late Sixties The story line finds Joan
hitting on a younger guy to celebrate
this meeting of the minds they put an
other dime in the lukebox to celebrate
rock n roll The song is contagious but
easy to hate
Most of the material on this LP is too
heavy handed to be fun There is no
hint of humor or any other emotion
displayed in these ten tracks Even
Nag a tune that is supposed to be
funny, recieves Jett s blase treatment
There are three remakes on this al
bum None of them stands up to the
original or adds anything to enhance
the song or brings out anything
worthwhile in Jetts performance
Crimson and Clover is a had rehash,
Bils and Pieces falls flat on us face,
and the piece de resistance in bad
ideas is Little Drummer Boy" — how's
that for a remake'Jett has a very hard
time singing this she can t seem to
sta\ on the melodv line
Donna Ross
Molineaux was a particular standout)
and the Word of Mouth band
—Randy Brecker. trumpet Bobo Mint
zer. reeds Don Alias, congas, percus
sion 1'eter Erskine, drums. Dave
Bargeron. trombone tuba Peter Gor
don French horn — to play a program
that was as diverse as it was grandly
exciting
On Monday, Invitation. the
Bronoslav Kaper movie theme that has
become a jazz standard, was given a
brisk reading, and behind potent vilos
from Brecker and Mintzer, Pastorius
took charge playing swift repeating
phrases, walking those notes with a
high-pitched tone or placing chortled
smears of the melody followed by
single ringing notes that stood out like
shimmering stars
The 1945 Miles Davis classic Donna
Lee served as the bebop opus of the
night Opening w ith Bargeron s mul
tiphonk tuba solo, where he would
play one note while simultaneously
humming another to produce yet a
third tone, the very complex melodv
was then played by Mintzer (bass
clarinet), Brecker. Bargeron and the
leader Mintzer s solo was exotic, as he
had attached a digital delay device
which repeated what he had just
played in a cascading manner, creating
a fuzzv sound as if he were playing
underwater
Perhaps the two pieces from the
U orc/ of Mrnitb album— Liberty City"
and Three Views of a Secret —best
indicated Pastorius promise as a com
poser and arranger "City" is a cousin
ot Teen Town, a number featured
with Weather Report, a zippy little tune
that builds and builds, with melody
lines from the full band interweaving
splendidly During the shout chorus,
the whole ensemble rocked, filling the
3000 seat hall with wave after wave ot
bright orchestral sound, achieving a
Basie like glow
Pastorius closed with "Fannie Mae,
recalling the days he spent on the rock
circuit with Wayne Cochran and the
C ( Riders Though his vocal wasn't
strong, it was delivered with the same
bubbling spirit that had made the con
cert spectacular
Zan Stewart
PENTE