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9 SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 24, 1969 THE COURIER-JOURNAL TIMES. LOUISVILLE, KY. ArElF GROOVES Rock? Jazz? Music, Not Label, Is the Thing Mining And 'Shining Courier-Journal reporter-at-large David Ross Stevens next Sunday takes and in-depth look into Kentucky's strip mining operations three years after passage of the Strip Mine Reclamation Act. He looks at the situation today to see what changes have occurred. Also in the August 31 Courier-Journal Times, West Kentucky bureau reporter Don Walker relates the reminiscing between a former moonshiner and a retired government agent who were adversaries years before.

These and other interesting and informative stories appear in next Sunday's edition of Wht Cmmtr-9mroal Times Where there's something for everyone By BRUCE .0. TEMPLE, Louisville Times Staff Writer any of these four albums is to bring with to judge them for what they are, and not you a readiness to confront new musical for how they differ from what you're experiences ami a willingness to attempt used to. IT'S FITTING that Duke Ellington, one of the greatest artists this country has produced, was among the first to say it: "Jazz" and other labels traditionally attached to popular music are no longer relevant; it's now modern American music. To try to go much further in defining terms is to risk drowning in a sea of semantics without ever immersing oneself in the music. Musicians are leading explorations away from categories and toward new sounds.

The best young players, with full understanding of where they are are crossing boundaries and mixing elements of musics we used to call "jazz," "country and western," "classi-. cal" and "Indian." The result is and who needs a better phrase? modern American music. At its best, the alternatingly piercing and pastoral music of today is at least as moving as the classic performances of the old categories. FOR SEVERAL DECADES, jazz has I been a wellspring for popular music. You could almost count on imitations of the SUN'S ANNUAL AUGUST or nr.

r. JW(4MWfMW nr Before but also lacking in the raw spontaneity those same groups often exude. Because this is studied music, it demands concentration, even to determine on close listening that four very talented young men, through existential lyrics and reverberating crescendos, often seem to be putting the listener on, with gleeful abandon. "What's New Bill Evans With Jeremy Steig" (Verge V6-8777). Flutist Steig, best known as Jeremy of the now disbanded rock group Jeremy and The Satyrs, joins pianist Evans's trio to recreate a marvelous show broadcast last winter in the CBS "Camera Three" series.

Steig, who is given to exploring the full range of sounds, musical and otherwise, which his instrument can produce, blends lyrically with the romantic Evans style. Even Steig's few spurts of rumbling air through his flute seem tempered to fit the calm format. Coming from an opposite pole, Evans plays more aggressively than is his wont in both his melodic statements and his rhythmic attack. The material ranges from ballads to a free-form version of Miles Davis's "So "Paul Horn Inside" (Epic BXN 26466). Horn, another flutist, came to the attention of jazz buffs more than a decade ago as a member of the so-called "West Coast school" of playing.

That style stressed soft tones and understatements, in contrast to the harsh ramblings of much of today's jazz. For this record, Horn journeyed to India's Taj Mahal, which, because of this album, must now be considered one of the most intriguing recording studios in the world. Horn put on tape slightly more than a half-hour of improvised flute notes that flutter and echo haunt-ingly through the domes of the famous mausoleum. On several tracks, he is joined in his meanderings by an Indian who offers appropriately native-sounding vocals that seem like invitations to worship, "The New Don Ellis Band Goes Underground" (Columbia CS 9889). Trumpeter Ellis has been way out ahead in the attempt to translate rock and country-and-western music into the idiom of big-band jazz.

And he has had his problems. Ellis, like Hensley, seems to deal extensively in the semi-serious put-on. But while "The Masters of Deceit" lean more toward the serious, Ellis is prone to push his wit to the point that it becomes a bad joke. This album treads a little more gracefully than several of Ellis's most recent efforts. Only on a few occasions does this 22-piece band resort to burlesque.

Mainly, the orchestra jumps from influence to influence, always with a gigantic, blaring sound. For example, Ellis's own "Goood Feeling" dips into soul, classical baroque and ricky-ticky dance music. The mere title of another tongue-in-cheek original, "Bulgarian Bulge," further demonstrates the breadth of the material. The important thing in approaching JO 1 1 'iMt LA I iQM l1 rrsn Pianist Tom Hensley Tl fhfPl Full height freezer, holds up to 234 lbs. Two ice trays with big storage bin Juice can dispenser 7-day Meat Keeper Vegetable bin, removable egg bin No defrosting in either section-ever Rolls film I -'Axfr out on wheels Just 64'' high 301-2 wide.

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Four new records offer a revealing survey of how jazz has cast itself into the melting pot. Although each album represents a distinctly different approach to modern American music, they all share one characteristic: They reflect the striving of academically trained young musicians to evolve new sounds to express what they believe are new experiences. "The Masters of Deceit Hensley's Electric Jazz Band Synthetic Sym-phonctte" (Vanguard VSD-6522). Superb musicianship is at once the strength and the weakness of this quartet led by Tom Hensley, an Indianapolis pianist who has been featured at several recent Louisville Jazz Council concerts. The group combines improvised solos with an intensely electric sound and a bedrock beat.

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