Women's Basketball vs. Northern Michigan Saturday, 2 p.m. Crisler Arena SPORTS Hockey vs. Lake Superior Fri. and Sat., 7:30 p.m. Yost Ice Arena The Michigan Daily Wednesday, November 21, 1984 Page 7 BAD BREAK CAN'T STOP WOLVERINES WINGER By MIKE R Sometimes things are jus Prediction: If you grow biggest high school hockey a pond in your backyard, yc Proof: Tom Stiles. STILES, WHO started pI the frozen pond in his South now skates at left wing for Despite missing four gai a broken thumb, the 5-11,: tly fourth for the Wolverin goals and nine assists. His freshman Brad McCaugh threesome on the Michigan After starting the seas and eight assists in his first his thumb with two minu Hampshire, November 2. MICHIGAN proceeded games as coach Red Bere lines to compensate for the ned to action last Friday a picked up an assist befo m pulled flexor muscle. Tha Saturday's victory at Chic improving with g rand Stiles is skating in practice this week, however, and out of balance." EDSTONE should be ready for action in this weekend's series Jones, a sophomor t too predictable. against Lake Superior State at Yost Arena. from Stiles' experienc( up in Minnesota, one of the "This has been my best start in my three years at "If I give him the pu areas in the country, with Michigan and I just hope this doesn't hinder me too to do with it," said Jor ou will play hockey. much," said Stiles, while holding up a fiberglass on all three of the goa playing cast extending halfway up his left forearm. against Ferris State4 aying hockey at age six on "It hurts to have to sit out games, but now I'm just gets back to full stre zSt. Paul, Minn. backyard, looking forward to getting back on the ice and getting going again." Michigan. my timing back." STILES, who has nes this season, three with AFTER SCORING 10 goals in each of his first two playing college hocke 185 pound junior is curren- years under defensive-minded coach Jon Giordano, improvement he mayt ies in total points with two Stiles has been even more productive with Beren- "If things keep pr line with Brad Jones and son's offensive philosophy. In fact, his 11 points so far NHL) something that ey is also the top-scoring this season total half of his 37-game output last year. Stiles, who played in team. "He's just starting to get more confident this year. Wolverines before his on quickly with two goals He's a quiet leader type, but very strong," said a free agent in the NH t seven games, Stiles broke assistant coach Mark Miller. "He's always had the tinue to improve I mig ites left in a loss at New tools, he's a very smart player. He can see the ice "I think he has the well and has one of the better shots in the league." continues to improve, to go 0-3 in its next three "Smart" seems to be the best way to describe veteran. "Right now nson juggled his three top Stiles, who came to Michigan because he liked its players. It all depends e loss of Stiles. Stiles retur- facilities and its numerous NCAA championships. If Stiles can continu .gainst Illinois-Chicago and "TOMMY IS very smart offensively and he's a potential, a pro career re being sidelined with a good goal scorer," said Berenson. "I think his years at Michigan. WI t injury forced him out of presence on the team is important. He's on one of the a guy who grew up in ago. top lines and when he's injured it puts our other lines backyard? Stiles e center, has benefitted both e and his good hockey sense. uck, I know that he knows what ones, who was assisted by Stiles als in his first career hat trick earlier this season. I hope he ngth soon so we can both get already achieved one goal of ey, thinks that, with continued try for a pro career. ogressing, it's (playing in the I'm looking forward to," said 53 consecutive games for the injuries this year. "I would be IL but if I stay healthy and con- ht have a shot at it." makings of a pro career if he " said Berenson, a 23-year NHL he's definitely one of our top on how high his potential is." .e to improve and reach his full r could follow a productive four 'hat else would you expect from n Minnesota with a pond in his Daily Photo by STU WEIDENBACH Michigan left wing Tom Stiles crosses the center-ice line on a breakaway in acton against Ferris State earlier this season. Odean Pope's humanity By Marc S. Taras My ears were burning: physically, metaphorically, and metaphysically. I was about two minutes late to the new Ark for the Sunday evening performance by the Odean Pope Trio. The sounds on the street alerted me to the fact that the virtuosic power trio were already in full cry. I had a little trouble figuring out which door to use (for future reference, it's on the parking lot side). I was already trembling as I vaulted up the stairs, through the 'chat 'n' smoke' room and into the main listening space. It was glorious; I mean the music and the room.. The program was part of Eclipse's ongoing Bright Momen- ts series dedicated to the memory of Rahsaan Roland Kirk and his commitment to progressive musics. We heard that aplenty Sunday night. The band took their first piece at a furious pace, allowing ample solo space for each of the players to stretch out. Indeed, the most unusual aspect of the trio's performance was the featured space allowed; we hear every possible arrangement of solos and duets which only heightened the intensity of the ensemble playing. Vivid. I mean really lifelike. I'm fond of reminding folks that jazz is the music of life itself. And this was life itself. Drummer Cornell Rochester sat behind his set grinning like a new-age Art Blakey, brimming over with thunder and lightning, demonstrating his incredible strength and indefatigable stamina. Gerald Veasley, grinned cooly behind his shades, laying down the most amazing electric bass work that I have ever heard. Monstrous. And Odean Pope cradled his horn like a living thing (it is!) he loved while his partners raged on; himself offering sax work of immense power and delicate warmth. These guys are 'plugged in' in more ways than one. Attuned to their audience; involved with the human condition. It was that. immediate. The Veasley composition "The Caribbean Feeling" was slow, warm, and deliberate. The saxophone and bass weaving a single fabric; Gerald's pizzicato plucking soun- ding like electric coconuts. The next