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Kiss me.
KESS stampedes into Portland
with their distinct heavy metal rock
and roll. 8 p.m., at the Rose Garden
$45 from TicketMaster, 244-4400
Good Tunes.
Inflatable Soule with Peter
Cornell and Ivan’s W ish with
Nancy Cambell, guitar and vocals,
9:30 p.m., Mt. Tabor Theatre &
Pub, 4811 S.E. Hawthorne Blvd.
238-1646.
Pure Jazz.
The John LilsenG roupat5 p.m.
at the Pioneer Courthouse Square.
Carol, sing us your jazz
C arol E ttm a n b rin g s a rare
warmth and fresh n ess to fa m ilia r
and lesser-known works o f the clas
sic a nd contem porary com posers o f
our era, as well as to an exciting
collection o f ja zz originals.
She has been called a "jazz vocal
ist of formidable skill... a true musi
cians’ singer.”
Brasserie Montmartre (626 SW
Park, downtown) hosts the jazz vo
calist on September 3rd from 8:(X)
pm -m idnight.
During her visit to Portland for
the W estern Alliance of Arts Pre
senters Conference, Carol will ap
pear with pianist Randy Porter, bass
ist Phil Baker and drum m er Henry
Ettman, performing tunes from her
Five Fingers o f Funk performs
at 9:30 p in. at Berbati’s Pan, 231
S.W. Ankeny St., 248-4579.
g r e a t S i n g i n g . ’ ’-Michele Weir
Jazz Vocal Educator, L.A.
Saiicidcut (Ae S / d t
Jazz Workshop.
Mary Margaret Music presents
a vocal jazz workshop and clinic
w ith N ancy K ing and M ary
Kadderly, 1 1 a.m „ Steen’s Coffee
House, 2603 N.E. MLK Jr. Blvd.,
222-7310.
Get Hooked.
John Lee Hooker, 75, has been in
the business for 60 years and is one
o f the m ost influential living
bluesman in the world. 6 p.m. at the
Washington Park Rose Garden, $25
from TicketMaster, 224-44IX).
latest album, “Experim ent”, which
features Randy Porter.
With a repertoire o f over 2,000
songs, Carol is equally at home at
concerts, jazz clubs, dances, con
ventions and cocktail parties... work
ing with groups ranging from a 14-
piece big band to an intimate duo
setting.
She also plays piano and
keyboards and writes many of her
own arrangements.
Music critic Jack Neal says, “Car-
ol Ettm an’s classic jazz album, “Ex
periment” is filled with so many
spellbinding moments of sophisti
cated jazz I couldn't stop listening to
it for weeks.
"Now when I go back to it, which
is often, it's like running into a classy
old friend and sharing warm memo
ries of good times past.
“Carol evokes the fabulous scat
virtuosity of Ella Fitzgerald that’s
just there, natural as can be on Cole
M ichael F leming
Elliott Murphy.
O n e tim e p ro to -N e w W ave
singer/songwriter performs in sup
port of latest release, Selling the
Gold, Key Largo, 31 N.W. First
Ave., 223-9919.
M adonna
moving on
Pop singer M adonna has paid
$2.7 million fo r a 1920s hom e in
Los Angeles, a property about h a lf
the size o f the nearby residence she
La Femme.
has been trying to sell, the Los A n
“On the Cover of a magazine,” geles Times reported.
"She’s scaling down,” the paper
is the theme for the 15th annual La
Femme Magnifique Beauty Pag quoted a source as saying.
Her new purchase boasts a 3,500
eant, in which celebrity judges se
lect the most glamorous female square-foot main house with five
bedrooms and a two-bedroom guest
im personator in the universe.
Montgomery Park Atrium, 206 house.
N.W. Third Ave., 22-5338.
The recently restored M editerra
nean-style house is in the tree-lined
Symphony in the
suburb of Los Fcliz, and had been
listed at $3.2 million.
Neighborhood.
Her current 7,800-square foot
Concert and festival at Alberta
home that overlooks the HOLLY
P ark , N .W . 22nd A ve. and
WOOD sign has been on the market
Killingsworth St., 3 p.m. (Sym
for some time, most recently at $6.5
phony at 7).
million, the paper said.
Dan Balmer Trio.
Madonna reportedly spends most
8:30 at Jazz de Opus & Opus
of the time in her Miami residence,
and she also has a place in M anhat
Too, 33 N.W. 2nd Ave., 222-6077.
tan.
She is currently awaiting the birth
of her first child and the December
release of her new movie, “Evita.”
ary hard rockers Kiss and LL Cool J
join previously announced perform
ers Alanis Morissette, Bush, Fugees,
Hootie & The Blowfish, Metallica,
Oasis, The C ranberries and The
Smashing Pumpkins.
