AIRWAVES A Service of Continuina Education and Extension - l5i1 University of Minnesota , Duluth Vol . I ~U8 J er 6 April 1980 ............... ___ ·· ..=---... ----.;,-- ":" =----7'-- I :::- - John Ziegler and Mighty Joe Young in the W.D.T.H.-studios Interview inside 2 ... Reoa¾ to the Listener Engineer We have completed interviewing the candidates who have applied for our engineering position, but we will also PUBLIC RADIO CONFERENCE NPR be advertising and interviewing at the conference. We hope to announce who As I write this, I am preparing to leave National Public Radio is in the process we will hire by next month. for the Public Radio Conference in of making it possible for us to become Kansas , City. It will be my third members of the network, and I will be LAC COURT OREILLES conference, and it promises to be the working with them to make that most exciting yet for WDTH. The happen. Our congratulations to the LCO radio conference is ostensibly the annual project, which will receive funding meeting of the National Public Radio CPB from C.P.B. beginning in April. Bob member stations. But as such it is the Albee, and the members of the Board of largest gathering of non-commercial The Corporation for Public the project have worked very hard on stations in the country, and it is where Broadcasting will also be at the this, and we are looking forward to the the national-type business gets done. conference, and I will be discussing completion of the station and it's first Here is what I hope to accomplish: WDTH with them. broadcasts sometime in the next year. ALEUM REVIEWS Df Jorn Ziegler - "Kenny Burrell: Live At The VIiiage fruition. "This," said Burrell when I which is a real surprise, as that tune Vanguard" (Mu•• MR-5218) interviewed him in September of 1978, usually serves as a funky-blues-take-42- "ranks as one of my major choruses improvisers delight. Never disappointments, never having worked one to be too type-cast, Burrell does it This is the latest release in a line that with the great Duke Ellington." again. numbers close to 40 albums as a leader and literally hundreds as a sideman by Admiration of the vast legacy Ellington Kenny Burell. Having recorded with left behind is obvious, as can be seen (or Burrell has the ability to find these all- virtually every important jazz artist of heard) on almost any record Kenny has too-neglected tunes that make you the last 30 years: from Coleman recordoo or any performance he has wonder why they haven't been done Hawkins to John Coltrane, from Dizzy given whether it be solo, trio, or larger many, many times before. In talking to Gillespie to Bill Evans, and on, and on, ensemble; several compositions by Burrell I asked what it was that he and on. Mr. Burrell has collaborated Duke. In fact, a noted jazz critic has looked for in a tune: Beautiful melody, with the very best in the business. correctly observed: Ballads, Blues, and interesting harmonic progression, a the music of Duke are the three good total sound? " ..... All of those Being from Detroit in the 40's and 50's ingredients that you can hear in any things plus that intangible element that where clubs like Baker's Keyboard Burrell performance. makes a tune stick in your mind and Lounge showcased some of the biggest won't let you stop thinking about it". names in jazz, and where aspiring " Live At The Village Vanguard" has all musicians could see and hear the bands three in abundance. A medley of two This album was recorded live so you of Count Basie with the likes of Lester music also helped, as Kenny wanted Ellington tunes "Don't You Know I can feel you're right there at Max Young and Herschel Evans, had to be more than anyting to play the Care" /"Love You Madly" is done with Gordon's Village Vanguard where the an advantage to a young Kenny Burrell. saxophone and become another exquisite care just the way you would warmth and creativity just flows from His peers from that city are so Coleman Hawkins. expect, with the reverence for Duke but this wonderful artist as he interacts with numerous that I could fill a whole page with his own interpretation. Burrell almost clairvoyant precision with listing people like Tommy Flanagan, For economic reasons he settled for a seems to make even the most un-bluesy bassist Larry Gales and drummer the Jones boys (Elvin, Thad, and guitar and went about the business of tune just drip with soul and blues Sherman Ferguson. Hank), Milt Jackson, Paul Chambers, learning to play so well that his