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Portland/Obeerver
Thursday, February 22, 1973
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Selected paintings of Seattle
artist and columnist Eddie
Walker will be on display in
the Albina Multi-Service Cen-
ter, 5022 N. Vancouver, Feb
ruary 19 28. The exhibit is
in conjunction with Portland
State University's Black Cul
tural Month.
Walker will give a lecture
Monday noon, February 26,
in 327 Smith Memorial Cen
ter on “Black Art and the
Cultural Revolution."
Owner and operator of a
Seattle art studio. Walker
attended the University of
Washington School of Art
and has studied under Seattle
I drawing and painting instruc
tors Michael Dailey and John
Hafermehl.
Walker has been involved
in many projects for the
Pam G r ie r stars as Gozelda, a sensuous young beauty, who in
h e r quest fo r fam e and fortune, would sell h e r sou! to the devil
fo r the rig ht p ric e . 'H itM a n ' is playing at the Alameda T h e a te r.
Appearing with saxaphon
ist-flutist Lloyd will be gui
tarist Tom Truhillo, bassist
Robert Miranda and drum
mer Woody Theus.
Lloyd received a Masters
degree in music composition
at the University of Southern
California. His quartet has
travelled throughout the
world covering 17 major
countries besides numerous
appearances in the United
States. Lloyd was named
Jazz Man of the Year by
Downbeat Magazine for being
'Am bassador'
of
jazz
throughout the world.
Pianist Herbie Hancock
will be accompanied by bass
ist Buster Williams, drummer
Billy Hart, trumpeter Eddie
Henderson, f l u t i s t Bennie
Maupin and trombonist Jul
ian Priester.
Both a pianist and compos
er, Hancock performed with
the Chicago Symphony at age
eight. His albums "Fat Albert
Rotunda“ and “Mwadishi"
were nominated for Academy
Awards in 1971 and 1972
respectively. Hancock was
recently awarded an honora
ry Doctorate of Music Degree
by Grinnell College for his
artistic excellence.
Admission for both con
certs is $3. Tickets are
available at the door or by
contacting the Black Cultural
Affairs Board at PSU.
OBSERVATIONS IN COV
ERING THE NIGHT BEAT:
Billy Ford and his Thunder
birds, featuring songstress
C.E. Vara, a recording quin
tet, are now breaking it up
at Joe's Pier 52 Showboat.
The instrumentals featured
in the combo are trumpet,
electric piano and drums.
Bill Ford and his Thunder
birds came to Joe's Pier 52
after many successful en
gagements at the Dune, Las
Vegas, El San Juan Hotel,
Puerto Rico, and the Latin
Casino, Camden, N.J. The
group, which records for the
independent company of Su-
sal, are also featured on the
college circuit tours.
Billy
Ford and his Thunderbirds,
some years back, came to
national recognition w h e n
they came up with three
consecutive disc smash hits,
“La Dee Dah”, "Lucky I.ady
Bug”, and “Over The Moun
tain".
Shirley Basaey, a huge
success at the Miami Deau
ville, had one of her per
formances recorded live for
an album.
Sunday
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Ex-Heavyweight C h a m p
Muhammad Ali has reluc
tantly placed h i s palatial
$250,000 mansion in Cherry
Hill, N.J. up for sale, even
though he says he loves the
“dream house". The reason:
Muhammad's wife, Belinda,
can’t stand the place! Mrs.
Ali is just plain home sick
for her n a t i v e Chicago,
which is also where Muham
mad's in laws all live, and
she's given the ex-champ an
ultimatum that he'd better
make a choice between his
dream house and his dream
wife while he still has a
choice to make. Ali's wife,
the mother of t h e
ex
champ's t h r e e
children,
misses her family in Chicago
so much that, according to
Muhammad, s h e
spends
most of her time telephoning
her relatives for long-dis
tance chats. That's why Ali
admits his telephone bill is
averaging out to an astonish
ing $12,000 a y ear!. . .
Meanwhile, buying a man
sion in the "wrong” location
isn't the only unusual, un
foreseen “mistake" that Mu
ham mad has made recently.
Ali. who has waited a long
time to accept the first of
many movie acting roles he’s
been offered, finally agreed
to make a deal with Warner
Brothers to star in an up
dated all-Black version of
the old ‘Here C ones Mr.
Jordan" about “Angels” sent
back to earth from heaven.
Warners is all set to star Ali
and Godffrey Cambridge in
the remake of the comedy
flick that originally starred
Robert Montgomery a n d
Claude Rains, but Muham
mad may be forced to cancel
out of his screen debut,
because the Muslim religious
sect, of which Ali is a
leader, doesn’t believe in
"ghosts" or in men coming
back from the dead, even as
heavenly angels. The Mus
lima are taking a dim view,
to say the least, of Ali's
choice of screenplay that
they've been pressuring him
to drop out of the epic . . .
