A rts &Et r NTHE MICHIGAN DAILYP F Ars&Entertainmen Friday, November , 1 976 Page Five Hancock reveals his Sec ret blend By KEITH TOSOLT THE HERBIE Hancock group brought their unique blend of jaz and synthesizer to E.M.U.'s Pease Auditorium for a concert Tuesday night, Despite a small turnout of less than 700 people, the five mu- sicians of the group gave an' inspired and interesting per- formance. The leader of the group is, of course, Herbie Hancock. He plays a Fender Rhodes electric piano as well as Moog and ARP synthesizers. His guitarist is Melvin Ragin, otherwise known as Wah Wah Watson, a Motown song about what goes on in the session-man with credits ranging heads of gentle people," Han- from the Temptations to the cock said. It was a laid-back Jackson Five. song which features Bennie OTHER members of the group Maupin on saxello, include Bennie Maupin (sax), HANCOCK then left the stage Paul Jackson (bass) and James and Wah Wah Watson played Levi (drums). "Goo Goo Wah Wah," a funky. The concert started with the tune from his first album jazz rock tune "Hang Up Your Elementary. Hangups" from the album Watson relies heavily on his Manchild. It was made livelier wah wah pedal, voice bag, phase by Hancock's fine work on the shifter and echoplex to create keyboards. sounds with his semi-acoustic The next song was "Gentle Gibson guitar. His set featured Thoughts" from Hancock's lat- an extended solo with impres- est album Secrets. "This is a sive licks and interesting syn- y: ,:::1::.":::; <<. thesized sounds. HE CONTINUED to play to attest to his musical ability. Hancock rejoined the quintet "Chameleon," improvising with Among his achievements are 17 for "Let's Get It Together," a Watson. Hancock would play a solo albums, two movie scores, tune written by Watson, which series of notes and Watson credits on 98 other albums and brought good audience participa- would try to recreate them. seven Grammy Award nomina- tion in the small crowd. Hancock's prowess with the tions. HERBIE played another selec- synthesizer was too hard for When asked, in an interview, tion from his Secrets album Watson to match on his guitar. the reason for the addition of called "People Music," a light He finally gave up and said, Watson to his group on his last and pleasant song. "Lay offa that shit will you?" two albums, Hergie said, "I was Paul Jackson then began plav- to Herbie while shaking his head the only rhythm player on the ing the funky bass line to "Cha- in laughter. other albums and I had to pro- meeon," Hancock's smash hit "Chameleon" was the last vide rhythm for myself. rhe from his very successful 1974 song and highlight of the con- guitar adds input to play off of album Headhunters. cert. It was a display of Herbie and takes over more of the re- The song fizzled out half-way Hancock's great improvisational sponsibility to play the rhythm, through, bit was applauded talent that makes him one of the so that I can add more colors." strongly anyway. ,Hancock then best jazz pianists around. r Hancock added electronics to brought a little ARP synthesizer A .w. lancocK nas amassed his music in 1971. "I've liked to the front of the stage. a discography and list of awards gadgets all my life and being into sound I wanted to make my music more complex," he said. He began with devices such as the wah wah and echoplex. "I wanted to get more sounds out of my instruments and synthe- sizer was the natural conclu- sion," Hancock added. He says he gets his inspira- tions from "just living and travelling. "I won't write a song on a one-to-one relationship about something that happened iii a place," he explains. cintema iveeketid Friday -- Adrift, Aud. A, Angell, 7, 9; Bananas, Aud. 3, MLB, 7, 8:45, 10:30; Hollywood Cartoon Night, Old Arch. Aud., 7, 9:05; Three Days of the Condor, Nat. Sci. Aud., 7, 9:45; Take the Money and Run Aud. 4 MLB, 7, 8:45, 10:30; The Twelve Chairs, Couzens Cafeteria, 8, 10:00. Saturday - The Killing, 7, 10:30, and Killer's Kiss, 8:45 only, MLB And. 4; Sunday, Bloody Sunday, Aud. A, An- gell, 7, 9; Pat and Mike, Old Arch. And., 7, 9:05; Rose- mary's Baby, Aud. 3 MLB, 7, 9:30; The Twelve Chairs, Couzens Cafteria, 8, 10:00; Three Days of the Condor, Nat. Sci. Aud., 7, 9:45. Sunday - Gain' Down The Road, 7 only, Mon Oncle Antoine, 9 only, Aud. 4 MLB; The Target, Old Arch. Aud., 7, 9:05; Experimental Films Aud. A, Angell, 8. All weekend - Swept Away, Burnt Offerings, Silent Movie, Bittersweet Love, The Movies, Briarwood '(769-8780); Norman, Is That You?, Fifth Forum (761-9700); The Front, Campus (668-6416); The Ritz, (662-6264); Marathon Man, Michigan, (665-6290); Alice in Wonderland, Fox Village (769-1300). 