BENEFITS SET TWO AILING MUSICIANS

Two benefits are scheduled next weekend to raise funds for ailing jazz musicians.

Buck Clarke, noted percussionist who recently lost a leg to diabetes and is now in Veterans Hospital, will be the beneficiary of a program at Marla’s Memory Lane next Saturday, 2 to 6 p.m. There will also be an exhibit and sale of his paintings and sculpture. Performers will include organist Jimmy Smith, singer O. C. Smith and the Teddy Edwards Brass and String Ensemble. A fund-raiser for the veteran bassist Harry Babison, who has been seriously ill with emphysema, will be held April 27 at the Musicians Union Local 47, 817 Vine St., from 2 to 6 p.m. Among those expected to take part are the Beverly Hills Unlisted Jazzband, Jimmy Rowles, the Gene Estes-Bob Enevoldsen band, Abe Most and Pete Candoli.