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58SS2i35525S2?3SM3Si2233!SSM2353iaS5&25^2SiS2i I ' The Clown 1 I Dizzy Gillespie: M I Famed trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, the daddy of bebop, says music should start not in the lips, but in the posterior. "Most trumpet players are worried about their rhnnc th#?ir 1?r?c " .4 ?> wivu 11pjt l>\i-?.y saiu icccuuy between sets at Carolina Streetscene, an outM door music festival sponsored by R.J. Reynolds Tabacco po. "You gotta start at the bottom and that's the truth! You can't tighten the muscles in your diaphragm unless you tighten the muscles in your (rear end). That pushes air up." I It's advice that would make most trumpet teachers pull in their pucker. But then, Gillespie's not called Dizzy for nothing, antf? the origin of those golden sounds for which he is known is just one of his musical mannerisms that causes the experts to shudder. When Dizzy puts trumpet to lips, his cheeks billow to an alarming degree, stopping just short of lifting him from the stage like a I human hot-air balloon. Other trumpeters cringe at those puffed-up cheeks; it's contrary to good form, they say. Even Dizzy's trumpet is an oddity. The bell points to the sky instead of straight ahead, the product of a serendipitous accident years ago. Gillespie says someone sat on his trumpet at a party and he liked the unusual result so much that he adopted it. The bent horn became one lH of his trademarks. Then There's hls^ bizarre and" beguilinghaberdashery, his distinctive monologues, and *t j * Inis wua manner 01 playing, grimacing and gesticulating during performances that earned him the title, "Clown Prince of Jazz." But there's another side to Dizzy the musician, composer and trumpeter. It is Dizzy the teacher, eager' that his experience gained through more than 45 year^.as a jazz musician shodttf not gd'ttrfc'asfe. ***** W To funnel that knowledge to future generations of jazz lovers, Dizzy is working on "a Ask Yolonda Mother's plig By YOLONDA GAYLES Syndicated Columnist Dear Yolonda: I'm 25, and I live at home with Rather, 1 should say that 1 live with my mother. M} here, too, but you wouldn't know it. He's hardly ev ' comes in occasionally to change clothes, but then he out. He says very little to me and my mother, an<J he u cent on the bills. My mother and I split the expenses. 1 out and get my own apartment, but my mother d enough to carry the rent by herself, so I'm grounded the way my father acts, I have very little respect for 1 I've tried to talk to both of my parents about this. I mother why she won't just put Dad out. But she won't My father feels as though I'm messing in his busin ? "7 ? mJl' | -i XL? - m V jt$* jH PlflJ *"*' B? hHHHHIIHr^ Jt -* Outrageous Lakeside has done it again with their m "Outrageous." The hit follows the way of othe like "Fantastic Voyage", "Something About and a remake of the Beatles' 1964 hit "I Wanl Hand." "Outrageous," the title of the group's is also the title of the hit single. "With this albi Wee\ The Arts, Leisure Mnce ' Tusic starts in the rear little idea" that carries a $2.5 million price tag and the mind-boggling name of "The John Birks 'Dizzy' Gillespie Center for Cultural Change and Jazz Hall of Fame." Thp nrnnnspH farilitv ?a KhJW 1 r. vf/vuvw ? uvill 1J ) IV UV UUIIl ?i uaui 111' burg Institute in Laurinburg, would include a comprehensive jazz center complete with a computerized library, a 950-seat auditorium, radio and recording studios, and teaching and workshop facilities. In short, Lalirinburg's answer to Preservation Hall of New Orleans "and then some, " said Gillespie. "Nobody has done quite enough to make . jazz be loved and remembered," he saidsr "Jazz is America's music and we've got to protect it for our youth."\ Born in Cheraw, S.C., in 1917, the last of nine children, Gillespje won a music scholarship to Laurinburg Institute, the nation's only black-owned college preparatory school. Ironically, Gillespie went to the school to try out for a football scholarship, but one 7 look at the backfield sent him scurrying to something he knew, he could handle: the trumpet. "Dizzy was something of a; wild man on campus. He didn't even wait for graduation before he took off to New York where he had a gig waiting," said Laurinburg Institute Chairman Frank McDuffie Jr., whose grandparents founded the school in 1904. "He's ? been Tunning ever since." It was McDuffie and Gillespie who came up with the idea for the ja2z center. The pair HrPampH rvf a natirtnu/iHp rr?r?n?\;_raicii"?r? v?