Viking_Yearbook_66

-FF I l I 6 f fr lattlB$[llal lazz music bopped into Portland State College, at least by proxy, on May 20 and 21, allowing fans of the adlib idiom to hear the far out sounds of Miles Davis or the closer-to-the-middle piano artistry of Vince Cuaraldi. The Second Annual PSC )azz Festival met with success this year in the Oriental Theater. The mustachioed Cuaraldi and his trio treated the young student oriented audience to a light, swinging concert of 1azz, fluctuating his rhythms and tempos to please the most discerning, or least knowledgeable jazz buff. Cuaraldi opened the jazz festival earlier in the day, on Friday, with an informal jazz seminar. The discussion panel, peopled by four outstanding jazz critics, a disc jockey, two newspaper columnists and an aesthetics teacher f rom PSC, was held in front of a standing-room' only audience in the College Center. The semi- nar occasioned some lively dialogue between Cuaraldi and the panel, then Cuaraldi and the audience. The incisive, succinct blowing of Miles Davis, trumpet-f luegelhorn-playing leader of the Davis Quintet, hypnotized the Saturday evening crowd. Wh isperi n g, m uted bal lads were counter' balanced by the hardswinging, rapid, staccato tempos of progressive iazz. Melodies flowed from the cornucopian horns of Davis and his lyrical cohort, tenorsaxist Wayne Shorter, for two hours as the polite but receptive capacity audience heard Miles Davis for the first two jazz festivals at Portland State. John Wendeborn, introduced emcee Ray Horn and promised Port' land that PSC would help make the Rose City the jazz capitol of the northwest.