Friday, November 14, 1986/The Battalion/Page 3
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„ Saxophonist radiates 'cool'heat
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Whalum wails’ to win A&M crowd
By Karl Pallmeyer
Stuff Writer
[The temperature outside may
Ive been real cold last night, but
|e temperature inside Rudder Au-
Itorium was real “cool,” thanks to
le music of Kirk Whalum.
Whalum, master of the saxo-
bone, and his four-man band,
mup Session, had the audience of
jer 900 people clapping and snap-
jng and whooping and hollering
1 the sounds of jazz.
[The MSG Black Awareness Com-
iittee, the organization that spon-
red Whalum’s appearance, out-
itself hy bringing the best
tisical program to grace this cam
ps this semester.
It took only ten seconds of the
^t number before the audience
jan clapping. From those first
bars it was obviously going to be
lood night.
Vhalum switched from soprano
alto sax and led the band
[rough “Don’t Look at Me in That
me of Voice,” a song Whalum
pie for his one-year-old daughter
(it will be on his next album, due
»e released in March.
[“Don’t Look at Me in That l one
Voice” and “Kyle’s Smiles,” a
|ng Whalum wrote for his three-
jar-old son, are amazing in the
ky they sound. You can almost see
child playing when you hear
sm.
Bassist Don Patterson thumped
out the intro to “Playing House,” a
tune from “Floppy Disk,” his first
album, as Whalum talked about his
^j upcoming album. During the
course of the song, Whalum im-
: Hited Patterson’s fast and funky
bas-* licks on sax.
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■ Tod Vullo’s guitar solo drew yells
of approval from the crowd.
■ After “Playing House,” Whalum
Mpressed concern that the pro-
gr.mi had been titled: “An Evening
of Sophisticated Jazz” because his
tennis shoes — pink and purple
with rhinestones — did little to lend
ap air of sophistication.
Whalum dedicated the next
number to the Arkansas Razor-
backs.
“You’ll see why,” Whalum said
cryptically, then went into the
theme from “Mission: Impossible,”
which got faster and faster, and
then slowed down and died. (A mu
sical prediction prehaps?)
The audience snapped its fingers
in time to the beat of the “Pink Pan
ther” theme, the next number the
band played.
Keyboardist Rick Jackson threw
in some good jazzy licks. The “Pink
Panther” turned into an uptempo
piano solo that led into a hot guitar
solo. Sax and synthesizer dueled it
out with the “Close Encounters of
the Third Kind” theme. The whole
band joined in, ending the piece
with the theme from “Get Smart.”
“Glow,” a slow, bluesy number,
was dedicated to all the women in
the audience. The song ended with
Whalum playing a note that seemed
to go on forever.
After that incredibly long note,
he played a slow and soulful version
of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”
The audience listened to the song
in reverent silence.
Whalum introduced the mem-
hers of the band and then, in
French, introduced their next song.
Group Session traded solos as Wha
lum took a short break. Steve Sum
mer’s drum solo was incredible.
The band and Whalum then per
formed “Afterthought,” a much
slower and mellower tune from “F-
loppy Disk.”
Whalum demonstrated his awe
some lung power by stepping away
from the microphone so that his sax
was not aided by amplification.
Without the help of electronics, the
music still filled the auditorium.
After a couple of songs, Whalum
and the band left the stage, only to
be called back for two encores. The
crowd was standing, whooping, yel
ling and screaming for more.
Backstage after the show, Wha-
Saxophonist Kirk Whalum jokes with the audience be
tween numbers Thursday night in Rudder Auditorium.
lum said he was thrilled at the size
and response of the crowd. He said
that he and his band usually play at
all the schools in this area about
three or four times a year and
would like to add A&M to their list.
Let’s hope we’ll get to see Whalum
and Group Session again real soon.
City Council OKs
5-year increase
in CS utility rates
By Craig Renfro
Staff Writer
The College Station City Coun
cil Wednesday accepted a new
rate schedule from Gulf States
Utilities that will reflect a 7.6 per
cent wholesale rate increase dur
ing the next year for the city, City
Manager William Cole said.
The city will pass the increase
on to consumers in the form of a
4.2 percent retail increase, Cole
said.
He said the agreement still
must be approved by the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission
before it can take effect.
The contract, which is for five
years, is retroactive to Aug. 25,
Cole said. However, consumers’
utility bills will not reflect the rate
change until December, he said.
Five years from now the aver
age College Station consumer will
pay 10 percent more for electric
ity than he currently does. Cole
said.
However, the agreement will
not rescue GSU from its current
economic strain, GSU spokesper
son Sharron Englade said.
On Nov. 6, GSU filed bank
ruptcy documents with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Com
mission saying it needs $100 mil
lion in emergency rate increases
from Texas and Louisiana, Eng
lade said.
Englade said the new contract
with College Station will help ease
the economic burden, but won’t
do away with it.
“Maintaining College Station
as a customer is very important,”
Englade said.
“We can’t survive without rate
relief and we were glad to reach a
compromise,” she said.
Englade cited economic de
pressions in Texas and Louisiana
as a major factor in GSU’s finan
cial troubles.
“Because of the economy we
are in dire financial straits,” she
said.
Englade said GSU will ask the
state of Texas for an additional
$150 million in relief aid early
next week.
The agreement follows 12
weeks of negotiations with GSU.
Negotiations began Aug. 25 when
the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission granted GSU an in
terim 40 percent rate increase.
If the increase had taken ef
fect, College Station would have
had the highest electricity bills in
the state. Cole said.
After GSU’s wholesale custom
ers complained about the pro
posed 40 percent increase, GSU
proposed a slightly lower in
crease, he said.
The council held a special ses
sion Sept. 11, and proposed the
7.6 percent increase, he said.
College Station and three other
cities — Caldwell, Newton and
Kirbyville — buy electricity
wholesale from GSU, then resell
it to their residents.
Cole said the city is pleased
with the settlement because it
shortens the contract period from
10 to five years.
After five years, College Sta
tion will be free to purchase its
electricity from another com
pany, he said.
“Everybody is extremely
pleased,” Cole said. “It just gives
the city more options.”
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