Wednesday, September 21, 1977
daily ncbraskan
page 13
Lincoln jazz ensemble plays
'heyday of big band' sounds
By Charlie Krie
The big band sound is back and Lincoln
has a jazz orchestra.
John Tavlin, one of the seven members
of the board of directors for Lincoln's
Neoclassic Jazz Orchestra (NJO), said the
jazz ensemble is "sort of a revival of the
heyday of the big band."
Tavlin and two board members, Jon
llischke (chairman of the board) and Dean
Haist, took, a few measures rest to talk
about the NJO before practice last Sunday.
All three also play in the NJO so the talk
was fast before they had to rehearse.
"We're putting out a good contempor
ary big band sound," according to Haist, a
UNL School of Music graduate. "We're also
constantly trying to overhaul our reper
toire." Tavlin explained that touring groups can
play the same numbers at each perfor
mance because performances are for differ
ent audiences. However, the NJO has to do
more work and preparation since Lincoln is
its major concert area, Tavlin said.
"Well have to learn, or to prepare, 40
tunes when we only use about 13 for a
Oops, it's crepes
In the Sept. 19 issue of the Daily Neb
raskan, the food review of the Dug Out
Restaurant incorrectly reported that the
spinach and ham, beef and mushroom en
trees were soups. They are crepes. The
price of a fruit crepe was incorrectly label
ed at 89 cents.. It is 59 cents.
concert," Tavlin said.
But-Haist said the group works on new
selections for variety and is also able to
play "what the orchestra is excited -to
play." ,
Hischke, director of the orchestra and a
former graduate assistant in ' the UNL
School of Music, said the NJO has to be
flexible and have variety. . .
"If not, you'll choke yourself off,"
. said Hischke. "We have to function as an
orchestra," Tavlin said. 'The whole idea
behind this is for this band to be the"
jazz equivalent of the Lincoln Symphony
Orchestra." -
NJO is "one of the few, if not the only,
resident professional jazz orchestras in the
country," Tavlin said.
He explained that it allows the NJO to
supply a novel music form and conduct
other public services like an annual jazz
festival for high school students.
Now that the NJO is in its second year
of operation, the band members are pull
ing together, too, Tavlin said. He said there
has been a slight, but "not tremendous,"
turnqver rate.
"We're able to get upper-level perform
. ers," Haist said.
"There's no big profit for anyone in the
band," he said. "We need assistance from
the public."
The "we", is the non-profit corporation
. that supports and backs the orchestra, he
explained. But the group still hasn't gone
out to solicit public ' funds, Tavlin said.
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Welsh genius obscured
By Doughs R. Weil
Loyalty can be stretched only so far.
Bob Welsh, during his days as gui
tarist for Fleetwood Mac (1971-75),
was a genius. Since his departure from
that band he has manufactured three
albums-two under the flag of heavy
metal band Paris and his latest, a solo
effort entitled, French Kiss.
music review
From these three post-Fleetwood
Mac Albums, it is obvious that the gen
ius Welsh once possessed now is ob
scured by a loss of identity, loss of
direction and loss of talent. While
Welsh has a few good moments on
French Kiss, the bulk of his
performance is about as worthwhile as
a brother-to-sister pucker.
Throttling Welsh's attempts as a solo
performer are the same things that
strangled his work with Paris. The
key to making any musician a success
is to mobilize the strengths of the
musician.
In the Fleetwood Mac period Welsh
turned in consistently brilliant guitar
work. Unlike Peter Townshend, Jimi
Hendrix, or Eric Clapton, Welsh's in
strumental strength lies in his knack for
eking, out feeling and mood .with the
simpliest forms of . guitar play. Bob
Welsh is not a dexterous guitarist.
. On French Kiss, Welsh attempts to
do anything but communicate feeling
with his guitar.
French Kiss, starts off with a Fleet
wood Mac remake, "Sentimental Lady,"
a 1972 Welsh composition that orig
. inally appeared on Bare Trees.
Although the new "Sentimental
Lady" is likable, it is vastly inferior
to the simple and more relaxing original
' version!
"Easy to Fall", "Hot Love, Cold
World" and "Ebony Eyes" all contain
some hint of Welsh's former musical
coherence. However; even the high
points on French Kiss are marred by
overuse of lilting synthesizers appar
ently present to inject some mood into
the music.
The most dismal point on the record
comes on "Outskirts," a song with
lyrics approaching the creativity of Thin
Lizzy stealing from Bruce Spring-
. steen. The music is nice-led by Welsh's
rather surprising bass guitar-but the
inaneness of the style and outright
formula theft , is supremely disappoint
ing. The 1 high point of the album is
(literally) short and sweet. Coming on
the twenty second bridge between
"Dancin' Eyes" and "Danchiva," Welsh
finally allows himself to feel the music.
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late.
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