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exhibition. You need not know about art, you designs in colored pencil. Many diffetent and By Judith Smith-Meyer simply need to open your eyes and use them to challenging works iiihabit a common space while Arts and Entertainment Editor see, to look at color, shapes, dimensions and Steve Cortright’s “Domestic Interior,” com [ textures and discover what causes you to react, posed entirely of used books, takes repose in a THE NEWLY REFURBISHED UNIVERSITY ART MU- what you like and how you feel when you interact quiet corner niche alone. The softness in tone and seum houses a remarkable array of works by with different pieces. This exhibit is a wonderful simultaneous powerful solidity of Robert members of our permanent and visiting Studio opportunity to not only become acquainted with Thomas’ “ Hand” contrasts with the dynamic Art Department faculty. The great diversity of the artists we call teachers, but also to become instability and bright reds in Gary H. Brown’s the pieces in the exhibit reveals the breadth of acquainted with ourselves. “ An Aspect of Double Connection.” And, while personalities teaching art studio at UCSB and Throughout this showing, a viewer will en most pieces seem inextricably bound to the walls offers insight into some people we usually counter great comparisons and contrasts that of the gallery, Rachel Dutton’s vigorous consider in relation to our own accomplishments highlight the distinctive nature of each artist’s sculptures of mixed media, “ Portage” and or those of our peers. Presented with such an works. Notice the stylized, intricate details of “ Feet of Song,” remain independent of such opportunity to learn about our own faculty and to Douglas Lawrie’s clay and earthenware “ Vase constraints and actively occupy the same space derive pleasure, incentive and contemplation Form” and its companions and remember them as the viewer. from their efforts, the UCSB community is when, around the comer, you encounter the Amidst all the oil, acrylic and clay are certain to respond with much enthusiasm. Any of seemingly cleaner, varied representatives of the an exceptionally broad spectrum of artistic photographic medium. The meditative clarity of tastes are amply accommodated by this Kathryn Clark’s environmental type C prints, exhibition and new tastes will no doubt be “ Southern Highway— Joshua Tree” and “ Early developed by those wise enough to partake. So, Morning Bush,” by eliciting a gentle emotional sometime between now and Oct. 18, take a stroll response contrast fundamentally with Ami through the galleries and indulge in the richness Hamilton’s adventuresome abstract of the creative resources that exist right here. photographs, which invite a more intellectual interpretation. Oppositional to the clear NANCY DOLL, THE CURATOR OF MODERN ART AT THE delineation of forms in the work of these two Santa Barbara Museum of Art and guest curator artists are the photo silkscreens of Michael for the exhibit, has applied her experience to Honer, whose soft colors and shapes flow develop an exhibition that invites anyone in Yarber's "Suspension of Disbelief" tranquilly from one to another with no con terested in art, however timidly or remotely, to freer, unconstrained feeling of Sheldon sequential diffusion or vagueness. devour the recent works on display. Upon en Kaganoff’s shiny black cylindrical forms such as tering the museum, one is immediately drawn “Line/Mass Study.” Compare the large AS THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR BEGINS, RESOLVE TO into the gallery and guided through the exhibit proportions of these sculptures to the immense utilize the tremendous advantages existing at by its direct and very strategic arrangement. A magnetism of “ Acypios,” Michael Dvortcsak’s UCSB to become articulate not so much about great vibrancy pervades the museum now. awe-igniting oil painting, and examine it from art itself, but about what art can do. If it has yet These works are very contemporary and the side to be sure its third dimension is illusion. done nothing at all for you, try out this exhibit perhaps this proximity in time to the lives and The considerable weight of these pieces with a freshly open mind and heart and engage hopefully to the hearts of the artists has imbued highlights and is punctuated by the graceful even more input to the compilation of influences the gallery with some of the spirit involved in levity of Hiromi Katayama’s floating sculpture that are you. You may gather your own im creating them. of minowashi (Japanese paper), and stainless pressions of the show any time Tuesday through Follow your senses to the right and be greeted steel and copper etching. Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sundays by Robert Yarber’s “ Suspension of Disbelief,” a from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. However, a docent will compelling painting of deep, rich acrylic hues on THE EXHIBIT MAINTAINS A NOTABLE BALANCE guide you through the exhibition if you par canvas. Just as the subjects of the painting do, throughout with pieces of overtly captivating ticipate in thè noon hour “ art breaks” on leave behind your attachment to the world strength like Nancy Pierson’s magnificent Tuesdays Sept. 29 and Oct. 13 or the “ Saturdays outside and believe that what you see is real. As drawing in graphite on paper, “ The Judge Gives at 2” tours on Sept. 26 and Oct. 3,10, and 17. So, readily as you might escape into a film, so can Himself Life,” sharing space with the quieter, for heaven’s sake, get over to the Arts building you effortlessly absorb the wealth of this logical power of William Rohrbach’s geometric and have a midday art snack for free. 2A Thursday, September 24, 1987 Daily Nexus rts & Lectures
Madrid, New York, Dublin, Seoul, Hollywood, Tel Aviv and Mojave, California.
