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Thursday, February 15, 1979
University Daily Kansan
Big band jazz,rock trumpeter takes time out,performs at KU
By RHONDA HOLMAN
Staff Renorter
After seven years of touring with the rock band Chase and the Stan Kenton and Woody Herman orchestra, Jay Sollenberger is taking six months off.
Soblenberger will be the guest soloist with the KU Jazz Ensemble at 8 p.m. tonight in the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Sollenberger said he spent 48 weeks a year on the road with the bands, riding buses eight hours a day and performing every night.
"I'm not tired of trumpet and I'm not tired of traveling-I'm just taking a breather."
sottenberger, who grew up in McPherson and attended Wichita State University, is on a leave of absence from the Woody Herman Foundation for individual concerts and clinics in Kansas.
Since 1974, he has made his home in Lawrence.
"KANSAS IS MY home, and I've always
liked Lawrence," he said. "It's like an oasis away from cities. I'm really tired of the concrete of New York, where Herman's band is based."
Sollenberger also attended North Texas State University, Denton, before joining the "Flippers," a rock group popular in the Midwest during the early 1970s. His first big job was playing in the Broadway musical "Company" in 1972.
In April 1973, he joined Chase, the rock band that lost four musicians, including Bill Chase, its leader in a plane crash in August 1974. He also formed a group members that traveled by car that day.
He and he still attributed his style of playing lead trumpet to things he learned.
Solenberger joined Stan Kenton's band after Chase dissolved and played with him for three years until Kenton's failed health ended the group's performances. Solenberger said he felt comfortable with the big style of jazz that Kenton's band played.
"CHASE WAS A rock band with four trumpets and an electric rhythm section," he said. "It was a very special day."
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style."
Sollenger joined Woody Herman's band in November 1977 as lead trumpet player. He said he would probably go back to the band although he had been offered paying jobs in Las Vegas. Or, he might try to play in the Los Angeles area, he said.
"My goal will be to head west and maybe detain down in Los Angeles," he said. "I may try to get the crew off the pressure in West Coast coast playing and you may have overcome it, but you get to play."
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Sollenberger performed with the KU Jazz Ensemble in 1974. He said he was impressed with the growth of the jazz program at KU since then.
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"The band here has really changed for the better," he said. "When I played in 1974 there was one jazz ensemble. Now there are three ensembles, three combos, an im-pleaser and a jazz vocal provisional course and Dick Wright's jazz history course."
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"I've traveled a lot and there isn't a greater show than Dick Wright's KANU show, anywhere. I feel that half of performing is listening. A good improviser will pick on what he has heard. A good musician never stops listening," he said.
appear in concert at 8 tonight with the Jazz Ensemble in Swarthout Recital Hall in Marphy Hall.
While on leave from Wooody Herman's orchestra, trumpeter Jay Sollenberg is mixing it up with the KU Jazz Ensemble. He will
Pipeline supporters, foes exchange final shots
Bv TAMMY TIERNEY
Staff Reporter
TOPEKA-IF Energy Transportation Systems Inc. is unsuccessful in its attempt to convince legislators to approve a coal power plant in Kansas, it will not be for want of words.
Energy Transportation Systems of Wichita and railroad representatives took their parting shots. Each side was allowed 15 passes by the Kansas House Judiciary Committee.
The third day of debate on the proposed 1,400-mile pipeline ended yesterday as
Although railroad representatives made only brief remarks, Duane S. "Pete" McGill, a lobbyist for the Wichita firm, spent his 15 minutes lashing out at the
roadrunner companies, which have said the pipeline will eliminate the jobs of 14,000 workers.
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MGcill gave the proposed pipeline was an example of "the free enterprise system" that is a great idea.
"THEY SAID that the portion of the co-haulaging business we will take from them is the cream of the coal business, Well, the railroads want the cream, milk and everything else that goes on the gravytram."
He said the expected increased demand for coal could allow the railroads to form a powerful monopoly if they were the only mode of transporting coal.
"With $500 new generating plants scheduled to be built in this country, most of them will be developed here."
has the power to put out the lights of the nation."
HE SAID it was clear the Wichita firm had no intention of serving Kansas and would be taking money from Kansas railroads by reducing their coal-hauling
Pat Hubble, a lobbyist for the Kansas Railroad Association, told the committee that he did not think the bill, which would require companies to install systems as a common carrier, should be passed.
Although most committee members appeared undecided on the issue, Mike Glover, D-Lawrence, said he probably would not support the bill.
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"I'm leaning against it because I think the investments the railroads have made and the taxes they generate are more important than coal and long haul than a coal pipeline.
"I don't think the technology of the line can be considered any better than the technology of the railroads. I don't believe it moves coal at a significantly lower price."
Glover said that the issue of eminent domain was serious and that the committee should act to resolve it.
The committee is expected to take final action on the bill next week.
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