Image provided by: Clackamas Community College; Oregon City, OR
About The print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1977-1989 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 1, 1978)
Jazz impetus behind band By Leanne Lally Of The Print D i x i e 1 a n’d , Ragtime, Chicago, Boogie-Woogie, Swing, Bop, Cool, Funky and Electric, all these words pertain to one subject, jazz. Jazz is everywhere, said College music chairperson Leroy Anderson. Not only is jazz coming back on the scene, but it’s “fusing” with rock creating a new sound, he said. Jazz is, according to author critic Henry Pleasents, “The in- flunence of a variety of in digenous musical styles originating in the Negro com munities of New Orleans and other American cities, in the Negro or mixed communities of the Caribbean Islands and some areas of South America in the early decades of the twentieth' century,” Jazz has been said to be the music of the black man, "but that is not always true. Great Jazz artists such as Goodman, Teagarden, Biederbecke, and Evans were not black.- But it was the negro who did do (and continues to do) the in novating. The melodic feature of jazz is inherited directly from Spooks,books share roof Goulish, ghostly dancers will invade the College library tonight when the Dance Currents will perform during Haunt Your Library Week. Other out-of-the ordinary ac tivities will continue through the week. Photo by Kelly Laughlin This is the week to “Haunt Your Library.” Various ac tivities to thrill and chill library goers have been going on and will continue through the cour se of this week at the College library. Today at noon, “Holiday Tilton’s Yoga for Lunch” will refresh and strengthen your mind and body in the College Library. Elsewhere, this afternoon, author Eloise Jarvis Megraw will talk in the Lake Oswego Junior High School Library from noon to 1 p.m. The Oregon City Public Library will present a showing of the film, “Cricket in Times Square” at 3:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Milwaukie will host Rose Naftalin talking about her book, “Grandma Rose’s Books Of Sinfully Delicious” in the Led- ding Library at 5:30 p. rri. Jane Rickenbaugh and the Dance Currents will present three dances in the College Library tonight at 8 p.m. The dances are entitled, “Human Bond,” “Censored Line” and an improvisational dance. The group has been together since last September with their first performance at Tigard Methodist Church on Oct. 1. The dance was choreographed to St. Frances of Assisi’s “The Canticle of the Sun”. The dan ce, which was accompanied by the church’s choir, was perfor med in the Stained-glass win dows of the church and in the aisles and the altar. The theme was developed by using sashes-banners of the six spec tral colors. The “Library Haunt”, choreographed by Jane Richenbaugh, is a literary ex ploration of Halloween. The dance is semi-improvisational. It begins with a ghost walk in which the dancers speak the names of various authors while taking- evocative dance positions. The dancers then become a churning witches caldron from which errupts contemporary fantasy charac ters. The literary theme is fur ther developed by the dancers as they use movement to define abstruce dictionary wor ds such as “snafu” and “luc- brate.”' The haunt ends as the dan cers use their bodies as letters to cast a spell over the audien ce. Continuing through the week will be seminars, lectures, films, and music. A schedule of events is available at the College library. European music settling in the jazz capital of the world, New Orleans. The era of Dixieland has New Orleans in its title not because it was the only geographical location where this type of music originated, but for the reason that New Orleans bred more important names in jazz than any other area at the beginning of the twentieth century. That era started another type of jazz, Ragtime. Some dp not consider ragtime music jazz because it is composed music not im provisational. Ragtime .is really a piano style which developed as a result of certain conditions. A piano player was hired in place of a six or seven piece band. This forced the pianist to develop a technique which provided a full sound. The left hand was required to play both the bass notes and the chords, leaving the right hand free for highly syncopated melodic lines. From that era names sprung forth like Morton arid Joplin. Jazz went through riiany changes after, that, Chicago style Dixieland, Swing, Bop, Boogie-Woogie, Cool, Funky, and the present syle of Electric. Rock took the place of ‘JaK because it was simple, no® much to play except threjB chords repeated continuo^B Now rock has renewe®B techniques and is more cot M plicated, more thought orieH ted. Because of that, Jazz get® another crack at number on^B “Jazz is very complicat«| said Anderson, “people ^B didn’t have the rigB background rejected it." H When asked why he tho^B Jazz left the music world,IB derson replied, “1 don't thiniB ever left.” V At the College the Band plays Jazz along withtiB Swing Choir. Both wil||B featured in a Jazz ConceB coming up soon. B “Rock is now getting tnoB and more complex and B ‘fusing’ with Jazz creating aniiB teresting and diverse sou^B Anderson said. I A sound we can all live witB Well, put that in your tru^B and toot it. Twain here agai Bill Moeller’s portrayal of Mark Twain is “without question an outstanding por trayal ... so uncanny that audiences begin to believe that Twain has risen from the dead,” according to a spokesman of the Southwest Washington Fair. Moeller will be presenting his one man show here at the College Nov. 8, at 7 p.m. in the Fireside Lounge. Ad mission is free. His performance is compiled from the writings of Twain, the most well-known humorist of all time. The show ranges from Twain recalling his youth, to discussions on cigarette smoking and profanity, to a very sad rememberence of his daughter’s .death. A native of western Washington, Moeller is a veteran radio broadcaster. He got started portraying Twain through a .playhouse r NORTH WILLAMETTE BOOKCOMPANY FREE Jazz is one of the most con plicated styles of music, an that is why its popularity I died down a bit in the yea But now .it’s coming ba stronger and more intense™ ever. Bill Moeller offers lifeil portrayl of the belli American humorist, Ml Twain. theatre group. He had tea one of Twain’s speech®! was asked to repeat it sM times at different functions® The stage will be set wiljl enough light to illuminal Moeller’s surroundings. H|a “tailor make” his presen® so that members of alia groups can share in the hjiffl and charm of Twain’s® sonality. Moeller, was quoted i® Linn-Benton Commuterl saying, “I don’t want to go I there and say this is M another job. When it beS just another job, then I’llM to quit.” CATALOG of COLLEGIATE RESEARCH “ALL KINDS OF BOOKS FOR ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE” Over 10,000 listings! All subjects. Send NOW for this FREE catalog. 707 MAIN STREET, OREGON CITY. (503) 656-6626 HOURS: MON. TO THURS. 10-6; FRI. 10-9; sat. 12-5 (offer expires Dec. 31,1978) Send to: COLLEGIATE RESEARCH P.O. Box 84396, Los Angeles, CA. 90073 j re-elect SKOKC COMMISSION quolHi6 Pd by Re Elect Stan Skoko Comm G b" ,24.10 SE Sth Avenue. Wes' lit»1. G" Clackamas Community Ci inches D50 Illuminant, 2 degree observer Density
