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NEWS & VARIETY
University’s modem jazz concert
celebrates Black History Month
By KYLE MINSHEW
kminshew@randb.com
Even though the average person on the street
might not be able to tell Thelonious Monk from
Michael Stipe, a rather unknown spectrum of the
Athens music community is hosting a virtual who’s
who of modem jazz.
Sponsored by the Office of the President’s
Venture Fund and the Office of Student Affairs,
The Golden Quartet, performing this Friday in
Hodgson Hall, is a collaboration among trumpeter
and composer Ishmael Smith, drummer Jack
DeJohnette, pianist Anthony Davis and bassist
Malachi Favors.
The concert is part of the University’s celebra
tion of Black History Month.
Smith’s dream was to form a streamlined super
group made of musicians who could be considered
giants among the jazz community. Regarded as
some of the most innovative in each of their fields,
musicians such as DeJohnette have ties to jazz
greats like Miles Davis and Dizzy Gillespie.
“One of the most important moments in my life
as a young musician was seeing Jack DeJohnette
play with Miles Davis in the early 1970s,” said
Arvin Scott, a professor in the School of Music.
“My approach to jazz drum-set was deeply affect
ed by his melodic and polyrhythmic style. Many of
my fellow musicians consider him to be among the
most important percussionists of his generation.”
Anthony Davis is a Grammy-nominated com
poser for his opera “X, the Life and Times
of Malcom X” and the composer of music for the
Tony award-winning play “Angels in America”
by Tony Kushner. The traditional attitudes
and perceptions of jazz and modern jazz have
put it in a public light which he does
THE GOLDEN QUARTET
When & Where: Friday, Feb. 16 at 8 p.m. in Hodgson Hall in
the Performing Arts Center
Tickets: $10 for general admission and $5 for students
Information: 542-4400
not understand.
“What happens in the jazz world defies logic,”
Davis said. “It’s absurd almost. I never can really
figure out if the intellectual community and the
writers who surround the jazz community are
interested in the music. Like, they will say some
thing is a new version of jazz if a musician says he’s
not playing jazz.
“The latest example would be this so-called
jazz-rap trend, where it’s just somebody rapping
and somebody plays solos like we used to play in
the ’70s on top of it,” he said. “Then all of the peo
ple who are supposed to be dealing with jazz jump
on the bandwagon, and they’re talking about,
‘This is the new form of jazz, and finally people are
overcoming the conservativeness of ...’ This is just
crazy! It’s ludicrous.”
The lack of public support and understanding
of the world of jazz is influenced by a group of indi
viduals, Davis said, who have put themselves
above the musicians themselves and have restrict
ed the public from receiving a full knowledge and
understanding of the art.
“This is the thing that I’ve always been trying
to say in public, and why a lot of times they’ve said
I’m outspoken and all of this,” Davis said. “I’m not
outspoken. It’s just that these people who are sup
posed to be conduits between the musicians and
the public don’t function in that fashion. They feel
that they are above the musician or that they are
above the music, and they aren’t.”
Author visits Athens for signing
By GARDNER LINN
glinn@randb.com
“On the eve of her 16th birth
day, Sarina Summers got an
overnight stay at Druid City
Hospital. As her mother helped
her through the emergency room
doors, Sarina knew there was no
turning back. This was it. She
was serious about her future.
“ ‘What happened to this
child?’ the doctor exclaimed.
‘This Child is drunk as a skunk
and her fingers are broke!' ”
So begins “Eating the
Cheshire Cat,” the debut novel of
Helen Ellis, who is reading and
signing books tonight at Barnes
& Noble. The reader soon learns
that Sarina’s mother broke her
daughter’s pinky fingers to cor
rect their crookedness — her one
flaw.
The novel follows the lives of
control-freak Sarina, her wor
shipful, damaged friend Nicole
and ugly-duckling Bitty Jack
from summer camp to the
University of Alabama. For nearly
300 pages, the story never once
lets up on its darkly comic
Southern gothic vibe. It’s like a
picture I once saw of a pink Jell-
O heart that oozes blood-red
syrup when you cut into it.
