September 11, 1973 (vol. 84, iss. 5) • Page Image 5
…-social progressiveness to Ann Arbor Film Festivals. The Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Fes- tival is the latest exponent in this local tradition, but its road of good intentions this year led unfortunately to failure…
… production of an- nual Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festivals, free concerts, coordin- ation and direction of recordings of these events, and promotion of local artists. All this is now handled by his Rainbow…
…Tuesday, September 11, 1973 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Five Blue Good By ROY CHERNUS Ann Arbor has been well known for some time now due to its ex- ports ranging from models of political…
… real good time" as advertised, to stay home next year. IA Fall Term U of M STUDENTS! Buy USED TEXTBOOKS COME AND MEET US ANN ARBOR CIVIC THEATRE MASS MEETINGS-SEPT. 10-14 201 MULHOLLAND (off WI…
…-area artists. This comple- mented the recent Detroit Belle Isle Blues Festival in promoting community cultural activity and appreciation which the common commercial concerts can't pos- sibly do. But all in all…
…, it didn't work. The wonderful idealism was mar- red by many things, not t h e least of which was the indis- criminate programming in pure- ly musical terms. The "Blues and Jazz" billing of the festival…
…. Be-j sides, there were interesting air- ed interviews and commentaries by musicians and festival work- ers. I would encourage everyone seriously interested in blues and jazz, and not just in having "a…
… was misleading, for the amount of jazz presented was pitifully small. The blues medium demands in- strumental and vocal emotional eloquence to breathe life and im- mediacy into its simple chord…
… structures. But the eloquence was lacking as I often found it near- ly imposible to sit through inter- minably long and boring blues sets. Incompetence would run for 20 minutes at a time with contriw ed vocal…
… was Walter Horton whom I heard alone speak honestly for the blues with some stunningly virtuoso harmonica playing and sympathetic accompaniment. Those I was most excited to hear, Ray Charles and contem…

















































