The Times from Shreveport, Louisiana • Page 54

2-D FrL, Apr. 7. 1978 THE Shheveport TIMES it's friday! it's friday! it's friday! it's rid ay here to go after dark derson, folk-rock guitarist. No cove charge. Casual to dressy.

NightCaps RAMADA INN: 3925 Monkhousl Drive. Hours: 11 a.m. to 2 a.nl Monday through Saturday. Enteri tainment starts at 9 p.m. Cass an! Company.

No cover charge. Casual! MARDIS GRAS LOUNGE: Chef Vous Motor Hotel, 5150 Monkbousl Gary Don Berry and John Steele (a Boston transplant to the South) manage to put forth some melodious lead and rhythm guitar combinations. Steele has a very interesting guitar made by Ed Murry in Boston. Called the Ed Murry Lightning, it is made of African teak and ebony and has platinum wiring throughout. It set Steele back $1,500 and gives back every penny in pure good sound.

Lefty bassist Ray Berry likes pulsing rhythms and gives strong support to the rest of the group, and the drummer mixes well with the other three. They manage to do cover versions of other people's work pretty well. My only reservation about the group is that they don't play very much original music. Drive. Hours: 11 a.m.

to 1 a.ml Entertainment starts at 9 p.m. Prodi By JOHN ANDREW PRIME The Wishing Well Lounge in Bossier City re-enters our lineup this week with guitarist-singer Kathy Guillotte. The club is under a new management and kind of fools you when you first see it on Barksdale Highway. Outside it looks quite literally like a typical Bossier City bar, but inside it looks like a more elegant club. It's done up in dark wood and dim lights and the new proprietors have put up some pretty amusing signs which concern credit.

If you've got the time to check the club out, do so. The Sunshine Company is now playing at Vittorio's, but wait for a rainy day to see them. The night I saw them they seemed kind of tired. The drummer seemed a bit out of step with the rest of the band, and they all appeared to be waiting for the break. At least that was what I thought after the music finally liv- igy Two.

No cover charge. Casual tJ dressy. KJOE GOSPEL HAYRIDE ened up near the 15-minute breather. The guitarist seemed a little bored with the whole proceeding; the chick singer sang a bit off-key, and her voice warbled a bit too much for today's pop music. She did have some good moves, however, and she does have stage presence.

As a final note on that group, the bass player seemed to have his act together played mainly pop music and somehow managed to get the people in Vittorio's dancing. The Berry Brothers from Refugio, Texas, are now featured at Johnny's Cimarron Club. The four-man group plays a wide variety of medium to hard rock 'n' roll by artists as diverse as Steve Miller, Jimi Hendrix, Foghat and Z.Z. Top. Guitarists Broadmoor Theater, 4026 Youre Drive.

This week's guests will be thl Lewis Family, The Grace Singers! Cindy Brown, Greg Kendrick, Sonn? Bernard, Cliff Grimsley and th. Gospel Hayride Band. Host is Dou; Davidson. Admission is $1, with 1 1 Scenes percent going to mission work. muuljin kuuiic: vjj commercii LOUISIANA HAYRIDE: Located St.

Hours: 6:30 p.m. to 2 a.m. TuesJ day through Saturday. Entertain) ment from 9 p.m. Tuesday through! Friday and from 8:30 p.m.

Saturday if e's come a long way Bill Bush Combo. No cover charge Casual to dressy. BAR ESCADRILLE: Chateau Mol tor Hotel, 201 Lake St. Hours: 11 a.m. Foe us to 2 a.m.

Monday through Friday and until 1 a.m. Saturday. Entertainment from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 9 p.m.

to 1 a.m. Monday through Saturday. day through Saturday. Jim Williams Tuesday and Thursday nights, Madelyn Dillard Wednesday, Friday and Saturday nights. No cover.

Casual to dressy. WHISKEY RIVER: 618 Commerce St. Hours: 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. Monday through Saturday.

Entertainment starts at 9 p.m. A Train. $2 for men, $1 for women. Casual. JOHNNY'S CIMARRON CLUB: 205 Texas St.

Hours: 10 a.m. to 2 a.m. Monday through Saturday. Entertainment starts at 9 p.m. The Berry Brothers.