Arts & Lectures has die ideal way to Get Out of The American Adventures film series brings together the Classroom: w e’ll take you around the world non stop seven quirky and comic American films that share a pleasant in nine performances, plus several lectures and about a dozen yet daring sense of adventure — whether it be the characters, films. From colorful visions of the Irish countryside to the fic the filmmakers or the audience that embark on the particular tional disco of Virgil, Texas, A&L’s Fall events roster has more adventure of each film. American Adventures opens tonight than its share of get-up-and-go. with Swimming to Cambodia, a unique cinematic experiment by Jonathan Demme that stars performance artist Spalding During Fall quarter, you can look forward to classical music Gray. In this film, a recreation of Gray’s Obie Award-winning from Chamber Music Northwest, modem dance with Spanish stage performance, Spalding Gray recounts his journey to and Latin influences from Ballet Hispanico of N ew York, the Southeast Asia, where he played in the film The Killing Fields Back Alley Theatre’s production of Are You Now or Have You and moved through the murky waters of American influence Ever Been (a drama of Hollywood and McCarthyism), tradi overseas. Gray lets his real-life experiences lead him into tional Irish music by the folk group Green Fields of America, flights of fancy and intellectual, witty monologues that are very cool sounds from the legendary Modem Jazz Quartet, bizarre, frightening and funny. ultra-contemporary moves from the ground-breaking Mark Morris Dance Group, traditional Korean music and dance by But talk is cheap. Fortunately, so are film series tickets. With Samul-Nori, and the wonderful Guameri String Quartet. And series tickets, you’ll pay only about two dollars per film. At that’s just the list of “live on stage” events — there are many that price, you can invest in two series tickets and always be more films and leqtures that represent a wide variety of view able to say, “By the way, I’ve got two tickets to...” points and a whole world full of ideas.
