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Home , Billy Cobham, Freddie Hubbard, George Cables, Johnny Winter And, Still Alive and Well

March 4, 1974, The Retriever, Page 9 Theater Dept. sets 'Tartuffe' auditions Auditions for Tartuffe by Moliere Directing 353 · is holding open will be held on March 4 and 5 from 3-5 auditions for the Directing One-acts p.m. in the Theatre Copies of the play, . on Wednesday, March 6 from 1-3 in translated into verse by Richard the Studioe Theatre located in the Wilbur, are on reserve in the library. Fine Arts Building. Any member of All parts are open. Tartuffe, under the the University community may direction of Dr. Alice Robinson, will auddition. 10 plays will be presented run April 24, 25, 26 and 27, May 2, 3, by student directors in the months of and 4. For further information call March, April and May. Positions for 455-2525. stage manager, props, lights, sound "Dusty and T:J." two clown from and house manager are also open. the Ringling Bros. Barnum and Anyone interested in these duties may Bailey Circus will hold a lecture stop by the Studio Theatre during REHEARSING ... opening set March 7 Photo by David Jarboe . demonstration on Monday, March 4th auditions . in the Theatre at 1 p.m. The downs, Steve Smith and Tom Torkeldson are Some of the plays to be presented graduates of the clown college for are as follows: The Lover by Pinter, coming The Happy Journey to Trenton and . Ringling Bros. in Florida. They work According to tradition, blues as a team and are especially good in Camden by Thornton Wilder, The ting then-Columbia . Records Respectful Prostitute by Sartre, To musicians are supposed to suffer president, Clive Davis, to im­ pantomime. The lec- before they are to know success. If ture/ demostration is open to all Williams' Something Unspoken and mediately jet down South and sign The Cade of the Crushed Petunias and that's really more than an old wive's him up. . University students and members of tale, then JOHNNY WINTER will the COllrlm1uni1cy Muzeeka by John Guare. With the help of his brother Edgar stand as its human incarnation when and others WINTER built a dedicated he takes the Capital Centre stage on legion of fans with his early , a Thursday, March 7th at 7 P.M. The following which burst into even more Largo, Maryland arena will then widespread proportions when boogie to the sounds of a man who's WINTER teamed with three ex­ known both the bottom and the top of members of the McCoys to form a musician's life, and yet throughout . This band it all has remained essentially the brought WINTER heavily into the same "lil ole country boy" who's just modern blues-rock idiom, and was playing his music for whoever wants responsible for four gold albums. to hear. Tickets to Entertainment Concept's The cryptically-titled Still Alive and JOHNNY WINTER concert are Well answered questions raised by a priced at $5.50 in advance and $6.50 on generation rocked by drug use and the day of the show. All seating is psychological upheaval with general admission, and tickets may unabashed gusto. "The title sure tells be purchased at the Capital Centre the story" said Rock; "You bet he is" box office, all Baltimore-Washington was Creem's pronouncement. The :Hecht Co. stores and through the ablum re-affirmed WINTER's hard­ Pentagon Ticket Serivce. rockin' blues roots and meteorically Winter is from Texas, and down in shot up the charts on its way to tur­ the Lone Star State folks like their ning gold. music hard and heavy, with no frills Now WINTER has returned with attached. The incredible blues-rocker yet another , this one titled has never let his home-folks down, Saints And Sinners "cos it kinda tells and still pays homage to he Southern the story of what I'm about." "Stone blues masters who inspired Country" has been released as a him. He sings their songs today just single, and this latest tour is again as he sang them When bearing out the fact that WINTER is . .. featured him in a 1968 issue, promp- back--and on the right track . The art of ,Jon Lucien and others This column is a.new feature in the pletely revamped his group. His walls and ceiling of your house; cause RETRIEVER. It will deal primarily guitar, bass; Noel Pointer, violin; current group is much younger, allin this record is amonster! EIic Harrigan, drums; Frank Mlabe, with jazz, in an effort to expose the their 20's. For all you Maha vishnu Orchastra UMBC Community to the art and to This album is completely different and freaks, this conga, percussion; Dave Grusin, give a brief critque on several recent from anything I've ever heard him do. album is a must! . electric , chaimes, percussion, recordings. He doesn't employ the big string 1973 was truly the year for Billy and ahot of other musicians. Ratings Key: arrangements that cn and Don Cobham. He was not only voted the Peformance-4 I-poor Sebesky are so famous for. Instead, best drummer of the year, but at one If you should pick up this album, do 2-fair he uses a more "commmercially" or point, this was the number one album me one favor, ignore the liner notes. 3-good "pop" orientad arangement. in the country. They are written by Henry Mancini, 4-very good Without a doubt, side 2 is the zenith Cobham who also sets in with the not exactly aname to inspire ex­ 5-excellent of the album (however, I don't want to Mahavishnu Orchastra, wrote, citement and joy into alistener, but at Freddie Hubbard: short change the other side). If I had . arranged and produced the entiere any rate the album is very nice. "Keep your Soul Together"­ to single out one cut,' it would be album. His drum work has truly CTI6036;, Spirits of Trawe, Destiny's "Spirits of Trawe," which is returned as examplifed on the cuts The music of Lucien is one which is Children, Keep Your Soul Together, dedicated to the immortal John "Quadrant 4" and "Spectrum" The nice to play on a rainy, cozy day while Brigette. Coltrane. Check it out, I'm sure you speed, power, force and sheer sitting at home with a girl or boy Personnel-Hubbard, , will like it. strength that he demonstrates is firned. He has a warm, provocative plugelhorn; , electric . Billy Cobhana: simply unbelievable. "Quadrant 4," and lush voice that is Latin-oriented. piano; Ken Brinkley and , "Spectrum"-Atlantic SD 726&: which opens up the album, sum­ The album transmitts a feeling of free acoustic and electric bass; Ralph Stratus, Quadrant 4, Spectrum, The marizes the package. It really swings . . flight, tranquility and fantasy. By all Pewlawd, drums; Juno Lewis, dahka­ Red Baron and severl others. Many groups attempt to weave jazz means pick it up. drum and dahka- de-bello; Aurell Personnel-, drums, and so-called rock into a workable Scoop-WEATHER REPORr busiest, Ray; guitar; , tenor percussions; Ron Carter, acoustic arrangement, but very few are truly Miroslave Vitous (one of the foun­ saxophone. bass; , flugelhonr, successful. However, Cobham has ders) has left the group. Organize, Performance: 4 1/2 trumpet, , guitar; Joe ~reated one of themost dynamic has been busy on two How can you go wrong with Freddie Hammner, electric piano, moog sounds ever produced on wax. new projects, which should be Hubbard? This is a very fine album. I synthesizer; ; . flute, Jon Lucien: released shortly. The POINrER couldn't give it 5 points however, his soprano sax; and Ray Barreto, "Rashida"-RCA, APLI-0161: SISTERS have just completed another album ·"First Light" was a master­ cowgas. Would you Believe in me, Lady recording, soon to be released, said to piece. Hubbard, who was voted the Performance: 5 LOOVE, Rashida, The War Song, be a monster. number one trumpet player by A word of caution, before placing this Love Everlasting and t others. --by Tony R Davis Playbou's allstar ballot, has com- rec~rd on your turntable, check the Personnel-Jon LUcien, vocals,