Cover charge. Casual. BLUE'S LOUNGE: 4001 E. Texas Bossier City. Hours: 4 p.m.

to 2:30 a.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Entertainment from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. Tuesday through Friday and until closing Saturday.

Dawn Glass, Clyde Creel and David McGee. $2 cover charge. Casual. CAPTAIN'S ROOM: Captain Shreve Hotel, 408 Market St. Hours: 10 a.m.

to 11 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Entertainment from 5 p.m. to closing. Helen Regan.

No cover charge. Jackets required. SANSONE'S CONTINENTAL ROOM: 701 E. Kings Hwy. Hours: 11 a sn.

to 1:30 a.m. Monday through Thursday, Friday and Saturday until 2 a.m. Entertainment starts at 9 p.m. South Wind. No cover charge.

Casual to dressy. SNOOPY PEANUT GALLERY: 622 Commerce. Hours: 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. Monday through Saturday.

Entertainment from 8 p.m. to closing Monday through Thursday, and from 9:30 p.m. to closing Friday and Saturday night. The Graves Brothers. $3 per couple cover on weekends.

Casual. DRAGON: 7500 Mansfield Road. Hours: 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Monday through Friday, and until 2:30 a.m.

Saturday. Entertainment from 8:30 "p.m. Friday and Saturday only. Johnny Bull. No cover charge.

Casual. TURF LOUNGE: 2132 E. Texas Bossier City. Hours: 5 p.m. to 2 a.m.

Monday through Saturday. Entertainment from 9:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday only. The Feedbacks. No cover. Casual.

LEE'S SIDE OF FIRENZE: 1846 Fairfield, Fountain Towers. Hours: 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Monday through Friday and from 8:30 p.m. to 2 a.m.

Monday through Saturday. Guitarist Lee Wright sings rock, pop and country. No cover charge. Casual to dressy. BAYER'S RED COACH INN: 639 E.

Kings Hwy. Lynne Conine, pianist, performs 6 p.m. to midnight Monday through Friday and 7 p.m. to midnight Saturday. No cover charge.

Casual to dressy. MISSISSIPPI RIVER COMPANY: 115 Texas. Opens at 11 p.m. Entertainment starts at 7 p.m. Ron An Mike and Joan Gintella.

No cover charge. Casual. north of Bossier City on Benton Road. Special guest this week is Roger Bowling. Also featured are Micki Fuhrman, Truman Lankford, Fast Eddy Sims, Perry LaPointe and the Louisiana Catfish Band.

Show starts at 7:45 p.m., dance at 10. Friday dance held at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $3 for adults, $1 for children. Casual to dressy. WISHING WELL COCKTAIL LOUNGE: 905 Barksdale Bossier City.

Hours: 1 p.m. to 2 a.m. Monday through Saturday. Entertainment from 8:30 p.m. to closing Friday and Saturday nights.

Kathy Guillotte. No cover charge. Casual. RIVER CITY MUSIC HALL: 8910 Linwood. Hours: 4 p.m.

to 2 a.m. Monday through Saturday. Entertainment starts at 9 p.m. Friday the featured act is Doug Kershaw. Opening act Friday night and main act Saturday night is Butch Trucks.

Friday cover charge is $5.50. Tuesday cover is $2. Casual. VITTORIO'S RESTAURANT LOUNGE: Sheraton-Bossier Inn, 2015 Old Minden Road, Bossier City. Hours: 11 a.m.

to 2 a.m. Monday through Saturday. Entertainment starts at 8:30 p.m. The Sunshine Company. No cover charge.

Casual. KROCK O' CHEESE: 6537 Line Ave. Hours: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday.

Entertainment from 7:30 p.m. to closing Tues- Entertainment in Las Vegas The following performers are scheduled during May at entertainment places in Las Vegas. Information is provided by the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce and is subject to change without notice. Check individual hotels or theaters for reservations. CAESAR'S PALACE Diana Ross, April 20-May Frank Sinatra, May 4-10; Paul Anka, May U-17; Ann-Margret, May 18-June 7.

