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Show Wed/Thurs/Fri, December 2-4, 2009 . The Park Record A-14 SOLAR NAILS & SPA The Best Price &. Service in Town LOVE IT! LOVE IT! t o Full Scf Fill n ^ ; GET A SOLAR PEDICURE & ' : A SOLAR MANICURE FOR $15 Spa Pedicure _ $23 Manicure $13 $10 OFF \ Coupon Expires December 31, 2009, Welcome Danifv Kane /T* 1590 Bonanza Drive Park G k UT CnskJe Park Gto Plazu) 435^5-7599 Monday - Sotirdav 9 am. - 7 iyn SJKIOV II am. - 5 p.m WALK-INS WELCOME By Jay Meehan • The art of melancholy There's something to be said for being instinct rather than talent. Whenever his musiimmersed, fully, for nearly a week, around the cal "shtick" became too comfortable, he clock, during every waking hour, day after day, would bring in a new batch of instrumentalists in the singular sound and ever-evolved artistry and totally revamp his sound. of the late jazz-trumpet guru Miles Davis. He once told an interviewer, "If I couldn't I had never really given it much thought create, I would just want to be dead." In a simbefore. If someone had asked, I'd have proba- ilar vein, he mentioned to a bandmate that the bly told them it was a bad idea, that no single reason he no longer played ballads was recording artist could stand up to such bare- because "he loved them so much.1' naked scrutiny, even over the relatively short Before becoming somewhat of a regular at time frame involved. After a while, anything, one of Miles' paradigm-shifts-in-progress gigs even the glorious sound of Miles, would tend at Shelly's Manne-Hole in Hollywood, I to lose its grip on the moment, to become caught him live for the first time one night at tedious. the short-lived Pacific Jazz Festival on a bill I had attempted a few other limited-run that also featured the classic Dave Brubeck artist-branded satellite-radio channels featur- Quartet. An unlawfully-acquired Festival ing the likes of the Rolling Stones, AC/DC, badge and an unwavering sense of entitlement Hank Williams, Ray Charles, Muddy Waters, got me onstage where I hovered in the wings. Frank Sinatra. Van Morrison - you get the . I returned there often last week - in my idea. After a few days I would find myself dreams. The scene repeated itself over and longing for the over amid the constant shape-shifting Mormon Tabernacle Choir. The man's music is an all-purpose of Miies^meianchoiy Well, the prognosdrug. It can both massage you to tication center of what 1 laughingly sleep and, in the morning, bring you pose drug, it can FOOT MASSAGE 30 MINUTES $25 NECK & SHOULDER MASSAGE 15 MINUTES $15 fj&tfsome coffee, jjjp.'a cup. ckthe newspaper t.W. Stay home this Saturday morning We'll bring the newspaper to you (ks; t© Pa r k Record. Now with home delivery. PARK CITY CORE SAMPLES A friendly reminder from.... Park City Municipal Corporation 1884 refer to as my brain „ , , , ,, couldn't have been coffee and splash cold water m your both massage you to sleep andi int h e more wrong. For six face." morning, bring you days last week, endcoffee and splash ing on the the cusp of ^ ^ ^ " " " ^.^ ^ ^ ^ • ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ • • • ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ • " ^ ^ " cold water in your Thanksgiving, my face. ears and musical heart were treated to an Miles' art is that of a shaman rather than a audio cleansing procedure like no other in my showman. Seemingly simple, it elicits intuitive ever-fading memory. complexity. Although inherently tranquil, The now-merged satellite-radio outlets infatuation and passion reside at its core. But Sirius and XM turned their traditional and its true blessing comes from the manner in classic-jazz channel Real Jazz into "Miles which repeated listening discloses undiscovDavis Radio" for six days and, I must say, it ered territory. Subtlety and nuance lurk everywhere. was a beautiful thing. It's never been a secret that, in Miles' Another reason the six days flew by so hands, melancholy becomes transcendental. It quickly had to do with the fact that very few always arrives wrapped in warmth. musicians played with such virtuoso sidemen Presentation is everything, as it were. Even and bandleaders as had Miles. From the lush the notes he doesn't play and the wistful man- large-ensemble arrangements of Gil Evans to ner in which he doesn't play them stick to your the "BeBop" and "cool" jazz of his legendary ribs. You are able to remain smitten with his smaller combos, tedium was never an issue. sound over an extended duration because the Nothing like the sounds of Coltrane or Bird or intonations he creates are timeless. Monk to stifle a yawn. Music radio once again dominated my life. Since Miles Davis Radio left the air, I've Whoda thunkit? My old running partner and had to rely upon my own Miles library for lissecurity blanket, who I'd given up for dead lo tening comfort. It's not as insightful as having those many years ago, jerked my audio chain his family and friends telling stories out of around like a dog on a leash. school, but it sure beats dealing with the with"Scatting" familiar Miles riffs at all hours in drawal symptoms cold-turkey. When you're various states of consciousness became the strung out on the art of melancholy, you feed norm, including howling the wild Coltrane your "jones" the best you can. abstractions in all registers. Not a very pretty audio picture, to be sure - even for one who Jay Meehan is a culture junkie and a free-lance could carry a tune, which I can't. writer with a background in commercial and Miles liked to