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Show Page Thirty-on- e The Daily Utah Chronicle. Thursday, December 7. 1978 Live jazz broadcast to enliven New Year's Eve In what may be the longest live nationwide jazz broadcast ever. National Public Radio's "Jazz Alive!" will present more than eight hours of live jazz on New Year's Eve, featuring an all-stlineup of jazz greats. the University's radio station, will begin KUER 90.1-Fthe broadcast at 7:30 p.m. with a Salute to Count Basic from Sandy's Jazz Revival, a club near Boston. Basic's drummer for the past 40 years, Jo Jones, will lead a group featuring Jay McShann on piano and Major Holly on bass, with vocals by a rising singer. Carrie Smith. A second group, including Al Grey on trombone, Jimmy "Nighttrain" Forest on saxophone, Don Patterson on keyboards, Bobby Durham on drums, and John Duke on bass will also play at Sandy's. At 10:30 p.m., KUER will switch to the Keystone Korner club in San Francisco to broadcast the Rahsaan Roland Kirk ar Jazz Festival. Trumpet plaer Freddie Hubbard and flutist Hubert Laws will lead a sextet. A quartet, featuring Don Cherry on trumpet, Dewey Redman on saxophone, Ed Blackwell on drums and Charlie Haden on bass, will also be presented. The San Francisco segment of the special broadcast will last until 3:30 a.m. jazz disc jockey Felix Grant will anchor the East Coast portion of the broadcast and Tony Batten, best known as producer of PBS-TV- 's Interface series, will anchor from San Francisco. Throughout the evening, the Jazz Alive! special will feature live and prerecorded comedy sketches, commentaries by authorities on movies, television, astrology, and other subjects and features on everything from how to cure a Well-know- n hangover to the history of "Auld Lang Syne." sound portraits of Count Basie and Rahsaan Roland Kiik will also be presented. A documentary of jazz highlights from 1978 will precede the live broadcast at 7 p.m. "Last year. Jazz Alii! revived a long dormant tradition when it presented Alberta Hunter. Helen Humes and Stanley Turrentine live from New York City," recalled Tim Owens, producer of Jazz Aliie! "In the 1930s and 1940s, live jazz was broadcast by as many as 20 or 30 stations in big cities on New Year's Eve. But no one here can recall a live nationwide network jazz hookup, broadcasting for eight straight hours. We hope jazz fans and music lovers across the country will follow us throughout the evening, because we're confident our celebration will add a lot to theirs." Pre-produc- ed te AS UU Programs Board wishes you a Merry Christmas Watch for Us in 1 979 oWOODY HERMAN, JANUARY 24o oRED CLAY RAMBLERS & COW JAZZ FEBRUARY 1 FLASH CADILLAC, FEBRUARY 24o AND DON'T MISS THE AFTER GAME DANCE THIS SATURDAY IN THE UNION BALLROOM ASUU STUDENT OMBUDSMAN The Campus Ombudsman is here to help students with problems on campus. Some of our services are: LEGAL REFERRALS can't give legal advice, but we can refer you to people who can. Mm & You THE GREAT CHRISTMAS PACKAGE SUB FOR SANTA' We GRADE APPEALS tell you if you have a legitimate case, and help you if you do. We can Our Office is in ASUU, in the north wing of the Union Building. 581-686- 6 CAMPUS DIRECTORIES AVAILABLE WINTER QUARTER' AND WE CANT WAIT FOR 79 ASUU WISHES "U" A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR |