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Northwest P assage
Oregon
“Northwest Passage"
JAN. 14, 1998
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or four c e n tu rie s, ex p lo r
ers sought the N orthw est
P assage as a way to the
P acific O cean and the fu tu re ; for
27 years, the m em bers o f O regon
have ex p lo re d the fro n tie rs o f
m usic, and on this album have
found th e ir ow n passage to the
future.
"T his recording re p re se n ts a n
o ther m ajor m ile sto n e in our e f
forts to produce m usic that w e 're
ex cited to he a part of.
T hrough the y ears, there have
been in ev itab le c ro ssro a d s that
have req u ired us to re-ex am in e
our course.
T hese m ajor e v e n ts seem to
crop up every three to four years,
and often reveal the need for new
d ire c tio n s, o v e r-h a u ls, or ju s t a
general sh ak e-u p in ap p roach.
We fell that for this album we
needed to re k in d le our love ot
p la y in g w ith p e rc u s s io n , and
found tw o e x c e p tio n a lly w orthy
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m usicians, M ark W alker and A rto
T u n c b o y a c iy a n , w ho m et our re
q u ire m e n ts ot v e rsa tility , m a tu
rity , and m u sic ia n sh ip ,” w rote
R alph T o w n er N orthw est p a s
sage o f co urse featu res three ot
the founding m em bers ot O regon,
g u ita rist, p ia n ist and k ey b o ard ist
R alph T o w n e r, reed and horn
p la y e r M cC an d less, and bassist
G len M oore.
It w as p ro d u c e d by S te v e
R o d b y . w ho " b ro u g h t in te lli
gence, c la rity , d ilig e n c e , and a rt
istry to ev ery aspect ot this re
co rd in g .
T he se ssio n s w ere a totally
m usical e x p e rie n c e in large part
due to S te v e ’s fo re sig h t, and to
the tru st we are able to place in
his o v e rv ie w .
T he band was able to c o n c e n
trate so lely on playing the m u
s ic ,” said M cC andless.
T he four o rig in al m em bers of
O regon met when they w ere play-
mg w ith the Paul W in te r c o n c e rt
in New Y ork in 1970; p ercu s-
s i o n i s t / s i t a r p la y e r C o l l i n
W alcott was rep la c e d by T rilo k
G urtu after a trag ic bus a c c id e n t
took W a lc o tt’s life d u rin g a E u
ropean tour in 1984.
For the past five y e a rs, O r
egon has been p e rfo rm in g and
recording as a trio, w ithout drum s
and p e rc u ssio n ; T ro ik a (a lso tin
In tu itio n M usic) was the first r e
c o rd ed re p re se n ta tio n o f the O r
egon trio, and was fo llo w e d by
B eyond W ords.
N orthw est Passage re ta in s the
intim acy of th e ir w ork as a trio,
w hile e x p an d in g it w ith the s e n
sitive and e x c itin g m u sic ia n sh ip
o f W alker and T u n c b o y a c iy a n .
As can be p erc e iv e d by lis te n
ing to any one of O re g o n s
tw e n ty - p lu s r e c o r d in g s as a
g ro u p , they have th ro u g h the
years lound fresh n ess th ro u g h
th e ir c o n sta n t e x p lo ra tio n .
Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds
Entertainer of the Year
Kweisi M fume, President and
CEO ot the National Association lor
the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP) and Charles Whitehead,
Chairman of the NAACP Image
Awards Committee announced dur
ing a special press conference that
Kenneth “ Babyface’’ Edmonds was
selected to be the 29th NAACP Im
age Awards Entertainer of the Year.
Hall of Fame Awards will be pre
sented to sultry song stylist, Nancy
Wilson and the legendary R&B group
The Isley Brothers. The President’s
Award will be presented lo United
States Secretary of Labor Alexis
Herman.
The 29th NAACP Image Awards
is an exciting, star studded salute to
the best in Black entertainment. Hon
orees, presenters and performers have
included almost every major Afri
can-American celebrity in America.
