Friday, September 26, 1986
Daily Nebraskan
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Patti to perform
By Joan Rezac
Copy Desk Chief
Sandi Patti, one of the most popular
contemporary Christian singers, recently
gained wider fame when ABC television
used her recording of "The Star Spangled
Banner" for the finale of the Liberty
Weekend. Thousands called ABC to
find out who "the torch singer" was.
Concert Preview
Patti will perform at 7:30 p.m. tonight
at Pershing Municipal Auditorium.
Patti's vocal abilities have earned
her two Grammy Awards and several
nominations. She also has won 13 Gos
pel Music Dove Awards. Her most
recent album, "Morning Like This," is
expected to reach platinum status this
year.
Patti's three-octave vocal range can
awe even the most casual listener. Her
classical training has given her great
control. However, unlike many classi
cally trained singers, her tone is usu
ally light, and she does not overpower
her music with constant vibrato.
That training also have given Patti
great versatility. Her music ranges from
jazz to pop to traditional hymns.
Patti's skill has earned her recogni
tion as one of the best Christian sin
gers. She has appeared at Radio City
Music Hall and on "The Tonight Show."
(She declined a visit with Vice Presi
dent George Bush to appear on Johnny
Carson's show because "Johnny asked
t first.") People magazine and USA Today
also have had features about her.
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Courtesy of The Helvering Agency
Christian "torch singer" Sandi Patti performs tonight at
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RHYTHM & BLUES
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Graphic courtesy of The Zoo Bar
Jailbreakers have many styles
Preview by Stew Magnuson
Staff Reporter
The Zoo Bar's got it this weekend.
It's got the natural excitement gen
erated by a football weekend along
with The Jailbreakers, Omaha's eight
piece rhythm and blues band. And
what other ingredients does a per
son need for a night of intensified
dance music?
Band Preview
Listening to The Jailbreakers is
like taking a musical tour of the
history of blues, R&B and soul. Their
covers range from James Brown,
Booker T. and the MGs, the Four
Tops and all the way to Tower of
Power. Funk, Motown and every
thing in between. And the Jail
breakers have the musicianship to
pull it off.
I believe an R&B band has to have
two essentials to make an audience
get off their butts and dance. It has
to have a killer horn section and a
singer that can still drown out the
blaring saxophones. The Jailbreak
ers have both. The two sax players,
Dave Poison and Bob Thompson,
along with trumpeter Gary Vajgrt
punctuate singer Brad Cordle's lines
with staccato, rapid-fire blasts.
Vajgrt, who just joined the band
after playing years with Delbert
McClinton, occasionally will take a
solo that will pierce the Zoo's walls
and wind up somewhere over the
Stuart Building.
Cordle's voice is clear and strong.
I hesitate to use the word "soulful"
to describe his voice, it's such a
cliche with us critics, but that's
exactly what it is. He can't hit all
the high notes on Marvin Gaye's
"Grapevine," but so what.
Bass player Nate Bray and drummer
Danny Becerra make up the rhythm
part of rhythm and blues. It's really
these guys that make Zoo Bar patrons
tap their toes or sway on their bar
stools to the beat. All this beat is
filled in by Keyboard player Greg
"Bosco" Goodman and guitarist Bob
Kula. Occasionally, when the band
jumps into some good old-fashioned
blues, Cordle gets out his harmon
ica for a solo.
The only thing the Jailbreakers
lack is some original songs. They
nave an Lr swoun oi original tunes i
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die said, but they don't want to play
any of these tunes until the album is
released.
I hope they write some more
tunes. I'm very curious to hear what
original Nebraska R&B sounds like.
So if you want to keep the post
game intensity up Saturday night or
if you want to get hyped up on home-game-eve,
stop by the Zoo and dance
away. And if you're under 21, you
can always stop by Ted and Wally's,
get an ice cream cone, sit on a
bench and listen for a while. And if
you want to dance on the sidewalk,
what the heck, there's no law against
it.
Film wt iiatfimidsitfiE
By Roger Furrer
Staff Reviewer
As a simple-minded movie goer, I
tend to shy away from French Cinema
due to its dark reputation of psycholog
ical complexity. As a certified film
snob, I tend to be intimidated by
French films because I know I should
be finding some deep significance, but
I'll be damned if I can figure out what.
"Subway," by French film director Luc
Bresson, is a victim of neither of these
fearful qualities. It is, instead, a beau
tifully filmed, delightfully witty romp
through the Paris Metro.
Movie Review
The heroanti-hero of "Subway" is a
very typical and handsome French man
named Fred. Besides being typical,1
Fred just happens to be a devastating
dapper existential loner who has an
irrational hatred of safes. His knack for
trouble leads him to the incredibly
beautiful Helena (and to her husband's
safe, of course). He then tries to
blackmail her, be her lover and avoid
her husband's thugs all at once. In the
process of this he manages to get him
self locked in the Paris Subway system
overnight, becoming entwined in one of
the most fascinating and amoral cast of
characters collected on film in the last
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Christopher Lambert in "Subway."
10 years.
It is the melange of characters that
makes the film so enjoyable. They
include a rollerskating purse-snatcher,
a drummer with an uncanny ambival
ence towards his fellow man and a
flower peddler not even sure himself
which side he is on. Then there are the
authority figures, security guards as
signed to maintain order and fill out
paperwork. These include a pair of
primping constables code-named Bat
man and Robin. Any resemblance to
inept comic book characters living
or dead is purely intentional.
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