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.entertainment. Dizzy Gille , From Staff Reports w I., i (g Dizzy Gillespie, the S.C. trumpeter who has received international acclaim as one of the fathers of modern jazz, will perform at Carolina Coliseum tomorrow at 8 p.m. 1 CE The 64-year-old native of Cheraw is mak- m ing a brief tour of his home state, sponsored by the Kitani Foundation and several state and national grants. , b< Gillespie, who has been called "The ja Crown Prince of Jazz," has been instrumen- B tal in the development of modern jazz with m the creation of bebop, a musical genre rife M ubb jazz groui to open concei By John Annunziata USC's Left Bank Jazz Ensemble, a 20-memt group, will open tomorrow's Dizzy Gillespie Carolina Coliseum. The ensemble, formed four years ago by music c faculty member John Emche, has performed loci several festivals, including Charleston's Spolet U.S.A., the St. Augustine (Fla.) Festival of Ja; Azalea Festival in Wilmington, N.C. While the group has played with other jazz musi as Eddie Daniels, Jerry Coker and Bill Dobbins, I ikn Pirrf i Kor m o moinr pnnpiflrt law iiioi. Liuiv 11 nao pti luiuau in a niajui wnwvu j+ EMCHE SAID the concert will provide good ex his group, and said he takes a special interest in i Gillespie. "There is a phenomenal sense of humor in all his never approaches music too seriously to forget it is ing," he said. "It's appealing. Dizzy's overall musi overwhelming." Most ensemble members are music majors, thoug undergraduate and graduate student musicians. T1 limited to 20 members because of the instrument "big band" ensembles, Emche said. Left Bank musicians must pass auditions ea< become a part of the group. "Generally, the mem I want to return, but unfortunately they sometimes auditions," he said. DURING THE fall and spring, the group is quite Emche said "unless there is something special doesn't play over the summer." It won't pe summer. The ensemble sponsors its own iazz festival dur weekend in March. High school and college bands to participate in the two-day affair, and guest arti invited. Commercial music is a large part of the group's See "Ensemb Three exhibit From Staff Reports < USC's McKissick Museums are the "V scene of activity these days, as several new exhibits are moved in and a few displays are moved out. At McKissick, three exhibits will receive final viewing this week. The annual AllUniversity Student Art Competition show closes today; the Francis Lord Collection of American Military Insignia ends Wednesday; and "Roses," an exhibit that offers a sampling of rose illustrations and portraits from the past few centuries moves out Friday. The student art exhibit contains 50 diverse works, from acrylics to graphite drawings to fiber weavings to hand-colored photography. The competition was open to students throughout the nine-campus USC system, > and attracted 142 entries from 91 artists. EIGHT MERIT awards were presented to student artists whose work was judged best in show by juror Jane Kessler, assistant curator Af tho Mint N/fnc*>iim in rharlnttp W C VI IIIV 4T1IUV i '?vy. The display of military insignia contains more than 2,300 U.S. armed forces insignia, dating from the 1860s to 1980. Insignia are distinguishing marks or badges, worn on militarv uniforms to indicate rank, lencrth of service, unit designation and special awards. The exhibit shows the various types of insignia that have appeared on American uniforms in the Civil War, the SpanishAmerican war, the two World Wars, the Korean Conflict and the Vietnam War. Also >emA AAmi ith fast tempos and harmonic and rhythmic n$ions. jj s! RORN THE last of nine children. .Tohn irks Gillespie picked up the trumpet and a irved himself a sizable niche in American usic history. ^ More than anyone else, he encouraged the / ision of jazz and Afro-Latin music. He has f< :en associated with the big bands of such izz greats as Cab Calloway, Benny Carter, illy Eckstein, Ella Fitzgerald. Woodv Her- i< an, Earl Hines, Les Hite and Lucky ti lillender. h >cr student B J HHV ml ^He * ally and at B^^Hr' -* ' T ? \ o Festival *^"^0 ' % iz ana the IpJr^K .cians, such T l this will be >1&33Sf setting. Sp* JBrffis' posure for slaying for 10 ? -^<//(MiffI ijers always " ~ don't pass i, Z* ; repertoire, South Carolina's own Dizzy le," page 11 to town tomorrow for a conc :s will close tl on display are uniforms, weapons and other a^uuiiciiicui) u)cu uunnjg inc^c yean. A visitor can see a Civil War-era Yankee artillery private's uniform and a Yankee officer's Colt revolver and dress sword. World War I is represented in the exhibit by the outfit worn by an American "doughboy" who fought in France, complete with battle helmet, backpack and mess kit. The tropical field uniform worn by a lieutenant general in Vietnam is also on display. MEDIA USED to detail the famous flower in "Roses" range from watercolors, chalk and mezzotints to etchings, linocuts and wood engravings. The art works date from 1613 to this century. 