Toni Braxton, who is nominated for
“ Best R&B V ideo" for "Y ou're
Makin' Me High," Seal, who is nom
inated for “Best Male Video" for
“ Don’tCry,” actor Tim Robbins, Jenny
McCarthy, MTV’s "Singled Out' and
artist/actor Tupac join previously an
nounced presenters Mariah Carey,
Dennis Rodman, Susan Sarandon,
Kevin Bacon, Snoop Doggy Dogg,
Damon Wayans and Chris Rock.
The theme for this year’s show is
“Mysteries O f The Unexplained ”.
“ Death In The Hood”
A Video Presentation
. i J ä l l I b A l,
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Premiere Party/Focus Group
August 29th 1996, 6:30 PM-7:30 PM
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MUSIC LEGENDS
CONVERGE-Writer
and producer
Kenneth "Babyface"
Edmonds (left), with
Ernie Isley and
Ronald Isley on-stage
during the three-day
Pleasure Island event
at Disney World, the
largest o f its kind in
the world
Jim Carrey is in serious talks to
Celine Dion.
star in “The Secret L ife o f Walter
Grammy-winner Celine Dion
Mitty ”, the rem ake o f the 1 947com
continues to sell out the biggest
edy that starred D anny Kaye.
venues in the world. 8 p.m., at the
As Mitty, Carrey would play a
R ose G a rd e n , $ 3 2 .5 0 from
timid man who, in daydreams, be
TicketM aster, 224-4400.
comes a brave swashbuckling hero.
He finally gets the chance to be a
Where Rivers Run.
hero for real.
Jeff Leonard and Jason Moore
Landing Carrey would represent a
join pianist John Nilsen in a CD
major coup for New Line, whose two
release concert performing cuts
Carrey movies, "The M ask” and
from N ilsen’s Where Rivers Run,
“Dumb and Dumber” each grossed
5 p.m., Tualatin River Nursery &
more than $100 million at the box
Coffeehouse, 65 S. Dollar St., West
office.
Linn, 650 -8 5 11.
New Line is expected to bring on
an A-list screenwriter and director so
Daily Planet.
that the film will be the next starring
W inner of the 1995 British Blue
vehicle for Carrey after the drama,
grass A ssociation’s “Best Progres
“The Truman Show.” H e’ll begin
sive Band” award. Duffy’s Pub,
that film right after the comedy “Liar,
8203 N. Ivanhoe St., 289-7798.
Liar.”
ScUtddUf (Ac /d (
Porter’s upbeat album opening “Ex
periment," right through 16 tunes all
natural as they can be with the mature
Ettman style
“There are standards—a marathon
“This Song is You” and a throaty,
sultry "I Only Miss Him”—and some
refreshing new com ers-a reflective
“I Have That Feeling I’ve Been Here
Before” and a smoldering “Nothing
Like You.”
Thick with bits, pieces and mem
ories of the immortal Sarah Vaughan,
the smooth stylings of June Christy
and the inspired jazz phrasing of
Ethel Ennis, the singer Carol credits
most with making her comfortable
with her own jazz styling.
As the critics say, "Experiment
isn’t copy-cat musicianship, it’s pure
Carol.”
Music legends converge
Carrey's all
over the
silver screen
by
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Kiss and
LL Cool J are set to perform at The
1996 M TV Video Music Awards.
MTV’s thirteenth annual telecast of
the “Video Music Awards” will air
live from Radio City Music Hall on
Wednesday, Sept. 4 at 8:00p.m. (FT).
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, who re
ceived four nominations for “Tha
Crossroads,” including “Best Video
O f The Year," will perform "Tha
Crossroads” for the first time on tele
vision at this year’s awards ceremony.
LL Cool J, who is nominated for “Best
Rap Video" for "Doin’ It,” performed
and received the "Best Rap Video”
award for "Mama Said Knock You
Out” at the 1991 awards ceremony.
Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, legend
Carol Ettman
gives
Portland a
taste o f her
smooth jazz.
The veteran
singer is as
fresh as ever
in her
experimental
melodies.
Fresh a rrangementsfor good
times, wonderful rhythm section,
Funkdafied.
Bone, Kiss, LL Cool J
perform a t awards
The City of Portland
and the Regional Arts & Culture Council
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music in town as the Oregon Symphony performs a lively selection of
music perfect for a summer evening in the park
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Light classical and popular Broadway tunes
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O regon Symphony Murry Sidlin, conductor
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