Bill Cosby recalls that one
of the happiest moments in
his life came when he fired
his mother - from drud
gery. “For many years, my
mother scrubbed floors for a
living,” the CB8-TV comedy
star told me. “One of the
things I always wanted was
to be able to fix her up with
a little cottage where she
could do nothing all day long
hut each fudge and watch
TV if she wanted to.
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Cheryl Wilson, s member of theNorthwestBlackArts Society,
In c, rehearses for Black Culture Month program.
Capturing reality as op
posed to creating realism in
Black-oriented motion pictures
is currently a subject of ex
tensive debate. Producers of
the forthcoming feature-length
documentary. “Wattstax" feel
they have come as close to
projecting reality as any pro
ject produced to date. The
reason is quite simple: They
avoided a cast of professional
actors and a preconceived
script. Thereby, all featured
in the innovative new film did
no more than simply be and
act themselves.
“Wattstax." has been aptly
described as a screen depic
tion of "the living world.'' It
features performances of a
dazzling array of talent from
the Memphis-based Stax Or
ganization during last sum
mer's seven-hour Wattstax 7 2
concert. Their message in
song enhanced by dialogue of
community people and acid
commentary by comic Richard
Pryorall highlighted the lyr
ics of life. The three ap
proaches blend effectively into
an insightful, penetrating doc-
by Joey Sasso
7:00
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ument that promises to re-
main unique for generations
to come. While the elements
are distinctly original, there is
a unifying theme that passes
through all the presentations,
both rehearsed and spontan
eous.
The feature film blends the
creative talents of the Stax
Organization in their film-
making debut with the highly
respected style of award win
ning documentary film com
pany the Wolper Organiza
tion. The film is not based on
the Black experience - it is
the Black experience.
Music still plays a vital role
in com m unication
among
Black people and each song
performed in "Wattstax" re
flects the inspiration of the
particular artist or group. The
subject matter covers the full
range of the human experi
ence and the music is supple
mented by the thought snd
ideas of people in the com
munity.
Preparation was minimal in
terms of an actual script and
the ultimate results ar free-
flowing, reflecting onscreen
the individual talents and
creative contributions of some
32 recording artists, plus
community people and the
skilled senaitivity and techni
cal expertise of co-producers
Iarry Shaw of Stax and Mel
Stuart of Wolper.
The unifying them e is
Blackness, presented with mo
menta of pride, humor and
happiness. It all represents a
rase of an exciting experience
captured on film just like it
happened. Still, thia document
will long reflect the concern
of those who pursued serious
filmmaking and the results
that sincere intentions can
bring with just a minimum of
traditional moviemaking prep
aration.
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PSU books jazz group
Two noteJ jazz artists will
bring their groups to Port
land State University as part
of Black Cultural Month. The
Charles Lloyd Quartet will
give a concert at 8 p.m..
Saturday. February 24 in the
Smith Memorial Center Ball
room. Herbie Hancock and
his group will perform at
8 p.m., Wednesday, February
28, also in the Ballroom.
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University of Washington. He
created and taught an accred
ited course in Afro-American
art in 1969 and has been the
University's Black Art curri
culum adviser. Also, he in
structed art in the Seattle
public schools from 1969-70
and was arts coordinator for
the 1972 Seattle Black Com
munity Festival.
In 1971, Walker developed
and published three Black
children's coloring books,
"The
Black
A lphabet",
“Numbers" and “Good and
Bad Values."
The artist has had numer
ous ex h ib its throughout
Washington as well as a
showing in the Newark. N.J.
public library and New
York's Summer Art Fair
1971.
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The fabulous Temptations,
Motown recording stars for
more than ten years, begin
t h e i r second "Decade of
Hits" with their newest
single release, "Masterpiece."
An album of the same name
will follow shortly.
The T em pts
recently
placed number one for many
weeks on the national charts
with their release of "Pappa
Was A Rolling Stone,” and
the smash LP, "All Direc
tions." Both their past re
cordings and newest product
will be produced by Norman
Barrett and Paul Risner.
From Initial sales, it seems
that the Tempts have anoth
er monster hit to add to
their long string of best-aell-
ing and gold recording ef
forts.
The m em bers of the
Tempts include Otis Wil
liams, Melvin Franklin, Den-
nia Edwards, Richard Street,
and Damon Harris. Their
newest release will coincide
with the Temptations "Dec
ade of Hits” festivitiea, which
has already begun at the
world famed Copacabana in
New York.
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