Among the visitors coming to UCSB this Fall to give public Tickets for all A&L events are on sale now at the lectures are Israeli ambassador Abba Eban and test pilot Dick A&L Ticket Office (Building 402, adjacent to Campbell Hall). Rutan. After guiding the Voyager on the first-ever non-stop, You can charge tickets by phone (minimum $10) or obtain non-refueled around the world trip last December, Dick Rutan information about any A&L event by calling 961-3535. Or made big headlines. But he has been setting aeronautic re pick up a free A&L events brochure for all the details. cords for years, from his home base in Mojave, California. On October 5, Rutan will show slides and film footage and discuss his historic flight. September A&L’s 1987-88 performing arts season opens on October 6 with a concert by Chamber Music Northwest, an elegant en Swimming to Cambodia 61m 24 semble of five highly respected musicians plus Music Director Spalding Gray talks about life, and everything. David Shifrin. For our official “opening night,” w e’d like you Tonight / 8 PM / Campbell Hall / UCSB students J3. to celebrate the season in true, eclectic UCSB style — so you may dress-to-the-nines or just borrow a tie, get in the mood Round Midnight 61m 27 with a candlelit dinner or grab a burger on the way to cam Tavernier’s soulful film stars jazzman Dexter Gordon. pus, make a night of it or just catch a musical study break, Sunday / 8 PM / Campbell Hall / UCSB students $3. and bring a date or a classmate or come alone and enjoy the pleasure of being your own solo. Chamber Music Northwest evolved out of a regular summer October music festival in Portland, Oregon, where musicians came to gether to play old favorites as well as lesser known works that Andrew Mack lecture 1 called for unusual configurations of musicians — after all, not “The Strategy of Non-Provocative Defense” all chamber music was written for the string quartet! This en Thursday / 4 PM / Girvetz 1004 / Free semble will play L’Histoire du Soldat Suite for Clarinet, Violin Elvia Alvarado Gak) and Piano, a piece that was inspired by a Russian version of Elvia Alvarado Galo lecture 1 the Faust legend called The Soldier’s Tale and was composed “The Impact of U.S. Militarization on Honduras” by Igor Stravinsky; Mozart’s Quintet in E-flat for Piano and Thursday / 8 PM / Music 1145/ Free winds, K. 452; and Brahms Trio in E-flat for Horn, Violin and Home of the Brave 61m 1 Piano, Op. 40. Chamber Music Northwest includes bassoon, Laurie Anderson directs her own performance film. clarinet, piano, French horn, violin and oboe. Tickets are on Thursday / 8 PM / Campbell Hall / UCSB students $3. sale now; please note that most A&L performing arts events German Documentary Films 1-2 sell out, so buy tickets now! “Starting Towards Freedom: 1945-50” Thursday & Friday / 3:30 & 7 PM / Isla Vista Theater #2 A&L’s New Directions in Film series returns to The Wannsee Conference 61m ’ 4 Campbell Hall this Fall, beginning Sunday night with Round A chilling story of Hitler’s Final Solution. Midnight, a soulful, beautiful portrait of a jazz musician, a dif Sunday / 8 PM / Campbell Hall / UCSB students $3. ferent kind of “American in Paris” story that garnered praise Dick Rutan lecture 5 from fens everywhere and made several critics’ “ten best” lists The Incredible Voyager: An Evening With Dick Rutan” for 1986. The series continues with seven more films, samples Monday / 8 PM / Campbell Hall / UCSB students $3. of contemporary cinema from Germany, South Africa, Israel, Chamber Music Northwest concert 6 Argentina, Greece, Soviet Georgia and the People’s Republic Works by Stravinsky, Mozart and Brahms. of China. Tuesday / 8 PM / Campbell Hall / UCSB students $10/18/ $6. Round Midnight
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Playwright's Creativity IV THEATER SUNDAY, SEPT. 27 A film about Lorraine Hansberry, the acclaimed Afro-American woman 8:00 & 10:30 pm playwright, author of the New York Critics Circle best play of the 1958-59 $2.50 season, “ A Raisin in the Sun,” will screen at the UCSB Women’s Center Sponsored by next Monday, Sept. 28, from noon to 1 p.m. Born in Chicago and educated at Chi Omega Sorority the University of Wisconsin, Ms. Hansberry promised a life-long career of great writing but lost a battle with cancer and passed away the year after her second play, “ The Sign in Sidney Brunstein’s Window,” opened in 1964. The film, Lorraine Hansberry, The Black Experience in the Creation of Drama, expounds on her artistic development largely in her own words SIEVE MARTIN DARYL HANNAH and voice and so is a rare opportunity to discover notonly what she did, but how and why she did it. Ms. Hansberry was talented at not only playwriting, but also wrote short stories, poetry, essays and social criticism and some of her autobiographical statements are included in To Be Young, Gifted and Black, a book compiled and edited by her husband Robert Nemiroff. Her Thursday 9/24 works have been published as recently as 1972, when Les Blancs, The 7, 9,11 pm Collected Last Plays appeared, exhibiting the ongoing respect of and IV. Theater-$2.50 demand for her work. Santa Barbara playwright Terre Ouwehand will lead a discussion Spons. by Philipino Student Union (P.S.U.) following the film, which is being co-sponsored by the Women’s Center and The creative processes of Lorraine the Department of Black Studies. □ Hansberry: Friday's noon film. UCSB Aits & Lectures All films in UCSB Campbell Hall at 8 PM.
