ARTS Page 7 The Michigan Daily An Friday, November 4, 1988 BY ELIZABETH ESCH "Rosewoman has jazz his tips..." "Rosewoman has an excite which affects her colleagues a " a moving, roving, sure hand ..." "Perhaps the most refre burst into the scene in a long In spite of the praise she critics worldwide and the pop inered in Europe and New Y woman has yet to attract th serves outside of the tradit' Tonight, her Ann Arbor de Ark. And a happening it will Rosewoman combines el ing much of the rich history unknown toire includes traditional jazz, Latin fo music, and funked-up rhythms. Togethe work to challenge her listeners, without a story at her finger- ing them. The result is a gratifying and w ful experience. ,ment about playing On her most recent album, Quintess nd listeners alike." Rosewoman drives strong young playersC e left hand, a soul a set of original, percussive composition unique relationship to rhythm sets the g shing musician to work for an album which explores a va time... " jazz styles has received from )ularity she has gar- "Rhythm is the basis for most everyti ork, Michele Rose- always feel three or four at one time, and ie attention she de- move freely between them." This stateme onal jazz capitals. Rosewoman is clearly visible in her music :but happens at the her live performances. be. pRosewoman's leadership style relies be. ability to inspire, rather than dominate her rments encompass- musicians. The energy and soul of the of jazz. Her reper- stem from her, though she encourages he quantity lkloric cats to develop it. r these Rosewoman has fronted a variety of creative alienat- ensembles. She has lent her rhythmic technique vonder- to her trio, quartet, quintet (cleverly named Quintessence) as well as to her visionary "world music" with New Yoruba, and her performances hrough with Celia Cruz and Billy Bang. She has been s. Her presented with numerous accolades including ground- recognition in the Down Beat critics poll and riety of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts. She has even been commissioned to com- pose for the Brooklyn Philharmonic. hing... I i I must Be assured that tonight's performances will nt from not require the formal attire of Philharmonics. and in There's no dress code at the Ark, but come ready to groove. _ __ on her Eclipse Jazz presents MICHELE ROSEWOMAN r fellow and her trio tonight only, at the Ark. Showtimes music 8 and 10 p.m. Tickets are $9.50 and will be er side- available at the door. This 1984 album established the 'source' of what should be Michelle Rosewoman's much-deserved popularity. Discover Clinton's 'fumer' BY D. MARA LOWENSTEIN SHE survived a Catholic education (what she terms "Our Lady of Psychological Warfare") and teaching high school students. Now she's coming to Ann Arbor to amuse the liberal-minded. Her name is Kate Clinton and she's fast becoming one of the most successful feminist; comic players on the circuit. Labeling herself a "fumerist" (feminist humorist), Kate Clinton has been called "Mark Russell on Estrogen". She is a woman who ob- serves the filth and ridiculousness around her, swallows it with a grain of politically correct salt and regurgitates taboo-crushing humor. Refusing to join in the "old boys club" attitude that pervades the com- edy circuit, Clinton has set out on her own to cater to a "specialized" audience. Performing at such gather- ings as the March On Washington for gay male and lesbian rights, Clinton boasts a following that most comic players would "die" for. A self-proclaimed lesbian-femi- nist stand-up comedian, Clinton touches on subjects such as abor- -._... J - R $ t Vaie : iied I tion, Catholic education, menopause, and her own "irreverent" attitude. Her jokes and one-liners of- ten border on bawdy: "I think Toot- sie would have been a completely different movie if, just once, Dustin Hoffman could have felt what it's like to sneeze and blow your tampon out about a quarter of an inch." A "reformed" Catholic and ex- high school English teacher, Clinton has created her own label, Whyscrack Records, on which she has recorded three albums: Making Light, Mak- ing Waves, and Live at the Great American Music Hall. KATE CLINTON will be "whyscracking" Sunday night at the Ark at 7:30 and 10 p.m. Tickets are $10.50. Award Winning Burgers KRAZY JIM'S BLIMPY BURGER HAS GOOD NEWS Sonic Youth will make you a Daydream BY BRIAN BERGER e Jn case you've been living in a cave for the last six or seven years, here's the scoop: Sonic Youth are perhaps the coolest and most happening punk rock group today. Although psuedo $ipsters have tagged SY as decadent, #cid-crazed noise mongers, SY really are just a startingly original band that's confounded the ignoramuses by consistently doing their thang their Way. Sonic Youth are: Kim Gordon (bass and vocals), Thurston Moore (guitar and vocals), Lee Ranaldo (guitar and vocals), and Steve Shelley (drums/ percussion). Also joining SY for the Daydream Nation tour are Suzanne (lights, t-shirts, enigmatic personality) and Terry (sound, Texan). When "on," Sonic Youth are white hot flailing prophets of rage and I think that you'd have to be a simp and a stoop not to go see 'em live. Thanks to Pat Naylor at Blast First, I got the chance to interview one of my childhood heroes, Thurston. (19 is still childhood, right?) We talked for about an hour and, needless to day, 'twas cool, at least for me. I was really real nervous, but Thurston was way hap about it. My vocal tics are "like" and "yeah." Thurston's are "I mean" and "like." (Topic: The SY/Pier Platters connection) T: They're pretty good friends of ours. I mean, Suzanne works there... our lightwoman - D: uh, huh T: - and she's like - D: Does she have like red - T: Yeah, she's - D: Like red hair - T: Yeah, she's a redhead - D: Yeah. (As you can see, we're not going to get too far without a bit of editing. So, the rest of this is mostly Thurston's comments run together.) T: I mean, you should write about her a lot. Everybody wants to know more about her than us anyway so it's - D: Yeah, Kim was saying in her tour diary (in the Village Voice) - T: Yeah, she was like... Suzanne's playing tonight, you know - D: (reading Kim's diary) "Will only eat the middle of various foods." T: Yeah, they should put... you should call up St. Anthony's (sic) Hall, and if they take an ad, it should say like "Sonic Youth Featuring Suzanne." (topic: the long rumored SY version of the Beatles' "White Album") T: No we never planned to do the "White." I mean, we said we were gonna do the "White Album" once and everybody just sorta like got on our case... "Is it ready?" "Are you doing it?"... We didn't mean that we were actually going to go and spend believer $30,000 to... We sorta thought that we could do it, but then Pussy Ga- lore did Exile on Main Street and and took all the weight off our shoulders. Which was great. So we decided just to do the Ciccone Youth album and call it the "Whitey Al- bum," just to fuck with people. D: Is it Master=Dik kind of stuff? T: No, not at all... it sounds like an early Can record. It has a lot to do with early '70s German progessive rock. See Youth, Page 8 Clinton ..whyscracking wit I, I \**i v ". : ; , I L "- ---,A) wmrmwwmwmmm I COUPON With this entire ad- FREE 12 oz. drink expires 11-10-88 COUPON Xu K KXXXX~XLw Ad ~ nn lnn2*4111. ' BRING IN THIS AD FOR. A GREAT MOVIE DEAL! 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