daily ncbraskart
page 9
Wednesday, march 5, 1980
Musiekm 0 .
Continued from Page 8
Jazz, as Love defines it, is the colloquial expression of
blacks and their songs.
. "Whites have almost totally taken over jazz," he said.
'Not that they aren't all bad, but nobody's seen a white
Louis Armstrong."
Jazz is much more appreciated in Europe where peo
ple are "not encumbered with commercialism or racism,
Love said. "
Love knows what he's talking about when he praises
the Europeans jazz savvy. He's toured there numerous
times. .
, He has covered most of the United States as well, in his
musical career.
After leaving Omaha with Count Basie in 1943, he
stayed with the Count until the end of the year. Follow
ing a 17-month tour as first saxophonist with Lucky
Millinder. v . ,
In 1944 he also recorded "Stormy Monday" with
blues artist T-Bone Walker. The two also played with
Billie Holiday. "The Billy Holiday," Love added reverent
ly. Band teacher
In 1945, Love, who describes himself as a "Count Basie
Films...
Continued from Page 8
The audience first meets these people as
they roll in the mud during the Rome
cornerstone ceremony. The crowd decries
their activities and separates them, and
after the incident the two are largely ignor
ed by the bourgeois people around them.
Hie contrast of the couple's passion with
the lack of interest of the others is import
ant to Buriuel.
L'Age d'Or is full of literary symbol
ism and puns that may escape many view
ers. BesideV its powerfully unfavorable
picture of bourgeois society and the
Catholic Church, its greatest strength is the
incongruous combinations of images that
constantly surprise and amuse. At a cock
tail party, for instance, a maid runs out of
a kitchen from which flames shoot, but is
completely ignored . In frustration, the
hero tears apart some pillows in a bed
room, scattering feathers all about, then
runs to the window and throws out a plow,
a burning evergreen tree, a bishop and a
giraffe.
The film's final sequences associate
Jesus Christ with a bloody orgy, and it was
largely because of this portion that the film
was banned in France even before the
Vicomte de Noailles pulled it from circulation.
fanaticist, rejoined the Count's band for three years,
until another one of his fanatic interests overcame him.
"I was obsessed with being a band leader, he said.
That obsession brought him back to his native Omaha,
where the Preston Love band was formed and has endured
for 12 years. , .
Bankrupted in 1962, Love moved his family to Cali
fornia where he spent 10 years in a string'of jobs that
included commercials, television shows, concerts, jazz
fests, playing baritone saxophone with the Los Angeles
Rams football team band and working as a studio
musician for Motown Records. "
"I've recorded with almost everybody, Love said, and
the list is as impressive as it is varied. Stevie Wonder, Diana
Ross, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Aretha Franklin, Sonny
and Cher, Isaac Hayes, Johnny Otis, Ray Charles and
Wynonie Harris (a fellow Omahan) are but a few.
Studio work
Being a studio musician is constant work, Love said.
His mastery of eight instruments (alto, baritone, tenor and
soprano saxophones, clarinet, piccolo, bass clarinet, flute
and alto flute) was necessary to meet , the differing
demands of studio work, Love said.
"No one has left Omaha in the last 20 years and gone
out to do studio work," Love lamented. "Not the black
ki(Js at least. The white kids get the training.
He said studio work is harder than most musicians are
prepared to handle because of the variety of skills need
ed. .
Currently he is doing jazz workshops through a granf
from the Iowa Arts Council. He also teaches a course in
black music and social perspective at UNO and writes a
music review column for the Omaha World-Herald.
And of course, he keeps up with musical rehearsals.
"1 consider myself a much better all-around musician
than a jazz player," Love said. He said his musical strength
is on the flute, the only instrument he didn't teach him
self to play.
After the sense of despair that A Page of
Madness conveys, the absurdity of Bunel's
images in L'Age dVr, though they have
serious critical intent, provide a welcome
relief. The two films will show together at
Sheldon Saturday through Monday at 7
and 9 pjn. with weekend matinees at 3.
This is the first opportunity Lincoln audi
ences will have to see the two earlv cinema
classes, and the particular combination of
the films makes for an interesting comparison.
QUICK...,
where can you save lotsa
$$$ every Tuesday? Right
here in the Daily Nebra--..
skan. Our Every Tuesday
Coupon Page will save you
money all. over Lincoln.
' Tuesday in the
mm
o o
Be sure to pick
up or renew your
student art
discount card at:
narco
Arts
Crafts
Hobbies
Lower Level Atrium
13th &N St.
4744850
1
I
Oi.iS PSfieCiGiPS
4744455
Moa-Sat
THE CLIPPER
.eVlake The Differ " .
' 124 No.l2th
YOUR
HAIR STYLING CENTER.
! 13th & P 475-2222 :
f
5:30-7:40-9:50
for adits nrisf
count ... j - R
5:15-7:20 9:20
Kramer v&
Kramer
5:25-7:35-9:45
THE ELECTRIC
m HORSEMAN
ftCUtUMM MtfMNVM Mlt AM
THIS MOVIE IS TOTALLY
OUT OF CONTROL
Films Incorporated
Thurs.,March6
7:30 p.m.
Admission $1.50
East Union-Great Plains Room
WIN A BUCKET
OF CHICKEN!
Details syz
Tomorrow East
XX.
celebrates
The Beginning of Lent
REPENT
with
50 Cans
50 Highballs
Tonight, Wed. March 5
'tUf,
r
x Tsgii .rrw . n
11 X
QL1 ITrU Q fL3ixQ 475-4525
v i
v
V
,
'ii
0
4
4
Hi
"I
t.
3
3
I
t