*aaav%? va 11M V* Via T? 1V?V IIIV/11VJ 1 HIJIU^ V UIII " paign with well-known contemporary jazz stars lining up to perform benefit concerts. But the dream hasn't panned out quite as it was envisioned and so far not a penny has b$en raised, McDuffie said. "We sort of got oiir cart before the proverbial horse and now we are trying to realign," Please see page B6 M^? 'ht makes daugh things just as they are. I'm really ready to move out c my girlfriends' apartments, I b my parents. ancj j?m reacjy to try on my ov / father lives do? What should j do abom er home. He 's right back 'on't pay one Dear Jeana: If you're prepare I'd like to get I'm sure she'll understand youi oesn't make When she was your age, I'm su [. Because of : If she's unable to pay the rent him. about the U.S. Department of 1 've asked my ments. Many are located in priv listen to me. I have no idea as to why your ess. He likes treatment, but that's something ir ?r Bf? -v ? . ^B f Jb^1 1 ^*F*X Hfigj. 4 Hb m .^k V f /fi B,/? ;^, 1 J Bj^ / "^^B J jB bw hit single clear effort to do something d f Top-40 tunes Stokes. "To remain successfi That Woman" a lot of competition out there t To Hold Your things. We wanted to bran eighth album, Lakeside sound. I think we'v< urn, we made a r - Ttia CI L kend , Music, Columns i k f I t r i ' :. ?> ? I - .J? . ... ; ft "/ ' 'V^^*||HBXM ?V ' > * . ' - >- < ?* *~4- Ts: 1 f ;' Jiijji fl 'Mm ? fli ^r f rT^^i^fflf^/Tir' W Bfct^ jBB|^*y?yMB^^WMW^^ivyM I Bi fef /?g/ gMf//V flfa)l t/ out between ther >n my own. Everytime I visit one of ecome jealous. I have a good job She Loves He m, but 1 feel guilty. What should I 1 father? DearYolonda Jeana married a woma big reception ? i d to move, talk with your mother. wife is still in lo1 r desire to make it on your own. Following thei re she felt similarly. thought that he v in your present apartment, tell her he called and sai Housing's list of subsidized apart- there was no lega rately-owned buildings. him to bring tht mother puts up with your father's movie. When he she and your father have to work ? " 71 Broadwcn * Mhf ' ~ * X/ft/ei . By JOEY SASSO * Syndicated Columnis ^ Observations in < '[? " Night Beat: \ UP < Among those ta this week about th v * i dustry were Littl Mf) ^ i soul singer turned and Ware, F k r^i ' tt,i>nA/4 1?U' UVllT Wl lU1 llwv4 1UU ^ me/* said Richa m ^Fei # during a mee P^r"*' W$m "jfinfo, members of the C< D U^*. I' f Black Caucus in \ 9 jpi w^? ^ K|Jf ?^*0* Frutti," said that PPP ? 4^ performers wei enough for their when his career w lifferent," says Lakeside's Otis ir! ^ 1950s- Hc jl, you have to change. There is virtua y cut o i and they're all doing different royaties t at c < ich out, but stay within the received as the sor * succeeded " lawyers 1 8ucceeaea their lawyers," R ______________l "It was a crooke ironicfe, Thursday, October 4, 1984-Page ^ * V I ?|? Pi Eh I |i it moving out nselves. r Ex, Too * : I've made a mistake and now I need some help. I n after dating her for only six months. We had a ill paid for out of my pocket. The problem is my ve with her ex, and I'm caught in the middle, r divorce, my wife's ex-husband moved to Ohio.. I vas out of the picture. Boy was I wrong. Last week d that their divorce had not been granted because J signature on the divorce decree. I agreed to allow r papers over. It was like something from a bad got here he stood in the middle of the floor and % Please see page B6 t Is Mv Beat c * lichard gets tough o 1 I'm pleading fraud and ilil literacy. "I was a country boy from covering the Macon, Ga." - During his appearance Iking tough before the group,- Ware, exle music in- ecutive director of the le Richard, Philadelphia-based Black I evangelist, Music Association, said there , civil rights are few black superstars like byist. Michael Jackson because the t paid but music of blacks is arbitrarily xd recently kept off many radio ting with stations.... "tnffTMcinnal Pah P allnwov an. WVJIV/IIUI V/VNIW VtN/VvJtl V upWashington. pear in "Cotton Club," but such hits as he's already profiting from it and "Tutti- beyond the $6,500 he received many black to sign an agreement stating en't paid that he could be portrayed in work back the December release. So as booming many clubs are convinced said he was "Cotton Club" will heighten ut of the interest in jazz's golden era should have that the 76-year-old legend is tgwriter. being swamped with bookings [ used were for next year, ichard said. Right now his represenid set-up.... 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