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ENTERTAINMENT
Rap artist CHUCK D to
Speak at PSU
Vocalist/Trurnpeter/Producer Mark Ledford
' After years o f backing up every-
'one from Stephanie Mills to Pat
Metheny, vocalist and trumpeter
Mark Ledford has at long last pro­
duced a solo project. Miles 2 Go.
The collection features melodies
made famous by Miles Davis, up­
dated by Ledford for the hip-hop
era. "W hat L /e done is taken those
’melodies and beamed them up to
. 125th Street."
The album showcases Ledford’s
■ formidable mastery of scatting, vo­
calist (the art of putting words to
jazz tunes and instrumental impro­
visations), and jazz trumpet. Flank­
ing him on this eyebrow-raising
adventure are Pat Metheny, Michael
B recker, D arryl Jo n es, V icto r
Bailey, and CyrusChestnut, among
other notables. The songs chosen
include such obvious D avis-asso­
ciated treasures as “Bye Bye Black­
bird,” "Summertime," “Someday
My Price Will Com e,” and more
daring choices such as "So W hat’
and "Blue and Green" from Kind of
Blue, as well as Eddie Harris' "Free­
dom Jazz Dance," which M iles'
’60s quintet recorded on Miles
Smiles.
Friday, February 20
C H U C K I), a “ soldier fo r the a rt fo rm o f rap m usic
am i hip hop.” discusses his recently release altflim I he
Autobiography ofM ista Chuck, and his first book. Fight
the Power: Chuck D on Rap, Race, and Reality', published
b\ Delacorte. His talk begins at 7 pm in (he Smith Center
Ballroom, Room 355, 1825 SW Broadway. General
admission is $10; admission for non-PSU students is $8;
PSU students will be admitted free.
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Somethin’ The People
Rhymes
When Disaster Strikes
missyruBOtrnmnoHELLiOTT Missy Elliott
SUPO DUN FLU
Mark Ledford
Chuck D
This Time it’s Personal
Curtis riaijEield
Superfly 25th
Supa Dopa Fly
Anniversary
Right from the first few seconds of
the Devlins’ new disc, you can feel it.
Il starts with a sudden, swooping
resonance, continues on through a
guitar's quiet hum, and then is gra­
ciously cared by the gentle, warm
tones of a grand piano. ‘It’ is atm o­
sphere, and it is immediate, urgent,
almost desperate.
WAITING is both an emotionally
and audibly intimate disc, and that is
just the way the Dublin-based group
planned it. “Silence is very pow er­
ful." muses vocalist/guitarist Colin
Devlin. “Music that I grew up listen­
ing to...Talk Talk, David Sylvian,
Blue Nile...! love those albums: not
o u t'... that can apply to a lot of things
in like, most certainly in music.”
"W aiting for the bee stings
They tell me what success brings”
-Waiting
The D evlins' first full-length,
D R IF T , hastened the group out of
obscurity and headfirst into four-
star acclaim . Rolling Stone deemed
them “ stunning”, the New Yorker
"superb” and Q, quite sim ply, “out-
standing.”
It was a m agical rid" that af­
forded the group an 18-nronth con­
cert tour ’round the w orld. S em i­
perm anent stops in a num ber of
atm ospheric cities (New O rleans,
V ancouver, M ontreal and New
York City included am ong them )
allow ed the g ro u p 's m usic to be­
com e, in a word, borderless.
OFFER GOOD THRU. 3-9-1998
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ie New Ghostwriter reading, writing and think-
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