University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, August 31, 1976
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Jazz master's image shows in his music
By GREGG HEJNA
Staff Writer
Sweet-soaked, leaning back in a chair between sets at Off The Wall Hall last night, Gary Burton described the style of playing him made the mime on his 1 jazz vibrathonist.
He was resting between仕s during one of his meetings in Montana. Midwest tour of the Gary Burt Quartet.
"A jazz player plays what he's like, his personality comes through in a very unique way."
Burton has consistently been at the top of jazz polls and is regarded as the forerunner to the current king.
With groups like Return to Forever and John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra jumping on the bandwagon and gaining commercial strength ahead of Burton, he says he thinks that their main strength is their volume.
"IT'S NOT SO much that they've broken the commercial barrier in jazz, but the volume and electronics barrier." Burton said. "What they play is still improvised music and can be classified as jazz, but they've become popular with a wider audience because of their electronic nature."
Burton says that, by playing smaller clubs and halls, the group won't have to rely on volume to get their music across. "Our music has a certain intimacy to it that just doesn't translate well over such big distances," he said.
One electronic music Burton holds a great deal of respect for it is Return to Forever's Chic Corea. Monday night the quartet performed one of his tunes, "Sea
Journey," while Burton performed a solo of two Corea pieces. Corea spent six weeks as a member of Burton's group in the late sixties.
ALTHOUGH HE has performed with other jazz artists both in concert and on record, Burton says he sees no chance of a rock idolism, and has little use for rock music.
"The improvised music I've heard by rock players is extremely juvenile and wouldn't be of much interest to an experienced jazz player to play to play along with." Burton said. "They're like more beginners when it comes to improvisation.
"Ten years ago I would have thought that it would be interesting to work with rock masonry."
When he's not touring, Burton teaches at Berkley school of Music in Boston, a school long noted for its contributions to jazz. While Berkley is in session, Burton's quartet does most college concerts on the campus. Burton goes back at school during the week teaching.
FOR THE immediate future the Gary Burton Quartet will be doing a big tour this fall along with a new album with bassist Eberhardt Weber.
For the distant future Burton is not so sure how wills go.
"You never know what is going to happen beyond the next six months or so," he said. "We're planning a special project with an orchestra for next spring, but that's about as far ahead as you plan because you never know when it will happen, going to start to surface in your playing."
"The music is steadily evolving all the time; all we worry about is the immediate future."
Social welfare class studies farm economy
Staff photo by DAVE REGIER
Students in the School of Social Welfare can study social conditions in their own beds.
The school is offering a field study of rural social work, particularly in rural Kansas. Edward Dutton, associate professor of social welfare, said last week that students enrolled in the course would research the social and economic impact of agribusiness in Kansas and would look for particular factors that influence Dutton teaches the course this semester.
He said the major emphasis would be in the areas of water, land and people.
"Scott County in the future, for example, is expected to be without water; in 40 years the underground water could be depleted," he said.
The course is designed to prepare students for professional practice in Kansas by exploring problems that plague the state. He said he narrowed the problems down to three: geography, community and development, geographical segregation and rural-urban migration.
He said he stressed the importance of learning as much as possible about the state of Kansas in particular because the state was the midst of a great food-producing region.
Vibraphonist Gary Burton (foreground) and guitarist Pat Metheny perform "Sea Journey" during the Gary Burton Quartet's opening set last night at Off the Wall Hall.
"A significant portion of the wealth of this country lies in the major agricultural producing areas of Kansas and California." He said KU students were sitting in a base of agricultural power and there was no information about the people who might leave the state.
reality尽然 they realize that agriculture is a multibillion-dollar industry," he said.
"KU students aren't understanding their
through courses like his "the town and the gown" gap could be bridged, Dutton击
Dutton said the University should take a deeper look at rural community development resources, something he might not have been done sufficiently in the past.
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