WHAT'S HAPPENING : MUSIC.Powerhouse of R&B: Guitarist Roy Gaines is nearly a walking history of rhythm and blues rhythm and blues (R&B) Any of several closely related musical styles developed by African American artists. The various styles were based on a mingling of European influences with jazz rhythms and tonal inflections, particularly syncopation and the flatted blues chords. . As a member of the Duke Records house band in the mid-'50s, Gaines' silky T-Bone Walker-style guitar was featured on recordings by Big Mama Big Mama might be:
An impressed Chuck Willis then took Gaines on the road before sessions for Jimmy Rushing, King Curtis and Brook Benton beckoned. During the '60s, he worked with the Jazz Crusaders and Ray Charles. Gaines, a first-rate singer as well as a big-toned, dynamic guitarist, also backed Big Joe Turner
Big Joe Turner (born Joseph Vernon Turner Jr., May 18, 1911 – November 24, 1985)[1] was an American blues shouter from Kansas City, Missouri. , Roy Milton, Albert King, the Supremes and Stevie Wonder. He appears Saturday at Cozy's Bar & Grill in Sherman Oaks in support of his current album, ``Lucille Work for Me!'' (Black Gold), produced by Gaines and ex-Crusaders trombonist Wayne Henderson. The disc, which includes a bluesy version of the Rolling Stones' ``Satisfaction,'' features Joe Sample, Wilton Felder, Hubert Laws, Henderson and others. Along with his musical career, Gaines, 59, owns Gainesville, a barbecue and seafood restaurant on Crenshaw cren·shaw also cran·shaw n. A variety of winter melon (Cucumis melo var. inodorus) having a greenish-yellow rind and sweet, usually salmon-pink flesh. [Origin unknown.] Boulevard in Los Angeles. The Texas-born r&b guitarist hosts an all-day blues jam at the eatery on Mondays. Cozy's is at 14058 Ventura Blvd., Sherman Oaks. The first set starts at 9:30 p.m. and admission is $8. Information: (818) 986-6000. ?13- Fred Shuster Rock history comes to Santa Monica: Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, dedicated to recording the history of some of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, and other people who have in some major way influenced the music industry, particularly in and Museum is bringing a piece of history to Santa Monica this weekend. In its first traveling exhibit, the museum is offering a visual, photo and film display today through Sunday at the Santa Monica Place Santa Monica Place is a three-story, 570,000 square-foot shopping mall in Santa Monica, California. The mall is located at the south end of the famous Third Street Promenade, and is also two blocks from the Santa Monica Pier and the beach. shopping center. On view will be rock guitar prototypes, a selection of prints by photographer Neal Preston of backstage life, plus a film tour of the rock 'n' roll rock 'n' roll: see rock music. museum itself. Santa Monica Place is at Colorado Avenue and Second Street, Santa Monica. The exhibit, which is free, opens at 10 a.m. today and Saturday and 11 a.m. Sunday. Information: (310) 394-5451. ?13- Fred Shuster dining New, improved Mickeyfare: They're calling it a ``park-wide effort to create an exceptional dining experience.'' Yep folks, we're speaking about Disneyland, believe it or not. Anaheim's Mickey Mouse snagged chef James Wierzelewski from the Shangri-La Hotel in Kuala Lumpur as part of this upgrading. Recent eating-place openings include the Carnation carnation: see pink. carnation Herbaceous plant (Dianthus caryophyllus) of the pink family, native to the Mediterranean, widely cultivated for its fringe-petaled, often spicy-smelling flowers. Cafe with its Victorian bistro experience, the Blue Ribbon Bakery with its show kitchen and fresh-baked goods. and the Gibson Girl Ice Cream Parlor Ice cream parlors are places that sell ice cream and frozen yogurt to consumers. Ice cream is normally sold in two varieties in these stores: soft-serve ice cream (normally with just chocolate, vanilla, and "twist", a mix of the two), and hard-packed, which has an assortment of . In charge of the park's food operations is Michael Berry, who says Disneyland's goal is ``to create a dining experience that exceeds our guests' expectations.'' ?13- Larry Lipson art Korea's artistic voice: When your next-door neighbor is the toughest country on the continent, there are basically two ways of painting: the Chinese way and the wrong way. For centuries, Korean culture lived in the shadow of Chinese influence. And among China's artistic treasures, few were deemed more socially prestigious than so-called ``literati'' paintings. In China, these elegant ink paintings were the work of elite Confucian scholars who used painting as a form of self-cultivation and relaxation. But during the interminable Choson Dynasty (1392-1910), Korea experienced a kind of renaissance. Liberated from Chinese orthodoxy, Korean artists appropriated the ``literati'' form and began to paint landscapes, flora, fauna and human figures in a distinct national style. That style is celebrated in ``The Fragrance of Ink,'' an exhibition of 60 rare works from the collection of Korea University, now open for perusal at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History The Fowler Museum at UCLA or more commonly, The Fowler is a museum on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) which explores art and