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The 'Count' Returns Home
Rasie bachelor career in Kansas City
Basie Survives Changes Through Musical Talent
By BILL JONES
Kenan Reviewer
KANAS CITY, Mo—William "Count" Basie formed his first band about four decades ago, but the music he plays is far from old-fashioned. He has played during all the eras of music since then, from be-bop swing, and jazz, to the outstanding jazz pianists.
Although Kansas City is not his birthplace, Basis told his audiences at the Landmark that it was "good to be home again."
BASIE GOT THE name "Count" in Kansas City.
"That's where the band got started—in the thirties, the early thirties. We坐街卖 during an open day at one of the tables in the dim, noisy showroom signaling and smoking a cigar when he talks.
"It was a radio announcer who gave it to me. Basie said, 'They nickname, my name.' We nickname, one of the guys said, 'well, we have a Duke of Jazz,' so he's the King of Jazz, so let's add this guy to the royal family—and he got it."
He expressed great admiration for Duke Ellington, who, he was told, would be the earliest influences. Bass's band reported "outswung" Ellington in Kansas City in 1909, but Basie would not admit it.
"We hadn't even gotten started before we were just a small ambition, but working at the Reno Club at that time. They were an established wizard, so they never won a victory —no one's ever never won a victory over their band's boss."
Baisie is never pretentious on or off stage. He speaks rather quietly to his audiences, and he talks in a mild but warm sense of humor.
BASIE'S MODESY is evident in his playing. A person listening to the Count Basie Orchestra hears little of Basie's playing, and also of the band from his playing is beautiful. He occupies himself most of the time directing the band from the keyboard, with discreet, inconspicuous movements, keeps a constant eye on him.
jazz. Bass described the avant-garde jazznames such as Miles Davis and Chick Corea as "beautiful."
"THEY'RE CREATORS of new things and definitely, you've got to like those things. I do. I mean, some of the things I don't understand—but they're clear. I stand—but they're go way."
"The younger kids understand, think they understand jazz. But there's a lot of them ind out what's really, actually happening, and we get a big kick
Basile, who turned 68 about six weeks ago, said that he liked playing to college students and young people "very much."
There are 18 members of the Count Basie Orchestra now, including Bassie and a vocalist. They differ widely in age, and then they have joined the band only once but none are weak musicians.
"My style hasn't changed," said Basie. "I wouldn't think of changing it."
The band is exciting and a pleasure to hear, regardless of the occasion. The music is classical, jazz or hard rock. Anyone under the impression that swing is hokey and all is alive and full of feeling.
FINE UNISON WORK has been a business. The brass is strong and durable yet graceful, and never harsh. Together with the rhythm section the needs, employing an artistic sense of phrasing. Consequently, the needs are fulfilled.
Although Basi's basic style hasn't changed, he does not limit his appreciation of other types of
and, and songs with a lot of soul,
like the famous Billie Holiday
and Jimmy Jerry wang s sang
Base's band many years ago.
The Count Basie Orchestra is currently performing on an area tour. After their performance at the Landmark in Kansas City, CA, they are scheduled for performances in Emporia and Wichita and Oklahoma.
Basile's vocalist is Jimmie Riggs, a veteran of the big bands. Riggs only sing three or four numbers in the set, but he sounds
"Cabaret," the musical that kicked Joel Grey, and Jill Dallin, the actress who contestage, was performed this past weekend at the University theatre bearing a couple of novel ideas from its director, Jack
Gimmicks Don't Work
By DENNIS LINGLE Kansas Reviewer
The setting for the musical is pre-Nazi Germany, circa 1929. The musical revolves around the German brassband, an American visiting Berlin, and Sally Bowles, a British girl who entertains at her house. She also concerns itself with the warm and charming courtship of Fraulein Schneider, a grazing German man with Schultz, an American girl.
The emotional ties of two couples carefully build and then
--disintegrate because of the ideologic overhaul Germany was about to undertake.
'Cabaret' Mixes Media
Three lecture-demonstrations about the creation of the musical "Cabaret" will be sponsored by the University Theatre and the School of Fine Arts, the School of Dance, at 1212 p.m., today, Wednesday and Friday. The demonstrations are open to the public.
In the first scene a movie screen was lowered and, rather than seeing the actors perforated by the camera, a scene in the train compartment, the audience witnessed a black and white film of the action. This mixing of the media by Director Daniel Ledergerud did not work, for several reasons.
Chris Bradshaw is placed in a true-to-life situation in the film, whereas on stage he is set apart and does not interact; it is not only a mixing of media but a mixing of character. The scene could have been done just as well on stage as on film and would be much more accentable.
AT THE CABARET, the bartenders, haughty whores, the Kit Kat Girls, and the manager, Max, was well-measured in its size.
Ticket Sales Begin For KU Concerts
Tickets are now available for four concerts scheduled at the University of Kansas.
Sales begin today for Ah Ah
and the Moog Quartet, two
Concert Series events. Tickets
are $10 for admission at the
murphy box office.
Ahk is a presentation of Korean classical and folk music and dance. It is scheduled for 8:20 in the University Theatre.
Sales also begin today on tickets for the Oct. 28 homecoming concert featuring Ray Charles. Tickets are
A second act for the concert is still being sought and will be announced. There are approximately 10,000 seats available for the concert in Allen
There are about 2,700 seats remaining for the Oct. 13 concert festival. Fans will be able to watch to David Hull, Whittier, Calif., and chairman of the concert浸渍器
Hull said there were only single seats available in the $4.50 section. A variety of $3.50 and $4 seats are still available.
available at the SUA office and cost $4. $4.50 and $5.
Off-campus publicity began Friday, Hull said, with a concentration on Kansas and Nebraska.
The Master of Ceremonies,
played by William Lasserd, lacked
a necessary nastiness. He also
lacked a necessary projection in his singing voice, which became
the source of some of the more clever
some of the more clever.
Tickets are available at the SUA office. Students with a class card receive a dollar discount on their tickets.
The main attraction at the Kit Kat Klub was supposed to be Sally Bowles, played by Jane Phelps but in the Kit Kat Klub only one cast and only performed as an imitation of the movie version of Sally. Miss Phelps' acting was rather shallow and put the load on the shoulders of Chris Bradsley played by Paul Warren Hough.
Hough is a fine actor of "stage and screen." Hough Li even a teenager. It would be safe to say that Houghtel could show together, which, at times, appeared to be her own act. But she can be given credit for one of the two highlights of the musical, using "Why Should I Wake Up?"
THE SECOND HIGHLIGHT was the outstanding portrayals of Herr Schuelt by Steven Goodman and Robert Koch by Jeff Zimmerman. The staging of their song, "I Couldn't Please Me More," was the finest production ever made.
cast was, for the most part,
sloppy. Technically, the play
encountered its share of the backdrops and
revolving stage.
Chris leaves to go to the train station in reaction to Sally's rejection of him. On the screen, he hangs down while Sally, on stage, p lifes along with her Kit Kult Klub routine, singing the title song.
THE FINAL SCENE has chris Sally ending the game. To that train compartment on the screen and turns black and white again. And then it plays a sequence.
reaction by Chris to Sally's callousness, and, therefore, lost Brookings' experiments in the audience closer to the action but only made the audience aware of its distinct separation
"Cabaret" will be performed again Oct. 12, 13, and 14.
work dramatically, but this time it is for another reason.
NOTICE
The film was not a direct
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