European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 23, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse Sis Ron Mcm Rwy music by the Lazslo Stile band from Finland floats toward Lake Geneva. Inset the festival s crazy cat logo. Music and setting make Monteux the Best by Ron Mckinney entertainment writer by to picture this across the peaceful Green water of Lake Geneva stand the Majestic Swiss Alps peaked even in july with a Crest of Snow. You Are basking in Sunshine at an outdoor Terrace with a cold Beer or Glass of wine on the table. Surrounding you Are dozens of smiling Happy people most of them europeans Many others american. Tourists. The Mountain air in the resort town of Monteux Switzerland is Crisp and fresh. And of yes the sounds of the outdoors Are enhanced by a College jazz band from Texas performing on a stage 100 feet away. Call this jazz with a others Call it the Monteux jazz festival. To Many within jazz circles it is the Premier jazz festival in the world. It is 16 summer Days of unadulterated jazz each july beginning about noon at numerous outdoor venues and ending when the last musician in Monteux passes out from exhaustion in the Early morning evening is a predicament within itself in choosing to buy tickets for the Congress Centre s two venues the spacious magnificent Stravinski auditorium or the club like new q s. It becomes a Choice Between fats Domino and or John or incognito and Ann Peebles. Eddie Murphy and inner More on Monteux see Poges 18-19 Circle or . Monk and John Scofield. Al Green Chaka Khan and Ramsey Lewis or Chris Isaak and third world. That s As Tough As it gets at the Monteux festival. Unless you re willing to make the late night shift at Duke s jazz bar where All the jazz stars meet for Impromptu Jam sessions. There Are other european jazz festivals most notably the North sea jazz festival but All the activity is crammed into three Days at that fest in the Hague Netherlands. Catch one show and you re Likely to miss three others. Thus the atmosphere at Monteux is one of relaxation. A daytime walk along the Lakeside promenade will take you past several venues offering free jazz concerts. Not to mention the spectacular scenery. But it is the headline music itself that Sells Monteux As the keynote jazz festival in the world. Claude nobs and Quincy Jones the co conspirators of the festival have enough vision to include rockers Robert Plant and Carlos Santana reggae stars inner Circle and third world soul singers Chaka Khan and Al Green the rap group disable planets or Swiss rappers Sens unik. These diverse acts represent a sideline attraction to the contemporary jazz stars expected at such a fete. And that is what makes the Monteux jazz festival the special musical event that it. Sting concert listings see Poges 20 & 21 the soulful British Singer has new dates for his current european tour already in Progress. C Anthony on Van Halen f it s hard to believe that Van Halen the original group of la. Bad boy hard rockers is turning 15, it is for the band members too. You know what it does t seem like a lot of time said bassist Michael Anthony. But then again. There have been two Van Halen bands. There was the Van Halen band led by Singer David Lee Roth that Rose to Fame after being founded by Eddie and Alex Vanzalen and Anthony and the subsequent version when Anthony Sammy Hagar joined Moony m 1985, that has proved against All expectations to be even More popular. Van Haten s live album right Here right now and its accompanying video solidify Hagar As the band s Best front Man Anthony said. There Are a lot of people who thought Roth was Van Halen. Then they forget where the music came out which is basically Eddie writing a lot of it and he and Alex and myself playing it he said. For the new tour the band has a new production and lighting design and a Surprise lineup of songs. We re looking at this like a 15-year anniversary tour Anthony said. So there s a few More of the very old Van Halen songs sneaking Clarke knows the score Rummer Stanley Clarke first made his name in the jazz Circle. But these Days he s taken his musical know How to the Silver screen As the writer of the underscore for films. In the past four years Clarke has worked on Boyon the Hood passenger 57, what s love got to do with it and poetic Justice. Film music is very specific said Clarke last week on the Terrace of the Hyatt hotel in Monteux Switzerland. That s the thing i like about it. You can really mess up a film if you try to Cater to anything or anyone else other than the film or the script Clarke s most recent films Tell Tina Turner s Story in what s love got to do with it and presents Janet Jackson in her acting debut in poetic Justice. In Jackson s film some new rap groups Are featured to help convey the Story. This movie is like your classic Street Romance so it s like Street kids and you get that kind of music Clarke said. Staff and wire reports Clarke Friday july 23,1993 the stars and stripes 17