Theatre Artists Group Revives Summer Plays s w n p iN G Thursday, September 24 UCSB’s Theatre Artists Group will revive its two summer productions for anyone who missed them or would like to see them again this fall. CAMBODIA JUST WHEN YOU “ Jesse and the Bandit Queen,” David Freeman’s freewheeling, highly THOUGHT IT WAS spirited wild-west fantasy directed by our dramatic arts department chair S A FE TO GO BACK and faculty member, Robert G. Egan, is based on the lives of two infamous IN THE WATER! outlaws, Jesse James and Belle Starr. The play re-opens Wednesday, Sept. 30 and plays through Saturday, Oct. 3 nightly at 8 p.m. in UCSB’s Studio Call for a free brochure: 961-3535. Theatre. Set together in the theatre by Freeman, the notorious criminals act out their respective biographies each with the other playing the chief figure in LEARN their lives. The play was first performed at the New York Public Theatre and has appeared widely on regional stages. The Theatre Artists Group will tour the production to UC Riverside in January. MEDITATION The Theatre Artists Group production of George Bernard Shaw’s once- A 4-Part Class (Thursdays at 5 pm) controversial play, “ Mrs. Warren’s Profession,” refused a license to play -Beginning- in legitimate 1894 theaters and banned after its 1905 production until 1924, THURSDAY, SEPT. 24 • 5 PM will be revived from Thursday, Oct. 1-3 nightly at 8 p.m. in our Main Theatre. P H E L P S 3526 Directed by dramatic arts faculty member and TAG’S artistic director, Another chance to engage "Mrs. FREE Stanley Glenn, the play entails a choice of prostitution over destitution as it Warren's Profession.” Sponsored by the Sri Chinmoy Association wittily unravels a story of confrontation and admiration. □ 968-5881
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The “ happening” is back — ’80s paint and be generally artistic. Women's Center style. From 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. While no one can be entirely sure tomorrow the UCen Art Gallery what will come of the evening, the Special Selection will be the spot of unusual (but art that emerges will definitely be probably vfery fun) goings-on. of a spontaneous nature. Cool tunes Organizers of the event are in will be provided courtesy of I.V.’s viting any and all to draw, write, own Alice Fell.
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A FILM BY CLAUDE BERRI Artist Holly Hungett with her work NOW PLAYING 7£r 9:20 NIGHTLY • SUN. MAT. <§> 4:45 ______UCSB Grad's Solo Show VICTORIA STREET THEATRE 33 W Victoria S t» 965-1886 METROPOLITAN THEATRES CORP Movie Hotbne 963-9S03 workings and her tremendous attention to relationship to the world subtlety is necessary and her By Judith Smith-Meyer outside. Thus, the exhibition work confirms that she has ARUNGTON FIESTA FOUR RIVIERA H178t«wSt»,I.IWWH •IO Stata S t.. S .B . 0030711 2044 Alameda Pedo* Stata, S .B . 0064101 Arts Editor contains two very different finely developed this sen APOCALYPSE NOW (II NO WAY OUT (Rl styles of expression which sibility. When a single stroke 5:15,8:15 A MAN IN LOVE 5:30,8,10:15 7:06,9:10 After submitting a single are connected by the or gentle change in direction GRANADA (2) THE PRINCIPAL
The second annual “ Art for Life” be held for each piece. WEDS Ball Park Night elebration of art, music, dance and Proceeds from the festival will go to Delicious Doggie Bites with all the Fixings. Fresh Roasted Peanuts with Chips and Vegetable Platter. egional food will take place this Saturday Medical Aid for El Salvador, the Monsignor Coronas $1.25 rom 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Santa Barbara Oscar Arnulfo Romero clinic and to the bounty Bowl. people of Big Mountain. THURS Chicken Delight Bite Night The benefit will include musical per- Bite Size Chicken Fingers and Mini Buns with all ormances by the noted Brazilian singers Medical Aid for El Salvador is a non-profit the Fixings. Fresh Vegetable Platter and Chips. lora Purim and Airto, Santa Barbara’s humanitarian organization dedicated to Long Island Ice Tea $2.50 iwn