There are 40 competitive categories
in the fields of motion pictures, tele
vision, music, and literature, and spe
cial aw ards including the Image
Award Hall of Fame and Entertainer
of the Year.
The two-hour television special is
actually an edited version of the high
lights of a three-hour live event. The
result is a fast paced, program full of
emotion, suspense, humor, and ex
citing performances by today's hot
test stars.
Founded almost thirty years ago
a meeting in the home of Sammy
Davis Jr (a m ember of the Beverly
H ills/H ollyw ood Branch o f our
nation s oldest civil rights org an i
zation ). the NAACP Image Awards
honor projects and individuals por
traying "positive images o f A fri
can A m erican.” The 29th N AACP
Image Awards will tape February
14. 1998, and air T hursday, March
5th.
TICKETS AT ALL TICKETMASTER OUTLETS OR CHARGE BY PHONE- 2 2 4 -4 4 0 0 . SUBJECT TO SERVICE FEE.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 31 a t 7 p.m.
FRIDAY, JANUARY 9 a t 7 p.m.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 10 a t 5 p.m.
THE NORTHWEST FILM CENTER
PORTLAND PREMIERE - VISITING ARTIST
PRESENTS
Charles Mingus: Triumph
of the Underaog (1997)
Reel Music
"I im Charles Mingus, half black man, half
yellow man 1 play |azz, lam a Negro." declares
the volatile, uncompromising genius at the start
o f Don McGlynn’s riveting look at the tortured
musical life o f the great composer and bass
player Featuring wide ranging interviews with
musicians and critics who were close to Mingus,
along with the insights of his wives Celia and
Susan, an extraordinary portrait emerges o f an
artist o f unparalleled talent and complex,
paradoxical temperament Over the course of
nine years o f digging, McGlynn has also surfaced
treasured film and television dips from the 1960s
and 1970s, radio broadcasts, interviews and
vintage photographs, many unknown, tocapture
the joy and rage of his life, and the legacy of
musical genius that he left behind (78 mins.)
Preceded by Mark Mills' Ornette Coleman:
Harmolodiscs (1996), a pithy examination of
|izz saxophonist Ornette Coleman's theory of
music (and life), which is to "remove the caste
system from sound " (10 m in s) Director Don
McGlynn will introduce his film
FRIDAY, JANUARY 16 a t 7 p.m.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 17 a t 5 p.m.
PORTLAND PREMIERE
Can’t You Hear the Wind
Howl? The Life & Music
o f Robert Johnson (1 9 9 7 )
A CELEBRATION
OF MUSIC ON FILM
Jazz, blues, rock, folk, punk, Tex-Mex,
soul, reggae, klezmer, classical, Brazilian,
H ollywood musicals., th ere is som ething
for every taste. For th e full REEL MUSIC
schedule, pick up th e Film C enter's Jan/
Feb calendar or W illa m e tt e W e e k ,
He never gave an interview or wrote any o f his
compositionsdown on paper, and only recorded SUNDAY JANUARY 18 a t 7 p.m.
29 songs He claimed he sold his soul to the devil SUNDAY, JANUARY 25 a t 4:30 p.m.
