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Joe Jackson's first album in
three years, is both a fusion of ev
erything he has done and an artistic
breakthrough. “I’ve finally come
right back to why I got into music in
the first place,” says Jackson. “I
just wanted to create something
beautiful, without any thought of
where it fits in the world. This al
bum is really from the heart, and I
don’t give a damn if it’s fashion
able or not.”
Turning 40 this year, Joe Jack-
son has earned the right to be ac
cepted on his own terms: as an artist
transcending genres and compet
ing with no one. “I hate the idea of
being some sort of Veteran rocker,
or aging pop star,” he .->ays. “ If
anything, I see myself as a Young
composer. I think I’m just begin
ning to make full use o f my partic
ular talents.”
Night M usic has many ex
perim ental aspects: no band,
and no tra d itio n a l pop-song
structures. “ I’ve felt looser and
freer w orking on this record
than anything I'v e done,” Jack-
son says, and this new, unfet
tered approach has resulted in a
highly personal musical statement.
H is growing involvement with
high technology has enabled him to
perform much of this album him
self, along with several guest musi
cians and three remarkable vocal
ists: Maire Brennan of Clannad,
emergingopera star Renee Fleming
and 11-year-old Taylor Carpenter.
"There’s no reason why I should
sing everything I write,” says Jack-
son. “I’m constantly coming up with
ideas that don't suit my voice.”
Blending electronic and acoustic
sounds like no one else, the sound-
world that Jackson draws us into —
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■ B í E n O I
A collection of rhythm and blues and hip-hop songs are featured in
Bad Boys, a heart-stopping action comedy from Columbia Pictures.
Bad Boys Notion Picture Premiers
On a hot summer night, S I00
million in heroin is stolen from the
Miami Police evidence room. The
dope was the key to a career-making
bust hy detectives Marcus Burnett
(M artin L aw rence) and Mike
Lowery’ (Will Smith).
While family man Burnett en
vies Lowery’s bachelor antics and
lowerv knows zero about being a
husband and father, neither ever let
his personal I ifesty les interfere with
work, until now.
W ith the c lo ck ru n n in g ,
Burnett and Lowery must find
the dope before their unit takes
the fall. Their only lead: sexy
Julie M ott, a w itness to a m ur
der com m itted by the thieves
their only problem : a m ix-up
causes Julie to believe Burnett
is Lowery, forcing the partners
to switch identities until they
solve the case. So between car
chases and shoot-outs, Burnett
lives out his playboy fantasies,
while Lowery discovers the jo b s
o f parenthood the hard way.
Meet "Bad Boys,” an action
comedy from Columbia Pictures.
Mirroringthe film’s exciting pace is
a bracing collection o f music from
new and established artists includ
ing Diana King, Warren G„ 69 Boyz,
Juster, 2Pac. Jon. B.. Keith Martin
and Ini Kamoze.
W orks Of
Langston
Hughes
Presented
The Flooney Theatre Co. presents an evening with “The works of
Langston Hughes, a one act play with poetry and humor and “The First
Militant Minister, a one-act play by Ben Caldwell.
The performances are held at 8 p.m. this Saturday and again on April
22 and April 29 at the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, 5340 N.
Interstate. A donation of $10 is the price o f admission. Call 284-5404 tor
ticket information.
much of it, as the title suggests,
nocturnal and dream like --is unique,
yet surprisingly accessible, draw
ing the listener in more deeply with
each hearing. “I want to stimulate
people's imaginations,” he says. “ I
want to seduce them, rather than
bashing them over the head!”
Joe Jackson’s goal with Night
Music was simply to create some
thing lyrical, heartfelt and beauti
ful. In doing so in today’s music
climate, he has also created some
thing radical.
Joe Jackson was born August
11 th, 1954 into an average working
class family in Portsmouth, on the
south coast o f England. As a child
he preferred reading and drawing to
being savaged on the soccer field,
and was considered a misfit; he
developed into a virtual pariah at
age 11 when he took up violin (and
subsequently oboe, piano, and per
cussion). A childhood Beatles fan,
in his early teens Jackson became
equally
p assio n ate
about
Beethoven.
By age 18, he was a passable
jazz pianist, a pretty good pub pi
ano-basher, a student-orchestra tim
panist, and a budding composer.
