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Show The Daily Utah Chronicle, Friday, November Page Five 15, 1985 Jazz up the week at fall concert featuring by Dennis Agle 'There are chord changes going on; they pick up on ideas that the other sections arc playing, and they have to generate their own ideas. It's a very difficult art Staff wnter University of Utah jazz director Henry Wolking realizes that jazz is far from being the most popular form of music. Even jazz bands may occasionally houses to where band the members outnumber the play audience, Wolking says. But this is probably due to a general lack of understanding about the music. "The misconception the public has is that jazz is just some sort of lighthearted jamming where some guys just son of get up and play oft the top of their heads," Wolking says. While it is true that the primary element of jazz is improvisation, learning how to improvise is very difficult, he says. Though jazz may lack a large following, that following is loyal. Devotees have managed to keep the form alive for nearly a century, while many other arts have long since disappeared. Much of the music's appeal stems from the live "The true (jazz) artists arc extremely well-discipline- performances, where audiences can influence the music-creatio- n process. "In a classical concert, it is bad etiquette to clap while the music is playing," Wolking says. "But in jazz, it's just the opposite. If people like something they've heard, they respond. The performer then responds to communication the audience. It's a two-wa- y Salt Lakers will get a chance to engage in this two-wa- y communication Nov. 20 at Kingsbury Hall. Five U. jazz groups will perform in the U. Fall Jazz d," Wolking says. "When artists are Concert, including a jazz guitar ensemble, which Keven Johansen, the ensemble's director, calls "the performing, they're composing. And they're not only composing, they're playing over the form of the tune. bands hottest guitar ensemble ever to come out of the form." well-respect- ed U. department." The ensemble will perform works by Boston guitarist Vincent Mitchell titled "Forehead Kid," "Pumpernickel Pie," and "Quincy, Quincy, Quincy." "These numbers make use of odd time signatures and electronic-effect- s pedals that give the music a modern flair and flavor," Johansen says. Also performing will be the Christoph Luty Combo and the Mike Rytting Combo. The evening will finish with performances by the Big Band Us two big bands. The Tuesday-Thursda- y Band and the Big get their names (not surprisingly) from the days of the week they meet to rehearse. ("One of these days, we're going to have to come up with better names," says Wolking.) The concert will begin at 8 p.m. Tickets are S3 general admission and S2 for students with an activity card. Monday-Wednesday-Frid- ay That Was Then, This Is Wow' buried by teen cuteness This film just never gets off the ground. by James Cummings Staff writer The disco music dies away almost Remember when you were 15 years old and had the car for the evening, so you and a couple of friends decided to go out for a wild time, and you drove around, and around. ..and around? Finally it was so late that everybody decided to go home? FILM The film That X'as Then, This Is Now is like that. It's about two young toughs named Bryon and Mark (played respectively by Craig Shcffer and Emilio Estevez, who also wrote the screenplay from the original S.E. Hinton novel) going through the trauma of growing up. Bryon wants to grow up; Mark doesn't. Bryon gets a girlfriend, a job and decides to clean up his hoodlum act; Mark just wants to keep driving around with his buddy. And fight that's the other thing these teens like to do when they're not driving. Ho-hu- m. Are teenagers all this vacant? completely after the first 10 minutes, and we watch scene after scene in flat silence until things become climactic toward the end. And, for some reason, director Christopher Cain has chosen to light a number of the interior shots from below a technique that's great for horror flicks but seems pointless here. It's too bad, because I think the film has an interesting, relevant theme about the damaging effects of the American male's deep-roote- d machismo. of the movie, Mark has end the By become a kind of militant Peter Pan, who sells drugs 'to kids, bashes in the face of anyone who looks at him crooked and is slowly starving to death emotionally. He can't express his love for Bryon, to whom he is closer than anyone, and he can't stop fighting to prove how tough he is. The film is most moving when, once or twice, we see the direct confrontation between Mark's stone-face- d, isolation, and Bryon's helpless attempts to reach out. But, for the most part, the real guts of the film arc buried in a sea of juvenile and vapid, teen one-line- rs cutesyness. 12 16, or fans of back from Hinton's novels way (they were required seventh grade reading, remember?) you might like this movie. Otherwise, go check your Blue Mouse schedule. If you're under the age of PRICE SPECIAL Style Cuts Perm Haircut & Style $700 1 $25! Reg. Reg. 14 . C2dto3 Hair Station, Ltd. 1597 South 1100 East MO00 Mon.-Sa- t. 9 a.m. to 6 D.m. 1 or Appt. or Walk-i- n Complete Professional Grooming Service 487-232- 2 487-509- Expires 121585 self-torturi-ng Oppoirtaimotty Applications are now available for Studentbody Elections Registrar 0 Or: v- - I ,;n - JIM 11? tltOil5fcl- - II- - v ' i'l Responsibilities Coordinate and supervise the ASUU elections Winter Quarter. (10-2- 0 hours per week) Compensation $300 Winter Quarter Application Deadline November 20th Applications are available in the ASUU office, Room 234 Olpin Union. iYs - |