Pontiacs, the Sovereign Dineh Nation providing essential medical care to victims Irummers from Big Mountain, Crucial DBC of that country’s war. The Monsignor Ar FRIDAY T.G.I. Friday Fiesta Night md Grupo Unbral. Organizers also an- nulfo Romero Clinic in Los Angeles offers Make your own Feast. Tasty Tacos or Fajitas. icipate a surprise guest appearance by an comprehensive medical care to refugees Fresh Vegetable Platter and Chips. A ll M argaritas $1.25 ‘internationally known popular singer.” free or at low cost. The Navajo and Hopi nations of northern “ Art for Life” will also feature dance SAT Potato Skins Party >erformances from Aztleca, who will Arizona are presently threatened by cor Scrumptious Skins in all assorted varieties. >erform an ancient Aztec fire dance; tap porate and governmental interests, making Fresh Vegetable Platter and Chips. lancer Arthur Duncan, famed for his ap- it difficult to sustain their traditional A ll Daiquiris $1.25 >earances on the Lawrence Welk Show; lifestyles. The people are poor and need ..ark Batteau; Ricardo Morrison and funds for health care, transportation, SUNDAY Scrumptious Seafood Vngela Blackledge. communications, legal services, food and Peel and Eat Shrimp. Fresh Vegetable Louise Benalli, featured in the Oscar- clothing. Platter and Chips. vinning documentary “ Broken Rainbow,” Tickets for the event are $10 and children Vodka $1.25 vill speak at “ Art for Life,” as will Cory under twelve will be admitted free if ac Duban of KPF K and Marjorie Hawksworth. companied by an adult. Tickets may be I IAS SPORT More than 200 artists and entertainers are purchased at the County Bowl box office fTO 6 »S A T T A 8~T~St) ¡ontributing their time and talents for the from noon to 5 p.m. weekdays, on the day of jenefit. Approximately 150 works of art by the event and at all TicketMaster locations. 521 Firestone Rd. Santa Barbara, CA 93110 (805) 964-0779 ocal artists will be on exhibit, Raffles will For ticket information call (805) 966-9591. □ Open everyday: 11 a.m.-12 a.m. Bar: 11 a.m.-2 a.m. 6A Thursday, September 24, 1987 Daily Nexus Delicious Fall Films Ensue Be There 'Round 8
The Arts and Lectures’ fall Sunday-night-at-8 film series, New Directions in Film, opens its sampling of current in ternational cinema this weekend with Round Midnight. Naturally, this soulful portrait of a North American jazz musician culturally exiled to Paris has been directed by a French filmmaker, Bertrand Tavernier. Master bebop artist Dexter Gordon stars as Dale Turner in this film, inspired by incidents in the lives of Francis Paudras and Bud Powell and dedicated to Powell and Lester Young. With thirteen films over the last twenty-four years under his belt, one can infer that Tavernier’s choice in making this film was a particularly conscious one. When asked how he felt about having created the “ first film to depict the spirit of jazz and its universal appeal,” Tavernier revealed his belief that “ be-bop musicians are the real geniuses of America.... They created the only music in America that has never been co-opted or bastardized by the system.... Thelonius Monk Spalding Gray Swam to Cambodia used to say that if you really understand the meaning of be bop, you understand the meaning of freedom. I tried to a different reflect this spirit in the structure of the film; no intricate Swimming Insight plot, no twists, but a free flo w ... and the laying of one musical number over another.” A viewer rarely expects to find this set of jaws. Thursdays this fall, UCSB’s Arts and Lectures wiU present straightforward an approach in a French film, nor a film a curious series of seven films, collectively dubbed American incited by such sincerity and respect in the United States, so Adventures. The series opens tonight with Swimming to Round Midnight promises genuine surprises for its audience. Cambodia, Jonathan Demme’s film of Spalding Gray’s Obie Tavernier wanted to accurately depict the lives of the Award-winning stage performance in which he animatedly musicians, not as the fictionally light-hearted entertainers