at the crossroads for a diabolical tuning o f his PORTLAND PREMIERE
guitar, constantly roamed, and was murdered
under still mysterious circumstances at the age
of 2 7 Robert Johnson, the most influential arust
(G erm any, 1996)
in the history of blues music, is both a legend
One
of
the
great
jazz
labels. Blue Note Records
and an enigma Peter Meyer's imaginatively
crafted portrait reveals the power o f music to was founded in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Francis
shape our culture as it presents a vivid picture of Wolfe, |azz fans from Germany who came to New
Johnson and the circumstances that gave rise to York to escape Nazism By the 1950s,the fledgling
his brilliant music Danny Glover narrates company came into its own, documenting the
portions o f the story and bluesman Keb'Mo rich currents of modem |azz with little regard to
portrays Johnson in new footage, which Meyer commercialism as well as amassing a legacy of
blends with rare photographs, stock footage, recordings that provide the backbone lor any
in sig h tfu l
in terv ie w s
w ith
Johnson senous |azz record collection Recordings of Charlie
contemporaries such as Johnn y Shines and Robert Parker. Bud Powell, Thelonius Monk, Miles Davis,
Jr Lockwood, and appearances by Eric Clapton, John Coltrane. Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Ornette
Robert Cray, John Hammond, Keith Richards Coleman, Herbie Hancock and hundreds more,
among many others (77 m in s) With Third past and present, are essential documents of
Ward Blues (1997) Anentertaimngexaminauon America's greatest art form Julian Benedikt's
o f the personal and professional relationships of hom age is full o f great clips, photographs,
Albert Collins, Clarence "Gatemouth “ Brown, interviews and history o f the music and the two
JohnnyQydeCopeland and Joe "Guitar" Hughes men with the rare dedication and vision to preserve
it. (120 mins ) Sponsored by Bravo
(29 m in s)
Blue Note: A Story of
Modem Jazz
N O R T H W E S T F IL M
C E N T E R , 1 2 1 9 S .W
»
PORTLAND PREMIERE
Dexter Gordon:
More Than You Know (t997)
Don McGlynn's (Charles Mingus: Triumph of the
Underdog, Art Pepper Notes From A Jazz Survivor) newest
jazz biography celebrates the life and career of
the great saxophonist Dexter Gordon At
seventeen Gordon joined the Lionel Hampton
Orchestra, soon graduated to the Billy Eckstein
Band and then went on to be one of the great
players o f the m odem era Full o f superb
performances by Gordon and some of those
who inspired him — Lester Young, Charlie
Parker. Ben Webster. Coleman Hawkins. Dizzy
Gillespie and Bud Powell—as well as clips from
the screen tests for Gordon's role (for which he
received an Academy nomination) in Bertrand
Tavernier's Round Midnight and other rare treats.
McGlynn's portrait most o f all captures the
beautiful expressiveness- in personality and
music— o f this musical treasure (52 mins )
Preceded by Jules At Eight ( 1996), Mark Becker's
portrait of Santa Rosa, California eight-year old
Julian Lage, who. except for the tnals of the
second grade, has spent his time taking jazz,
blues and classical music lessons You will be
impressed (24 mins ) And The Spitball Story
(1997), Matthew Seig's recounting ot how
trum peter Dizzy Gillespie, playing in Cab
Calloway's band in 1941 with fellow musicians
Jonah Jones and Milt Hinton, got his start down
the path to modem jazz history (20 mins.)
“AN EXCELLENT
AND ABSORBING
SUPERNATURAL
THRILLER.”
-K e n n e th T u ran , LOS ANGELES TIMES
Detective John Hobbes
is searching for a criminal
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4 at 7 p.m
PORTLAND PREMIERE
Gilberto Gil: Tempo Rei
(Brazil, 1997)
"Gilberto Gil is one of the legends o f Brazilian
music In this intimate, beautifully photographed
documentary he returns to Ituacu, his childhood
home and to the rivers o f Salvador, where he
wrote the first song that gained him attention.
Talking with his family and fnends, musician
and writers Jorge Amando, Caetano Veloso,
Paulinho Camafcu, Carlinhus Brown and others,
Gil explores the rich musical tradition of Bahia
and Africa Gil, a mulatto, reveals the ideological
importance he placed on integrating questions
of race in his art, and the central influence of the
Candomble tradition The many performances
captured in the film range from improvisations
in village squares toconcerts in hugeauditoriums
Wherever he goes, people know his songs, and
jubilantly sing along He is their king "— Kathy
Gerritz, Pacific Film Archive (107 m ins)
Reel M usic is sp o n s o re d by
Willamette Week, Music Millenium,
McMenamtns Theaters and Pubs,
and KINK 102 FM
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(5 0 3 ) 2 2 1 -1 1 5 6
he’s already met...
already caught...
and already killed.
FALLEN
Don’t trust a soul.
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