Music Notes

WCBN-FM at 89.5 will broadcast an hour's worth of Radio King at his Court of Rhythm, recorded live at the now deceased Savoy Club last month. The show starts this Saturday night at l0pm on CBN. . . Also in the band performance broadcast bag. WDET-FM will air a concert by Brazilian jazz vocalist Flora Purim recorded inside the Terminal Island Federal Correctional Institution in San Francisco, where Purim is serving a sentence for cocaine. Other musicians on the bill include Airto, George Duke, and Miroslav Vituous. That's April 2nd at 3 pm.

Brataxis. composed of former members of the Brat, Uprising, and DETROIT has a first single 45 with songs "Long Hard Road" and "Queen Floozie" In other Michigan band news, Scott Morgan, formerly of the Rationals and Lightnin' has put together a band with MC5er Fred Smith and ex DETROIT bass player Ron Cook, called Sonic's Rendezvous . . . Jazz lovers take note that Jazz Jams is presented every Saturday from midnight to 4 am at Trotter House on Washtenaw Ave. Admission ís $1, but musicians come in and jam for free . . . The Lyman Woodard Organization, who brought down the house at the recent Hill Auditorium Herbie Hancock show, is about to release their first album on Strata Records, called "Saturday Night Special."

Lament Dept.: The Savoy Club in the Shelby Hotel has closed, apparently due to the hotel chalking up $46,000 in overdue electric bills and other financial difficulties/neglect. It's really a shame, as the club was just getting off the ground offering one of Detroit's alternatives to the huge Cobo-Masonic-Ford-Olympia hard rock shows. In recent months the Savoy has featured Billy Cobham, Larry Coryell, Gil Scott-Heron, Sun Ra. Loudon Wainwright. and other similarly great acts that wouldn't be visible elsewhere in the Motor City. Some chance the club will reopen but that's just a rumor so far.

New Releases: Include the new Jeff Beck jazz/rock lp on Columbia. Beck will soon tour with John McLaughlin . . . Fantasy just released a two-record Lenny Bruce set. well worth it . . . Arista has a new Eric Anderson and the Headhunters without Herbie Hancock . . . Eric Clapton's new lp is out on Atlantic . . . New Chicago's out . . . Our thanks to the Blind Pig and Scrambled Suite who together raised $68 for the SUN at a much-needed benefit . . . Don't miss Gil Scott-Heron at the Union Ballroom April 7.