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Page 4 Portland Observar January 31,1980 DO YOU REALLY W A N T TO SAVE ON YOUR FOOD BILL? ENTERTAINMENT THE LOU _ RAWLS ^PARADE OF STARS TORUIT T IE Hostess © We offer savings of up to 40% and more on fine quality wonder and Hostess products, plus large discounts on other baked goods Besides our every day low prices, we feature in store specials daily Just look for the bar gain” signs on the displays in our store Discover for yourself what thou sands of smart shoppers in the area have found You'll be am azed at the savings you m ake at our W onder Thrift Shop! [ Food stam ps g la d ly accepted ] SATISFACTION GUARANTEED You m ust be com pletely satisfied w ith every purchase or we w ill cheerfully refund your purchase price f i W O N D E R -H O STE S S TH R IFTSH O P Lou Rawls plays host to a fun-filled evening to benefit the United Negro College Fund. Guest performers include Muhammad Ali, Lou Brock. Glen Campbell, Bill Cosby. Lola Falana, Paul Williams. Sammy Davis. Jr., Mike Douglas, The Mills Brothers and more Ed McMahon co-hosts. PARADE OF STARS YUSEFLATEEF Yusef Lateef will bring his version of non stop joy to Portland. Oregon at Jazz D Opus on Sunday, February 10 Performing with Yusef Lateef Ya II, Lateef s quartet, are percussionist Marty Barker, electric bassist Don Pate, and multi-keyboardist Khalid Moss. Yusef Lateef is a tnan with his own inventive, exploring talents. A teacher, composer, performing musician with spectacular energy and “ non-stop jo y ” - in the words ol one critic - Lateef is considered one o f the most distinctive instrumentalists in the world. In order to express his unusual talents, the man has mastered the tenor and soprano saxophone, (lute, oboe, shahnai, argole, bassoon, rabat and a m ultiplicity o f specially made bamboo (lutes o f his own invention. He was the first American musician to win the Downbeat award for oboe. The National Observer says: "Y usef Lateef has been long involved in a quest o f new colors and new form s,” while pointing out that his "In trig u in g aural kaleidoscope ol 1984” (Riverside album) is based on a twelve-tone technique o f his own devising.” Lateef was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee and moved to Detroit when he was five. He began his musical career while a senior at D etroit’s M iller High School. Upon completion o f high school, he toured the United States and Europe with Lucky M illander, Hot Lips Page, Dizzy Gillespie and Roy Eldridge, among others. He later returned to Detroit and enrolled in Wayne State University, where he studied music for four years. In I955, Yusef organized the Yusef Lateef Quartet which, during a five year period, performed club and college engagements and recorded more than a dozen albums lo r Savoy, Prestige and Verve Records. In the early 60s, Lateef joined the Cannonball Adderley Quintet as featured soloist on oboe, flute and tenor. He travelled with the group extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. In 1963, he formed another group and during the next decade recorded for Riverside, Impulse and Atlantic Records. His signing with C TI brought his wealth o f experience to that label. His myriad talents won him other awards, most notably the Playboy poll on (lute and miscellaneous instruments and the Music Achievement A w ard fo r outstanding contribution to African- American music. Lateel s numerous com positions have been perform ed by orchestras throughout the world, among them a “ Blues S u ite" with the Cologne Radio Orchestra (Atlantic Records). He later performed the Suite with the Detroit Symphony and the Augusta (Georgia) Symphony. His "String Quartet No. I " was performed by the Copenhagen Radio O r chestra String Quartet. He soloed on his own "S u ite No. 6 ” w ith the C openhagen Radio Band. While in Denmark he scored two animated car toons and performed contemporary music fo r punchpress and pigeon sound for Copenhagen Radio. Yuset’ s "String Quartet No. 2 ” was performed by New Y o rk ’ s Symphony o f the New W orld