Winning a scholarship to the Royal
Academy of Music in London, he
went on to further broaden his hori
zons by playing in theater pits, rock
bands, and the national Youth Jazz
Orchestra.
After leaving the Academy, he
earned a living playing at the Play
boy Club and backing cabaret art
ists, while recording the demos
which would eventually become his
first album for A&M.
Salgado To
Join Santana
Rhythm Safari has announced
that veteran Portland blues singer
and songwriter Curtis Salgado will
embark on a major national tour with
rock ‘n’ roll legend Santana on May
26 as the featured vocalist and har
monica plaver.
The spring leg of the tour will
continue through June 18. The sum
mer leg will resume on July 31 with
guitar superstar Jeff Beck, co-head-
lining the tour during the months of
August. September and early Octo
ber.
Salgado will be releasing his
second solo album. More Than You
Can Chew on May 16 His power
house fusion of blues, rock ‘n ’ roll,
funk, soul and gospel makes his mu
sic an inspirational model for a new
blues sound.
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Salgado will continue to per
form in concert with his own band
throughout the United States in July.
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with silence, sound, light and shad
ow through the use of threads, rocks
and other materials. The lines of
thread define planes and volumes
and convey a sense of texture in
space. By slicing the air with thin
lines of fiber. Yamanouchi enliven
the space in the installation. In the
artist’s words, “The air around the
objects, the air in front of or behind
Music
Millennium
the objects, rather than the objects
themselves, becomes the most ex
istent' thing.”
Her installations are medita
tive and ephemeral, to be experi
enced by the audience for a brief
period oftime. The installation space
becomes a respite through with
viewers can momentarily escape
form their daily lives.
12-Step L a u g h te r
When he opted for a treatment program rather than pulling the trigger
the gun in ms
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mouth,
alcoholic/drug
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dream that he would be headlining
as a c stand-up
comic four years
......
11 later. Lundholm is bringing his comic
look at the trials and triumphs of sobri
ety to Harvey's Comedy Club in Port
land. During the past year, Lundholm
has performed his uniquely hilarious
one-man show, An Evening of 12-Step
Humor, across the United States, receiv
ing standing ovations and rave reviews
at every stop.
Mark began his career in 1989 do
ing volunteer comedy in drug rehabs,
halfway houses, and prisons as part of
his own recovery process. "Having lived
in some of those places, I know what a
powerful healing tool laughter can be!
Mark ventured into comedy clubs in
1990 and is now headlining in top clubs
across the country. He will be in the
headliner spot at Harvey’s the week
"Chemically-challenged" Mark
prior to his f 2-Step evening.
Lundholm is in recovery, b u t..
Years have passed since Lundholm
the insanity remains . . .
has taken drugs or guzzled booze, al
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with lout his cravings
Those years have given him the strength to laugh about his life as an addict
and the power to help others in recovery to laugh with him. Some lines:
• A treatment program is where you spend $15,000 to find out that meetings
are free
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What: An Evening of 12-Step Humor
• People who don’t understand
When: 8:00 pm, April 24
this disease look at us as handi Where: Harvey's Comedy Club
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436 NW 6th, Portland.
giving us our own special park Tickets: $8.00
C a ll:
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E b o n y F a sh io n F a ir
The 37th annual Ebony Fashion
Fair "The Shining Of Fashion” will
appear at the Oregon Convention
Center - Ballroom, on Friday at 8
p.m. The world’s largest traveling
fashion show is produced by Ebony
Magazine and is sponsored by The
Portland Chapter of the Links, Inc.
for the benefit of The Links' Educa
tional and Scholarship Fund.
More than 200 exquisite gar
ments complete with the latest acces
sories, 10 female and 2 male models,
commentator, music director, stage
and business managers, and ward
robe staff.
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“ Disconnected” , Exhibition Space Bt| A Portland Artist
The Regional Arts and Culture
Council presents "Disconnected,"
an installation by Portland artist,
Keiko Yamanouchi, in the Portland
Building lobby exhibition space
through April 28, 1995. The build
ing is open from 8:00 a m. - 6:00
p.m., Monday through Friday.
Utilizing simple shapes and
forms, Yamanouchi tills a space
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