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Flip Wilson if co-host, along with Lola Falana. of the tth Annual Rhythm A Bines Award Special, Thursday night. May Zt, 12:1* a.m. on WBTV. Channel 3. Jay Hoggard Brings New Sound To Popular Music • When most people think of the vibes, they think of Lionel Hampton. Milt Jack son, Bobby Hutcherson, or Ray Ayers. Jay Hoggard also plays the vibes. And if you as sumed that that also means he plays jazz, you’d be right. He is one of the best young musicians in the world. But jazz is not the only music Jay plays. And jazz is not the only music the vibrapbonist can play. At 28, Jay has already earned the praise of his peers and the critics. He has performed with such well-known artists as Roberta Flack, Candi Staton and McCoy Tyner. For three years straight. Jay has been voted the No. One vibraphooist deserv ing of wider recognition in “Downbeat” magazine’s International Jazz Critics Poll. The national news paper, “USA Today,” named Jay one of the ten best young musicians of the 80s. Jay has appeared on 23 albums, six of them under his own name. His newest LP on the Grama vis km la bel is “Love Survives” and it features his hit single, “Don’t Quit.” Jay sees the new album as an important step in bringing his music-and the vibraphone-to a new and larger audience “With ‘Love Survives,’ I tried to show that the vibes can play just as funky or as mellow as any other intru ment. “The music that Lionel Hampton and Duka EUing- .. ton played back in the 90s and 40s was considered the popular dance music of that time. I’d like to see people dancing to my music in the 80s as well.” Born in Washington, D.C. Jay was raised in Mount Vernon, NY, the son of a prominent bishop in the AME Zion Church. At 11, Jay decided to be a musi cian after his father intro duced him to Duke Elling ton during the Duke’s Se cond Sacred Concert in Harlem. nano lessons were pro vided by Jay’s mother, and he studied saxophone with a neighbor. At 18, Jay switched to the vibraphone after having a dream about playing them. “I knew from then on that this was what I was supposed to do,” he said. In 1872, Jay enrolled in Wesleyan University, and majored in ethno-musico logy. While there, he re ceived a grant to study East African xylophone music in Tanzania. Upon graduating, Jay worked briefly as a teacher, then he returned to New York where his reputation has been growing ever since. “I think I’ve been for tunate as a musician to have played a broad variety of music. And based on those experienc es, I don’t think there’s any instrument that captures the total essence of all black music better than the vibes. I’d like to show more people how hip the vibes really are.” READ The Charlotte Pest 4.1.1 “Mtfvie Blockbtisters” Are WBTV Entertainment Special “Movie Blockbusters: The 15 Greatest Hits of All Time,” an entertainment special during which the most successful motion pic tures of all time are sa luted by musical produc tion numbers and a galaxy of the film world’s top names, including stars who appeared in and provide a unique behind-the-scenes look at some of the me morable films, will be broadcast Tuesday, May 24, at 8 p.m. on WBTV, ■ Channel 3. The winners, in order of their box-office success, are “E.T., The Extra-Ter restrial,” “Star Wars,” “The Empire Strikes Back,” “Jaws,” "Raiders of the Lost Ark,” “Toot sie,” “Grease,” “The Ex orcist,” “The Godfather I,” “Superman I,” “The Sound of Music,” ‘"The Sting,” “dose Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Gone With the Wind” and “Sa turday Night Fever.” Some of the stars appear in person before the invi tational black-tic audience to reminisce, and others are seen in specially taped interviews to recall the filming of the blockbusters, which were selected by the annual survey compiled by “Variety” as the films that the public, by flocking to theatres throughout the United States and Cana da, selected as the cham pions of the past 50 years. Introducing the films, from which dips are shown, are Drew Barry more, Jeff Conaway, An thony Daniels (C3PO), Olivia de Havilland, Carrie • Fisher. Harrison Ford, Maurice Gibb, Mark Hamill, Robert MacNaugh . A .. ten, Butterfly McQueen, Christopher Plummer, R2D2, Henry Hx>mas, John Travolta, Mrs. Marie Von Trapp and Dee Wallace. Not only were the films spectacularly successful with the public, but they received, collectively, 110 Academy Award nomina tions resulting in 47 Aca demy Awards. Stay Informed Of Community News... Read THE CHARLOTTE POST A Printing "A DIVISION OF THE DELMAR CO." Willie Bullock, Professional Photographer SPECIALIZING IN Weddings, Family, <S Class Portraits We Carry A Complete Line Of.... Wedding invitations, napkins, announcements, souvenir matches, social-functions & birth announcements. Mon.Sat. 9-5 334-271* 1017 Beatties Ford Rd k -----—_* j WOWS 1 Found Everything On My Shopping List hu PROFESSIONAL BEAUTY SUPPLY, TCR, CARE FREE H_ LUS7RASILK, RIGHT ON, GENTLE TREATMENT And It Was Even On MHtMAnd Some Of The Items Were (Ml. There’s No Place Better To Shop For All Your Hair Care Needs. 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