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Amongst jazz trumpeters, there Microwave ovens, disposable is only one Mr. Cool. Miles diapers, bad private detective TV Davis, right? Wait a second-Mr. shows, Handi-Wipes, Jazzercise, Cool? That's gotta be New these are all elements and products Orleans' own Wynton Marsalis. of our modern culture that we Yeah, Wynton's so cool he wears assume were developed within the a mink coat when he goes for a past quarter century, if only be­ hike through the Sahara. Or was cause their instantaneous and that Miles wearing the ankle- - temporal nature reflects the way length chinchilla Chesterfield as our popular society seems to em­ he strolled through Death Valley? brace all things disposable ... Who's cool? See for yourself Whoa! Wait a minute. Handi­ on Friday, April 26, when Miles Wipes? Maybe. MTV? Definitely. Davis meets Wynton Marsalis for But Jazzercise? No way, according the frrst time in modern history at to Mark Bingham and Steve Sweet, the 16th annual New Orleans Jazz whose History Of Jazzacise stage and Heritage Festival's opening production will debut at the Con­ concert, scheduled at the Theatre temporary Arts Center on March 1 for the Performing Arts Oocated and will prove beyond a shadow of within blowing distance of the a doubt that the history of" Jazz­ park dedicated to this city's most acise" (the" Jazzercise" name is a illustrious hornman). The concert copyrighted brand of aerobics will commence at 7:30 p.m. and program and doesn't have quite the tickets ($17.50 and $19.50) are local and generic ring of ''Jazz­ available now through Ticket­ acise' ') extends all the way back to Master in New Orleans. ancient Egypt, Sparta, possibly as Quint Davis, who is back this far back as early Paleolithic year as the Jazz Festival's pro­ culture. It also paradoxically ducer (and who remains one of contends that Storyville was the the coolest white men in the true birthplace of Jazzacise and hemisphere), can barely corttrol that "jazz was actually started by his enthusiasm concerning the women, but that's a whole 'notlier Miles/Wynton bout: "It's the on­ story." ly place in the world where you "We were sitting in the Saturn can hear them both on the same Bar one night last year trying to night. They've never done this think of a good proposal for a before, and the two acts have National Endowment grant,'' says never been booked together Sweet, "and the History of Can ma~kind find enlightenment through musical movement? anywhere before. This is the hip­ Jazzacise was one of about five pest jazz concert in the world and good ideas that popped up. It came whole wide world Mike Smith. He thinks hisJazz­ this is just the tip of the iceberg. up almost as a one-liner.'' Sweet See them all at once standing in acise music "is all different It's a big tip-but it's a big and Bingham worked up the idea a row because it goes through history. So iceberg!" and applied for the NEA grant, Imagine your hand is a ball of the instrumentation changes a lot The Jazz Festival will be held which they later won. Sweet is light throughout, but it uses the same April 26th through May 5, with responsible for the look of the Imagine your hand is a ripe musical structure for each the Heritage Fair, as usual, slated show, the set design, lighting, tomato segment, sort of hidden within the for the Fair Grounds on April 26 props, Bingham writes all the All of the people in the world overall form of the play. The through 28, continuing on May 4 music, much of the dialogue, and Are lined up with their shopping opening parts are heavily and 5. The performers will in­ dancer Maxine Snow handles the carts produced, aerobics class-type clude James Brown, the Staples choreography. Paying with checks the cashier is music, then it goes to some upright Singers, Sarah Vaughan, Spyro Sweet is a visual artist known slow piano Storyville stuff, then to a Gyra, Allen Toussaint, Stevie Ray best for his offbeat figurative Wave you hand make the light 1922-style horn part, a Louis Vaughan (wouldn't it be sweet if Xerox assemblages. For Jazzacise brighter" Armstrong-type of thing. The he did a duet with his Aunt he has modified a set of shopping "Even if you're poor," observes Egypt piece sounds like Egypt and Sarah?), Doug Kershaw (still carts (donated by Canal Villere) Bingham, "as all of the people the set change music sounds like giving Cajuns a bad name-sorry, that will serve both as props and as involved in this production are 1950s,Piayhouse 90, TV psycho­ Doug), Third World, Ry Cooder, the actual set. "It was one of those basically 'poor, • we're not your drama music. Towards the end it's the Neville Brothers, Albert King ideas that just comes to you out of typical Yuppie types, by the very the music of the future which is a and a zillion others. ' the blue," he said, "it was very nature of living in this country pure Zimbabwe thing. The future A deluxe brochure with a com­ intuitive.