to FRIDAY MIDNIGHT ONLY recounts his journey to Southeast Asia to work on the film whom we are accustomed in films, but rather as unusually The Killing Fields. diligent, hard-working and inspired workfolk. “ I wanted to FIESTA FOUR 963-0781 As a bit player in The Killing Fields, Gray was afforded the suggest that these musicians used to play three or four sets a 916 State St. Santa Barbara opportunity to make keen observations about life, death, love night, way into the early morning hours.... I am always and sex in the context of his work in Southeast Asia. Swim -angry when I see a movie where a singer comes onstage, ming to Cambodia is the condensation of these observations sings one song, the audience applauds and then she sits and into 87 minutes of dense, largely humorous monologue. This chats at a customer’s table. You never have the impression is not a lecture; Spalding Gray, a self-proclaimed poetic that she has really just sung ten songs.” reporter, doesn’t memorize — he appears “ with a rough The film is partially set in an accurate recreation of The outline of key words” and expands on his favorite thoughts Blue Note, a haven for Parisian jazjsophiles and musicians in with a sharp mind and articulate tongue. the 1950s, showing the ambience of the culture in which these Swimming to Cambodia began as a three-hour, two-part people sought a niche. Tavernier also strove to suggest the stage performance with which Gray was touring the country isolation of a jazz musician’s life, in contrast to their usual when film producer Renee Shafransky asked him the name depiction as tourists hanging around famous Paris land I f words cou d kill of the ideal director for a film version of it. Gray im marks, and does so by setting scenes in lonely Paris and New mediately thought of Jonathan Demme (Stop Making Sense, York hotel rooms. When they leave the rooms, one senses a Something Wild) and his admiration was entirely fueling of renewal achieved by Tavernier’s conscious use of reciprocated. Demme’s commitment to the film was strong water along the Seine, New York’s East River and the ÍHÜ enough for him to fly himself all over the country to meet Normandie Beach. with potential producers, who were understandably hesitant However, Tavernier insists that this film be not just a film THE HOT FM 97.5 to take on the project. about jazz musicians but, more importantly, one about LISTEN TO The film was made over three intensive days of shooting in human beings and their relationship to each other and the WIN TICKETS front of an intimate audience at Gray’s home base, the world. With this intention, he has simultaneously crafted TO OUR Performing Garage, to retain the sense of personal in both a moving film and a historical, although fictional, "LATE SHOW' teraction of the theater. Unusual considerations had to be document. □ managed, like closing off the street where the Garage is PREM IERE AT located to reduce traffic noise to achieve the desired at 9:00 PM mosphere, and the production team rose valiantly to the THURSDAY, occasion. They willingly ran about in their socks in the dark SEPT. 24TH to change film while Gray spoke uninterrupted. Any time a ARLINGTON high-caliber crew will not only work for lower-than-usual pay, but will actually partially disrobe to conduce smooth production, a viewer can be assured that the result of their efforts will be of remarkable quality. Swimming to Cambodia is a brilliant opening to a series of films reflecting the sense of outrageous adventure that built our mighty nation and today marks its most innovative contemporary filmmaking. Coffee and Cigarettes, a brief bit by Jim Jarmusch (Stranger than Paradise, Down By Law), will screen with Swimming to Cambodia. Simply, two men (Roberto Benigni of Down By Law and Steven Wright of his own HBO special) meet in a bar and an absurd discussion of coffee and cigarettes, to which they are both addicted, ensues. This should be a treat for anyone needing vindication for these Dexter Gordon and Herbie Hancock add life to vices, as the filmmaker and the actors are reputed to be fiction. sharp-witted. , □ WRITERS A CARTER DE HAVEN PRO D U aiO N A JOHN FLYNN FILM JAMES WOODS BRIAN DENNEHY BESTSELLER VICTORIA TENNANT Director of Photography FRED MURPHY Production Designer GENE RUDW J Music by JAY FERGUSON Executive Producers JOHN DALY and DEREK GIBSON CRITICS Written by LARRYCOHEN Produced by CARTER DE HAVEN Directed by JOHN FLYNN RESTRICTED ] j j j j j » © N T HEMftALE FILM CORPORATION ALL RIGHTS RESERVED UNOER 17 MQUMfS ACCOMPANVING ______W M T w ROULT curm irw <& AN O R f O f V PCHRES RELEASE OTHER SMART FOLKS