String Quartet in 1972. In I973 his "Orchestral Suite " was composed and performed by the same orchestra with the composer as the featured soloist. Yusef Lateef s latest album on C T I Records and Tapes is In A Temple Garden (CTI 7088). It pairs the Lateef m ulti-threat talents with compositions and arrangements by Jeremy Wall Wall is the writing backbone o f Spyro Gyra, the hot group for which Tom Schuman plays keyboard. Schuman is also aboard In A Temple Carden along with Randy and Michael Brecker on trumpet and tenor sax, respec tively, Eric Gale, guitar; W ill Lee, Bass; Steve Gadd, drums; and Ray Barret- to and Sammy Figueroa, percussion. The tunes include originals by W all and Lateef plus a surprise inter pretation o f the rhythm and blues favorite "H o n k y Tonk. ” Happenings around to w n MARTIN LUTHER KING MASSEY LECTURES: KBPS 1450 AM February 4, 1980, 8:00 p.m. This is the first in a five-part series. Tonight’ s e<;tD,S; “ The Rclativc Merits o f Violent and Non-violent Approaches to Racial Problems.” S n ^ ' AL: KBPS 1460 A M ’ Februar> 4> ,98°- * « > P-m. "Memories o f Eubie Blake. Ninety-six year old Eubie Blake, jazz and ragtime pianist and composer, reminisces about his early years o f poverty in Baltimore, his start as a musician, h.s relationship with Noble Sissle, and his continued con tribution to American music. b P o rtla n d , Oregon - P o rtla n d viewers are in for an entertainment treat as "The Lou Rawls Parade o f Stars, " makes it west coast debut on Sunday, February I0, 1980. The three-hour fund-raising tel evision special, which w ill benefit the United Negro College Fund, will be aired on K P T V (C hannel 21- independent) at 8:00 p.m. Produc tion costs for the program were un der w ritte n by Anheuser Busch, Inc., and extensive m arketing sup port is being lent to the UNCF by the Budweiser brand team in this unique undertaking. "W e are absolutely delighted that P ortland viewers w ill be the first west coast audience o f this project,” said C hristopher I . Edley, executive d ire c to r o l the U nite d Negro College Fund. Hie tact that the community has been so supportive to the UNCF in the past makes it particularly fitting that the "P a ra d e o f S ta r s " be brought to P ortland by K P T V ,” said Eugene Harris, director o f the U N CF’ s Portland office. "W e are delighted to make the airways o f KPTV available for this im portant project. The UNCF has enabled hundreds o f thousands o f 1801 N.E. Alberta The Friendly Tavern jet * ’ S E E R P V -------- S ED “n w o« HERE m ee>»n « * WINI H * 1 JOIN THE LOU RAWLS PARADE OF STARS Muhammad Ali Lou Brock Glen Campbell Bill Cosby Norm Crosby Sammy Davis, Jr. Mike Douglas George Duke Lola Falana The Mills Brothers Mary McGregor Charlie Pride Joey Travolta The Treniers Willie Tyler & Lester Paul Williams and co-host Ed McMahon All the stars turn out for a fun-filled evening to benefit the United Negro College Fund. THE LOU RAWLS PARADE OF STARS M ad e possible through a grant by A nheuser-B iisih, Inc., brew ers of Budweiser. Beer. SUNDAY FEB. 10 8:00 KPTV Q2) PRESENTS students to o b ta in a m ea nin gfu l e du catio n. T h ro u g h " T h e L o u Rawls Parade o f S tars" the effort o f UNCF can be expected to be as ef fective in the future as in the past,” said John S. Hansen, general manager o f KPTV. D r. Ernest H a rtz o g , assistant superintendent o f Portland public schools, is the general chairman o f the UNCF Oregon campaign which benefits from funds raised by the "Parade o f S tars" and other fund raising projects for UNCF. SEE SPORTS O N G IA NT SCREEN T V . JOE’S PLACE 115 N Cook St. Corner of Vancouver b Cook St., Portland, Oregon Open M on thru S a t-9 a m 6pm Closed Sundays Interested in current books about African Liberation? visit: JOHN REED BOOK STORE In the Dekum Building 519 S. W. 3rd Avenue Sixth Floor Or call: 227 2902 YUSEF LATEEF SUNDAY, FEB. 10th. 5:00 P .M . $6.50 9:00 P .M . $6.50 Advance Tickers now being sold at: JAZZ DE OPUS 30 n.w 2nd ove FREDERICK & NELSON'S tkkct puce down,own MUSIC MILLENNIUM 3i5fle him^
