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1 Page 10 THE BATTALION THURSDAY, JUNE 4 1981 ' --m* p?* Jazz show features top names United Press International NEW YORK — A few months ago. Miles Davis, thS' "reclusive jazz trumpeter, began thakiiig fre quent live appearances:.— at the doorstep of George Wein’s Man hattan townhouse. “Miles lives around'^the corner and he used to come in here to chat and spend an hour, recalled Wein, who founded the Newport Jazz Festival and remains its guid ing creative force, “titles is a tough guy but I took bis toughness and threw it right back at him. “I call it a love-hate relation ship, Wein said, chuckling. “He trusts me and — within the struc ture of Miles Davis —1 trust him. But&you have to remember that Mfles is a very volatile indi vidual.” Finally, after a few un announced appearances by Davis at Wein s office, the producer popped a question that had been on his mind for quite some timi£. “I made him an offer he couldn’t refuse,” Wein said. And that is why Davis — who shuns concerts and makes albums under isolated conditions rivaled by those required of TrappiSt monks — is making his first live appearance in nearly five years, as a featured artist in one of the 48 events that constitute the 1981 version of the Newport Jazz Fes tival. Only it isn’t really the Newport Jazz Festival anymore. Wein announced in April that the festival — which was born in Newport, R.I., and migrated to New York City in 1972 — will now be called the Kool Jazz Festival- New York. The “Kool” represents the co-sponsorship of the Louisvil le-based cigarette company. When the festival still had “Newport” in the title last year, though Kool already was a co sponsor, more than a few critics grumbled about the commercial^ ism the cigarette makers injected into the proceedings — hawking free packs of their product at con certs, placing a huge cKool” ban ner behind the musicians onstage, inducing masters of ceremonies to shill for the smokes in their pre performance patter. “Call it whatever you want,” Wein told one critic who said he would continue to refer to New port as Newport in his coverage of this year’s 10-day event “People really don’t believe it,” Wein said, “but without Kool as a sponsor, there would be no jazz festival. ” He conceded that “a lot of peo ple hate cigarettes” but said the numbers are simple: a budget of $1.14 million and advertising costs of $200,000. Without Kool to foot the ad bill and other costs, the festival would have “to sell more than 90 percent of its tickets just to break even; With Kool’s help, the break-even figure is closer to 80 •percent. The entire gate from one of this year’s concerts will go to an un usual cause — unusual for any musical event because it isn’t the producer’s pockets. Wein will stage a Carnegie Hall show June 29 called Musicians for Each Other, the proceeds of whicfewill go into a special musi cians’ fund. ^Sometimes musicians don’t have the few hundred dollars they need,” Wein said. “It’s not for the AAirt, not for composing or whatev- AJr. It’s for the personal needs of the.feusicians •— to pay a kid’s tui tion, for sickness and emergen cies, ” The festival, jazz musip’s answer to football’s Super Bowl and the Wimbledon tennis tour- .,nament, annually draws the top ’perfermers in jazz. This year’s ver sion runs June 26 through July 5. Along the way, there are sejMkr rate salutes to: drummer Art Blakey by alumni of his various “Jazz Messengers” aggregations; the late singer Dinah Washington by Lionel Hampton and Nancy Wilson; Art Tatunj, the blind pianist who will be remembered by Billy Taylor, Dick Hyman and other keyboard artists, and Atrumpefer Roy “Little JaZz Eldridge. “Coin to Chicago, scheduled For Thhe 27 at Carnegie, is billed as a ‘Moving portrait of Chicago’s great jazz legacy,” featuring Chi cago-born musicians ranging from Dixieland trumpeter “Wild Bill” Davison to avant-garde saxophon ist Anthony Braxton. Singer Vlel Torntg, saxophonist Gerry Mulligan and pianist GeOrge Shearing will honor Man hattan’s “Tin Pan Alley,” home from the 1920s to 1940s of a- .-crowded cluster of songwriters’ offices. And the festival will pay tribute to women in jazz in two events-i^- “Women who Blow Their Ovyn Horns” and “Wild Women Don t Have the Blues. 