Dale Anderson's Gusto stories

  Say hallelujah! Dec. 9, 1977  Brother Ted Fans Fires of Gospel             Roosevelt T. Johnson, better known to his listeners as Brother Ted, sits at a desk in the Saturday morning emptiness of the WUFO radio offices listening to tapes of sermons that will air the following day.           “I’m responsible for the entire Sunday programming,” he explains, “and Saturday until noon. We have a policy. We don’t allow soothsayers or guarantee prophets. I worked hard to get them removed. We had a lot of problems, but I was determined to get true religious programming, not pie in the sky by and by. If you’ve got a dollar, you’re blessed to have it. Most of these acts were just frauds and schemes.”           That policy came to the station when Johnson came there in 1968. He knew religion well, but his background is evangelical, not mystic.           As a child in Macon , Ga. , he accompanied his aunt, a Pentecostal preacher, to tent meetings throughout the countryside and was si

  The first of what turned out to be many cosmic shifts at Buffalo ’s best-ever music venue. Dec. 9, 1977 Nightlife The Tralfamadore Café           “Pardon our dust,” Ed Lawson quips as he holds up the edge of a burlap covering that’s being glued to the ceiling above the bar. The Tralfamadore Café is being remodeled for the first time since it was opened more than two years ago and the new look underlines the fact that the jazz club is entering a new era.           The change that touches the Tralfamadore deepest, though, is the departure of Lawson’s older brother, Bob, who has shared management of the club since the beginning. The weather has gotten to him, so he’s going to Miami to check out the prospects for jazz there.           Bob’s exit comes as the Tralfamadore is staging its boldest series of shows to date. The December Jazz Festival began last weekend with the avant-garde trio of Leroy Jenkins, Andrew Cyrille and Muhal Richard Abrams, whose atonal inventions served