Daily Nebraskan
Tuesday, September 24, 1985
rt Ensemble of Chicago iazz
captures evolution of sound
By Charles Lieurance
Staff Reporter
The Art Ensemble of Chicago creates
art from accident. Form is created
beyond our traditional concepts of
musical form and, in a leap of imagina
tion, dissonance evolves into formal
excellence.
Concert Review
By intermission at Sunday night's
Art Ensemble show at Kimball Hall,
much of the audience was gone and
musical cliches ran wild. One woman
actually commented to her sophis
ticated looking husband, "That's not
music, that's noise!" The husband re
torted, "I've been more entertained by
a night at the Aku Tiki."
Indeed, the Art Ensemble made
noise, lots of noise with each noise
situated firmly in its context. Hence,
music.
The Art Ensemble called its show,
"Great Black Music: Ancient to the
Future," but the ensemble actually
confronts all of our notions on the
development of music.
The first set introduced Famoudou
Don Moye on drums and elaborate per
cussion, Malachi Favors on bass and an
even odder assortment of noisemakers,
Joseph Jarman on woodwinds and En
semble founder Roscoe Mitchell on
saxophones and, you guessed it, still
more percussion.
The set was a parade of musical
archetypes: Sound as it appears in
nature, disorganized and chaotic. Per
cussion evokes the elements, evokes
the turbulence in the formulation of
consciousness. The Art Ensemble delves
into the naturalistic liberation of the
tone, nature at harmony with man's
creative potential. Roscoe Mitchell's
whirling plastic flexible tube created
man's first aural glimpse of melody.
In some ways the first set is more a
glimpse into the future of music than
the second, which contained more tra
ditional examples of free-form jazz.
Jarman and Mitchell alternating be
tween soprano, alto and tenor saxo
phone construct music from the entro
pic patchwork.
Mitchell and Jarman duet initially in
squawks and squeals as the percussion
erupts into cacophany, ebbs and builds
again to levels not fit for the squeam
ish. In complaints heard after the con
cert, tradition was mentioned a great
deal, lack of it, need of it, the sacred
value of it. The Art Ensemble is tradi
tional, traditional experimentation, tra
ditional testing of boundaries. The
horn, the tone, the note, the musical
phrase are all stretched to their limit.
The second set introduced Lester
Bowie on trumpet and flugelhorn, a
seminal experimentalist who turns every
aspect of his horn into music. Many
times just his breath running through
the brass was a solo.
The wonderful thing about jazz and
the wonderful thing, about Sunday
night's performance of the Art Ensem
ble of Chicago is and was that there's
no such thing as a jazz traditionalist
and, I say this after much considera
tion, no such thing as "noise."
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Daly wins again as detective Lacey
EMMYS from Page 12
"The Jewel in the Crown," PBS'
much-praised saga about the last years
of British rule in India, was named best
limited series.
"Cagney & Lacy" also took best
direction and best writing. Tyne Daly,
as Detective Mary Beth Lacey, who
must juggle her career with a family,
won best dramatic actress for the third
straight year defeating co-star Sharon
Gless.
"Every year I come expecting to hear
someone else's name called," she said.
"I think it must be the part I get to
. play."
A visibly pregnant Daly thanked her
husband and her children "the .ones,
here already and the one that is coming
soon, I hope."
The show was briefly interrupted
when an imposter went to the stage
and accepted the award for Betty Tho
mas, outstanding supporting actress in
a drama series for "Hill Street Blues."
The man said the actress was absent,
even though she could clearly be seen
earlier in the evening when cameras
panned the crowd.
The hoax was discovered during a
station break, and when the show
returned, Thomas appeared on camera.
"Well, it is definitely hard to follow
an act like that," she said before racing
through her acceptance speech.
Police led the imposter away in
. handcuffs, and identified him as Barry
Bremen, 38, of Bloomfield, Mich.
Backstage, Thomas said: "I don't
know what happened. When I got to the
stage, there was some strange man
accepting. It's the nightmare we are all
afraid of."
Peter Graves, who announced the
award for Thomas, said, "She was way
in back, and I didn't see her. This man
in front walked up, and I said, 'Isn't she
here?' He said, 'No. It was a last minute
thing.
"Then we saw Betty coming across
the stage, and he told me he was a
professional impostor."
Bremen was booked for investigation
of attempting grand theft and held at
the city jail on $1,500 bail, said Sgt.
Bruce Linsenmayer. An Emmy costs
$150.
"He says he's the world famous
imposter," Linsenmayer said. "He says
he's the guy who has dressed up for
football games."
Bremen was sued by the Dallas Cow
boys for posing as one of its cheerlead
ers in December, 1979.
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