gather top-shelf musicians community radio, among other pursuits. He around him and then put them in musical situ- has been a columnist and feature writer for varations where they would have to rely on ious Park City publications going back to 1973. Happy Holidays! It is that time of the year again when all fees for BEER and/or LIQUOR LICENSES must be paid on or before Thursday, December 31, 2009 by 4:00 P.M. Businesses which DO NOT HAVE a valid license at 4:00 P.M. on Thursday, December 31, 2009 must close all beer and/or liquor related business at MIDNIGHT on Thursday, December 31, 2009. Any questions or concerns? Please contact the business licensing department at the following location: Park City Municipal Corporation Finance Department 445 Marsac Ave EO. Box 1480 Park City, UT 84060 435-615-5225 SHEPHERD OF THE MOUNTAINS LUTHERAN CHURCH In the mountains for good BLESSING OF THE SKIS & BOARDS SATURDAY, December 5 th at i o am 4051N. Hwy 224 ' . For more information please call 435.649.2233 or email office@shepherdofthemountains.org Time flies. It's been almost eight years now restaurants, and shops. In the 60s it was seedy since the Olympics rolled into Park City, and and about to be torn down when activists lobnow the torch is on its way to Vancouver. bied to save it. There are fun ethnic neighborVancouver is one of this continent's great hoods galore, from the Punjabi Market to cities, especially for outdoor fun hogs. The Chinatown, Little Italy, Greektown and more. place knocked me out on my first visit, and In fact, slightly less than half of the 2.1 million never disappoints. It's Canada's Seattle, only residents of the metro area speak English as their native language. the mountains aFe even closer. It's easy to see why IOC members jumped For its big city park, Vancouver set aside a at Vancouver. They didn't even need to be thousand acres of Northwest forest filled with bribed. Here is a beautiful city, full of large big trees like hemlock, Sitka spruce and fir. hotels, and oozing with the infrastructure that The park borders the harbor, and is filled with makes the Games go smoothly. gardens, totem poles, restaurants and a lake. The big ski mountain isn't as close as ours Vancouver likes to brag that Stanley is one of was. Whistler is a good two hours up the coast the great parks of the world. You can shop in on the Sea to Sky Highway. But when you get the Robson Street district, but Vancouver is there, the skiing is all a racer could ask for. about the outdoors and that's where you want The Whistler-Blackcomb complex is so good to be, renting a sea kayak to paddle the harit's always up there with PCMR and Deer bor, or a bike to pedal the seawalls. City planners in Valley when the ski magazine rankings come out. Now It's easy to see why IOC members that's great skiing. jumped at Vancouver. They didn't lay of the land and Whistler gets the , . , i_ -i _i a • started building the alpine skiing, cross even need to be bribed. Here is a city up instead of out. country, biathlon, beautiful city, full of large hotels, and Downtown is filled bobsled and luge. with dense high rises, where residents can A smaller moun- oozing . . . . _ . tain, Cypress, which withGames the infrastructure that walk to public parks ^ smoothly." ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ and waterfront. Mass rises behind Van- makes ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^the ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^go m m ^ transit was emphacouver, will host • B ^ ^ ™ ™ " ^ ^ ^ ™ ^ " " ^ sized and freeways freestyle skiing and all snowboarding events. The ice venues, discouraged. Now Vancouver reaps the press center, and most lodging are in the city rewards of planners who were ahead of their time in anticipating and discouraging urban - a setup similar to Salt Lake. The first thing to know is Vancouver is not sprawl. on Vancouver Island. It is across from the Vancouver makes all the lists as one of the island and surrounded by water - the Fraser most livable cities in the world. It's a place to River to the south, Burrard Inlet and the step out of your condo, and bike, hike, pedal, Strait of Georgia to the west, and English Bay paddle, sail or ski. out front, where the locals kayak and sail past Hosting the Winter Olympics is just the idling freighters waiting for a pier to unload. icing on the cake. Same as it was here. The next thing to know is what an ideal climate exists here. Summers are naturally cool Free-lance writer Larry Warren has been wan- in the 70s - but winter temperatures stay dering the West covering news stories for telemild, moderated by the Pacific currents. A vision and magazines since he landed in Utah cold day in winter is in the 40s. Like Salt in the mid-1970s. In this column he writes Lake's, Vancouver's Olympics should be about the favorite places he goes back to when snow-free in the city, and snow-laden in the he can. mountains. But unless you're going for the Olympics, THE VITALS: I'd wait for those cool, blue summers, and Websites: www.hellobc.com; www.bcpasspoke around then. Downtown is a residential port.com; www.tourismvancouver.com. neighborhood with high-rise condos and Insider tip: Take the railroad up the coast to apartments keeping the streets and restau- Whistler, ride the new Whistler-Blackcomb rants filled long after the workday ends. tram, and return to Vancouver by floatplane. Gastown is where Vancouver was born, Trains, trams and planes. Could be a movie. filled with restored Victorians, nightclubs, S |