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Show 5 The Cool Gets Blown at Jazz Festival by Nick Snow it. l Salt Lake jazz musicians got to- gether Sunday to blow jazz for FeSvap firSt Invitaonal Jazz festival. Five groups kept things cooking at the Nettie GregVry Community Com-munity Center for 5 hour, pfay. Waltz," the third movement from San Francisco pianist Denny Zeit-lin's Zeit-lin's "Phoenix," and standards including in-cluding Basie's "Walk, Don't Run." Filling the third spot was the John Nuslein Trio and Millie Carter. Car-ter. Recently back from a Las Vegas record date and audition, Miss Carter and the trio kept things moving with songs ranging from "Fly Me to the Moon" to Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man." The trio, long a mainstay of Salt Lake jazz, took off on their own for the majority of their set. "It is easy to distinguish the solid piano sound of Karen Hernandez," said Board member Craig Hanson. 'Down-home' Sounds Furnishing more tradition "down-home" "down-home" sounds was the Bert Ken-dricks Ken-dricks Quartet. Kendricks, who was heard on early recordings by guitarist gui-tarist Howard Roberts, regularly makes things cook at the Jazz Hut on West Second South. Bringing things to a thumping close was the "New Sound" from Chicago, a quartet that provided audience members with a taste of the avtna-garde. In addition to paraphrasing thoughts by Mose Allison Al-lison on "Parchmen Farm," the group lent its avant-garde touch to the Gershwin standard "Summer time," and to a song dedicated to and identified with Billie Holiday, "Lover Man." Opportunity for Local Jazz The festival started months ago when Branch and drummer Andy Hernandez of the John Nuslein Trio mentioned the possibility of giving younger jazz fans in the Salt Lake area an opportunity to see local jazz in live performance. "Usually, jazz is being played at places which wont allow anyone under 21 years of age in," Branch explained. "For that reason, we were toying with the idea of a festival when Andy came up with the charity angle." The next week, Branch began plugging the festival on his weekend week-end shows and asked for a place in which to hold it. "I got a call a short time later from Leroy Chase, director of the Nettie Gregory Community Center, who offered us its use," said Branch. Next year's festival, he predicted, would be "even bigger and better." "We're also working toward something around the end of October Oc-tober or the bgeinning of November Novem-ber featuring a big-name attraction," attrac-tion," Hanson said. ing music ranging from the "down home" style of the Bert Kendricks Quartet to the avant-garde sounds of the "New Sound" from Chicago. The festival attracted close to 350 spectators, crowding the Western West-ern Salt Lake activity center beyond capacity. Admission proceeds went to the center for use in buying equipment. "One hour into the program," pro-gram," announced the chairman of the festival's Board of Directors, Rob Branch, "we were already discussing dis-cussing where we were going to hold it next year." Other Board members included KWIC announcer Craig Hanson, KSL announcer Wes Bowen, KUTV announcer Hal Zogg, and club-owner club-owner Mike Pillaris. Moffat Leads Off Leading dff the festival was the Jeff Moffat quartet, starting the proceedings in the mainstream. The 'Moffat group was followed by the Larry Jackstein trio, whose interpretation of Bernstein's "Some Other Time" reduced the audience to absolute silence. "Their performance per-formance could only be described as electrifying," said one spectator. "For a brief moment, I was in another an-other world during 'Some Other Time'." Jackstien and group also played an original composition, "Lazy : ) The cool swung and subtle mood reigned at the KWIC Jazz Festival Sunday. Here, the rhythm is being set to piano. |