I was 200 pages into “Eating
the Cheshire Cat” when I spoke
to Ellis on the phone. “It only
gets worse — in a good way,” she
said, laughing. On the phone, as
HELEN ELLIS
“Eating the Cheshire Cat”
When & Where: 7 tonight at the
Barnes & Noble bookstore on Atlanta
Highway
on the page, Ellis was a rush of
stories, asides and jokes, only
occasionally coming up for air.
Ellis grew up in Tuscaloosa,
Ala., where “Eating the Cheshire
Cat” is set. The accurate observa
tion of life among Tuscaloosa
women came from that
upbringing.
“Sure, one of my best friends
had crooked pinkies,” Ellis said.
“She really did toy with the idea
of breaking them to fix them.”
On her 22nd birthday, Ellis
moved to New York City to
become a writer. After three years
of working odd jobs just to pay
rent, she decided it was time to
get serious about her chosen pro
fession. She gained acceptance to
grad school at NYU and started
to work on “Cheshire Cat.”
“I had to go to New York to
write about Alabama,” she said.
Living in the big city did not dull
her sharp eye for Southern eccen
tricities, as “Cheshire Cat” shows.
One Southern tradition that
Ellis takes on in her novel is the
sorority. Nicole’s disastrous
Pledge Promise Night at
Alabama’s chapter of Delta Delta
Delta is a centerpiece of the
book. The portrayal of the soror
ity in “Cheshire Cat” confirms
many suspicions about sororities
— suspicions that Ellis said are
true.
“My mother was a Tri-Delt at
Chapel Hill, and I have a lot of
friends at Alabama,” Ellis said.
Ellis does not ridicule the sis
ters in her novel, no matter how
vicious some of them are.
“They’re always depicted as
big-haired, lipsticked idiots,” she
said, “But they’re not. A lot of
sorority girls showed up on my
reading tour. I guess I feel their
pain.”
Ellis said the three main char
acters of “Eating the Cheshire
Cat” come from different sides of
her own personality.
“They’re little parts of me I
would never bring out in public,”
she said. “Sarina is like me
because she wants control. When
I write, I have complete control
over the situation. If the tiles in a
room are peach, it’s because I say
they’re peach. Bitty Jack is the
classic ugly-duckling story. It’s
me to a T at age 12. I wanted to
write an ugly duckling who didn’t
pow up to be a swan. And Nicole
is who I could have become.”
Ellis is currently working on
her second novel, “Tilt,” about a
family of poker-playing women.
She’s also working as a secretary
at Chanel four days a week, giv
ing her time to write and go on
book tours, like the one that
brings her to Athens tonight.
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Kappa Alpha member
signs informal agreement
By ANGIE HERRINGTON
news@randb.com
A member of Kappa
Alpha Fraternity signed an
informal agreement with
Judicial Programs Wednesday
admitting he “lied to a
University official concerning
an incident involving his
fraternity.”
Fiske Cutrer Hopkins,
a freshman from Thomaston,
was placed on probated
suspension from the University
for the remaining period
of his undergraduate
enrollment.
The incident occurred
on the same night Stewart
Pendley, a pledge, was
taken to St. Mary’s hospital for
alcohol poisoning on Dec. 1,
said Eric Atkinson, student
affairs counselor for
u
“(Hopkins) made a false
' statement about where
members of the fraternity
were having a party. ”
ERIC ATKINSON
Student Leadership Development
Programs Office Counselor
the Student Leadership
Development Programs Office.
“(Hopkins) made a false
statement about where mem
bers of the fraternity were hav
ing a party,” he said.
Atkinson said Hopkins was a
pledge at the time the incident
occurred.
Kappa Alpha was placed
on two years of probated
revocation of. its charter
and probated suspension Feb. 2
for lying to University officials
about the Dec. alcohol
poisoning.
Hopkins is the second
Kappa Alpha member in two
weeks to sign an informal
agreement.
Charles Clark was placed on
probated expulsion Feb. 7 after
he signed an informal agreement
with Judicial Programs admit
ting he lied to University
officials.
Hopkins also must write a let
ter of apology to Atkinson and a
five-page “reflection letter on
integrity” to the Office of
Judicial Programs as part of his
agreement.
Atkinson said Hopkins and
Clarke are the only Kappa Alpha
members he filed a complaint
against to Judicial Programs.
Hopkins was unavailable for
comment Wednesday.
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