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By M ark Stucky which Sunny Ade is known. With all 15 cramped musicians Photo Editor on stage, they beat, sang, and played out of their hearts, offering a bit of themselves to their Southern Californian Flying down highway 101 toward Santa Barbara, my ’77 audience. white VW Rabbit carries me into a late night of JuJu music; As if at a party, somewhat divergent from the ones to something from Africa, I ’m told, and a Nigerian named King which many of us are accustomed, the brightly dressed Sunny Ade. singers and guitarists danced in a tight slow circle. Oc At Oscar’s night club, located in the 1100 block of State casional shouts and hoots of joy from the band’s members Street, the rest of Santa Barbara seems to be standing in line lightened the formality of the performance and created a to hear JuJu music also, talking of birthdays, other shows, party in its place. Sometimes seemingly shy and in the and nothing at all at times. All talking is of very far away background, the King set the mood and tempo with un from Africa, Nigeria, and King Sunny Ade. derlying riffs on his white electric guitar. If you weren’t aware of it, don’t be alarmed: Africa came Spontaneous and free, the life of Nigerian culture played quietly to Santa Barbara late Tuesday night. Making their not more than five feet from many in the room. debut at Oscar’s nightclub, at 1129 State Street, King Sunny In the end Sunny Ade and the African Beats triumphed, Ade and his African Beats filled the souls of many Santa their performance a success. Encouraging the audience to Barbara residents with an electrified brand of JuJu, the join in the experience, the show climaxed with near music of Nigeria’s Yoruban people. unanimous participation, free and pure as the JuJu tradition With over 40 albums and twenty years of performing ex itself. To Sunny Ade, what could be better? As the lyrics to perience, King Sunny Ade has been a key factor influencing his album, “ Let Them Say,” point out, to express is to live: musicians like Peter Gabriel and The Talking Heads as well ... Get up and dance, get up and sing, as North American audiences in general. Ade’s introduction and whatever people arg going to say about it, of “ chattering guitars, steel guitar, and occasional syn just let them say it — let them talk. thesizers,” creating a more Western sound, is key to the You do your best and lead the rest. music’s popularity in the United States, according to a Fantasia Productions source. Tonight at Oscar’s, a the Society for Jazz and As the MC stepped off Oscar’s stage, anticipation for Ade’s “ Salsa Explosion” occurs World Music. festive rhythms heightened with the addition of each magical with a performance by Puente’s more than 120 instrument and artist. percussionist and band records and his ability to With the sharp rhythm from a talking drum, magically leader Tito Puente. The bring to life jazz accented by feeling hands, the room snaps into focus: King doors open at 7 p.m. at 1129 sophistication and true Sunny Ade and his African Beats have begun. State St. on two shows set latin dance mania King Sunny Ade captivated Santa Barbara Fantastic rhythm, beat, tempo, and dynamics blended for 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. document well his status as together to form the complex and fascinating JuJu music for This event is sponsored by a guiding force in latin Fantasia Productions and music.
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