12OmnibusThursday, November 17, 1988
RANDOM
THOUGHTS
'Who's on first?' and other burning questions
Dy EUZACSTH ELLEN
Staff Writer
Without context, all is meaning
less. My roommate speaks of It as
a major in trie journalism school
but to me, PR is a system of
distributing partisan power, elec
toraily. Somebody probably sees
PR as an American island way
south of here
When you mind your P"s and QV
you could be watching your alco
hol intake or doing your grocery
shopping. (The original meaning
was to mind your pints and quarts
when going to a pubJ
Without context, roles and
reason become distorted. Just
what will become of Billy warden
when the Floating Children grow
up? Or sink? Why do economics
teachers look funny wearing crash
helmets while driving slowly down
little residential streets? Is passing
a referendum favoring bottle
deposit laws a step on the road
to totalitarianism?
In the absence of context,
humor falls flat Why is there no
right fielder in Abbott and Costel
tos "Who's on first?" routine? This
burning question only keeps you
up at night if you know something
about baseball. Blessed are those
who do not know, for they shall
have uninterrupted steep.
The eight bail players are Who,
What, I Dont Know, I Dont care.
Today, Tomorrow, Why, and
Because. The routine is funny but
disturbing in its incompleteness
even today. 43 years after the film
The Naughty Nineties" was made.
There seems to be no sense in
playing a baseball game when any
bail hit to right field will go
unfielded.
Taking the absence of context
to its logical extreme leads one to
the concept of a vacuum, a
strange thing indeed. Without air
pressure, cold water can boil and
not get hot .
This concept works in the oppo
site way for radical politics, which
must not operate in a vacuum. The
U.S. Constitution is an amazinq
structure, it allows a great deal of
Quartet goes to the roots of jazz,
putting heart back into New Age
CyAUJSCrJKXE
Staff Writer
If you'd nke to jazz up your life
this week, Friday night the Cabaret
features local jazz players, the Jim
Troy Croup.
This quartet performs main
stream classical and modern types
of jazz, including originals and
familiar tunes by jazz artists Miles
Davis, John Coltrane and Bill Evans.
The members of the Jim Troy
Croup are ail local musicians: Bill
warren (drums), Mark Risjord (bass),
Sam Bruton (piano) and Jim Troy
(saxophone and flute). This is the
group's third year together, and
it has performed in this area often.
Members of the Jim Troy Croup
also perform with other local jazz
musicians. Warren plays with the
Masabi Brothers, and Bruton has
album credits with Silver wave
Records.
The group members have differ
ent backgrounds, which Troy says
gives the band a good "fusion."
"This is one of the virtues of
having the same core of people
(in a band), we have a good rapport
going we're spontaneous, but
in unison." Risjord has been trained
in classical music and studied jazz
in the Virgin Islands. Bruton works
on new age LPs and used to run
a recording studio in Los Angeles.
Troy began playing jazz in the
early '60s. His interest in saxo
phone ted him to familiarize him
self with the music of Charlie
Parker, in the late 70s, Troy
formed his first jazz trio.
Although he puts emphasis on
classical, mainstream jazz, Troy has
also played New Age music He said
It allowed for new innovations,
but felt that along with the merits
of this type of jazz come some
dangers.
the music we use fewer effects Troys long term goal is to record
than New Age, but the music is LPs under his own name "This band
technically challenging." is ongoing and we will take It as
As a professional musician, far as it can go."
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latitude for action if people would
just push it to its logical extremes.
Sweeping change can take place
by applying the basic concepts of
the system to the current state
of affairs. Society would indeed
boil, rapidly enough to cook maca
roni, but perhaps it would not
have to endure the heat of armed
rebellion.
Not absence of pressure, but
properly applied pressure could
bring this about. It would be a
beautiful country indeed if ev
eryone's concept of PR were
considered and respected, if right
field were occupied by the most
competent available fielder and if
any girl could grow up to be the
president
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