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Friday, November 4, 1983/The Battalion/Page 3 NTSU jazz performance ‘spectacular’ Jerwoit stions ‘iphof it the ng on a We Wen William of Bri ?l irapprec it sight, fall’s hi ofCn forts for bonfire Marcy rice Koi Deenet Ot lO! Cindi Tackitt, Battalion staff North Texas State One O’clock Lab Band by Steve Thomas Battalion Staff The North Texas State Uni versity One O’Clock Lab Band wailed like a jazz band should Thursday in Rudder Auditor ium. It was a spectacular per formance by some excellent youne talent in a concert spon sored by the MSC Basement committee. At First the band sounded like an ordinary fantastic college jazz band. It took them a few songs to warm up. Then on the Herbie Hancock number, “Eye of the Hurri cane,” the band shifted into overdrive. Suddenly the sound was a professional one — big, bold, together, clean and strong. The group was just that — a group. No one person domin ated the show. No one needed to. It was like listening to one massive, precise, powerful in strument. The music did everything from sway to jerk, and erratic meter changes accented the already pointed syncopation. But the band stayed tight. It didn’t matter that the loud- soft, fast-slow repertoire was re dundant. The sound fit the band and the audience loved it. By the time Roger Homes’ “Surfs Up” finished and the band broke for intermission, everyone knew the second half would be unbelievable. If we could only hear the trombones. The volume of the trombone section was low throughout the concert. Though it played artis tically and technically up to par with the rest of the band, it simp ly did not blend. Unlike so many jazz bands, the trumpet section was not overbearing. It supported the band and moved solidly through the music, but never covered the sound. Though the trombones were distant, the saxophones and rhythm were always in the sound. The rhythm section did its job, and the saxes were so diver sified yet so conformed to one another that they added spice to the sound. But if bands are made of musicians, this one is composed of artists. Larry Engstrom can play the trumpet. Even though he soloed in more than half of the 14 num bers, he never depleted his bank of creativity and no one got tired of his style. He was versatile, composed and a bold improvisa- tionalist, as was shown in his “Grenada Smoothly” solo and his feature spot in the sensation al encore “A Secret Love.” Lead trumpet player Marc Breithaupt had difficulty reaching his upper register at first, but began nailing one high note after another when he fin ally got it together. “Keystone” had some good examples of his recovery. Bassist Danny Leonard took a step beyond technical efficiency by playing enjoyable solos, the prime example being “Swag’s Groove,” the Dan Hurly num ber that featured Leonard on string bass. Bass players like that are uncommon. Karl Lampman soloed with consistent technical mastery of the tenor sax. His style was hard and strong, but lacked versatil ity. His solo in Ray Brown’s “Is There Anything Still There” was practically recorded and played back for “Keystone,” though the two charts were dras tically different. )VI th 101 he :iri HONG KONG RESTAURANT ; £ ^ /H Special, Hong Kong Beef Enjoy our Wine & Beer with Free Chicken Wings (With Mon.-Thurs. Evening Meal Only) I Mon.-Sun. Mon.-Sat. 3805 Texas Ave. 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. 5:00 -10:00 p.m. 846-8345 Pottery may include early writing form id theAj game.! differens a winnt: vords, 1 3W you 5 i, they 1! United Press International y_ HhAN ANTONIO — Excava- trth at d'ms in Belize have yielded pot- I 'i ; tery vessels etched with symbols that may represent one of the tu Hi. earliest forms of Mayan writing, lst ' r a Texas archeologist said, players § The pottery vessels were e willcoE lownd in the 1983 dig at Golha, ier, bothone of the few continously- occupied Mayan cities of South arinein America. Archeologists from . )u . ?the University of Texas at San 1 Antonio have been excavating ;n 10 U the site since 1979. nes, DUl| [),. 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