewriters. Today, there are Mac-literate Daily- ites who have never written a story on a typewriter. In 1983, the paper cost fifteen cents - as much as The Detroit News. This often averaged out to almost two cents a page. The Daily didn't sell. Our audience consisted of a select few, a perceived elite who still read, for reasons we ourselves didn't understand. The Daily was doomed. Drastic measures were taken. The decision was made to end paid circulation, a source of pride, and with it, a Daily tradition of more OFF THE WALL Looks are not everything. (in reply) When that's all you've got, it helps! -Graduate Library April 28 Goodbye Grad, and fuck you! -Graduate Library ORGASM IS ILLUSION. (in reply) Illude me, please! -Graduate Library Briarwoodophobia UCS - anxiety attack UCR -fear CS - Briarwood Mall CR - Briarwoodophobia 1. State St. 2. Parking lot 3. Main Entrance 4. Entering hallway 5. HUDSON'S!!! -Angell Hall The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up. -Graduate Library Jazz is jazz, and blues is blues, but every 28 days, it's RAGTIME. -Graduate Library I'm graduating! Now what do I do? -Graduate Library than 90 years. The costs of free- drop circulation forced the paper to cut six-daycirculation down to five- day. I was at the meetings where these strategies were finalized. The pain and frustration was devastating the staffers. They were working too hard for this to happen. They were giving too much. And it seemed like none of their effort mattered. Many people have left the Daily with these frustrations intact. I am certain -that some felt they were leaving a sinking ship. I hope they come back to visit. These are good times for the Daily. If current projections are true, the paper will break even this year, and perhaps turn a profit next year. Circulation is spiralling upward, and it's hard to find a Daily after noon. The paper is read, and generates controversy. It is scru- tinized. Because the paper is going out to so many more people, the editors' responsibilities have in- creased exponentially. When I came to the Daily, the old staffers reminisced about when the paper used to matter, and make money. Hopefully by next year, new staffers will hear people remin- iscing about when the paper used to lose money, and that time will seem almost as distant to them, as financial security seemed to me. And I'm convinced that this turnaround happened largely because the Daily attracts people who are possessed of particular character. Dailyites are an extraordinary excep- tion to the generalized criticisms of today's young people. Working at the Daily necessarily implies sac- rifice. Nobody is here for the money. The money isn't very good. The, editor-in-chief makes less than 25 cents an hour. Moreover, Dailyites sacrifice pieces of their social lives, and percentages of their grade-points. And they do this for a product that by its very nature has guar- anteed flaws. The Daily is editorially independant. It is run by students, who must occasionally See LOGIE, Page 29 THE GREGG ALLMAN BAND PM NO ANGEL I'm No Angel/ThIngs That Might Have Been Anything Goes/its Not My Cross To Bear Yours For The Asking WORLD PARTY PRIVATE REVOLUTION including: .gShip Of Fools/Private Revolution S All Come True SPANDAU BALLET THROUGH THE BARRICADES How Many Lies? hrouh The Barrica es/Cross The Line Fight For Ourselves/Snakes And Lovers 3 ItI Foro 523 E. Liberty " 994-8031 " Mon.-Sat. 10-9, Sun. 12-8 I Th ASLEEP AT THE WI including: Way Down Texas Way House Of Blue Lights Blowin' Like A Bandit/I Want A Ne* Tuilsa Straight Ahead K r. Now carrying largest CD selection in town. lassical music visit SKR C V PRINT FROM THE PAST f 1s Stein 4(oetz SPORTING GOODS WOLVERINES LC 122 # 9( 315 # 6( BRING SCHOOL SPIRIT HOME WITH YOU DAILY FILE PHOTO A late-semester practice session at the School of Music, April 12, 1960. THE DAILY ALMANAC 15 years ago - April 11, 1972: As new reports about U.S. bombing of Hanoi were being made public, what were professors in the Classics Department protesting? "The requirement of unnecessary and unsightly stair railings within a room of great beauty and historic importance to the University." In response to state regulations, a series of railings were installed in the foyer of Angell Hall. The de- partment's petition to the LSA dean complained that the "shoddy Danish Modern" fixtures "disrupt visually the horizontal line of the stairs and divide its width into a series of discrete compartments that would be entirely out of keeping with (the foyer's) monumentality." LO a- r- _J z LUJ WU THIS SUMMER... FEATURI *Sporting G( WE CAN OUTFITogActive Wea YOU IN THE U of M UofMApp TRADITION! SMichian PGO BLUE AT Si&Goetz ING: gods ir Karel araphanalia PAGE 28 WEEKEND/APRIL 17, 1987 PAGE 28 WEEKEND/APRIL 17, 1987 L.