FOUR QUEENS Lou Styles and the Stylists, April 18-May 22; Gathering, May 23June 19. FRONTIER Wayne NewtonDave Barry Jive Sisters, April 27-May 24; Bobbie GentryLarry Storch, May 25-June 21. LAS VEGAS HILTON Helen Red-dy, April 18-May Lou Rawls, May 2-8; Osmonds, May 9-29; Liberace, May 30-June 19. MGM GRAND Engelbert Hum-perdinck, April 20-May Rich Little Cleo Laine, May 4-24; Dean Martin, May 25-June 7. RIVERIA Shirley MacLaine, April 27-May 10; Debbie ReynoldsPat Cooper, May 11-24; Ben VereenJoan Rivers, May 25-June 7.

SANDS Danny Thomas, April 26-May Alan KingLola Falana, May 10-24; Wayne NewtonDave Barry Jive Sisters, May 25-June 14. SHOWBOAT Non-chalants, May 2-14. CLUB WESTWOOD: mo Green wood Road. Hours: 10 a.m. to 2:30 a.m.

Monday through Saturday. I By JOHN ANDREW PRIME Danny Johnson has come a long way from the days when he, bassist Jay Davis and whoever their band Axis' drummer was at the time played clubs on the Bossier City Strip for a share of the door take or $30 a night. Danny lived the "Hollywood-drug- store-discovery" fairy tale when rock star Rick Derringer came to town to hear Vinny Appice (ex-Vanilla Fudge, Beck, Bogert and Appice drummer Carmine Appice's brother) playing in what was then and still is the current lineup of Axis. Derringer came to get a drummer for the band he was forming, but he was so impressed with Johnson's playing that both were signed on. Now, after four albums with Derringer and tours backing groups like Aerosmith, Boston, Foghat and the Blue Oyster Cult, Danny Johnson is back.

He and Appice have rejoined with bassist Davis and Axis, once one of the hottest three-piece bands in a two hundred-mile radius, is back and ready for the world. Johason, 22 years old, married and the father of two children, was in town recently visiting I caught up with him at Steve Tim-mons' record shop on East Kings Highway and talked with him about his and the band's future. Danny comes to Shreveport "as often as I can. I have a big family here, and that includes five brothers and two sisters. I think this town is pretty good, myself.

It FEELS good here. And the music scene here, I think it's really good. "We've got a management deal with what we consider a good management company our manager used to manage Alice Cooper and is now also the president of our record company which is called Hologram Davis and Johnson have been the heart of the group for the seven-plus years it has been in existence. "I never planned on staying away from Jay," Danny played together for so long that when we're together I feel it's one playing out we've had some drummer problems, but we finally got Vinny down here." Johnson has been playing 10 years if you believe the bio his management company put out, or since the fifth grade, according to the man himself. "I could have had four more years playing time but the guitar teacher I had my second grade moved away." He's been influenced by Hendrix.

"Yeah, Hendrix," he said, in response to the query. He paused for a moment or so, as though deep in thought. "Some of the people who have influenced me are still living but I think they're dead." He laughed and added, "But then a lot of people might not think I'm alive." Some people sure think Danny Johnson is alive. He's got a scrap-book as thick as a New York telephone directory, full of press clippings and fan mail, and the last press clipping in the volume notes that the Derringer group fell apart as a result of the loss of Johnson and Appice to Axis. Danny Johnson might just be the biggest native rock 'n' roll export this area ever gave the world, and he himself gave the reason without realizing it, at the end of our recorded talk.

"You know, I've always seemed a little dingy, if you know what I mean, because I've been so into the guitar to where I'll be doing something and I'll be thinking about what I'm into or what I need to do to polish something. I'm lost in the guitar." 'Times photo bv Ken Acklin) Freddy Yawn and the Showmen. No cover charge. Casual to dressy. LOST AND FOUND CLUB: 3721 Greenwood Road.

Hours: 4 p.m. to 2 a.m. Tuesday through Friday and from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. Saturday.

Entertainment starts at 9 p.m. The Vann Company. $1 cover charge. Casual. ROYAL ROOM: Menu Restaurant, 417 Milam St.

Hours: 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Entertainment starts at 9 p.m. Thursday through Saturday.

