The daily Nebraskan. ([Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-current, March 05, 1980, Page page 9, Image 9
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. 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