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Page 4 Portland Observer Novem ber 8. 1979 ENTERTAINMENT HAPPENINGS COMING ATTRACTIONS Showplace Lounge get Checkmates SPORTS HOUR ENTERTAINMENT JOE’S PLACE Melba Moore successful singer, writer. Melba Moore has enjoyed such success in many facets of her career that it’s difficult to imagine what new levels she still has to conquer. Her last hit single, “ You stepped into my life,” was played relentlessly by radio stations nation wide, racking up over 750,000 in sales. And while the most successful singers often harbor secret fantasies of acting, Melba has that aspect of her career well under control. She won a Tony Award for her Broadway performance in Purlie, and she’s planning to re-create her role in an upcoming motion picture version ot Purlie. Melba has also been seen on Broadway in Timbuktu, and on television in the popular children’s special. The Big Blue Marble. Perhaps there was one thing left for Melba Moore to do, and she has turned some heads by doing it on her new Epic Records album, Burn. Most female singers are content to perform songs written for them. But Melba has taken her music in her own hands—co-writing the lyrics and the melodies of all the albums’s songs. And the songs she has written are a lot hotter than anyone 1801 N.E. Alberta (ILL DRAETVOU FOR ONLY 15C Days: Sat., Sun. & Mon. ‘ c .H : 288 8 7 8 6 _______________Fo, M o . . In lo .m a .io n S w e e t Louie ft Sonny, the C h e c k m ate s th em selves, w ill be at the Show place Lounge. Sheraton A irport on Nov. 12th thru 24th. 8235 N.E. A irport W ay/P o rtlan d Jazzing at The Kingston M elba M oore might have expected. Take the words to the song "Hot N Tasty” as an exam ple: “ Peelin just right/steppin out tonight/gonna git some action/get out and get off tonight/l like it hot n ta sty/l’m gonna set somebody on fire. ” The album also has its share ot street language, as the single "Miss Thing” attests. According to Melba, however, people will miss the point if they try to analyze this new lyrical development too carefully. “ I just want people to have lun with me,” she states firmly. ’’That’s why I wrote and sang the kinds of songs I did. I don’t want to be in such a serious mood all the time, and 1 don't want people to take me so seriously. If 1 decide to give people a little sex appeal, my fans shouldn't freak out.” Melba Moore has not abandoned being a “ serious artist.” Burn simply represents a new approach, a more playful way of relating to fans old and new. Front a performer with the many diverse talents of Melba Moore, what else could we expectg? Sylvester To Release New Album WOODY SH AW W oody Shaw w ill be at The Kingston M o n day night, Nov. 19 , 2020 W est Burnside Woody Shaw is a trumpeter, eornetist, I'lugelhornist, composer, arranger bandleader, and electric original. “ I consider myself from the straight-ahead school of jazz," says Woody, and if you’ve heard him in action, you know what he’s talking about. Avant-gardists like Eric Dolphy (with whom he worked) and John Coltrane have made their mark on Shaw’s distinctive style, but he has not forgotten his debt to the early modern masters like Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. " I ’m able to handle any kind of music,” he says, “ but I think that when jazz stops swinging,it’s not jazz.” Woody Shaw was born on Christmas Eve in 1944 in Laurinburg, North Carolina, home of Dizzy Gillespie’s alma mater, Laurinburg Institute. Woody’s father. Woody Sr., was himself a Laurinburg alumnus and a mumber ol a gospel group, the Diamond Jubilee Singers. W hen Woody was still a baby, the family moved to Newark, New Jersey, where KW’oody began studying trumpet at age 11 with Jerome Ziering. Two years later he began his professional career, playing with Brady Hodge’s Newark-based R&B orchestra. He worked with local acts like Alan Jackson and the .live Live while in high school, where he made both All-City and All- State orchestras in 1959. Woods never finished high school, but he received valuable musical schooling through his work with local jazzman like organist Larry Young and saxophonist I yrone W ashington. At 18, he got what he calls “ the ultimate of my indoctrination” with Latin-jazz pioneer Willie Bobo at a club called the Blue Coronet in Brooklyn (among the other members of the band were Chick Corea and Joe Farrel). In 1973, Woody returned to the New York scene, having rejoined Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. The following year he left Blakey Io establish him self as a leader and began recording for Muse with a band he called the Concert Esemble. In 1975, he joined the Louis Hayes-Junior Cook quintet, assuming co-leadership with drummer Hayes when saxophonist Cook left. The Hayes- Shaw group became the band Dexter Gordon used lor his triumphant LI.S. tour in 1976 (the results are documented on Dexter's first Columbia I P Homecoming-recorded, like Stepping Stones and one selection on H'OO/B' III, at the Village Vanguard). MARY KAY BEAUTY COSMETICS I earn how to give your skin good care with MARY KAY COSMETICS. Be part of a select group of people and be glamorous winners in the fabulous world of MARY KAY COSMETICS S y lv e s te r Sylvester will soon release his anxiously awaited new double album, “ Living Proof” . Within the next two weeks, radio stations will be receiving a sampler of four tracks from "Living Proof’” ; Pattie Labclle’s "You Are My Friend", and the medley of Barry Manilow’s “ Could It Be Magic” and Leon Russell’s "A Song For You", are stunning live ballad performances. In addition, there’s a funky live version of “ Happiness” , penned by Allen Toussaint. The sampler’s final selection, “ C an't Stop Dancing” , is a brand-new Sylvester composition which will be released shortly as a 12-inch single. “ Living Proof” , produced for Honey Records Productions, also contains such intriguing Sylvester concert pieces as a heartfelt “ Lover Man” SATURDAYS 11am 2pm UNCLE HOM ER'S J A Z Z H O L e | COVER Portland's longest running jazz pro gram. With Homer Clark. 2pm 6pm JA ZZ RAP Cookin' jazz, blues| and popular black music. 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