European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and strikes monday november 11, 1985rosanne Cash changeling personal trauma into new creation by Frank Spotnitz United press International of Ganic Cash has released an emotionally wrenching album that is a testament to surviving two years thai saw the near breakup of her marriage and the difficult process of kicking a cocaine habit. The album. Rhythm and Romance. Took a solid year and three producers including her husband Rodney Crowell to record Cash the effervescent daughter of cot nary legend Johnny Cash said since its completion she has newfound Confidence in her abilities As a Mother and As a songwriter. And she said it s like she and Crowell have a new  rhythm and Romance is a deeply per Sonal and moving history of her troubles with songs such As Hal Way House Deal ing with her drug problem. Second to no one with her marriage and my old Man on of course her relationship with her lathe despite it autobiographical nature the up avoids sell pity and is an effective blend of Rock and country influences the sort of thing in which Linda Ronstadt used to specialize. I m proud that i was Able to Channel some of that trauma into something Crea Tive Cash said recently seated in a co Lumbia records conference room. It s a Relief for  she said she called her father after the song my old Man had been recorded. He came Down to the studio to hear it and cried afterwards but told his daughter he really liked  i really did t want to go through with writing my old  she said. But i did and it was very cathartic and it was writ ten quickly so Many people ask me about my dad and i get so sick of it a 30-year old woman that still has to talk about her parents All the time. So that was a Way up photo cosh i new album rhythm and Romance Blancit Rock and country influences. Lor me to say Here s the song Don t ask me anymore " it a at a drug treatment program for her father that Cash came to terms with her own cocaine problem which she said had been complicating her insecurity As a Mother to her two children a Altlan 5, and Chelsea 3. Cash said it was uncertainty about her abilities As a Mother that prompted her and Crowell to move four years ago from los Angeles to Nashville. Even though i grew up in California i was so insecure As a Mother right off the Bat i said of my kids will never grow up in California it la be horrible so i pressured Rodney Lor us to move Back  after five years of marriage Cash said she and Crowell had come to the Point where they had to decide Are you going to stick with it and Wall for a transformation or Are you just going to give it up ii took a year for the marriage to turn around. At the same time her Confidence in her writing like Lillian Hellman Cash said she hates writing but i k a having written blossomed. Before i was really neurotic about making records she said. I d just feel like i had to have total control. This time i had written the songs so i Felt like i had proved my Validity already in one Way so i did t have to be the Engineer or the producer or All the background vocalists or  rhythm and Romance for which Cash wrote or co wrote eight of the tracks also includes the Tom Petty be Mont Tench song never be you which Cash originally was to perform on tha streets Wolfire soundtrack. Bui there was a lot of fighting be tween Universal and lbs about me being on the record. A lot of stuff went Down. The Way it ended is that i got kicked off the record. But i really could t let the song go it was so Good. And it fit lyrically so Well with my  daa pita conquering Many of her problems Cash said she still is waging a Battle against stage fright it used to be that i would get nervous three months before i had to do a gig now it s Only a couple Days and is uncomfortable being a celebrity. Cash said when she s recognized in Public i hate it. I really wish that i would just be a writer instead of putting my picture on the cover. It makes me feel like i be got something on the Back of my skirt All the  despite her lather s obvious country influences Cash said that growing up with her Sisters and Mother Vivian Liber to she always has connected More strongly with Rock n Roll. Most country music is too passive for me she said. She said she Hopes to work with Cro Well on her next album spending three or four months at the most to record it this time. Jazz video makes a different sort of Impact Byke franckling United press International r Ock music got into the video music Market first wit i the help of mtg. But jazz i making a different sort of video Impact that will better withstand the tests of endurance education and Good taste. Jazz video can never be rated in terms of sheer numbers of sales when compared to Rock and pop productions just As jazz albums Are a Small chunk of the record business. Still the entries Are growing both on videotape and laser discs ranging in length from 15 to 60 minutes in Price from $16.95 to $50. You la find Long chunks of concerts warts and All studio sessions and on Occa Sion an abstract piece like those seen on mtg. The Good thing is that you can go out and buy a jazz tape now for a reasonable Price where jazz fans will want to buy it. We be got to be patient with it. The Talent has to be patient too. They re not going to get wealthy overnight but they re not with records either said Larry Adler president of Adler video marketing of Reston a. On example la the new two volume release of one night with Blue note. Revisited by Blue note records and Sony video software. The programs run 60 min utes each capturing highlights of a six hour concert held in new York last feb. 22 to Mark the revival of the prestigious Blue note jazz Label. The filming gives the Home viewer listener a better View of the concert than anyone who had a front Row seat in town Hall that historic night. You see the inter play Between the musicians the sweat the reactions the blistering solos. There is Freddie Hubbard holding and bending a fiery note on Moann longer than you d think possible and drummer Art Blakey shaking his head in disbelief when the trumpeter finally gives his Horn a rest. That on stage perspective substitutes in a Way for the warmth of a live performance. Jazz video makes a different sort of contribution As an archival history of the music in which we can see the musicians perform not just hear them. Where was this technology when John Coltrane Charlie Parker and Jelly Roll Morton were alive Para Dent Bruce Lundvall said Blue note through Sony also plans to release an Ellington program acquired from French to in which the Duke sits in a studio alone at his Steinway talks about the inspirations for each song then plays them. Sony has released about 40 titles including an eight part jazz at the smithsonian series with digital sound and some jazz in America segments from last year s pcs series featuring dizzy Galle Sale Gerry Mulligan and Max Roach. We Are pushing jazz As a collectible As an owner oriented rather than a rental oriented product. A jazz video is something that can be enjoyed Over and Over again whether or not you look at the picture. The audio Quality is now better than a record said John o Don Nell president of Sony video software co. Most jazz videos Are straight performance in concert hails Smoky clubs and recording studios. One Freddie Hubbard session gives a Clear feeling of How Boring studio work can be the tape includes repeated takes false starts and playbacks. Video la a natural tap for jazz considering the belief by some in the Industry that virtually All record Ings a few years Down the Road will include some sort of picture because of the continuing audio visual techno logical revolution. O Donnell does t buy it. To attempt to create a video for every piece of audio is absurd because of the Cost and the creative limitations. You will always have people working in the audio Only medium. We do believe that a greater and greater percentage of people will use video based audio products but to say the Plain record will become a Dinosaur is overstepping things o Donnell said. Conceptual videos for the most part Are reserved Lor promotional pieces by crossover artists who pop up on mtg and similar music channels. They include Miles Davis Decoy Herble Hancock s hard Rock and violinist Jean Luc Ponty s far from the beaten paths with twirling dancers and his Bright Blue electric fiddle. Conceptual videos Are coming under fire these Days in the Rock category As being shallow tasteless de grading to women and Selling music that often can t stand up on its own Melody and lyrics. Thai s not to say conceptual video is bad Tor jazz. Take a look at evolutionary spiral a 15-Mlnute video recorded Over the tracks procession and Plaza real by eds Roth birth of the universe and the development of Earth culture using thousands of pieces of Art and film