3150 Carpenter Hpaa*Ann A Modern Oedipus Judy Wilson and Barrie Rutter of the Young Vic Aacting Company stage a scene from W. B. Yeats' play, "Oedipus The King," presented this evening and tomorrow at 8:30 in the Power Center. The Young Vic will also perform "The Taming Of The Shrew" on Sunday at 2 and 8. o1r )ie Daily Photo by ANDY FREEBERG litI cu')ck Everything is going this weekepd 20 game machines, 7 lanes of bowling, & 22 billiard tables at the busy UNION open till 1 o m, tonight TICKETS GO ON SALE OCT. 28 'Studio Theatre trivial By CHRIS DYADALO WHAT would you say aboutM a policeman who was car- rying on clandestine meetings with a married woman in a cheap hotel? Well, the most re- cent Studio Theater production, written by Benjamin Bradford, attempted to take the lighter side of the matter into its hands. Aptly named "Rendezvous", which could mean clandestine meetings in cheap hotels, this one act comedy was mildly, amusing and at best, mediocre. The play concerns itself with a married police officer who finds true love during one of his calls. Immediately he begins saving his 75 cent a week al- lowance for a night of lust with the "other woman". , The officer with the hot date in Howard Andress, a comical caricature of the inexperienced seducer: Stumbling about in a slapstick fashion around thel bare motel room, Andress typic- ally rearranges furntiure andf practices his lines.f rHis partner in crime is Verna Snell, played by Georg- ette Fleischer. A married wo- man herself, Verna is planning3 on having as good a time as anyone else. After she tries sev- eral seductive poses on the bed, she soon realizes that the eve- ning is going to be less than she expected. Fleischer unfortunate- ly tended to run off her lines too quickly for the audience to ap- preciate some of the clever word plays created by the sit- uatien. The big complication arises when in a fit of mission, the po- liceman handcuffs the woman to himself in order to kee, them together forever. Naturally, the key is lost. Who should come knocking at the door but the officer's brother - in - law? He just happened to be hanging around the place and recogniz- ed the officer's car. The street - wise bro'her. - in- law, played by Andrew Zerma", was a strong b rl of sbtl-tlv and alofness. 7 rn i'='s fino ANN AUIICU U[EL-ACI-CID **@@*@* e ene ec c-ce TONIGHT in MLB! WOODY ALLEN Double Feature! FRIDAY, NOV. 5 TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN (Woody Alen, 1969) MLB 4-7, 8:45 & 10:30 In his direcing debut, Alien plays virgil, produictiresult of an unfortunate childhood: broken glasses, neighborhood bully, bickering parents, acute cello playing, and a neurotic tendency to win a girl by stealing money. HIs downfall comes when he misspells "gun" on his holdup note. Stars Allen and Janet Margolin. BANANAS - _ _ . TWO SHOWS - 7:30 and 10 P.M. *** The MICHIGAN THEATRE*** Friday and Saturday November 5 & 0 At 12OO Widnight presents . TICKETS S4 4:. Available at Mich. Union1 Ct c ic ( 0 i p.r.- m , Schoolkid's Rec and both Digcount Record Box rds {n orn)c t ii : 163 1I307.0. (Woody Allen, 1971) 7, 8:45 & 10:30 Alien's humor at its height. The only logic is the logic of fant psy. A thoroughly alienated tester of Rube Goldberg gadgets takes off for a South American country where he is transformed into a revolutionary with a false beard. Louise Lasser in her best non- Mary Hartman role. "An indecently funny comedy."-vincent Canby. $1.25, Double Feature $2.90 COME EARLY! screenplay by WILLIAM GOLDMAN from his novel produced by ROBERT EVANS 'and SIDNEY BECKERMAN SHOWTIMES Friday: 7:00 and 9:05 Sat.-Sun.: l, 3':05, 5:10, 7:15, 9:25 '7k '7k'7All Seats Just H OLLYWOOD CA RTOONS A selection of Hollywood cartoons UPA, Disney and Warner Brothers I including Chuck Jones' ONE FOGGY EVENING, Tex Avery's clossic LITTLE RED WALKINGHOOD and Frit~z Frelong's incredible GOLDI- LOCKS AND THE JIVIN' BEARS plus Mr. Magoo, Tweety Pie and much 5 ~ more. ) SAT. Cukor's PAT AND MIKE CINEMA GUILD TONJGT AT OLD ARCH. AUD., 9:05 Admission $1.25 JAN KADAR'S 1970 A setran/tofHwaU D aroADRIFT ( AncsudingeChuckOaopeasont whO encOunters a beautiful young woman floating in a river, and takes her home to keep. Hauntingly beautiful SHOWTIMES Friday: 7:00 and 9:00 Sat. and Sun.: 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 U ,E ; §K -i f a i I ,' I ,a : y s ;; ,Y a.: r ,. ' I