Mayfest ’85 begins today
Mayfest '85, a week-long spr
ing celebration featuring a street
faire, musical entertainment, art
and fashion shows and outdoor
recreation begins today and
continues through Sunday.
Organized by the Student
University Relations Council,
the week will include Parents’
Weekend, an awards luncheon,
an annual Canoe Fete and an
open forum with President Paul
Olum. Mayfest also incor
porates events planned for
Black Arts Week, Greek Week
and the 15th annual Willamette
Valley Folk Festival.
The following events are
scheduled for this week:
•Today — Opening
ceremonies will begin at noon
with the Green Garter Band and
remarks by Cassie Smith, SURC
president, in the EMU Court
yard. All University students
also are invited to compet in a
tricycle race down 13th Avenue
and a water balloon toss follow
ing the speech.
•Tuesday — Black Student
Union Art Exhibit, 7 a.m. to 3
p.m.. Room 167 EMU. Campus
Ice Cream Social, 4 to 5:30
p.m., Gerlinger Hall Alumni
Lounge.
•Wednesday — ASUO Street
Faire opens, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
13th Avenue between Universi
ty and Kincaid streets. Music
from Willy Dee will highlight
the noon gig, sponsored by the
Cultural Forum, noon to 1 p.m.,
EMU Courtyard. The Student
Showcase will display Club
Sports' karate at 1 p.m. in the
EMU Courtyard. Also at 1 p.m.,
Recreational Intramurals will
sponsor a frisbee golf tourna
ment. Finally, a mime
workshop with Hayward Cole
man, will be held at 4:30 p.m.
in Villard Hall, sponsored by
the BSU.
•Thursday — The Street Faire
and the BSU Art Show will con
tinue. The Noon Gig will
feature the Ben Ferrell piano
duet. Student Showcases will
feature the Univeristy Song and
Dance Troupe at 1 p.m., and
Tae Kwon Do at 1:30 in the
EMU Courtyard. A mime show
with Coleman starts at 7 p.m. at
Condon School gym.
•Friday — Strset Faire con
tinues. An outdoor beer gardens
will feature live music from the
LeRoi Brothers from Austin,
Texas and Watermellon Slim.
Music and mocktails, a non
alcoholic alternative to the beer
gardens, will be sponsored by
the residence halls, 5-8 p.m. in
the EMU Skylight Refectory.
The 15th Annual Willamette
Valley Folk Festival opens, 8-10
p.m., EMU East Lawn. A
fashion show, sponsored by
BSU, will be held at 7:30 p.m.
in Gerlinger Lounge.
•Saturday — Folk Festival
continues, noon to 10 p.m. An
outdoor “Gospel, Jazz and Funk
Festival,” sponsored by the
BSU will begin at 5 p.m. in the
EMU Courtyard. TTie annual
Canoe Fete, a parade of floats on
the Mill Race along Franklin
Boulevard, will start at 2 p.m.
and the Mystery Duck and win
ning floats will be announced.
•Sunday — Folk Festival con
tinues, noon to 10 p.m. The
Robert Cray Band will play at 8
p.m., EMU East Lawn.
Jazz 'melody band’ to play
By Kevin Frank
Of the Emerald
Excellence is hard to come by in any
endeavor. To achieve it within the realm of
jazz, where virtuosity is almost commonplace,
a group or an individual must be truly outstan
ding. Eugene will get a taste of that excellence
when Red Rodney and Ira Sullivan perform at
the Hult Center Tuesday at 8 p.m.
The Red Rodney/lra Sullivan Quintet, or
the Red Sullivan show (as they are sometimes
called), demands the use of superlatives. What
have they done? The list might be shorter if the
question were “what haven’t they done?”
In 1949, trumpeter/flugel homist Rodney
replaced Miles Davis in Charlie Parker’s outfit
and stayed for the following three years. As
Red tells it, “I wasn’t intimidated by Miles
having been there. I was intimidated by stan
ding next to Charlie Parker, and I never got
over that.
“My first night there. Miles, Dizzy
Gillespie and Fats Navarro were sitting in the
audience, and it scared me half to death. I was
very uptight and they loved what I played, but
I didn't. It’s taken me all of these years to be
able to say ‘I played good that night.’ ”
Now 57, Rodney’s cherubic face and gen
tle, friendly manner belie his colorful past.
Between the early ’50s and the mid 60s, he
became addicted to drugs, served time in
prison and had his teeth knocked out by two
policemen. He drifted through the purgatory
of various Las Vegas and television bands until
suffering a stroke in 1972.
In contrast, Ira Sullivan, who has the
blunt good looks and convincing directness of
a gangster, is a devout Christian. A consumate
artist, he plays a stunning array of musical in
struments including trumpet, flugel horn, a
variety of the saxophones and all flutes.
At age 54, he’s played with a number of
jazz legends, including Dizzy Gillespie,
Charlie Parker and Art Blakey. He also taught
jazz at the University of Miami (where Pat
Metheny was one of his students).
By choosing to spend most of his life in
the musical backwaters of Chicago and Miami,
rather than urban jazz centers like New York or
Los Angeles, Sullivan has acquired
underground celebrity status while avoiding
general recognition. In fact, over the last 25
years he’s appeared almost perennially in
Downbeat Magazine’s critics’ polls as “Talent
Deserving Wider Recognition.”
Ira chuckles, “I like that category. It’s like
not losing your amateur standing, no matter
how big you get.”
Rodney and Sullivan recorded in the mid
’50s and went their separate ways until a
chance meeting reunited them in 1980. They
recruited pianist/composer Garry Dial, bassist
Jay Anderson and drummer Joey Baron to
round out the combo, and they’ve been mov
ing up ever since.
And the public is beginning to take notice.
All five of them placed in the Downbeat 1984
readers’ poll, with Sullivan, Rodney and Dial
appearing in multiple categories.
“We’re a melody band,” says Rodney,
“and we’re melody players, and we have a
wide variety of music. The greatest reward is
what we’re putting into this — the music. It
certainly isn’t the money.”
Tickets are $6, $8.50 and $10 and are
available at all Hult Center ticket outlets.
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