'Baccara,"' a watercolor by Dutch conte nporary artist Johanna Prins, has three very red roses tilted so the viewer can imagine their delicate scent, according to Karin Willoughby, curator of McKissick's geology museum. in a uic/.?uum uuhc uy jd^oiicsc contemporary artist Kiyoshi Hasegawa, called "La rose et let temps," is a black-andwhite work that makes the viewer aware of the rose's beauty without focusing on its color. The detail of the flower and a ring and hourglass near it give the work an Oriental flavor, Willoughby said. An anonymous 19th century work is one of the exhibit's main attractions. A portrait made with chalk on gray paper, tne drawing shows leaves and roses in great detail, with the stems and outlines of other leaves suggested by crude scratches. wmmmmammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmamamm ;s home w In 1956, Gillespie was honored as the first izz leader ever to have an overseas tour ponsored by the U.S. government. He coninues to travel internationally, and has made i point of presenting jazz as an American art orm. "Nobody has done enough to make jazz e loved and remembered," he said. "Jazz is America's music and we've got to protect it or our youth." GILLESPIE APPEARS regularly at maDr jazz festivals such as Monterey, Monreaux and Newport. He has received lonorary doctorate degrees from Rutgers HH ^azz By Jeff Rogers ^ won't be t? jjHaWMW USC's Left Bani V* ?99b tomorrow nighl I^HBk VH classroom, teach rJHHMfc t> TCBHB music. jBBwBBB The 8CS9H course catalog, ^"icne came 10 said music majo ^ iffflff" "THEY (TH1 jazz> so ^'m tr r: jjH^H^M course," he said . hinlncv El number change pHV The course ] mrr to learn more at Jj> ^KKsmBm "so much / century has its r exposed to jazz. rn * V) order to exDose , ^ With all of th V familiar with th >r 4 trane and other Emche said th ] addition to direi 1 the Dick Go< I Green street's, a ranging and cor "You need to Gillespie will bebop in- he said tea :ert in Carolina Coliseum. music), which ii nis week at n iiitiil <JK mSmm "Prima Ballerina," a watercolor by Trechslin, is ori display in "Roses," at f I H M 1 ith tour f tniwreitu th#? rhimon ronsprvatfirv r?f uiiiTVionj) v**v --"-q ? ? . ?- ?- j Music and USC. A Grammy Award-winner, he has also received the Handel Medallion from New York City, a National Music Award and the Downbeat Critics' Poll Award. The Institute of High Fidelity named him Musician of the Year, and he presented workshops and concerts through the Smithsonian Institution's Jazz Heritage Series. Tomorrow's concert will be the fourth of six stops on his tour, which began Wednesday with a concert in Greenville. Tickets are $7. For more information, call the Coliseum box office at 777-5111. . _ - J J I 1_ roois laugni SC musician >o many hours ? after he finishes directing c Jazz Ensemble at the Dizzy Gillespie concert : ? before John Emche is back in the ling a course in jazz and American popular ted as MUSIC 373, was in the university's ^ but was not taught on a regular basis when USC in 1979. intended for non-music majors, but Emche rs also want to take it. E music majors) want to learn more about ying to keep a happy medium within the I. course is introductory, Emche said the class is han the 100-Ievel music appreciation courses. :ourse will be changed from the 300 listing spring 1984 semester. in school, I wouldn't have taken a 300-level ^ for my science requirement. Hopefully, the ? will increase enrollment," he said. particularly beneficial to those who would like fnrlm/'c r*r*r\n1ar m 11 ci frtrmc ? J'V/f/U.Ul ?"""V of today's American popular music of this oots in jazz," he said. "But people don't get We try to concentrate on the history of jazz in the roots of popular music." is, the course also allows students to become e works of Gillespie, Miles Davis, John Colaccomplished jazz musicians. 9 le course helps him to be a better musician. In cting the Left Bank group, he plays piano for odwin Quintet every Tuesday night at nd maintains a busy schedule of writing, arnposing. know the history of the music that you play," ching others, I get to learn more about it (the s something that is important to me." kMjssick ...... : $? ?.' ' . StaBr ' : Swiss contemporary artist Anne-Marie tfcKlsslck Museums through Friday.