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University Daily Kansan, March 1, 1983
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Old-style jazz band to perform in spontaneous show
By LADONNA LONGSTREET
Staff Reporter
A foot-stomping, crowd-pleasing bunch of old-time jazz musicians will roll into town this week with a show aimed to liven up the hearts of audiences young and old.
"They've been playing for so long that they can feel the crowd and play corresponding music," said Brian Keefer, Lawrence senior and long-time admirer of the group, the Preservation Hall Jazz Band.
"You don't go to a Preservation Hall concert without feeling that you're a part of it," he said.
Keeter said recently that at every Preservation Hall concert he had attended, the musicians trumped through the audience. Following the musicians were people clapping their hands and stomping their feet.
The band will perform at p. 10m. Friday in Hoch Auditorium.
The show will be the group's second KU performance, said Jacqueline Davis, director of the KU concert series. The band was well received during its first KU performance, which was
"People were in the aisles clapping. It's all spontaneous." Davis said.
Charla Jenkins, public relations director for the University, Theatre, said, "There will be no printed listing of the program for the concert. The musicians themselves won't know what they are going to play, beyond perhaps the opening and closing numbers. Because no two audiences are alike, they say, no two programs are the same."
Keeler said Preservation Hall was actually the name of a hall in New Orleans. About 80 musicians take turns playing there and also play around the country.
The group coming to KU is Percy Humphrey's band. "I would consider them the best of Preservation Hall." Keenan
Some of the seven musicians in Hammery's band have been playing New Orleans jazz more than 50 years, according to
publicity releases. The band members, their ages and their instruments are: Percy G. Humphrey, 78, trumpet; his brother, Willel J. Humphrey Jr., 82, clarinet; Josiah "Cle" Frazer, 74, drums; Frank Demond, 49, trombone; James Edward "Sing" Miller, 69, piano; Narvin Henry Kimball, 74, banjo; and Anil Jaffe, 47, bass horn.
Most of the members of Humphrey's band have toured throughout the United States, Europe and South America. Jaffe has played in the Orient, and he and Willie Humphrey have performed in Israel.
Jenkins said, "The musical form of New Orleans jazz is uncomplicated, but the execution is complex. It is not Dixiand, and it is unwritten. The tempo is slightly slower than that of other jazz forms."
Keerer said each player and band improvised by interpreting the music differently. However, the same basic melody and rhythm are used.
memorise and fly them are absurd.
"Part of what Preservation Hall is about is to make sure the music doesn't die," he said. "How well this tradition is passed on is hard to say."
Keeler said older musicians taught the traditional music to younger players. However, he said, a few years down the road he was seeing some of his own playing.
One musician trained by this process is the trombone player, Demond, Kaefer said. He studied for years under Jim Lester and was a professor at St. John's College.
coauthor, a regalty and masculine. "Their styles are very similar," he said.
"their styles are very animal," he said.
Preservation Hall is a dark, dingy room furnished with wooden backless benches. It opened in 1961 as a place where jazz musicians could perform without distractions.
Keefer said he was in the fifth grade when he first went to Preservation Hall. While he was there, one of the musicians beckoned to him and asked him to join the band on the stage.
After he returned home, he said, he played his cornet as he listened to one of their albums and tried to keep up with the music.
"Those old men would beat me every time," he said.
Percy Humphrey's Preservation Hall Jazz Band, part of a New Orleans tradition more than 50 years old, will perform at 8 p.m. Friday night in Hoch Auditorium. Humphrey's seven-member band is composed of musicians who are among about 80 performers who take turns improvising and learning techniques at the famed concert hall.
Artists say they must rely more heavily on private donations
Rv LAUREN PETERSON
Staff Reporter
Kansas artists and art institutions will have to depend more on private donations in the future, artists and supporters of the arts said last week.
"If there isn't local support, the art institution cannot survive," said Francis Hodsoll, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.
granting smaller funds than were requested so that it could spread funds to more people.
Hodsoll, who participated in an open forum at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, Mo., with about 60 Kansas and Missouri artists, organization representatives and patrons, said individual, business, corporation and foundation donations to the arts in 1981 had increased 13.2 percent.
"We are making more of a total effort to encourage private giving in Lawrence, Wichita, Topeka and Kansas City," Bailey said.
Hodsoll said the endowment agency was fortunate that its budget had not been reduced this year, but that state art councils and artists still should seek outside support.
"We are trying to put out more information on private donations and on the economic advantages to giving," he said.
Linda Baila, development membership coordinator for the Spencer Museum of Art, said the endowment agency was
The endowment agency disbursed 20 percent of its financing to the 50 states and six U.S. jurisdictions, such as Guam and the District of Columbia, Hodsoll said. Individual artists and organizations may apply for the rest.
During the forum, Hodson announced the endowment agency had given a $150,000 challenge check to the Mid-America Arts Alliance on the agreement that it would raise twice that much.
Jacqueline Davis, director of the KU Concert and Chamber Music Series, said the Alliance, a partnership of the state art courts of Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Arkansas and Oklahoma, supports regional projects in the arts with the funds they receive from private donations and the endowment agency.
Present endowment funds for the University of Kansas seem to be at a constant level.
She said she had tried to explain to Hodslon how important the Mid-America Arts Alliance was to KU.
Edward Dickey, program specialist at the agency's state programs office, said KU's Spencer Museum had received four grants this year, including $12,170 for the Pat Stair Collection and $15,650 for the Charles Walter Steson exhibit.
Davis said that for the past three years she had received a grant from the endowment agency for audience development and fund raising for the concert and music series.
The program involves 20 fellowships for $3,500 each, which will be awarded in August by an endowment panel. This year recipients will be emerging photographers in the five-state area.
Hodsell also announced at the forum a pilot program that the endowment agency and the Alliance had agreed to create.
Henry Moran, executive director of the Alliance, said that the idea arose because of the difficulty an individual artist had in starting his career.
"One of the missing links has been support to the individual artist," he said.
During the forum, a Kansas City, Mo., artist complained that the agency did not give enough support to individuals.
"Are you people going to go out into the community and see what our needs are?" he said loudly.
Hodsell said the agency was trying to help the individual artist but that it was impossible to cover all of their needs.
"There are a lot of good artists out there who are not receiving support, but this has always been the case," he said. I think we can nibble at the edges of this problem, but we'll never solve that problem completely."
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