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Page 6 DTH Omnibus Thursday September 21, 1989 DTH Omnibus Page 7 Thursday September 21, 1989 F"1 1 r "Z1 . 7 v i i X. 1 j i ( M M I 1 t I v. A - i "7 I . I i t- i r: J V M , V I ' . -. Fro By DAVIS TURNER StaffWriter The 3rd Artsplosure Jazz and Heritage Music Festival will take off at 5 p.m. Friday, Sep tember 22, with a street dance led by Rebecca and the Hi Tones at the Raleigh Civic Center Plaza. The three-day event will expose area residents to a variety of sounds from 16 musical acts, including star perform ances by Branford Marsalis at 7:30 and 10 p.m. Saturday at the Stewart Thea ter on the NCSU campus. Other acts will feature jazz, folk, gospel and New Orleans Cajun-style music. Local visual artists will show and sell their original works of basketry, sculpture, jewelry, pottery, clothing, photography and painting in the 400 block of the Fayetteville Street Mall on Saturday and Sunday. The festival organization, which was incorporated in 1980, held the first Artsplosure in the spring of 1979 to showcase Raleigh's arts and talents in accessible settings. The festival has grown to include arts, music, dance, drama, sculpture, food and entertain ment. In the past, Artsplosure has included performances on buses, in churches, and in business lobbies, and has fea tured acts including Chuck Mangione S lV, ' A " '-rM& n - I T sit Ro on the capitol lawn. Because of unex pected growth and interest in the cele brations, the Jazz and Heritage Festi vals have been combined to strengthen and broaden the offerings to Triangle residents. Artsplosure has included performances on busses, in churches, and in business lobbies Rebecca and the Hi Tones will kick off the festival at 5 p.m. Friday at the Raleigh Civic Center on Fayetteville Street Mall. Saturday's music begins with traditional gospel fare at 2 p.m. with The Void Brothers. Hot Rize boogies forth later in the afternoon with its hot pickin' and soulful blue grass vocals, followed by Zachary Richard's energized but 'gentrified' 1 J test Cajun dance music. Paquito d'Rivera, an alto saxophonist known for his sen suous jazz that combines hot Latin rhythms with the "high-flying horns of Charlie Parker and John Coltrane," is the feature performer on Sunday. Branford Marsalis will sparkle on his tenor sax at the Stewart Theater on Saturday night. Marsalis, a versatile and resourceful performer who began playing piano at age four and alto sax at age fifteen, believes that "it's more of a challenge to do what Bird did than to do what Chuck Berry did" so jazz remains his first love. He has toured from New York to New Or leans and performed with such greats as Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gilespie, the Neville Brothers and Miles Davis; he now tours with Sting. Friday, Sept. 22 5 p.m. Rebecca and the Hi Tones Saturday, Sept. 23 2 p.m. The Void Brothers gospel 3 p.m. Ad Vielle que pourra FrenchCanadian 4 p.m. Liz Caroll Irish music and dance Slllllllr-. -X- f V f' V) I h ... ' ,1 Us 't'f ) i ' J 7A vi 5 p.m. Howard Armstrong Tin Pan Alley 6 p.m. FEATURED PERFORMER: Hot Rize bluegrass 7 p.m. FEATURED PERFORMER: Zachary Richard Louisiana Cajun 7:30 p.m. BRANFORD MAR SALIS at NCSU's Stewart Theater 8 p.m. Red Knuckles and the Trail blazers - Western swing - 10:30 p.m. BRANFORD MAR SALIS at Stewart Theater Sunday, Sept. 24 2 p.m. The Golden Echoes gos pel 3 p.m. Mojo Collins blues 4 p.m. The Wild BluefThe Jim Crew Group jazz 5 p.m. The Matt Kendrick Unit jazz 6 p.m. The Jon Metzger Group jazz 7 p.m. Group Sax jazz 8 p.m. FEATURED PERFORMER: Paquito D'Rivera Latin jazz For information on the Artsplosure Jazz and Heritage Festival, call 890 3196. For information on Branford Mar salis, call 737-3 104. 5 V ! X t f JAZZ HERITAGE Festival 1 1 ' teil - i CIVIC CENTER PLAZA SEPTEMBER 22,23,24,1989 Red Knuckles &the Trailblazers are (U) Waldo Otto, Wendell Mercantile, Slade, and old Red himself The who, How about some art to go with the music? North Carolina and East Coast visual artists will be displaying and selling every thing from acrylic and watercolor jewelry to wood instruments and sculpture during Artsplosure. Their original works can be found Satur day and Sunday, Sept. 23-24, on the 400 block of the Fayetville Street Mall in downtown Raleigh Janet Arnold Baskets Bennie Baker Handcrafted pipes Janet Bloch Sculpture, jewelry Stacy Carson Pottery Branford brings By MATTHEW McCAFFERTY StaffWriter Saxophonist Branford Marsalis is one musician who has certainly taken the high road to artistic achievement. Traveling alone and with his exceptionally talented sib lings, he searched for higher musical ground and found it, and managed to become a minor pop star along the way. Concertgoers have the opportu nity to experience the musicality and personality for which Marsalis is famous when he brings his quartet to the Stewart Theatre on the campus