BRIEFLY.Byline: The Register-Guard Portland group puts twist on Gypsy swing If Gypsy jazz swinger Stephane Grappelli met Argentine tango master Astor Piazzolla in Paris and they drank too many pink martinis, the music they might have made would sound like 3 Leg Torso, a Portland band whose eclectic but romantic style combines chamber, Latin and world music. Its latest album, "Astor in Paris" (November 2003), even has a klezmer klezmer (klĕz`mər), form of instrumental folk music developed in the Eastern European Jewish community. The style had its beginnings in the Middle Ages; its name is a Yiddishized version of the Hebrew klei zemir track. 3 Leg Torso consists of Bela Balogh on violin and trumpet, Courtney Van Drehle on accordion and saxophone, Michael Papillo on bass and Thomas Mackay and Gary Irvine on vibes, marimba, xylophone xylophone (zī`ləfōn) [Gr.,=wood sound], musical instrument having graduated wooden slabs that are struck by the player with small, hard mallets. The slabs are usually arranged like a keyboard, and the range varies from two to four octaves. and percussion. They've performed at the Knitting Factory in New York, the Great American Music Hall The Great American Music Hall is a concert hall in San Francisco, California. It is located on O'Farrell Street at in the Tenderloin neighborhood on the same block as the Mitchell Brothers O'Farrell Theater. in San Francisco and Grand Performances in Los Angeles. You can catch them at 8 p.m. Wednesday at Cafe Paradiso, 115 W. Broadway. The cover charge is $10. Obscure Portland bands take over WOW Hall The WOW Hall, 291 W. Eighth Ave., has another busy weekend lined up, starting tonight with a University of Oregon The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. The university was founded in 1876, graduating its first class two years later. The University of Oregon is one of 60 members of the Association of American Universities. Cultural Forum showcase of "best unknown" Portland bands: Jonny X and the Groadies, Life at These Speeds, the Motive and Pseudosix. For UO students with ID, admission is $4 at the door, $3 in advance. For everyone else, it's $8 and $6. The music begins at 8:30 p.m. Other WOW Hall shows this weekend: Deerhoof, with Japanese singer Satomi Matsuzaki, in a KWVA KWVA Korean War Veterans Association (British Columbia, Canada) show Saturday, with the Papercuts opening at 8:30 p.m. ($10, $8 advance); the FCC Tour (which does not mean Federal Communications Commission Federal Communications Commission (FCC), independent executive agency of the U.S. government established in 1934 to regulate interstate and foreign communications in the public interest. ) on Sunday, featuring Sage Francis and Joe Beats (as the Non-Prophets), Grand Buffet Mac Lethal and the Gimme gim·me Informal Contraction of give me. adj. Slang Demanding material things or especially money; acquisitive: today's gimme society; tired of gimme letters. n. Fund, Francis' backup band. The show opens at 8:30 p.m. with Macromantics, an Australian hip-hopper known for her "lyrical dexterity, magnetic delivery and eloquent rhyme style." ($15, $12 advance). - The Register-Guard |
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