Danny and Jerry. No cover charge. Casual. TROPICS: 2205 E. Texas, Bossier City.

Hours: 10 a m. to 2 a.m. Entertainment starts at 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday only. Ray Smith and the Good Timers.

No cover charge. Casual. FIRESIDE PUB, T.S. STEAK AND LOBSTER INN: 820 Shreveport-Barksdale Hwy. Hours: 11:30 a m.

to 12:30 a.m. Monday through Saturday. Rich Giglio 8 p.m. to midnight Monday and Tuesday; Keith Stegall 8 p.m. to midnight Wednesday and Thursday, and 8:30 p.m.

to 12:30 a.m. Friday and Saturday. No cover charge. Casual. Danny Johnson Records, a new label.

"Also, we recorded a jam with a friend of ours who's with Aerosmith, right before they headlined at the California Jam. We recorded it at Cherokee studios in Hollywood," he said. Johnson, Davis and Appice will be recording material for an album by the time you read this. They already have two songs done and might have a single out soon.The tunes are "Brown Eyes" and "Bandits of Rock." "Brown Eyes" is an old Axis tune. When Johnson joined Derringer the first thought of most of his fans was "What's going to happen to Axis?" The answer? "Nothing but a short break, fellas." Homey atmosphere for leisurely dining omen succeeding in music field The Hungry Reporter JB's Chop Shop Address: 3839 Gilbert Hours: 9:30 a.m.

to 10:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday. Closed Sunday. Menu: Sandwiches, salad and daily specials. Prices: Very inexpensive.

What the stars mean: None Fair to poor ft Good ft ft Very good ft ft ft Excellent max 4 4 1 6 I 11 1 ft rtrtt tuX Pots simmering on the stove, plants in macrame hangers and handmade round table tops sitting on whiskey kegs give a homey look to this neighborhood restaurant which has opened up in recent weeks. Owned and operated by a young couple, J.B. and Sherri Bryant, the restaurant is located at 3839 Gilbert in Madison Park. JB's is a small informal spot where the music might entice you in even if you hadn't planned to dine there. To order, you sidle up to the counter-made of a piano crate-and can rest your foot on the brass rail.

Picnic-type tables made of rough-hewn but finished lumber are placed against the windows for perfect people-watching while eating. A room divider is also of rough-hewn lumber, and a fun accent piece is a board hanging from the wall which has been turned into a bottle holder. Plants, plants, plants are everywhere. Stained glass window panes, eclectic groupings of pictures, and interestingly -shaped driftwood add more atmosphere to JB's. (The restaurant is an example of what can be done in a little space with lots of imagination.) The food was hearty, filling and hot stick-to-the-ribs kind of fare.

JB's specializes-two kinds of sandwiches, a salad, and a different special are available each day. It's not an extensive menu, but what JB's does is done well. And prices at this charming little restaurant are inexpensive. The daily specials are: Monday-spaghetti; Tuesday-chef salad; Wednesday-gumbo and rice; Thursday-red beans and rice; Friday-chicken and dumplings, and Saturday-gumbo. The choice of drinks includes soft drinks, beer, tea, coffee or milk.

That's it. But that's good. Informality is the theme for this neighborhood restaurant. Be prepared to dine on plastic cartons (An important part of the busi- ghetto theaters and dance halls. Theoretically a black band, the Sweethearts usually included a couple of white girls, to round out the personnel, and even had to hire a male sub now and then for an ailing woman.

The Sweethearts, having very few places to turn, clung to their chairs in that orchestra for abysmally low wages. Because of the shortage of suitable personnel, they often sounded ragged and out of tune. Today countless young women have studied all the instruments, as well as composition, at schools like Berklee College of Music in Boston and North Texas State University. When they get out into the world, they have nothing to fear but male chauvinism, and there's ample evidence that this is on the wane. Before they even took up an instrument, of course, most women had to deal with the parental discouragement that has always been a major deterrent.

