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...Republican hit list includes Majority Leader Jim Wright of Texas, Majority Whip John Brademas of Indiana, Caucus Chairman Thomas Foley of Washington, National Congressional Committee Chairman James Corman of California, Interior and Insular Affairs Committee Chairman Morris Udall of Arizona, and Ways and Means Committee Chairman Al Ullman of Oregon. The Vander Jagt committee has found formidable candidates to run against all of them, and is backing each of its nominees with $21,000 in campaign cash and advice on strategy, opponents' weaknesses...
Another of Vander Jagt's targets, Oregon's Al Ullman, 66, professes to be less concerned about his own fate in November than about what the new partisanship may do to the House. Says Ullman: "You get a little wary about personal relationships when people go for the jugular...
...Ullman has been hurt by making infrequent visits to his district in 1978 and 1979. He has owned no home in Oregon for 21 months, but is buying a condominium in Bend. He has also been damaged by advocating a national value-added tax, which is political poison in Oregon, where a sales tax has been rejected repeatedly in referendums. Insists Ullman: "I've totally abandoned...
...Ullman balances this torrent of abuse by including the perspectives of four maverick representatives of the music business. Management agent Maxine Gregg, who orchestrated Gordon's wildly successful "homecoming," claims that many jazz musicians could succeed like Gordon if they were willing to do some long-range career planning, but she concedes that a vicious cycle must be broken first...
...Ullman, who teaches English at Tufts and writes jazz criticism for The New Republic, has padded his book with stock appreciations of the recent dead-- Joe Venuti, Charles Mingus, Rahsaan Roland Kirk. These great artists certainly merit our attention, but Ullman's second-hand tributes east little light on the jazz life. The real meat of Jazz Lives lies in the words of its less celebrated subjects. Many readers will find most of the names unfamiliar, but none of them are second-rate, and they speak with authority and often with charm. Only remember that every musician in this book...