first feeling, most notably here on "Second etc., etc.. And coming from a family recording experience was when he was Balcony Jump" and "Willow Weep For Talking about (or writing/ reading where everyone played some style of only 19 years old with Dizzy Gillespie and John Coltrane as they cut "Tin Tin Me". An old Dizzy Gillespie tune about) this recording is only a prelude Deo" and "Birk's Works" for Dizzy's "Woody 'N You" is given the best to the listening, which you can do on Dee Gee label. His evolution from this treatment I have ever heard (the tune Monday evening April 14 as we feature Airwaves is a monthly publication of time has been remarkable even though reportedly was written for Woody "Kenny Burrell Live At The Village Herman). Finally, Nat Adderley's WDTH-FM, the public radio station at at 19 he was posessing a sound very Vanguard on Jazz Expansions the University of Minnesota, Duluth. A distinctive and unique. He absorbed the classic "Work Song" is taken solo, beginning at 8:00 p.m. yearly membership in WDTH costs just literature of the greats that went before $20. Membership entitles you to receive him such as Django Reinhardt, Charlie "Airwaves" -mailed directly to your Christian, and Oscar Moore (Nat home. "King" Cole's long time guitarist) and 1340 Arrowhead Rd. Write or call us at University of combined his own personality to form a Duluth, Minn. Minnesota, Duluth, 130 Humanities sound all his own. 558 l l Bldg., Duluth, Minnesota 55812, 218-726-7181. Duke Ellington, when asked about the 724-4994 inclusion of a guitarist in his orchestra, WDTH STAFF is reported to have said that (with the exception of Django) the only man he Station Manager •..• Tom Livingston would consider would be Kenny Program Director ••.•.. John Ziegler Burrell. The fact of the matter is that ., Asst. Program Director • Paul Sc~iu )))) Duke even wrote music specifically for ..______________ 1(Ju' ,,::::!.,~ Engineering •....•..••• Peder Nelson Burrell, but circumstances never Seniors Project ••..••.. Jean Johnson permitted the association to come to AIRWAVES STAFF Layout .••••••....• Xitty Kavanaugh ~ioe>.At.. Vf 1-1-A&E Deborah Colman the Northland's 25 5UPf.ltlOR St. mBC &sound giart W. _The University of Minnesota is WHERE You'LL F'INP committed to the policy that all persons shall have equal access to it's programs, SliOW•l)~O MANY (OUN"fRI;~ facilities, and employment without UNli'ER regard to race, creed, color, sex. national 21a-m-11n origin, or handicap. ONE ROOf:' ••• :a-a11aur...-..... $Tor~AHi> ~J OUR FINE cover photo by Ted Heinonen IMf'ORTED CLOTHIN6~ 61FT!> 3 by John Ziegler "I've been around the blues a long time and have experienced various blues artists all over the world. One of the best I've ever know is Mighty Joe Young. They don't call him " Mighty" for nothing. He plays ·a " Mighty" guitar and has a " Mighty" tone, especially when he sings and plays the blues. As a producer, I've used Joe Young on many sessions, including " I Am The Blues". In fact, I use him every time I can get him". Willie Dixon (1974) When a man of the stature of Willie Dixon says that about anyone, you better believe it. A man originally from Louisiana, who found the blues in Milwaukee, had his head turned around by T-Bone Walker in Los Angeles, and finally found his home in the blues capitol of Chicago. Our cover story in this month's issue of " Airwaves": Mighty Joe Young. On March 7th Joe was in our studio for a live interview. The following is a portion of what transpired: JZ: The first thing I want to ask you even went to a music school for awhile. Jiffy Records. MJ: And from there to Billy Boy Arnold. about, because it caught my eye in I couldn't find anybody to teach me that learning about you,--you said: "People style. It did some good, not a whole lot, MJ: Right. always have this idea that blues singers but I did learn my guitar pretty good. JZ: You played with him for about two years al the Green Door and the had really hard lives and nothin' but And then I got me a bunch of records, JZ: And you still don't have a copy of Blue Flame and clubs like that. rough times." But you said: ''I've really and really got into it. that. had a pretty good life." JZ: I want to ask you if you remember MJ: Don't have a copy of it, never MJ: Right. MJ: Right. You know, my life as a kid when you were about 17 and you were heard the record, but I heard that the growin' up was pretty good. No, it's not livin' in California, and you used to record was released.