07 | Autor: Salsamba's quarter-century of cookin' up Latin jazz preview
Pittsburgh, a mid-magnitude town with a jazz scene worthy of a big city, is full of surprises. Deem Salsamba, a Latin jazz group that took bring to light here 26 years ago and continues to blossom.
Relatively few Latin jazz groups breathe in the States; most are New York-based. Almost none of the bands focusing on Afro-Cuban rhythms features a guitarist as an alternative of a keyboard player. A fraction of bands in any genre lasts 26 years -- most have "artistic differences" long before then, or the sax player tires of the bill collector, pawns his sax and crams for law high school.
But Salsamba -- founders Eric Susoeff on guitar and George Jones on congas and "newcomers" Eric DeFade on saxophone (16 years), bassist Paul Thompson (10 years) and drummer Tom Wendt (5 years) -- is still pursuing the "best combination of Latin rhythm and jazz harmony," as Mr. DeFade puts it. The stripe recently released its 6th CD, "Mojito Blues."
Mr. Susoeff, 52, grew up in Los Angeles almost Redondo Beach.
"It was a little over a mile away, and I would roam to the beach, and I was an avid surfer from the age of 9 or 10. I surfed like impracticable for four or five years. My dad had a boat at one time, and I also learned to scuba dump."
When he was 14, his father, an industrial photographer, was transferred.
"My parents said, 'How would you pity about moving to Pittsburgh?' And I said, 'Pittsburgh, where's that? How far from the beach is that?' "
Oh, to be a fly on Keating's wall
Last week Keating expressed his odium "for tittle tat columns" like PS loud and clear, and after a week of very community bleating about Bob Hawke, those ill-feelings no doubt extend to telemovies brimming with "tittle tat".
Williamson's Keating is meant to be a supporting hieroglyph in the film. However, his is the most intriguing storyline, given the background plotting and calculating to become prime minister over Hawke.
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The grim-faced, insular and rather portent Keating character almost outshines the film's glitzy lovebirds, Bob Hawke and Blanche d'Alpuget, played by Richard Roxburgh and Asher Keddie.
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B1 and B2 were involved with Hawke's producer, Richard Keddie, from the very start, with d'Alpuget reportedly insisting he get Hawke's "sweet bodgie" absolutely perfect for Roxburgh, resulting in $30,000 advantage of wigs.
Other political luminaries involved included Greg Combet, Kim Beazley, Robert Ray, John Faulkner, Simon Crean, Steve Bracks, Bill Kelty, Contribution Nihill, Warren Snowdon and Craig Emerson.
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