material culture primarily from Africa, Asia and the Pacific, and the Americas, past and present. . Museum hours are noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday and Friday through Sunday, noon to 8 p.m. Thursday. Admission is $5 for adults; $3 for seniors, non-UCLA students, UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX faculty, staff and Alumni Association members; $1 for UCLA students; free to members and visitors 17 and under; and free to all on Thursdays. The museum located on campus, just west of Royce Hall. For information, call (310) 825-4361. ?13 - Reed Johnson theater `Angel's' on the Strip: Good acting usually ranks high on the list of things that separate a ``disease-of-the-week'' melodrama from theater of substance. Well-crafted characters help, too. Ditto with dialogue drawn from lived experience, rather than prefabricated pre·fab·ri·cate tr.v. pre·fab·ri·cat·ed, pre·fab·ri·cat·ing, pre·fab·ri·cates 1. To manufacture (a building or section of a building, for example) in advance, especially in standard sections that can be easily shipped and blocks of schmaltz schmaltz also schmalz n. 1. Informal a. Excessively sentimental art or music. b. Maudlin sentimentality. 2. Liquid fat, especially chicken fat. . Add up the positives and you've got ``Angel's Share,'' playing through May 18 at the Tiffany Theaters on the Sunset Strip. Billed as a ``comedy with dramatic concerns,'' Casey DeFranco's play looks at love and loss from a gal-pal perspective, giving your tear ducts a workout but avoiding saccharine sac·cha·rine adj. Of, relating to, or characteristic of sugar or saccharin; sweet. overload. Salome Jens and Paula Prentiss play lifelong friends facing the ultimate form of separation anxiety - death - with aplomb a·plomb n. Self-confident assurance; poise. See Synonyms at confidence. [French, from Old French a plomb, perpendicularly : a, according to (from Latin ad-; see and gutsy humor (and, yes, an occasional touch of sentimentality). Directed by Susan Peretz (Al Pacino's wife in ``Dog Day Afternoon''), ``Angel's Share'' is playing at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets are $18 to $25. For information, call (310) 289-2999. ?13- Reed Johnson family See you at the farm: The Farm Walk at Pierce College on Sunday is just made for city slickers hankering to escape, even if only momentarily, from the suburban jungle. Sheep shearing, wool spinning, horseshoeing and horse grooming will be among the demonstrations featured during the event. Visitors also will be able to tour the nature center and sheep, llama llama (lä`mə), South American domesticated ruminant mammal, Lama glama, of the camel family. Genetic studies indicate that it is descended from the guanaco. , beef, horse and pig units. A dairy demonstration is scheduled from 9 a.m. to noon. Musical entertainment will be provided. Refreshments and barbecue lunches will be available for purchase. Pierce College is located at 6201 Winnetka Ave., Woodland Hills. The Farm Walk will be held from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. The suggested donation is $5. Children under 12 are free. Visitors should enter the college at the Mason Avenue entrance, off Victory Boulevard. For more information, call (818) 719-6463. ?13- Lori Moody film Warm Tejano tribute: ``Selena'' is as sweet a tribute to the late Tejano music star as you could possibly want. Some have found it a little too saccharine, but the film's humor, revealing family byplay and sheer charismatic warmth of the subject, sure seems authentic enough. Jennifer Lopez embodies that warmth perfectly; she never makes Selena appear, for all her talent and goodness, anything more than human. And Lopez does a nice job of capturing Selena's provocative but ingratiating in·gra·ti·at·ing adj. 1. Pleasing; agreeable: "Reading requires an effort.... Print is not as ingratiating as television" Robert MacNeil. 2. dance style, too. Meanwhile, Edward James Olmos Edward James Olmos (born February 24, 1947) is an Emmy-winning and Oscar-nominated American actor and director. Some of his most memorable roles were Lt. Martin Castillo in Miami Vice, Jaime Escalante in Stand and Deliver and Admiral William Adama in the convincingly shows both the affectionate and controlling sides of Selena's father/manager, Abraham Quintanilla Jr. (who was the film's executive producer). With his patented mix of sentimentality, quirky cultural details and mischievous character comedy, writer-director Gregory Nava (``Mi Familia'') has fashioned perhaps the happiest movie ever about a singing star who died young. You feel Selena would have enjoyed watching it, too. ?13 - Bob Strauss CAPTION(S): 4 Photos Photo: (1) Edward James Olmos and Jennifer Lopez star as father and daughter in ``Selena,'' a sweet tribute to the late Tejano singing star. (2) Chef James Wierzelewski shows Mickey Mouse some of the baked goods at the Blue Ribbon Bakery, one of Disneyland's new eateries. (3) ``Standing Portrait of Su Tung-p'o,'' by Chi Un-Yong, is one of the rare Korean ``literati'' works at the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History. (4) Paula Prentiss, left, and Salome Jens play friends dealing with love and loss in ``Angel's Share,'' at the Tiffany Theaters in West Hollywood. |
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