UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Thursday. April 17. 1997
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Joey Bloom / KANSAN
The KU Jazz Ensemble 1 plays in front of the Kansas Union. The jazz festival will be held today, tomorrow and Saturday at the Lied Center. The ensemble performed for passersby yesterday.
Jazz Festival turns 20
By Amanda Arbuckle
Kansan Staff writer
A handful of critically acclaimed musicians will jazz things up at the Lied Center for the next few days.
The 20th annual KU Jazz Festival begins today and continues through Saturday. It attracts more than 70 high school and university big bands, combos and vocal jazz groups. The groups perform and receive instruction from jazz educators from throughout the United States. The festival also brings in guest jazz musicians who perform each night.
This year's guest performers include Toni Tenille and the Pancho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band.
Dan Gailey, director of jazz studies, is responsible for coordinating the annual festival. He recruits instructors for the daily clinics and recruits guest artists for the evening performances.
Clinics, taught as lectures, are free and open to anyone. Gailey said the clinics were an aspect of the educational mission of the jazz studies program.
"My first priority is to students," Gailey said. "In Lawrence, we don't have world-class musicians
dropping in every week. We want students and audiences to learn while being entertained."
Gailey said that jazz's improvisatory nature made it unique from other music forms.
"Jazz is heavily based on the blues and has its origins in Black America," Gailey said. "It's an inherently American art form."
Jeff Harshbarger, Newton senior and jazz musician, said he particularly lked how jazz music enabled him to communicate on a different level.
"There's a certain vibe you can't get out of other music," Harsh-barger said. "It never sounds the same way twice."
Harshbarger will be performing with some of the guest artists tonight and Saturday.
"I get a chance to see if I can perform on their level," he said. "It will be cool to share a stage with all those guys."
Danny Rojas, Garden City junior,
also will perform with the guest
artists and is eager to hear Pancho
Sanchez play.
"I'm a very big fan of Latin jazz," Rojas said. "It has a whole different feel — a different groove."
tonight, tomorrow night and Saturday. Tickets are on sale at the Lied Center Box Office.
Grammy-Award winner Toni Tenile performs tonight. She has performed with big bands, symphony orchestras and at jazz clubs throughout the world. Her father was a big band singer with Bob Crosby and the Bobcats.
Guest artists will perform at 7:30
The Pancho Sanchez Latin Jazz Band and Mike Metheny will perform Friday. Sanchez is a well-known conga player and his band is known for its jazz and Latin rhythm connections.
Metheny is a Lee's Summit, Mo,
native, and trumpet/flugelhorn
player. Metheny was named "Out-
standing Brass Player" at the
annual Boston Music Awards.
Gary Foster, Bobby Shew and Carl Fontana will perform Saturday. Foster, a KU alumnus, is a woodwind artist. He has performed with Barbra Streisand, Mel Torme, Rosemary Clooney and Toni Tenille. Shew is known for his versatility and talent as a jazz trumpeter. Fontana, veteran of big bands led by Woody Herman, Stan Kenton and Lionel Hampton, is recognized as one of the greatest jazz trombonists.
Legislature ends session
Veto session set for April 30,issues left to be settled
TOPEKA — As the gavel sounded Friday and members of the Kansas Legislature prepared to enjoy their time off before they come back April 30 for the four-day veto session, many legislators said they felt their work was far from over.
By Ann Marchand Kansan staff writer
This year's session tackled many issues, including school financing, higher education financing, gun control, abortion and taxes.
"I think it's time to take a break," said Sen. Alicia Salisbury, R-Topeka. "We've accomplished a lot."
But Rep, Tom Sloan, R-Lawrence, said that he thought the legislature had been less than attentive to fulfilling some of the state's needs and that some measures taken could harm Kansans down the road.
"We still have not addressed state
employee salaries," he said. "I am somewhat troubled at the size of some of the tax deductions we're making. I want to ensure that our long-term and short-term needs for education, water quality and the disabled are met."
Sen. Karin Brownlee, R-Olathe, said that she felt the biggest accomplishment of the session was passing the tax cut. The House and Senate worked in tandem to reduce property taxes from the current 35-mill levy to 33 and 31 mills, respectively, during the next two years.
But Brownlee said that the issue of local option budgets, which allows individual school districts to levy taxes and give extra money to schools, had yet to be resolved.
"We reached agreements earlier than expected on tax cuts and school financing," he said. "Usually, these are issues we resolve in the closing hours of every session."
Rep. Troy Findley, D-Lawrence,
said that overall he was satisfied
with the results the Legislature
had produced so far.
"We still need to handle the local option budget issue before we adiourn." she said.
But there still are issues to resolve when the Legislature comes back at the end of the month for a veto session. This is the time to complete unfinished business, and it is the last chance the Legislature will have to send legislation to the governor this year.
The state is required to begin implementing the federal welfare reforms, which involves overhauling several state social services. If the state does not comply, Salisbury said, Kansas risks losing up to $29 million in federal funds.
Salisbury said that issues still awaiting resolution included welfare reform, abortion and gun control.
Gun control and partial-birth abortion have been perhaps the most divisive issues of the session. Both chambers have passed laws which permit concealed weapons and deny partial-birth, or third-trimester abortions.
Republican Governor Bill Graves is expected to veto both measures, which would send them back to the Legislature. The veto could be overruled by a two-thirds vote of the House.
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The Multicultural Resource Center Presents The Spring Faculty Development Seminar
Special Guest:
Dr. Peter Park
Co-Founder (with Paulo Friere) of The Center for Community Education and Action
"The Call Of Education: Transactions In Ways of Knowing" An Open Discussion on Participatory Learning and Pedagogy
Tuesday, April 22, 1997, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Alderson Auditorium, University of Kansas
Your support is vital for the success of this program Sponsored by the Graduate Student Council and the Multicultural Resource Center