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University To
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Music Series
The University o f Portland will
host a “ Music at M idweek” scries o f
free outdoor performances on W ednes
days from July 22 through A ugust 5.
Perform ers will entertain from
12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. underneath the
300-yearoldoak tree by the Pilot House
student center on the University cam
pus.
The performers will include The
Akbar DePriest Family Jazz Band, July
22; The Norman Sylvester Blues Bank,
July 29; and The Tom W akeling Jazz
Quartet, tentatively scheduled for Aug.
5. The events will include the sales o f
submarine sandwiches (sold by the inch)
and cold beverages.
Portland Poetry Festival
August 7, 8 and 9
South Park Blocks
Admission: Free
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Mt. Hood Festival of Jazz
An all-star jazz cast of musicians
and singers takes over the 1992 Mt.
Hood Festival o f Jazz as the popular
Festival enters its second decade with a
three-day show featuring som e o f the
biggest names in jazz ad contem porary
music.
The 11th annual jazz event runs
July 31, Aug. 1-2 at G resham ’s Mt.
Hood Com m unity College.
Legendary pop music artist Ray
Charles will headline and open the 1992
Mt. H ood Festival with a solid show of
jazz-tinged R&B at 6 p.m. Friday, July
31. The concert will star Charles, his
band and the Raettes, w ho’ve become
the darlings o f com m ercial TV with
their cola ad base on the syllables, “Uh
huh.” G ospel/jazz vocal sextet Take 6
opens.
In addition to Charles, the Jazz
Festival includes popular keyboardist
David Benoit, the Herbie Mann 40th
A nniversary Reunion Band, Joanne
Brackeen trio, Tom G rant Bank, E ast
ern R ebellion, Jim m y and Jeannie
Cheatham and the Ray Anderson Q uar
tet.
Also featured will be the Joe W il
liams Trio with Red Holloway, Freddie
Hubbard Quintet, David Friesen/Denny
Zeitlin Duo, Kenny BarrQuintet, Dianne
Reeves, Earl Klugh, The Jeff Lorber/
Brian Bromberg Q uartet and the John
P iz z a r e lli T rio fe a tu rin g B u c k y
Pizzarclli, appearing with the Mt. Hood
Com m unity College Festival big band.
Charles, 59, began perform ing at
15, beginning a recording career at 20.
Through the years, he performed and
recorded songs in several idioms, defy
ing conventional wisdom o f the time
while seeing his influence and stardom
skyrocket.
Benoit, who played the Mt. Hood
Festival three years ago, has become a
highly popular performer in concert
and a recording artist whose records
jum p readily into the top reaches of the
charts.
The Herbie Mann reunion band, a
recently-organized group that includes
individuals stars M ann, flute; Les
M cCann, keyboards, vocals; David
“Fathead: Newman, saxophone, and
Cornell Dupree, guitar,celebrate flutist
M ann’s 40 years playing jazz.
Eastern Rebellion, which includes
veteran jazzm an Cedar W alton, piano,
drum m er Billy Higgins, bassist David
W illiamsandsaxophonistRalph Moore,
and pianist Joanne Brackeen’s trio are
both veteran topnotch jazz groups. Both
are in the “post-hop” school o f high
energy jazz.
Trom bones are featured in two
com pletely different bands: The Ray
Anderson Q uartet plays in a contem po
rary jazz idiom that features the various
soundsof the horn and Jimmy Cheatham
plays bass trombone in the Jimmy and
Jeannie Cheatham eight-piece band, a
group steeped in Kansas City jazz and
jum p blues that recalls the ’30s and
’40s.
For straight-ahead jazz, the Festi
val presents bop trumpeter Freddie
H u b b a rd ’s b a n d , p ia n is t K enny
Barron’s quintet and quitarist Bucky
P iz z a r e lli, p la y in g in son Jo h n
Pizzarelli’s trio with additional back
ing by the Festival big band. John sings
and plays guitar.
