The Buffalo News from Buffalo, New York • 97

a The Buffalo News rt SUNDAY JUNE 25 1995 SECTION Inside Entertainment Guide I G2 Summer Reading G7 Soaking up the music on KJi VULQO the steps oiihe Albright Knox JAZZ By MARY KUNZ News Staff Jazz blooms in strange and wonderful places It rose from the steamy sidewalks of Harlem It bubbled from the hot shores of the Mississippi River In Buffalo it flourishes every summer on the steps of the Albright Knox Art Gallery or many Western New York music lovers summer go into high gear until crowds gather on the gallery steps to bake in the sun eat hot dogs and soak up the sounds of Jazz at the Albright Knox The free Sunday concert series sponsored by The Buffalo News will begin July 9 think just one of so many things that makes Buffalo a great place to be in the says Stanford Lipsey publisher of The News particularly has a rich history of jazz so more appropriate than being outside oh a Sunday with the cool breeze hearing great An ardent jazz fan Lipsey is a regular at the gallery concerts So is Don Metz the local jazz programmer who helped plan this lineup one of the best things free music the Metz says he points out can go right from here to Shakespeare in the Jazz at the Albright Knox is now in its 13th year It has become a Buffalo institution not only because of its longevity but because it fills a unique niche As Metz explains the one program that has consistently supported local This concert schedule: July 16: The Bobby Militello Quartet July 23: The Buffalo Jazz Workshop featuring visiting vibrophonist Joe Locke July 30: Los Caribes a colorful Latin jazz band Aug 6: The Buffalo Jazz Workshop with guest guitarist Dave Stryker Aug 13: The Bobby Militello Quartet with vocalist Nancy Kelly Aug 20: The Buffalo Jazz Workshop featuring saxophonist Don Rice All concerts begin at 2 pm True to tradition the jazz series is anchored by the Buffalo Jazz Workshop under the direction of saxophonist Sam alzone has changed his band through the years This is the best band Metz says See hai Page G6 How creators drew on life and legend rr li A VS Irene Bedard the voice of Pocahontas World but is heard i By NICOLE PERADOTTONews Staff Reporter newest heroine combines the charm to woo the most die hard mercenary with the savvy to save him from the chopping block So who better to create her than one of the most beautiful people and one of most powerful? Respectively they are actress Irene Bedard and animator Glen Keane Together they resurrect The daughter of an Inupiat Eskimo mother and a rench Canadian Cree father she made People list of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the seen as speaking voice The father of Ariel Little the Beast Aladdin and now Pocahontas he made the cut on Premiere 100 Most Powerful People in Hollywood list but not by much thought the least powerful of that says No 100 during a group interview in New York then I thought: did I do to get on this? just doing what I love Odds are Keane will have dropped off the list in When the Poca brouhaha subsides later this summer the 21 year Disney animator and son of See Page G5 COLOR CS ifY')' iA dtt ibf A SR Ik Giri Coi of' 4''A ('e The Disney marketing machine has kicked into high gear for animator Glen Caught in the wheels of a runaway junket By NICOLE PERADOTTO News Staff Reporter You may not have heard that Disney temporarily moved the Magic Kingdom to Manhattan I know until I found it in Suite 1831 of the Regency Hotel This is the place where last I checked worker ants make dreams come true without the aid of wishing stars This is the site of a brand new multimillion dollar theme park ride called And what a well oiled machine it is Technically I was not embarking on my first junket when I stepped off the 18th floor of the Regency earlier this month and into hospitality suite In keeping with its policy The Buffalo News not Disney picked up the tab for my two day trek to New York to watch a sneak preview of and interview the cast and crew But I felt like my junketeer ears were firmly in place when one of the workers thrust into my arms a shopping bag stuffed with promotional products A sweat shirt A shirt A blanket She urged me to munch on something at the snack table have a soft drink But 1 fled blushing with the indignity any adult who has ever toted around a goodie bag can understand When I recovered from the shame I felt like it was Halloween and I had scored such loot at the first house that I could call it a night In fact the working principle behind a junket has a lot in common with trick or treating: The treater gives up the Goobers so the potential trickster See Junket Page G5 vrr VX i A £3rit BMMBB ted 'W sr fedR' MollyOlga has always made children itSMipecial mission This untitled work is by Paul Small 12 si USB ART 1 IS kA bto Honoring MollyOlga nurturing a class act on a shoestring By RICHARD HUNTINGTON News Art Critic orget that Land of the ree stuff Economically crunched America is fast becoming the Land of the ee Trv nutting air in vour tires writing a check or calling Information pay Your credit card comes with a fee So does any TV set that gets more than three fuzzy channels I if 1 3 a uu 5 And the best things in life have a fee as well things like art museums and state parks and blue cheese dressing instead of house One thing does remain free however: MollyOlga Neighborhood Art Classes or 35 years the honored East Side school has been teaching art to children to young and older adults in fact to anybody who comes along and wants to learn how to make art Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center 2495 Main St is celebrating 35 years of singular service to the community in a retrospective exhibition continuing at the gallery through Aug 12 The show which began Saturday night with an opening for artists and community chronicles the achievements of the many artists who have come through the school over the years It features the work of children young adults adults and MollyOlga teachers who themselves often started as See Classes Page G4 lora untitled work at the Hallwalls exhibit which celebrates 35 years of the East Side neighborhood art center JAZZ ART.