European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 1981 the stars and stripes Page 19 pianist Walter Morris has a style All his own things have been a bit slow on the jazz scene Over the but show signs of picking up steam As the new year live music started for the of jazz talker last week when i caught pianist Walter Norris in a duo performance with bassist Gerd Mayer at Darmstadt Jam Pott Norris is a unique pianist with a style that can Only be called his his background includes stints with the groups of Stan Ornette Johnny Griffin and the Thad Jones Mel Lewis or Joe weasels for the past several years he has been working with the studio band of Paul Kuhn in i haunt spoken with the Little native since he played Munich domicile club with several years so it was a treat to get together with him once he has plans to return to new York to find out whats happening in that cites jazz but will be spending a Large part of his time on this Side of the he told me that he had married a Berlin violinist within the past so will keep him mainly Over the performance i heard consisted of Duke Ellington saxophonist Zbigniew the old Rosemary Clooney hey a Standard or such As body and and original sounding pieces unfamiliar to Norris can be both tender and and his phrasing always catches the listener by going constantly in unexpected he has a like Tenor saxophonist Dexter of throwing in Brief quotes from other songs during the course of his bassist Mayer provides a Good foil for the pianist and anticipates in Advance where the pianist is the music the two make is an extremely pleasant fans in the Nuernberg area can dig Norris and Mayer at the jazz studio in that City on sexist on tour in spite of being isolated from the rest of the jazz has produced Many excellent jazz musicians in recent one of those is sax Pho Zbigniew Namyslowski was born in Warsaw in 1939 and began piano lessons at the age of moving to the cello when he was he studied at the High school of music in his native City and began his professional career on trom Bone with a traditional he switched to Alto sax in and with his own band has played in most euro Pean countries plus new the soviet Canada and the he has been Active in the in recent years with his nyc and his debut album on the inner City was Well received by the Crit he cites Charlie John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins As his greatest critic Leonard Feather has said of him a special aspect of Namyslowski Success is that in addition to effectively utilizing elements of contemporary jazz and he has also incorporated and thoroughly integrated polish Folk music into his his current air includes Tadzik Sendecki on electric piano and Darek Kozakiewicz Krysztof Sieranski electric Bass and Andrezej mrowiec and Malina on Drums and per Zbigniew Namyslowski and air condition will be appearing at Frankfurt sink Kasten on following they will also play the following locations 31 1 3 4 5 6 Lucklum 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look and a Talent for under playing at a time when Bravura acting was the his performances rarely Drew critical raves but neither did he suffer brickbats from he was a notch below major stardom but far from being just another Lead ing Man in b he made Many a films during his acting reagans acting has often been but the length of his the number of pictures and the list of stars with whom he worked is More impressive than most of reagans critics at he was a Journeyman perhaps not nearly As effective a performer As he is a Reagan made s3 movies from when he made his debut As a Callow broadcaster in love is on the to the his final feature film in 1964 in which he played an unsympathetic character who beats up Angie Reagan was not a superstar in the sense that Cooper and Tracy but he was their con temporary and he worked with an amazing number of stars who outshone him by unlike Many a Star of his time As Well As contemporary Reagan was not Type he was As versatile As he was Dura appearing in Light War stories and horse he almost always played Good Guys More often than got the girl in the final among his leading ladies were such major stars As Doris Day the winning Barbara Stanwyck cattle Queen of Alexis Smith stallion and Laraine Day the bad he romanced some of the most Beautiful Glamour girls in Hollywood on Ann Sheridan Juke Rhonda Fleming Tennessee Virginia Mayo the girl from Jones Eleanor Parker the voice of the Turtle and even fellow Republican luminary Shirley Temple that Hagen he also worked with leading ladies who went on to win Academy awards Bette Davis dark Gin Ger Rogers storm Olivia de Havilland Santa be Patricia Neal the Hasty and Susan Hay Ward girls on Reagan married two of his leading the first was Jane with whom he starred in brother rat and a an Angel from Texas and tugboat Annie sails Jane was another of his costars who went on to win an Oscar for Best actress Johnny Belinda in he and the co starred in hellcats of the Navy when she was Little More than a Starlet and her name was Nancy they went on to work together in Many to especially death Valley most film buffs would agree reagans Best and most important movie was Kings Row with Ann Robert Betty Field and Claude perhaps his Best known however was that of notre Dames immortal football hero George Gipp in Knute Rockne All in which Pat Obrien As coach Rockne exhorted his team to win one for the Reagan was one of the better athletes in he swam and Rode and therefore Drew Many physical roles in westerns and War among his male costars were some heavy hitters As Well As some Academy award winners Broderick Craw Ford night unto Errol Flynn desperate Jour Lionel Barrymore and Wallace Beery the bad Lee Marvin the Jimmy Cagney boy meets and Bogart swing your probably frustrated during his acting career at having to accept whatever the studio offered he was under contract most of the time to Warner and was at the mercy of his Bosses when it came to had his career As an actor begun in this Era of inde pendent Reagan might have become the major Star he wanted to then perhaps in a business which is noted for its scandals and horsing Reagan managed to avoid bad pub his Only major offscreen problem was his divorce from Jane a Well researched account of reagans years As a movie Star can be found in the recently Well illustrated Book the films of Ronald Reagan by Tony who wrote similar books on Errol Burt Lancaster and Kirk Doug