University Daily Kansan, April 1, 1985 Page 7
CAMPUS AND AREA
Club celebrates 3rd anniversary
By SHELLE LEWIS Staff Reporter
The small, red neon sign at 926 $ _{1/2} $
Massachusetts St. says what the
Jazzhaus is all about — jazz.
the club celebrates its third anniversary tonight with the performance of the Chicago rhythm and band, Big Twist and the Mellow Fellows.
Rick McNeely, the owner of the Jazhauza, said the private club always had fun even when he had hair for those in bed over, before McNeely bought it.
The building was in need of many repairs when he bought it, MeNeely
"The place sat empty for a few months," he said. "It was full of roaches, the skylight was torn off and there was no air conditioning at all."
The skylight is fixed now, and the club features wooden floors, paintings, and long windows behind the building. The overlocks Massachusetts Street
"Practically all of the money I've made, I've put back into improving the place," McNeely said.
TONIGHT'S SHOW starts at 9 p.m.
and admission is $4. The club will
have Happy Hour drink prices all
night beginning at 4 p.m.
Big Twist and the Mellow Fellows are known for the powerful voice of Larry "Big Twist" Nolan, who is 6 inches tall and weights 300 pounds
pounds. In addition, the group features the guitar tunals of Pete Special, as well as Steve Trytten on piano and organ.
as Steve Hyatt, pianist and bandleader.
The eight-member group also includes a horn trio and a rhythm section.
The group, which formed in 1974,
their third album, "Playing for Keeps."
Most recently, the band has been on tour, opening for singer B.B. King.
BIG TWIST AND the Mellow Fellows will play for the first time in Lawrence and will play in other Midwestern cities before leaving to perform a special Easter Sunday concert in Kingston, Jamaica.
McNeely, who plays the saxophone, said the Jazzhaus soon would serve delicatessen food as one way to launch the club's menu of good music.
Liz Anderson, manager, said the club would be a pleasant and unique
lunch spot where customers could get a cocktail with their meal.
The hard part is going to be convincing people that the Jazzhaus is a place to go before 9 o'clock at night," she said.
night, she said.
Within the next couple of weeks, the Jazazz will open at 11 a.m. and serve sandwiches, soup and salad, Anderson said. She said the club would serve food until 1 a.m.
would serve his unusual name of the Jazzhaus derived from a club in Denmark called Jazzhus.
"It is one of Europe's most famous clubs" McNeely said.
Although Lawrence's Jazzhaus has not gained the worldwide reputation of the European club, McNeely said. he was satisfied with the progress the club had made in the last three years.
"Lawrence is right in the middle of nowhere," McNeely said. "Sooner or later everybody has to go through Lawrence, Kansas."
In the future, McNeely said, he hoped to continue to bring the best bands in the Midwest to Lawrence.
"To still be open after three years is a mark of success," he said.
McNeely said the quality of his staff also had helped him to stay in business.
Student hurt in fall from window
A 19-year-old KU student fell 20 feet from the second-story window of a fraternity house, severing a finger from his right hand early Saturday morning. Lawrence police said yesterday.
Rick Jones, Elkhard freshman and a member of the Sigma Nu fraternity, was climbing from one window to another on the second floor of the house. 1501 Sigma Nu Place, shortly after midnight Friday, police said. As he was climbing out one of the windows, part of the window he was
holding onto broke off, causing him to fall to the ground.
John Hilliard, Merriam sophomore and Sigma Nu president, said yesterday that as Jones fell, the little finger came out of the window on the window and was torn off.
"The whole thing's pretty tragic." Hilliard said. "He is an art student, and he's right handed. But the ambulance drivers said he's lucky to be alive, since he fell 20 feet and landed on concrete."
Lawrence Memorial Hospital for treatment. He later was transferred to the University of Kansas Medical Center.
"He got there about 2:30 a.m. Saturday, and they took x-rays and checked him for back injuries from the fall." Hilliard said.
"He went into surgery about 6 a.m." Hillard said.
Jones was taken by ambulance to
Hillard said the doctors tried to reattach Jones' finger but couldn't because the finger had been torn. He lost most of the finger.
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SOME FRATERNITY BOYS ARE BOTH FRUGAL AND PHILANTHROPIC
On February 26th, Mr. Richard Hayes, a KU student, asked the City Commission to close off Stewart Avenue between 19th and 21st streets from 4 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. on April 12th so that six fraternities could more easily stage a party featuring live music and kegs of beer. Mr. Hayes said the shindig, aptly named the Stewart Street Bash, was expected to draw 1,500 to 2,000 revelers and thus raise about $1000 for the Hilltop Child Development Center. Although the Commission refused the request after hearing several residents of the neighborhood describe the noise, trespassing, and property damage which always accompanied these fraternal adventures, Mr. Hayes warned that the party "still (could) be voted in, and it probably will because we're so far into it".
Just as many Lawrenicians courageously tried to accept the news that even lilywhite fraternities harbor anarchists, Mr. Mike Paulter put things in perspective in a letter to the March 22nd University Daily Kansan (UDK). Mr. Paulter was responding to a letter in the March 19th UDK by Mr. Bradley Dick, a resident of the neighborhood for nine years, in which Mr. Dick claimed that the noise generated by previous fraternity festivals sometimes had frightened his son in the early morning hours and caused works of art to fall from the walls of his home. Mr Paulter chides Mr. Dick for objecting to these prolonged explosions. Because these parties raise money for local charities, Mr. Paulter thinks they demonstrate that "Today's Greek is a responsible, hopefully caring individual".
Mr. Paulter modestly refrans from pointing out that each of the 1,500 to 2,000 expected celebrates at the Stewart Street Bash would have had to part with only fifty to seventy cents in order for Hiltop to gain $1,000 from the tumult. As this is certainly less expensive than taking a date to a movie or nightclub, the Stewart Street Bash could have illustrated that some fraternity boys are both frugal and philanthropic.
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