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reservation Hall Jazz Sand shares music
THE BATTALION Page 5
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1978
By DAVID BOGGAN
Battalion Staff
■zz It is a term synonomous
Louie Armstrong, Bourbon
e t and New Orleans,
fexas A&M University received
(W n sweet taste of jazz Wednes-
nightas New Orleans’ Preserva-
Hall Jazz Band shared an even-
of music with a large, enthusias-
f0W d in Rudder Auditorium,
performance was, in a word,
rtaining.
Review
It was entertaining because there
jsimple purity to jazz that is not
„ ^ Id in other forms of music. It is a
S0T1CE ’ Fd-clapping and toe-tapping pur-
—j A straight-legged trousers,
jte shirt and necktie purity. Jazz
nploymeatij mple honestmusic_
one Mn.L, ilien banjo player Narvin Kim-
broke a string on his instrument
1 ng the concert, there were no
- k-up banjos. Kimball simply sat
IME mand fixed his banjo while the
5eds3shai! !r members of the band impro-
tact collec; j ar0 und him.
Louisiaial ] on „ Kimball were Frank
(, plus ex#
inbolthaui
Demond, trombone; Cie Frazier,
drums; Percy Humphrey, trumpet;
Willie Humphrey, clarinet; Allan
Jaffe, tuba and James Miller, piano.
Members of the Preservation Hall
Jazz Band played from their hearts
— truly the only way jazz can be
played. Whether they were playing
solos or as a group, they played with
feeling. They created a togetherness
that filled the auditorium. Using a
little imagination, the listener could
have been sitting on the wooden
floor of a crowded Preservation Hall
enjoying the heartbeat of the Cre-
sent City.
When banjo player Narvin
Kimball broke a string on his in
strument during the concert,
there were no back-up banjos.
Kimball simply sat down and
fixed his banjo while the other
members of the band improvised
around him.
And the Preservation Hall Jazz
Band did play the music. In-
tersperced within the toe-tapping
jazz numbers were a variety of lazy
riverboat melodys, slow-moving
blues tunes and even a little piano
boogie woogie. It did not matter to
the audience that many of the songs
were unfamiliar; all were enjoyed as
evidenced by the frequent-standing
ovations the band received.
Using a little imagination, the
listener could have been sitting
on the wooden floor of a crowded
Preservation Hall enjoying the
heartbeat of the Cresent City.
Vocal numbers including “Hold
That Tiger” sung by Percy Hum
phrey and “Lisa Jane” sung by Wil
lie Humphrey also added to the
band’s appeal. The best vocal was
sung by Kimball on a song called
“Memories.” The banjo player’s
uivering voice was reminisent of
singers heard on the Victrola in
movies like “The Great Gatsby.”
Twice during the concert Willie
Humphrey performed a soft-shoe
dance much to the delight of the au
dience.
The audience, however, was wait
ing for the inevitable. They had
come to hear the one song that is the
trademark of New Orleans jazz. And
the Preservation Hall Jazz Band ob
liged with “When the Saints Go
Marching In.”
As Percy Humphrey sang the
familiar tune, Willie Humphrey led
other members of the band off the
stage and into the audience, where
he invited a standing, clapping
crowd to join in a march through the
isles and onto the stage with the
band. The audience was indeed in
the number when the Preservation
Hall Jazz band went marching in.
As was printed on the cover of the
band’s program, “The effect upon
the audience is devastating.”
Another three plead guilty
to GSA gift fraud scandal
United Press International
BALTIMORE — Three more
of the 18 men indicted on fraud
and kickback charges involving
the scandal-ridden General Ser
vices Administration have
pleaded guilty to conspiring to
defraud the federal government.
Tuesday’s appearances by two
former GSA managers and a
Navy department official brought
the number of those who have
pleaded guilty to eight in charges
involving the GSA’s self-service
stores.
Last week five other men —
two executives of Hilles As
sociates Inc. of Westminster,
Md., and three GSA store mana
gers — pleaded guilty to charges
listed in the September indict
ment of the 18 men.
The latest guilty pleas were
made by former GSA managers
Roger Wilt of District Heights,
Md., and Johnnie Sykes of Oxon
Hill, Md., and Eugene Proctor
of Washington, an official with
the Navy’s Bureau of Medicine
and Surgery in Arlington, Va.
Federal prosecutors recom
mended a maximum six-month
prison sentence for Wilt, a
nine-month term for Sykes and
60 days in jail for Proctor in plea
bargaining arrangements. No
sentencing dates were set.
Prosecutors said Wilt and
Sykes received gifts from Hilles
after billing the government for
folders never delivered by the
company. They said Proctor
signed receipts for 40,000 hang
ing folders that were never deli
vered in return for gifts.
The indictment named current
and former managers of the
GSA’s self-service stores and
other federal employees who
purchased supplies for their
agencies at GSA stores.
Marine bacteria
jollution-control
possible
agents
)ns.
GALVESTON —Preliminary re-
fts from marine biologists at
IS fOfc 1 N' are suggesting that
Trine bacteria isolated from the
p Texas outer continental shelf
(be effective oil pollution control
ders, if *
‘Species isolated have exhibited a
i COOl'Ped growth in the crude oil,”
’ M Dr J.R. Schwarz. “After the
, etc.) ■teria ha e attacked and broken
f 11 the oil, we analyze the re-
00%/ ping oil to determine which frac-
1 Tpt K have ^ >een utilized.
1 c Ihe bacteria we are using were
IU8 lte ^ from an area of the Texas
' it not influenced to date by oil
duction. The results help us
wthat natural bacteria are capa-
.»•»« |of dealing with minor oil pollu-
££) i, if it should occur in the fu-
„ e,’ he said.
Knowledge of the degradation
of oil is imp rtant to marine
ogists and the oil companies in-
sted in beginning production in
part of the offshore area, ” added
Steve Alexander, another
books loi irober of the research team.
Ihe Moody College team is
Sided by Schwarz and includes
nder and Steve Schropp.
lacteria used in the study were
Jated from sediments taken from
_ ? outer continental shelf in 1977
kets to Bait
microscos
during research expeditions funded
by the Bureau of Land Manage
ment. The isolated bacteria have
been kept in a laboratory at the Fort
Crockett campus of Moody College
for future studies.
The laboratory studies have at
tempted to duplicate the Texas
offshore environments — tempera
ture, salinity (salt content) and nu
trient content.
It appears that bacteria deal with
oil rather quickly in laboratory cul
ture, Schropp said. The degradation
of the oil can be accomplished in a
matter of days, but Schropp noted
the crude oil is not completely de
stroyed. The bacteria will use a cer
tain portion of the oil’s chemical
makeup. The rest will be utilized
much more slowly.
The researcher said studies such
as these all add to a better under
standing of the effects of oil on the
marine environment, in which man
is basically a stranger. Many new
areas of the Texas offshore seas are
being considered for oil production,
and there is no reason to go in blind,
he said.
Texas A&M University’s Or
ganized Research Funds were used
to conduct the laboratory study. Or
ganized Research is a state approp
riation to fund practical research of
benefit to all Texans.
This is the first bacteria study of
this kind at Moody College
"We expect the development of
hydrocarbon analysis capabilities at
the college to allow further research
in this area. It opens up a new area
of study for the college,” Schropp
said.
All crude oil is not the same.
Crude oil from Louisiana is different
from crude oil from Texas. The bac
teria native to a particular part of the
sea environment will react diffe
rently with varying types of oil, the
scientists emphasized.
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