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CRANBERRY) BROOKLYN, N Y, gALL MAJOR CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED I IFree door to door pick up service tor dinner customers |={Quick Delivery A S L O A Cocktails %u00a7Take Out Service %u25a0 Sunday Brunch mH I E E E M l l E E l E E i E i E E I E J l i E I U E H i ^ J l / E M E i l S ^ i lPHSJsilllXJazz is the Subject of an Unusualr : ____ II 11 I CXI L . A d i 1 1 I I Ii i i L IUI A A/viasier c o u rs eBY DOROTHY WHITMORE%u201cThe character of a musician comes outin spontaneous improvisation,%u2019%u2019 said jazzman Slide Hampton to the 15 studentmember-band at the finale of their JazzMaster Class at Long Island University onMay 20.The band, a standard jazz ensemble, ofpiano, drums, guitar and bass, plus foureach of saxophones, trombones andtrumpets, listened intently to their worldfamous artist-in-residence, who complimented them on finishing together.%u201cIn a big band,%u201d he added, %u201ca guy to be agood soloist needs support to stretch out andbe spontaneous.%u201dGetting this support for his own arrangement of Wes Montgomery%u2019s %u201cBack to Bach%u201dwas piano player Laurent DeWilde fromParis. New-waver DeWilde really enjoysstudying at LIU. %u201cThere%u2019s no comparisonbetween here and Paris; it%u2019s much betterhere,%u201d he said. Although not interested ingraduating, DeWilde is a professional musician who will travel anywhere in the worldto play jazz.However, traveling only to Soho was whatwas required for the 70 students in this JazzPlus program for their final exam. The exam, of course, being a concert on Sunday,May 18 at the Jazz Center. Participating inthe concert, along with Hampton, was program director, Peter Yellin, a professionalsaxophonist.Yellin initiated the program for musicmajors at LIU%u2019s Brooklyn Center five yearsago with Jack Chaikin, former music chairman and Martin Mueller, newly-appointedchairperson. Yellin teaches theory to thestudents as well as sitting in as the fourthsax.Another saxophonist, a tenor, was tallMark Gatz, from Flatbush, who is on a fullscholarship. Gatz chose LIU because, %u201cmyparents didn%u2019t have the bread to send me toJuilliard.%u201d Although he%u2019s interested in everycourse LJU has, his true love is jazz. Heleads his own quintet, Axiom, whichspecializes in %u201cfusion.%u201d Fusion, a combination of jazz and rock was popularized byMiles Davis. Gatz%u2019s group has played inManhattan at the Lone Star Cafe.No loner though was bassist Pam Huston,one of five women instrumentalists in thecourse (the other women are vocalists).( Bostonian-bom Huston has been playingbass for four years. She quipped, %u201cit%u2019s funbeing in a band with all these guys.%u201dHuston doesn%u2019t care whether she%u2019s with abig ensemble, or a sm all group, as she alsoplays in student, Reggie Workman%u2019squintet. Jazz Plus features eight smallgroups%u2014combinations of quintets and sextets%u2014plus two big bands and a classicalbrass ensemble.Not just interested in jazz is trombonistGregg Spense, who graduates in 1987. %u201cFora professional musician, jazz is too limiting,The advantage o f an artist-inresidence over a guest artistis that you are free to bem ore expressive.too narrow,%u201d he observed. However, he wasvery enthusiastic about having Hampton asa teacher. %u201cHe has a wealth of information,and is a walking university him self.%u201dHearing this, Hampton laughed. Hebelieves the advantage of an artist-inresidence over a guest-artist is %u201cyou%u2019refreer to be more expressive, and there%u2019s norules to hamper you.%u201dHampton became a resident artist in 1976in Venganen, Switzerland, after playingwith many bands, including his twofavorites%u2014Dizzy Gillespie and Art Blakey.From Venganen he went to Cologne andTubingen in Germany and continued histeaching in thelStates at Indiana Universitywith stints at NYU and City College.Enjoying the students%u2019 enthusiasm, he added, %u201cthey%u2019re trying to learn like we didwhen we were young.%u201d Never studyingmusic formally, he grew up in Indianapolisin the late 30%u2019s and was surrounded by jazz.%u201cIt was a great town for music, and I wasinspired to play the trombone by J. J.Johnson,%u201d whom he believes significantlycontributed to the trombone%u2019s repertoire.Hoping to increase their own repertoireswere drummer Gene Calderazzo, and19-year-old Rob Reddy, a first-year student.As Reddy shyly commented, %u201cJazz is thething we folks love m ost.%u201dPage 14, THE PH O EN IX, June 19, 1986