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."
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When asked why he tho^B
Jazz left the music world,IB
derson replied, “1 don't thiniB
ever left.”
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At the College the
Band plays Jazz along withtiB
Swing Choir. Both wil||B
featured in a Jazz ConceB
coming up soon.
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‘fusing’ with Jazz creating aniiB
teresting and diverse sou^B
Anderson said.
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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
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so that members of alia
groups can share in the hjiffl
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Moeller, was quoted i®
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