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The Michigan Daily/New Student Edition - Thursday, September 7, 1989 - Page 6
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The Michigan Daily/New Student Edition - Thursda
By Jeffrey Brown
Daily Arts Writer;
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Sh'Bam!
If this means anything to you,
you're not alone. Dizzy Gillespie's
call is a language understood by
many jazz and blues fans in Ann
Arbor. The Southeast Michigan area
is blessed by a strong jazz and blues
heritage and a legion of people
committed to supporting these great
American artforms. To help you dig
this scene here's the hep cat's guide.
Radio: Tune in, turn on, and dig
it. Head left on your FM radio dial
and you'll find WCBN (88.3) and
WEMU (89.1). Taken together,
these stations will provide you with
the necessary daily dose of vitamins J
and B (jazz and blues, of course).
CBN, the student-run escape from
commercial radio, hosts Jazz 'til
Noon every weekday beginning at 9
a.m. It may well be the only radio
station where you can wake to Sun
Ra's stratospheric journeys or hear
Max Roach dropping the bomb at
such an uncharacteristically civil
hour. And as if this weren't enough
for the teeming thousands who reside
within the coverage of the station's
two hundred watts, WCBN's aural
education also includes speciality
shows such as Real Black Miracles,
Nothing but the Blues, The Duke is
on the Air, Yazoo City Calling, The
Free Press and Word Jazz.
Slightly to the right of WCBN,
in the shadow of a cheesy Canadian
pop station, is Ypsilanti's WEMU.
From the campus of Eastern
Michigan University a bouquet of
classic Blue Notes, big bands, jazz
gems, and cats who got da blues
spreads toward tree town.
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If your tuner has a good antenna,
Detroit radio can be yours too.
WDET (101.9 FM) provides a dev-
astatingly swinging broadcast from
the campus of Wayne State
University in Detroit. In contrast,
WJZZ (105.9 FM) keeps the area's
elevators and dental offices happy
with a delightfully sterile and sedate
blend of jazzy pop fusion and muzak
better known as fuzak. Some of the
Detroit rock stations also present
electric blues programs, albeit on an
infrequent basis.
Live music: If jazz and blues are
the grooves that make you freak,
nothing beats hearing them live.
Rick's American Cafe (611
Church) is a regular ston for Chicago
blues artists such as Albert Collins,
Lonnie Mack, The Kinsey Report,
and L'il Ed and the Blues Imperials.
Although many of the patrons are
obviously there for the booze rather
than the blues, this bar is nonethe-
less worth checking out.
The Blind Pig (208 S. First) has
frequent appearances by national
blues and zydeco performers. Buddy
Guy, Junior Wells, and Terrance
Simien seem to play the Pig every
few months. To see lesser known
bluesologists, local favorites, or to
participate in a weekly jam session,
the Apartment Lounge (2200
Fuller Rd.) is but a short ride away.
Live jazz blossoms nightly at the
Bird of Paradise (207 Ashley).
Club owner and resident bassist Ron
Brooks jams with his trio several
nights a week and rounds out his
schedule by presenting local combos.
About once a month the club im-
ports national headliners such as
Dizzie Gillespie, Ahmad Jamal, and
Emily Remler. The recent addition of
food from Red Hot Lovers and
lunchtime music is welcome. The
only drawback to gigs at The Bird is
the "21 and over" rule which is
almost always in effect.
In an effort to overcome barriers
like age and price restrictions that
exclude many would be supporters
from jazz, a group of students formed
Eclipse Jazz in the the fall of 1975.
Each semester Eclipse presents a
series of small gigs, large concerts,
free workshops, a lecture series, and
jam sessions showcasing jazz
artistry.
Eclipse's shows read like a verita-
ble history of jazz: McCoy Tyner,
Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Ella
Fitzgerald, Sun Ra, The Modern Jazz
Quartet and scores more have all been
brought to Ann Arbor. In addition to
the more popular artists, Eclipse also
presents a series of up-and-coming
musicians and those who deserve
greater recognition. Recent perform-
ers in this series have included
Courtney Pine, Gil Scott-Heron,
Geri Allen, and Dewey Redman.
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