of N.C. State University this Satur day night at 7:30 and 10 p.m. The show opens the second season of WUNC Jazz at Center Stage, and is part of the Artsplosure Jazz and Heri tage Music Festival. While Marsalis' rise to his current position of popularity and acclaim was rapid, it was not overnight. Before Trio Jeepy, his latest solo release on Columbia Records, before Sting's Dream of the Blue Turtles, be fore brother Wynton Marsalis' Grammy-winning solo efforts, before his roles in Throw Mama From the Train and School Daze, before three other solo albums of his own, there was Art Blakey and the Jazz Messen gers. This legendary ensemble has been both a proving ground and a launchpad for some of the world's finest jazz musicians, Marsalis among them. Experience in Blakey's big band served as the first significant accom plishment on a resume that would later include Grammy nominations, platinum pop albums, and major film roles. After Blakey, Marsalis went on to perform with the Herbie Hancock Quartet and VSOP II, which led to session work with no fewer than a dozen major artists, including jazz visionary Miles Davis. Record pro ducers continue to summon his tal ents, as his extreme versatility makes the what, the how, the Harry L. Davis Oils John Garland Pottery Linda Gibson Acrylic jewelry I Patti Haskins Jewelry Julia Jenkins Watercolor jew elry Robin V. Justice Batiked cloth ing ' Phyllis Lang Textiles Dan &. Nancy Lovejoy Pottery Rob Magnum Pottery Richard Montgomery Clay ex trusions Melinda Penkava Photography GayleRancer Jewelry Bob Rankin Mixed media . him a cost - effective sideman. Branford's younger brother Delfeayo, who produced Trio Jeepy and is an accomplished musician in his own right, offers this description of the oldest male child in an un commonly gifted musical family: "He is the first soloist to my knowl edge whose contributions to music openly display the multifarious quali ties of all major saxophone stylists in the jazz idiom, in addition to his own. While most hornmen his age search frantically for an autonomous voice in the jazz world, Branford has first chosen to understand in full the logic, inventiveness, and personalities of his predecessors, thus greatly enhancing his creative awareness." Branford is considerably more modest in describing his current level of musical accomplishment. "I'm confident of my ability," he said recently when interviewed for a Downbeat magazine cover story, "but I'm not ready to break new ground right now." It is this characteristic unpreten tiousness which has earned Marsalis the genuine affection, as well as re spect, of musicians, filmmakers and audiences alike. In his first movie role in Sting's musical documentary Bring On the Night, he displayed a warmth and humor which instantly ingratiated him with the masses, lead ing to other film roles and no doubt helping to spur sales of his own rec ord releases. Trio Jeepy was actually recorded in January of 1988, but Columbia Rec ords' marketing specialists delayed its release for well over a year. It is a strikingly ambitious but mature double-record set, featuring only an upright bassist and a drummer to support Marsalis' tenor sax. Mixed with a minimum of the high-tech gadgetry that so often distills mod ern jazz, it is a contemporary record ing with a classic, time-honored sound. Rita Redd Jewelry, accessories Gail Ritzer Pottery Linda Suiter r - Jewelry, accesso ries Triangle Calligraphers Guild Franklin Weldon Wooden in struments ; Britt Zaist Painting Artsplosure Sponsors: Hospitality Sponsor: Radisson Plaza Hotel Raleigh Transportation Sponsor: American Airlines Media Sponsors: WRDU, WNND, News and Observer on the nig Branford's sax simply has no equal Marsalis will be bringing a slightly Expect some serious music from different lineup to Raleigh this week- the Branford Marsalis quartet this end, including the current king of weekend. contemporary jazz piano, Kenny Branford Marsalis plays the Ste- Kirkland. Kirkland was responsible wart Theatre on the campus of NCSU for the lush keyboard orchestrations in Raleigh this Saturday, September which, along with Marsalis' almost 23, at 7:30 and 10 p.m. Tickets are baroque-flavored horn stylings, helped available for this show, as well as for elevate Sting's solo records to the the entire Artsplosure festival, by status of serious music. calling 737-3104. why Printing Sponsor: Walker Ross Printing v ' . Annual Sponsors: Cable vision of Raleigh, AT&T Funded in part by the City' of Raleigh ' ' Music supported in part by the North Carolina Arts Council, a di vision of the Department of Cultural Resources and the National Endow ment for the Arts, a federal agency Friday and Saturday performances sponsored by Pinecone, the Piedmont Council of Traditional Music Artsplosure is a member of the United Arts Foundation ht -OdK f f j. -i. -- ... , w L. fci
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