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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
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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. ,
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Crown Prince of Jazz," has been instrumen- B
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the creation of bebop, a musical genre rife M
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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
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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
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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
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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
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RORN THE last of nine children. .Tohn
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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,
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on display are uniforms, weapons and other
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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>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
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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
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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."
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StaBr ' :
Swiss contemporary artist Anne-Marie
tfcKlsslck Museums through Friday.