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By Mona Z. Koppelrasn
Daily Nebrxskan Senior Editor ,
For those who knew nothing about
jazz, a night with Dave Brubeck was like a
child's first taste of candy.
For jazz connoisseurs, Brubeck's music
rivaled the delights of growing up trad
ing cotton candy for chocolate eclairs.
Brubeck's reputation as a jazz pianist
and composer has few equals in the mod
ern world of music. Old and new melodies
spiced with unorthodox rhythms are hall
makers of the Dave Brubeck Quartet's
special brand of jazz.
Drummer Randy Jones started off Sun
day evening's performance in Kimball
Hall with a snazzy lick, joined by Brubeck,
his son Chris on bass and Bill Smith on
clarinet Quartet members have warm
audience appeal: Jones looks like a Las
Vegas veteran; Chris, a coffeehouse beat
nik; Smith, a prim professor, and Bru
beck, a musical Merlin.
Some listeners may have recognized
Brubeck classics among those performed
Take Five" and Three to Get Ready"
as well as jazz standards like Duke
Ellington's "Don't Get Around Much
Anymore."
But recognizing the tunes only served
to take the edge off an evening of sur
prises. Even if you shake your Christmas
presents, you dont really want to know
what you're getting.
The quartet performed a mixed bag of
moods and styles, balancing raggy blues
pieces with reflective moody tunes like
"Lover Man," featuring Smith on clarinet.
Smith's blue notes wallowed in the
depths, then suddenly bubbled up the
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scale. Chris smiled, cocked an eyebrow,
and hugged his bass as Smith's notes
showered through the upper register.
Brubeck sat at the piano, hands on his
knees, head bowed reverently until the
last note trembled and died.
And in that small moment of silence,
Brubeck shook his head, smiled and
whispered:
"Yeah."
Next, a movement from Brubeck's
"Glances" suite titled "Poly" (as in poly
rhythm). Composed for the Murray Louis
Dance Company, Brubeck's lighthearted
notes skipped hand-in-hand with Smith's
clarinet in a musical game of hopscotch.
Jones' drumming mastery was featured
in Brubeck's composition "Pange Lingua,"
a variation on a melody that Brubeck said
began as a Hebrew chant centuries ago.
Jones' combination of every drum cadence
known to man all played at the same
time contrasted magnificently with
Brubeck's simple chords.
Chrb brought out hb bass trombone
after intermission and blew through Fats
Waller's "Black and Blues." Don't nobody
mess with that trombone man after his
rumblin' rendition of the bluesiest of
blues.
Except Brubeck, that is. His tinkling
piano roll rag danced on the trombone
man's toes, until the 'bone tooted with
delight. Smith's clarinet joined in the fun,
and the piece ended in the bone man's
great laughing honk at himself.
The Kimball audience brought the
quartet back for an encore and tried to
persuade them again with a standing
ovation. Lincoln audiences may have the
reputation as easy marks, but who can be
ashamed of taking candy from a master?
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Review by
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Confidential,' while covering an to it after it rose to. importance,
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from his camp had all been to
drum up publicity.
But the chapter on rock and
roll deaths h where StaMng3 does
her best work. Instead of dealing
with the sensationalized circum
stances which doomed Elvis Pres
ley and others, she attempts to
look not only at their demise but
their impact on music and the
impact their deaths had on their
profession. It starts with the first
death of the rockYi'roU era (the
suicide, or shooting, of soul singer
Johnny Ace) and continues to
the death of Marvin Gaye.
The most time is given to John
Lennon, Presley, Gaye, Jim Mor
rison, Vicious and Bob Marley. In
almost every case, the stories are
sadder than the fiction passed
down by the supermarket tab
loids. Marley, for example,
couldn't read or write and while
denying his cancer and claiming
Jah would revive him, he was for-'
bidden to smoke marijuana in his
closing days and saw the dread
locks he treasured so much fall
out from extensive chemotherapy.
Vicious mother seems
responsible for his death, having
bought him the drugs that killed
him. ("I guess they were just a
little too' good," she said), and
the sad story of Rory Storme, the
Liverpool star who was the main
attraction there before the Bea
tles took off. Storme once saved a
girl from drowning in 1971, and
in an effort to get publicity, called
the London papers that once
loved him so much to help drum
up attention for himseE But the
papers didnt remember his name.
A year later, Storme and his
mother were found dead in an
apparent suicide pact in their
London home.
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pictures cr.d first group pictures
of present day strrs, cuch as John
Phillips and Scott tkSenzle in
the Wayfarers, John Denver in
the Chad LiltchdlTrb, Eko Starr
in Sierra e's grosip, Daryi Kill in
Gulliver and Brece Springsteen
in the Csstffites. She who includes
a three p?.2 chapter on ths great
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aliened clonic in Keith
Richard's tHed Ml-blocd trans
fusions in Switzerland, Richard
and Jeer's ccr.tcntplribn and
subsequent murder cf Stone
four tier Brian Jones.
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