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ADF Slates "An Evening Of Jazz And Dance
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The myth that "you can't
dance to jazz" will be ex
ploded Sunday, June 21
when the American Dance
Festival presnets "An Even
ing of Jazz and Dance."
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fastest tenor' saxophonist of
all time, will bring his quartet
to the ADF for a perfor
mance with scat dancers
Scoby Stroman and Jafar
Abdullah. The program will
be improvisational, in the
best Be-Bop tradition,
featuring music by Afro
American classical com
posers and original works by
Griffin. "
It-will begin at 8 p.m. in
Duke University's Page
Auditorium.
The program has its roots
in the jazz and dance of the
late 1940's and early 50",
before jazz turned v"cool."
Both Scoby Stroman and
Jafar Abdullah were
developing . their dance
techniques during those
years,- alongside the great
jazz musicians of the era
Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious
Monk, Max Roach and the
like.
Clarence "Scoby"
Stroman was introduced to
the Brooklyn stage as a tap
dancer in 1936 at age 5.
When he was 20. he helped
form a Be-Bop dance quartet
which performed with such
bands as Randy Weston,
Max Roach and Thelonious
Monk. The quartet par
ticipated in a film, "The
Spirit Moves," which
documents dances spanning
Sunday
. June 21, 1981
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the "Cake Walk" through
the "Lindy Hop" to the
"Apple Jack." Stroman
later performed as a profes
sional drummer for many
years, then returned to scat
dancing in 1979 with the
Johnny Griffin Quartet as
one of his first collaborators.
As a drummer and dancer,
Stroman has performed all
over the U.S. and in several
foreign countries, bringing to
them the kind of jazz and
dance that emerged when
jazz was still "hot."
Jafar Abdullah began his
dance career in 1948 at the
Club 78, the jaz comer in
Brooklyn where all the greats
of that era appeared. During
the Be-Bop years, Abdullah
worked with artists like Max
Roach, Dizzy Gillespie,
Charlie Parker, Randy
Weston and Scoby
Stroman. He is now semi- .
retired and only dances, he
says, for "special perfor
mances." Johnny Griffin, the
S-foot-3 "Little Giant" from
Chicago, is a brilliant techni
cian noted for the intensity
of his playing and its uncom
promising, purity. He began
playing the saxophone at age
14 in Chicago and later
worked with artists such as
Lionel Hampton and
Thelonious Monk. In 1963,
despite an established reputa
tion. Griffin left for Europe
for over a decade of ex
patriate life, which ended
with a triumphant U.S. tour
in 1978. He now lives in
southern France, returnine
to the U. S. for regular tours.
Other members of the
Griffin quartet are pianist
Ronnie Mathews, bassist Ray
Drummond and drummer
Kenny Washington.
The ADF season continues
through July 25 with the
Dance Theatre of Harlem;
May O'Donnell Concert
Dance Company; Laura
Dean Dancers and Musi
cians; "Emerging Genera
tion" Dance Companies, at
Stewart Theatre in Raleigh;
Chuck Davis Dance Com
pany; "Vaudeville Alive and
Dancing"; and Pilobolus
Dance Theatre.
For ticket information call
(919) 684-4059 9 a.m. to 4
p.m. weekdays.
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Winelight Album Sets
Jazz Chart Record
NEW YORK, N.Y.
Grover Washington, Jr.'s
Winelight album, co
produced by Washington
and Ralph McDonald, has
just set a record as the
longest-sustaining number
one album in the history of
Billboard's jazz charts.
Winelight has been number
one for 22 weeks, breaking
the record held by the
Crusaders' Street Life in
1979. In addition, the'
MacDonald-produced LP
has stayed in the top five on
the pop charts for over a
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helped propel a record to the
top of the charts. The master
songwriterper c u s
sionistproducer has
previously been associated
with recordings by artists
ranging from Billy Joel, Paul
Simon, Aretha Franklin,
Roberta Flack and Qui'wy
Jones to the Brothers
Johnson and Steely Dan.
American Dance Festival Needs
Wheels
The American Dance
Festival needs wheels to start
the season rolling.
The ADF is asking that
vehicles be contributed for use
primarily in the Triangle area.
Two cars are needed by mid
May, two by June 1 and three
more by June 12. In addition,
a station wagon will be needed
by June I. All vehicles will be
used until the festival ends Ju
ly 31.
Anyone interested in
donating a vehicle should call
Nancy Trovillion at the ADF
office in Durham. 684-6402.