Joe W illiams, baritone jazz/blues
vocalist who cut his teeth in the Count
Basie Band, leads a foursome that also
stars tenor saxist Red Holloway. Jazz
singer Dianne Reeves maneuvers be
tween ballads and driving uptempos
with a strong voice and the Friesen/
Zeitlin Duo will offer an introspective
look into jazz with piano and bass.
Fusion jazz get in gear with the
Lorbcr/Brom berg guartet and Tom
G rant’s band, touring in support of his
CD release, “ In My W ildest Dream s.”
Earl K lugh’s guitarplaying spans both
mainstream ad contem porary jazz.
The Festival Stage (side stage)
features regional jazz artists. The
MHCC Vocal Jazz Ensemble performs
Friday evening before Mainstage A c
tion. Saturday, the Jessica W illiams
Trio plays at noon and the Rob Thomas
Quintet performs at the dinner hour, 5
pm . O n S u n d a y , s in g e r K elly
Broadw ay’s quintet opens and Latin
jazz band P a ’Lante plays at 5.
General admission tickets for the
1992 Mt. Hood Festival of Jazz are
$25, on sale at G.I. Joe’s Ticketm aster
box offices statewide. Gates open at 4
p.m. Friday and 11 a.m. on Saturday
and Sunday.
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Portland Observer encourages our readers to write letters
to the editor in response to any articles we publish.
Myisha Richmond, a 17 year old tap dancer was the winner of the 21st annual Hal Jackson 's Talented Teens
International competition. Boyz II Men entertained the world famous Apollo Theatre audience last year and were
on hand to assist in crowning the bubbly teenager. This year the 22nd annual contest will be held on July 25,
1992 at the Apollo Theatre. Guest artists will include the Talented Teens International winner from Arizona for
1983 - A & M recording sensation Miss Ce Ce Peniston. For more information about this competition featuring
young minority ladies between the ages of 13 and 17 with performing talents from around the world write: Hal
Jackson s Talented Teens International, 1230 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10128.
Portland Black
Repertory Theatre
announces
Robert Guillaume Selected As
Spokesperson For Sickle Cell
Auditions for Wet
Carpets
Contact: Rosemary Allen (503)
297-3959
Auditions are being held August 1
and 2, by appointm ent only, for emerg-
ing
p la y w r ig h t,
M a ria n
X ’s
(W arrington)* com edy dram a. W et
Carpets. Call Portland Black Repertory
Theatre at 287-3959. Parts are open for
four women, ages 16 through 50.
W et Carpets will culm inate the
Portland Black Repertory’s first Equity
season at the Portland Civic Theatre
Building, September 18 through O cto
ber 11th, with previews September 16,
17. Season subscriptions are available
until A ugust 2nd. Please call the Box
Office, 226-4026, for ticket inform a
tion.
* M arian X , fo rm e rly M arian
W arrington, just recently changed her
last name to X.
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Tw o-tim e Emmy Award winner
Robert Guillaume has been selected as
national spokesperson for the National
Association for Sickle Cell Disease,
Inc.Guillaume succeeds Danny Glover,
who acted as the organization ’ s Spokes
person for three years.
The new executive director, Lynda
K. A nderson, made the official an
nouncement earlier this week. “On be
half o f the National Association for
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highly visible and an outstanding role
model. He presents a positive image for
bringing attention to the need for con
tinued support for sickle cell disease
programs nationally."
As Ambassador, Mr. Guillaume
will add a dimension of clarification
and insight to the sickle cell condition
in this country and abroad. His involve
ment with the NASCD national con
vention in W ashington, D.C. in O cto
ber, sickle cell member organization
activities, public appearances and pub
lic service spots will heighten the scope
of sickle cell awareness with his peers
and the public.
NASCD is a Los Angeles-based
organization with nationwide com m u
nity sickle cell programs. The organi
zation recently celebrated 20 years o f
providing education, research and pa
tient services centering on the sickle
cell conditions. Sickle cell disease is an
inherited, incurable condition which
primarily affects African-Americans.
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