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South — 3,294 for 55; 738 for 70. East — 24,395 for 55; 1,388 for 70. Some reasons given for the 55 mph choice: — “ft will save gas and lives of humans and animals," David Mentz, Bainbridge, N Y — “I hate the word death and there’s too much of it going arotind from accidents in cars," Amy Judd, Lynchburg, Va. — “If we go 70 mph often it would waste gas. And when we grow up we won’t have any gas left," Ahiy Kick, Cottonwood,, Calif. V Among reasons for the 70mplrCcoice: — “If you have an emergency. )'ou won's able to get there faster," Darret Slc^y. Sb port. La. . — “I want 70 mph on the straigpwaysanijH Uni mph or lower in the mountains and in the® HOLLYVVO and towns," Jayne Wilson, Paradise Valley,.lr,Kd on Elvis — “Because if you go 70 you could getw^Llfs possible you were* going faster," William Thomas,HHesleymani mond, Ind. 3|$: Bngtheater . Fifth and sixth graders participating in SehiKpai it enthu tic Newstime’s poll favor spending moneyJiIn the fou space exploration. Out of 8,000 responses, 4,500 answered js| 3,500 “no" — a ratio of 4 to 3. ■Iff Some reasons from those favoring spending space forays: — “If we have food problems, we Couldyr.| [Too bad, b< food in space. And if the earth is oyerpopuk way the best we could go to space," Ray Johnson, Salisburimes. It deals M o. / Mbnal basis — “Because we might find a-new sourcfiHgnmgy si( energy," Julie Tiord, Owensboro,TCy. The movie Among reasons from those opposed; ■Branhv nun — “Because poor people should comelitlom Parker - death overrules curiousity," Laura Kerr, Hi» |ley Estate stown. Pa. — “I think we should solve our dton probli first. It’s almost a race with the Russians to who can win," Mary Jones, N. LjflR ; Jlock,[Ai — “Because people are more iinpbrtant, ! nee Dillinger, Maple Gruy.F Miim FtflWfe-T has bee formers, T 1 jal record been rer It appears t ds and sue! induced 1 “This is E is singing almost Bobably tl 1 is the ne’ tkstage, at ies and or Women invade worlds ofj male-dominated politics United Press International WASHINGTON — The word “politician” may still evoke the cartoon stereotype of a jowly, 'cigar-smoking mail barking into a telephone in a cluttered backroom office. But like many such images in a changing society, it has been overrun i>y reality. “Politician” today also means Ann Lewis, Nancy Sinnott and . Daryl Glenney, none of whom will be found puffing a cheap stogy or chewing out ward heelers. M ore likely, theiie women will be scan ning the; ^computer readout of an altitudinal survey, ordering up a hundred or so telephones for a vo ter blitz or advising; a candidate for Congress how to fclean up his act. They are three of the best and the brightest among a growing number of women who have brokenirvto the traditionally male- dominated field of professional politics. They are not, orcourse, the first women in the small world of cam paign management and political organization. WonVeh have'been key figures in campaigns for some years. In 1972, Jean Westwood took over the gavel of the Democratic Na tional Committee, the first woman to preside over a major U.S. poli tical party. Two years later, the Republicans caught up, electing Mary Louise Smith chairman of the GOP National Committee, a post she held for three years. Both of these women were fully qualified to head national political parties, moving up after many years of experience in both state and national campaigns and intra party organizational work. Miss Sinnotf Wj&ecutive ctor ofVthf jjfepfflSlcan sional CampaiewCbmmiltK organisation thgL'jyorks k with both GOffiBhcumbrali challengers fortBemocratk in the battle fgtwtej House two years Sh% [pjoied upl job after twu-ye;^ as thecc tee’s political‘difeetor. .bout an losed of 1 before” /e really ; e [see him lends. Most It in the b in Mem] "e disco |ing early nly copy Itr; have But because neither had made a living at politics, both probably were regarded more as hardwork ing, talented afnateurs than as professionals. Three top pros: Lewis, Sinnott and Glenney are anything but amateurs. They are very different people and some times competitors, but the atti tudes and knowledge they bold in common make clear that they also are colleagues in a very special ized line of work. Ms. Lewis is political director of the Democratic National Commit tee, in charge of both of the party’s campaign work and its internal political process, such as national convention delegate selection. She is the first to handle both of these areas for the national com mittee. United Pi Ms. GIenneyps.a free lam jALBUQUE tical consultant “hired): king refuge' the parlance of tj is president bipartisan eon$ sional bolls vtW associations ahd their staffs andi paign technique I'trade. LlfS blue jeai IipaignV pm by peo] liujn offr| pip comp; Unions lumbers in: an invitat his war-tor pntempl a wry < lano Del and exp I here arc nianj/ more 'V° IK mrj lev ({ [professional polities, induim f orces ) numbea- who.syA associatccLf |he ^ Ms. Glenney s'Qijhipaign | oww h ot j K — SusAn Bryarra&oliticaldinC q ie t of the Senate , Fepublican(*L enn j es ' paign Committed Nancy Br4 0 ( i resses a Minnesota stage senato r “gut eve helped, elect tig* first G0P®y|” ernors of tV‘oei^ury inleel yy s ] lor ( Louisiana; Jill Bugkley, seven whose 1980 cottffi'essional were among the lew Demo® :ks politic; ed States ick togethe the nation to steA the GOPSpd h e near ] D. R. 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