Typically, pianist Marian McPartland recalls that she was urged to enter a ladylike profession such as nursing, and that in taking up music she became a rebel. In the quarterly publication Paid My Dues (Journal Of Women and Music Ellen Votow Miller recently pointed out that "a boy can tuck his sax under his arm and hitch a ride to New York or Nashville or Los Angeles. He can sleep in the bus station and hang around little bars and clubs until he finds some pick-up work with a group or in a studio." Aggravating this situation is the old taboo: it's not feminine for a woman to blow a horn. By the same token, presumably, it isn't manly to be a ballet dancer or an interior decorator.) Consequently, most of the women who have enjoyed a degree of acceptance are singers or pianists. Jazz historians are familiar with the prevalence of female pianists in many of the early New Orleans jazz bands.

In Chicago during the 1920s pianist Lil Hardin Armstrong be- By LEONARD FEATHER The Los Angeles Times The role women in the male-dominated field of music, and particularly in jazz, has long been beset by the same kinds of difficulties that plagued blacks who tried to gain a foothold in a white-powered world. For years the barricades were all but impenetrable; as a result, many blacks (many women) were discouraged, by their families or by apparent logic, from preparing for a career that offered no hope. Consequently, when a few openings belatedly appeared, they were not equipped to seize the opportunity. Perhaps they had not bothered to learn the various doubles (sax players in the lucrative studio jobs have to play clarinet and flute); or possibly they had not bothered to learn to read music fast enough. So the men contractors who did the hiring could claim that they were not discriminating; that there simply weren't enough qualified blacks (or women).

A Catch 22 situation if ever there was one. Another analogy between racism and sexism is the tendency of both forms of prejudice to lead to self -segregation on the part of the victim. All-black bands, no longer socially mandatory, continue to exist because some black musicians prefer to keep to themselves. All-girl bands have been seen off and on for decades, partly because of the problems involved in landing employment with a male orchestra but largely on the basis of novelty value. Ina Ray Hutton's swing band in the 1930s, hich numbered several talented soloists in its ranks, enjoyed a few years of moderate success.

Later, presumably because of the difficulty in finding replacements, she switched to an all-male ensemble. The black woman, with two strikes against her, had a rough road to negotiate during the days when bands like the International Sweethearts of Rhythm trod the boards in Marian McPartland, 1961 photo ness is the call-in, order and takeout trade. JB told us that he had made 60 salads for a closeby business the day before). The chicken gumbo-be careful, we did find a bone or two-was filled with bell peppers, okra, tomatoes and rice and plenty of chicken. It was served hot, hot.

Accompanying the dish was a small lettuce and tomato salad-tomatoes were a bit on the ripe side for our taste-and a roll sans butter. Cost was $1.75, not includ-ing the drink. Tea was pre-sweet-ened and flavored with lemon we would have preferred a little more lemon, but it was sweet enough. There were no dessert offerings on the menu. Hours are still rather flexible, but are generally 9:30 a.m.

to 10:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday. Closed Sunday. Monday, there's a dart tournament at 7:30 p.m., according to a notice next to the dart board. Two stars for a this neighborhood restaurant where you can eat leisurely (Hungry Reporter and Companion took two hours) and not feel hurried or order and take out.

brilliant young saxophonist and flutist, says: "My husband and I are living in Concord, both looking for casual jobs as a saxophonist; but he's the one who always gets called first." The Parks were married when both were members of Stan Kenton's reed section. Unlike many women musicians (Margie Hyams, the vibraphonist who played with Woody Herman and the original George Shearing Quintet; Terry Pollard, the pianist with Terry Gibbs), Park has not allowed marriage to connote the retirement or semi-retirement that has ended so many promising female careers in jazz. Once they have broken the barriers, a number of women in the past decade have found music to be very profitable. came Louis' second wife and, as a far better schooled musician than he, exercised a strong influence on him and wrote some of the songs for which he was given credit. The first woman to make a worldwide impact as a jazz instrumentalist was Mary Lou Williams, the pianist and composer-arranger who rose to prominence during her 193M2 tenure in Andy Kirk's Clouds of Joy, one of the great unsung bands of the swing era.

Now almost 68 and a member of the faculty at Duke University in North Carolina, Williams took an all but anti-feminist posture during a press conference at the recent Women's Jazz Festival in Kansas City. Beyond doubt, the male bandleader reacts differently when a female is recommended for a job in his band. Mary Fettig Park, the.