piece was a saxophone obligato, a solo piece that demonstrated the power, fire, and kindness of Pope's approach to the horn. Next came "Almost Like Me." As Pope explained, "This one is called 'Almost Like Me'; it's the title cut from our album Almost Like Me and it's almost like me." It might sound a little convoluted but the point was revealed in the music: it is known relation. After a hair-raising ensemble introduction, an alarming drum solo ensued. Rochester demonstrating the truth of the Oriental wisdom of strength found in "emptying out". He seemed to be entranced, absent, yet with an abun- dance of vigor. Read: Abund-dance. The music was irresistable. It contains applicable lessons in life and living. Biting my lip to quiet myself, I emptied out too, and was filled with Veasley's outward bound solor. I've never heard such sounds from an electric bass! His peculiar stroking technique had ghosts of dinosaurs crowding the room; sum- moned lions and jungle beasts to the stage. I heard them growling! Really wild. The second set began with a special message. Before playing "A Walk in Kingston, Jamaica" Odean Pope offered some personal 'thnak-yous.' He noted that Kingston was a place that offered a lot of spicy food. Pope loves spicy food; his favorite cocktail is a cleansing combination of hot water and cayenne pepper. Here Pope offered a special thanks to Colleen Clancy, one of the warmest people alive, and the maker of Ann Arbor's (and the world's) finest Clancy's Fan- cy Hot Sauce. Colleen provides the food for the artists as part of Eclipse's hospitality staff. Pope thanked her for her brewing the hot spicy cider saying, "It just took my heart." Mine, too. Thanks, Colleen. We could almost smell the sea breeze as we strutted through Kingston town with the trio. Jan mon! Gerald Veasley crooning lightly, leading us along the way. There followed more reason for thanks. Pope had offered an after- noon workshop which, though sparsely attended, was a sour- ce of deep inspiration for Odean. There he met one person, local trombonist Mark Kissinger, whose demeanor so im- pressed Pope that he invited Kissinger to take the stage with the trio. This rarely happens. Pope said that he was being 'cold- blooded' in bringing Mark up to play the improvised solo passage, the hard, while the trio played the melody, the easy part. This sharing of time and love was anything but cold blooded. Really, it was quite the opposite. And Kissinger rose to the occasion and warmed our hearts as part of a won- derful quartet. I saw the bell of his horn expanding and recognized in its warm tones the beating of the human heart. Next, we were treated to the seriously deep mood piece called "Multiphonics." Pope's self-proclaimed love song featured Veasley's sleep soft dream bass; plucked as gently as a Morpheus harp. Clarion seraphim saxophone breating flutterflies, yielding the qualities of human speech. Veasley's oass solo treading softly on clouds revealed the dynamic range of the trio's sound. Before this steady vibration of life the floor, the room, and our hearts vibrated in sympathy. The program closed with a series of tributes. "Good Question" was dedicated to Max Roach. Pope called him Dr. Max Roach, and emphasized his teaching qualifies as a musician and human being. "It's the humanity that's most important," said Odean. This duet piece featured Pope and Rochester, seen here as a graduate from the Mt. St. Helen's school of drumming. Next came Coltrane's "Giant Steps," lovingly rendered. Pope always includes a challenging piece from one of the masters, saying "When something is a challenge I like to deal with it." And how! The finale was "Scorpio Twins", dedicated to Max Roach's two daughters. Beautiful. Beautiful; the room. Beautiful; the music. Beautiful; the humility. And above all, Beautiful the humanity. Theirs and ours ! Odean Pope's trio offered up their hearts thankfully, and took a piece of our hearts with them. Before leaving Pope suggested that he would like to return with his nine piece Saxophone Choir, and thanked us all warmly. Patience is a virtue, so we're told. But nobody in the Ark last night wants to wait too long. Rickie Lee Jones at the Michigan (Continued from Page 5) like Jones was unlikely to be on the concert/recording circuit, or around at all, for much longer. The Magazine LP seems, in a lot of ways, a defiant aural no to all that. It keeps its emotions more in reserve, painting smaller still lifes rather than enormous canvases, trying to keep Rickie Lee from the sort of emotional overspill that was apparently too much for her to handle before. It's certainly an excellent record, but it's the first of hers that lacks the breadth , completeness and compulsive listenability of a vinyl masterpiece. Still, as always, the song ought to be fascinating in concert-if only because Jones (who co-produced The Magazine) uses the resources of the studio so fully on record that any live rendering would have to be significan- tly different. Tickets for the show are available at all Ticket World outlets. For fur- ther info call the Michigan or Prism productions. Red Rocking conversation with Hill (Continued from Page 5) H: He also did our first album, Con- dition Red; but that was pretty much done live - in two days - we just bashed them out. D: What about your new producer, Rick Chertoff? H: And William Wittman. D: Who else have they produced? H: Cindy Lauper and Scandal. They were great to work with. We were D: I ah, he worked with us on that. You know how bands are doing that six- ties psychedelic sound; we wanted to take that and put it in an eighties sound. D: "Good Thing I Know Her" seems to be the title song. It's a really im- pressive song. H: It's our favorite song. We wanted that to be our first single but unfor- tunately. D: That song, along with "Eve of Tlactr.. .nfnn"' .., i a . wima faal H: Yeah, we've done four. We did "Eve of Destruction". We just finished "Blood From A Stone" - our new single. It's this anthem for the working class being pushed to the brink. We did a big shoot in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. We built a giant bonfire and had all these working people come out and they were holding torches. It looks pretty strange. We cut in slices of fac- tory machinery.