European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 27, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 8 the Star and stripes and Al that today s jazz festivals Are where things Are happening. Bearded troubadours in weird costumes from East and West share the stage with musicians dressed As straight As a banker. That does t matter. What does is the flow of musical ideas. Jazz today knows no nationalities. Once an american Art form it now belongs to the world. It reaches out to vastly different Folk heritages from the Jungles of Africa to villages of India from Folk dances of Czechoslovakia to the Cotton Fields of America. And from it All comes strange new sounds the music of tomorrow. All these elements were part of the weekend German jazz festival at Frankfurt. They All came the grand daddies of jazz the saints and sinners playing their swing to sons of jazz like America s Tony Scott who Learned his clarinet at the feet of Benny Goodman and Charlie Parker to untried newcomers playing free jazz when musicians Start out together with no music no plan. They improvise and play As the spirit moves them. Sometimes it sounds unintelligible but there s the excitement of knowing ideas Are being born. Mary Ann Reese Ami i Uhlir Phr is photos by Ted Rohde a Oneida a March 27 i h face of today s jazzman ranges from Long haired hippie look of a guitarist from Amsterdam to clean shaven jazz pianist Clarence Timberlake an american student in Vienna who made a guest appearance at the German jazz festival. Sounds on a sunday afternoon from a sax Man with the soul  German american Rock n blues group the Shakespeare from Bremen Germany Wear Early beatle look. Vocalist Arthur Kirkpatrick an sex i belts out his blues. A