European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 21, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday May 21, 1977 the stars and stripes Pago 19 jazz talk live jazz on your Patio by Joe Weisel Jaii writer new York Magazine reports that for $1,500 pianist composer mar Lou Williams accompanied by a Bass player will play at least two 45-Mlnute sets at you next party. Vocal stylist Mabel Mercer will interpret songs by Cole Porter. George Gershwin and others accompanied by piano player Jimmy Lyon. For $2.500 an evening. Ii Iny readers plan to partake of the above services please Send me an invite i la even bring my own Salam sandwiches. Assuming air fare to Europe would have to be added to these figures and being aware of the Inadequacy of my Bank account i have researched other less expensive ways of bring entertained in Europe by the Type of music i like Best. Free jazz in London Anthony Braxton poll winning Multi instrument Wilki Reeds and flute together a Ltd former thelonious Monk Soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy and trumpeter Leo Smith will join British guitarist Derek Bailey s improvisation group company in a unique series of concerts in London later this month. Company will explore various permutations that exist within its lineup at London s Ica theatre from May 24 to May 28 the lineup also includes american cel list tristan Honsinger. Dutchmen Han Bennink Percus Sion and Maarten Vanregteren Altena Bassand britons Axil Coxhill Soprano Sopranino and Tenor saxes Van Parker Tenor Soprano and a Melody saxes and Steve Beresford piano. All 10 musicians will appear every most successful combinations from the Ica Thea Ter concerts will play in an extended concert beginning at3pm sunday. May 29 at the Roundhouse on Chalk farm Road. Grande Parade in Nice Tiik French Riviera City of Nice will again Host the Grande Parade do jazz Joly 7-17, with performances taking place in the c Liez gardens. Tins annual festival features Many of the musicians that appear at the Newport jazz festival in new York City and follows on the heels of the new York Bash. Both Are co produced by George performers Are too numerous to list in this space the Nice event features seven hours of non Stop performances on three separate bandstand each Day 5 . To Midnight and. According to the Advance publicity wild Bill Davison appearing in Niernberg. Allows musicians who Seldom if Ever play together to create those once in a lifetime unforgettable moments in of the musicians i be talked to who have appeared at this fest in previous years Are still trying to forget the Dis sentient combinations of musicians and styles of jazz in which they found themselves at these once in a lifetime moments " but be assured that the daily admission of 28 francs about $5.70 or 18 francs about $3.651 if purchased before the festival buys a vast array of american and International jazz artists that should satiate the most unquenchable of tastes. Kids under 12 gel in for 10 francs about $2.25 daily and the area of the gardens is adequately supplied with restaurant refreshment stands and even a specially built dance shuttle buses leave every 10 minutes from the Center of the City to the festival site which is above the town. Further information and Advance ticket order forms Are available from Grande Parade do jazz. Hotel Frantel 28, Avenue Kotrc Dame 06000 Nice. Nurnberg open air fest Nurnberg the City that gave the world the first terrestrial Globe two years before Columbus discovered the new world and 10 years later the first pocket watch is about to reestablish that it still won t tick with the squares. From Friday july 8 to sunday july in an open air festival swing about jazz will be presented in the Park of the Gemeinschaft Hauses Community Center Langwasser an event created to contrast with the modern jazz East West festival presented annually in this ancient walled City. To supplement the hot jazz to be presented cold Beer hot Wurst and a lottery for balloon flights Over the Festi Val grounds Are features planned for this festival. The Park is located on Glogauer Strassl 50 and in the event of inclement weather the concerts will be held inside the Community Hall to Hausa. The schedule of events is As follows Friday july 8. 7-10 . Errol Dixon Usa. Mitc Bauer s blues band. Opa s jazz band saturday. July 9, 4-10 . Wild Bill Davison . Old timers Warsaw Monty Sunshine & his band England and the Honky Tonk 6. Sunday morning matinee july 10. 10 30 am -12 30 . Jean Baptiste s Jug band. Swing generation big band. Sunday. July 10. 3-8 . Gold washboard band Warsaw swing quartet Prague Max Collie rhythm aces England Moris City jazz band. Colle Gium for the evening s concerts arc 12 Marks about $5 at the door or 10 Marks about $4.20 in and Vance. The sunday morning Bash is Only 3 Marks about $1.25. A festival ticket Good for All concerts if bought in Advance is Only 20 Marks about $8.50. Tickets Are at. Konwet and . To neater in. Tel 37911 a new of two Glogauer Lrata so. Tel m fru Jan studio Neurnberg. Panier splat 7j �. Tel hum Only Fri Daft and Salu Dayi alter bom Abri form. Banns Oil Aue so Tel it a and Vermehr herein Erlanger. Rantui plate to Tel a. If you know about a Jaa happening in Europe Lett my jazz club concert our or other news of the Art share it with other readers by dropping a line to jazz co entertainment editor stars is stripes Apo 09175. The civilian address is t Ostrach ii 10 34, d-6100 Darm Stadt 11. Doing Good music their own Way by Jim Coles i staff writer Tiik stylistics. Those impeccable soul thu in folks have struck again they recently finished two months in Europe doing the tunes Thath Iive made them a Banner group for so Man years i seems a Little Odd. Perhaps that these Guys with then Neur Perfitt harmonies smooth choreography patented act and tons of Talent would want to do clubs rather than giant concerts but that s what they like. We be worked the club circuit All our lives so it s nothing new said stylistic James Smith in a Back stage interview at the Rhein main airbase Apollo club. He says their music is not just for the soul Market although that s what they re most widely known for. The music is basically for sentimentalist. No Way do we want a single kind of audience one Type of sound. Their current show Points up that theme with selections such As Duke Ellington s Satin doll Streisand s the Way we their own cause i m so in love with and a Medley o their hits. Tickets to their shows were a Little expensive but its Money Well spent the sets Are quite Long and designed to give the listener his Money s Worth at least. Alter the Long european schedule they be had. You d think they would take a break not so. Be have an album planned and As soon As we can we re going to get into a studio and put it together. A Jim now it s still just ideas that not much has been done about Smith said they re going to get into the writing and producing end of the business and try to expand their air adv huge following. We be been Louring Europe for five or six years and it and Japan have been two of our Best markets. They re the stylistics in Europe with London radio one s disc jockey Tom Brown Tough but Good " Tho Way they approach those markets As Well As at Home is to do Good music in their own . It Rul a t i nil in with in non Sarv. Good music Good singing Ana Keadle enl music that does t get All cluttered up with unnecessary leaves you feeling Good about the evening. Light shows Ultra loud electrics or silly gimmicks just Good d likeable entertainment that leave evening
