University Daily Kansan Monday, October 25,1976 Consort a superb dialogue in jazz By STEVE FRAZIER Staff Writer You'll find Paul Winter Consort records under "jazz" in the record store, but Saturday night in Hoch Auditorium the Consort, with its impressive arsenal of musical instruments, proved again that the jazz is often more convenient than descriptive. Contemporary groups like the consort and its offshoot, Oregon, are roughly comparable to jazz 'Third Stream of the late 50s,' a movement that attempted to mold jazz around forms borrowed from European classical music. All but the best of the Third Stream were a sterile mixture of apolytic jazz and self-conscious European trappings. Saturday, in the studio at the Shorewood Theater, unashed and exciting blend of African, European, Eastern, rock and even 'whale' European, eastern had an accent of jazz improvisation. Review Perhaps a big part of the consort's suture is Winter is another winter but a donnering leader. Winter, an able and clear-toned performed on soprano and alto saxophones, consistently attracts brilliant young stedmen who are given free rein to show talents David Darling, on acoustic and electric eight-string cellos, wasted no time in getting his point across. His searing solo on the guitar is one of his best pieces, made the piece a highlight of the concert. "Conversations," another highlight, was also performed early in the show. Although it apparently was a more structured improvisation than Winter's spoken introduction, it did serve, as he said, as an improvised definition of consort, a musical conversation." Consorting with jazz Darling opened "Conversations," accompanied soily by Ben Carrel on electric bass. As Darling glissandoed into the upper fretboard, the bass drum slid over and around the cello and bass. *buying amid a heavily inden stage of percussive, acoustical and electrical instruments, Paul Winter, (upper right) and his Consort a Hoch Audiotifr crown through an acoustic amplifier.* Tigger Benford and Robert Chappell joined the conversation, picking up the established rhythmic patterns with a large rack and table on the right side of the stage, bristling with gongs, chimes, bells and cymbals from around the world. One of the consort's more interesting innovations was its development of two musical compositions around taped animal sounds. Winter, Darling and Carrier dropped out, leaving Bendon to lead Chappell in an increasingly and incredibly complex percussion duet. The first such piece, "Ocean Dream," tempts to evoke the fantasy of what it might be. be a whale." The composition blended smoothly and naturally into the taped introduction of whale "songs," but after a good start the steps stopped flowing. "In Wilderness There Is the Preservation of the World," based on the howl of the gray wolf, was a more satisfying musically. There were, however, two interruptions that, depending on one's point of view, were either annoying or inspirational. The first interruption was a didactic little speech by Winter on the plight of endangered animal species, and the second was two minutes of howling from the Aside from some lackluster vocals, the consort concert was mostly a superb performance which deserved the crowd's standing ovation. audience after Wear asked, "How long has it been since you had a good how?" A final tribute must go to the consort's sound man, one of a special breed of usually unsonging burdens. 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