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University of New Orleans ScholarWorks@UNO Wavelength Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies 12-1980 Wavelength (December 1980) Connie Atkinson University of New Orleans Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uno.edu/wavelength Recommended Citation Wavelength (December 1980) 2 https://scholarworks.uno.edu/wavelength/2 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies at ScholarWorks@UNO. It has been accepted for inclusion in Wavelength by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UNO. For more information, please contact [email protected]. WORLEANSMUS I REc $~~ ~ ~(. .,~(' $0~· ~ ~.9 ~ ~~lo, ~ '· ~~~~~ \ .wy 0 Johnny · Vidacovich Fess's Drummer Is a J z Master Also- Bruce Springsteen Albert Collips Huey 'Pia~ ' Smith B.B. King . ,--- \ DECEMBER 1 980 VOLUME 1 NUMBER 2 - Headphone be heard a not felt. 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If you can get some of the people anyone who's heard him play--and in another performer on the stand, in Tyler's to listen to you, then, hey, this town plenty of people have. sometimes that might freeze you up. you're doing all right. Vidacovich is a virtuoso jazz drum It's hip to use a good percentage of By the third set, you usually separate mer who works, one of the few pro humor so you can communicate with the men from the boys, when it comes gressive jazz musicians in New the other musicians more readily, and to li stening. It 's the listeners who Orleans who always has a gig. Along make the music happen easier. come in. Either that or the really with bass-man James Singleton, he's Humor's very important in any kind outrageous drunks--but it tends to be the driving force behind most of the of art, especially an art where it's go more listeners in the latter part of the ensembles that play at Tyler's; on ing to take more than one person to evening. Saturdays he's sometimes sitting in do it. What did Mose Allison think of with Ramsey McLean and the Lifers I don't know a lot about music, but playing at Tyler's? at Faubourg. In the ten days before I there are other elements that you can He seemed to be happy the whole talked with him, he'd played dates respond to, that you can key yourself time he was playing. He doesn't say with Joe Henderson, the tenor sax toward. Humor works that way for much, you have to just get the feel player f rom San Francisco, and with me. There are nonmusical things that ings from him, and the feelings I got Mose Allison, whom Tyler's had you can pick up on ... were on the bandstand. He had brought in fora three-night stand. An Right, definitely. Communication is momentum, so I guess he was com album he played on last year, Pro the secret word. Anytime you can res fortable. He didn't like all the fessor Longhair's Crawfish Fiesta, pond to anything, communication cigarette smoke. recently won the W.C. Handy A ward has been made. That's the first thing We'd never worked together as a as the best blues album of the year, you're supposed to do in playing band, we were just backing him up, and Vidacovich has just wrapped up music, is communicate. so he had to help us a little bit too. He work on Ron Cuccia's new album, It's hard. The audience has to com a lways had a smile on his face. He which is due out in January. At municate back. You're putting in a always sounded really good to me, so thirty-one, this bantam rooster of a hell of a lot of input, and if the au I would im agine that he was liking it. drummer, John Vidacovich, doesn't dience doesn't respond, it's like piss Do you work with him through need to crow; his accomplishments ing in the wind. humor? testify eloquently to his ability. Do you feel that way a lot? Mose's material is very humorous; it But the man can talk. "Just toss Well, barrooms can make you feel has that primitive kind of beat, basic your coat on a drum," he told me like that. Sometimes you feel that the beat, but then Mose doesn't approach genially when I showed up at his audience isn't really listening. But I it that way. He wants you to break house on one of his few nights off. don't feel like that a lot. Usually the things up; he wants it to sound Breaking out a boule of wine, there's people out there listening to like maybe just a tune in two, but Vidacovich held forth for a couple of you. I've been lucky enough to play he'll say, "Well, it's in two, but play hours, kept on after my tape had run good gigs. Lately I've felt that people like three on high hat, and maybe out. He had a good deal to say about li sten when we play.