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a crowd never would have known that Mike White was anything but a clairinet player. Everyone at Paul Gray's place. Place Saturday night was far removed from politics and the arts. He had a very unique presence.
Arts & Leisure
Executive White jazzes at night
By STEVE FRAZIER
Executive jazz
Reviewer Mike White leads a double life.
By day he is Jackson County Executive, the highest elected county special in the state.
But on weekend nights he often exchanges the power and responsibility of government with others.
saturday night, white was enjoying that freedom at Paul Gray's Jazz Place, 928 Massachusetts St., playing Dixieland and jazz. We watched and soared embellishment above and around the rest of the ensembles. Thoughts of government and politics were far away as he swayed easily with the music, his eyes flashing like a camera, that anail from the right side of his mouth.
"There was a period when I devoted my life to music, he said durant a break. "I ate his dinner." I went back.
"Music is a disciplined thing," White said. "If you've got the basic talent and are willing to put in the discipline, you can make it.
"I'm a disciplined guy, and I knew I had the basic talent. I could have made it."
the basic talent. I could have made it." But he said that music is a single-minded profession. He said other interests helped to draw him away from a life of jazz, in addition to a discovery he made when he quit college to become a full-time musician.
"After I'd been on the road about two
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Musical phoenix rises once more
The promoter last night was Brian McKinney, whose copy off the Wall Hall jubilantly celebrated its first anniversary Friday and Saturday nights with sell-out
It seems the old opera house at the corner of 7th and Massachusetts streets just hates to bore people. It's the third structure that's been built on that corner, and since it opened in 1912, it's been a theater, movie hall, ball, live entertainment hall and a disco.
As if there wasn't a moment to waste, the Opera House has already seen its first live music show just two days after Bugsy's exit. Last night about 200 persons showed up for a hastily-scheduled concert featuring the Lost Gonzo Band, a former backup band for country rock performer Jerry Jeff Walker.
Three businesses have run the hall since 1959, and now it's changing hands again. As of last Friday, Bugsy's is gone, and 7th Spirit, Inc., which owns the building, will now supervise the hall's offering of events like its disco or live entertainment.
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Bugsy's sudden departure was caused by internal problems within Bugsy's, said Sue Brown.
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the building, he said, has been tentatively named the "Opera House." He said he didn't plan many drastic changes, perhaps some minor changes in interior design, but he emphasized that he would try, through this year's schedule more live entertainment in the hall.
performances by Cole Tuckey on Rye.
"This is an important building, it's a historical building," McKinney said. The Opera House was the focal point for downtown businesses concentrating on attracting not only the college crowd, but also the town's "nowies" – the local residents – as well.
After the Gonzo Band concert, McKinney explained why he would promote shows in a building that had been his main competition for the past year. The Opera House simply offered listeners a better music hall than Off the Wall Hall, he said.
He should know. That same crowd helped
build Off the Wall Hall, mainly to have a place to hang out and listen to good live music. And the music has been good—everything from a Chicago blues series to a classically-oriented Oregon group to a down-home funky Mike Finnegan.
"I'm happy to see the town respond to the music it formed," said McKinney.
All parties involved with the Opera House have set no definite plans as to how much live music or disco will be offered, and what kind of audience night indicated a common feeling to bring good live music back to the Opera House, and that's exciting in itself.
White said most of the people in the band drank all day.
States for classical musicians along with the money earned by successful popular musicians, White said it might have been different.
months—sleeping on the bus and never being in the same place two days in a row—I decided I didn't want to have a life like that."
"Of course I'd take it. That total situation would be ideal."
Jazz Place. Two years ago he was elected Jackson County executive, a county position comparable to a city manager. He has another two years to finish his first term.
Gray said, "White doesn't play much in kansas City because people recognize him."
White said that he usually performs on tenor saxophone in a progressive jazz style, but that he enjoys Dixieland clarinet as a novelty.
White finished his law degree at the University of Missouri at Kansas City, then began practicing with a Kansas City, Mo. law firm. He was elected to the Jackson County legislative body by a margin of one vote, according to Paul Gray, owner of the
"Ips, I look around at the big names in "jazz, the guys who were supposed to be really making it, and I saw they weren't making much money."
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HOLLYWOOD (UPT) — "A Star Is Born" and "Network" won most of the movie awards and ABC call but swept the television awards in 1977. Golden Globe award ceremonies.
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Barba Streisand and Kris Kristofferson won for best performances by an actress and actor in a musical or comedy; "A Star Is Born" was named the year's best motion picture music or musical; Paul Williams and Keenny Ascher won for the best original song, composed by Streisand with lyrics by Williams, won as the best original song.
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ABC won seven of nine television awards, with the series "Rich Man, Poor Man (Book 1)" capturing four of them. In other awards, "Rocky" was named the best motion picture drama, and Peter Finch, who died of a heart attack a few weeks ago, was named the movie drama for this portrayal of a television newscaster in "Network."
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