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MONKING AROUND. Better known as Tucson's own Blue Monks, this little jazz band is a heavy-hitter in the local sax trade. Tonight they play under the stars in the lovely garden of Tohono Chul Park, as part of the northwest outpost's ongoing Americana music series.
BRASS COMBUSTION. Rob Blakeslee, labeled a "neglected trumpet pyrotechnician" by critics, left Portland for a long stretch on the road with various R&B bands, before settling into the Dallas jazz scene in 1983. While in Texas, Blakeslee committed himself solely to playing adventurous, original music, many pieces of which were eventually recorded on the Daagnim label. But he was back on the coast by 1987, where he assumed the post of director of jazz studies at Oregon State University. His timing couldn't be better: It was a hot time for jazz in the cool northwest, with many of the region's musicians forming their own record labels and promoting their own concerts. Soon, Blakeslee found himself among a pre-eminent roster of highly exploratory musicians including Andrew Hill, Oliver Lake, John Carter and Anthony Braxton. He also led groups at the DuMaurier Jazz Festival in Vancouver, and played at countless venues up and down the coast. Tonight, those years of experience land in Tucson, as the new Zeitgeist production company--spearheaded by jazz renaissance man Steve Hahn--presents the Rob Blakeslee Quartet as part of its ongoing Jazz at the Institute series. The quartet includes reed man Vinny Golia, considered the unofficial godfather of the West Coast scene, and head of the highly influential Nine Winds label. Other players include veteran bassist Ken Filiano, and Zen-styled drummer Billy Mintz. Performance begins at 8 p.m. in the Mat Bevel Institute, 530 N. Stone Ave. Tickets are $8 at the door, $7 in advance and for Tucson Jazz Society and KXCI members. They're available at Hear's Music and Last Wax Records. Call 882-7154 for information.
Friday 23
BACK IN THE BLACK. Stan Gordon, author of How I Got
Out of Debt and You Can Too!, claims to have just the recipe
for rendering your fiscal deficits null and void. He holds a free
LATIN LOW-DOWN. Even before NAFTA became a corporate dreamchild, plenty of cultural goods were moving back and forth across the U.S./Mexico border. As an example, you need look no further than Betsy Pecanins, considered our southern neighbor's best internationally known blues belter. Tonight, Pecanins brings her spicy brand of low-down to town with her Efecto Tequila concert, sponsored by the Mexican Consulate and the Instituto Cultural Mexicano de Tucson. Show time is 8 p.m. in UA Crowder Hall, located at the corner of Speedway and Park Avenue. Tickets are $15, $10 for students, available at the Mexican Consulate and the Instituto Cultural. Call 298-8268 for details.
Saturday 24
GOING POSTAL. Post cards, those cheap little conduits of succinct communication, pack plenty of historical punch, at least when they're in the hands of the Tucson Post Card Exchange Club.
ROCKETS' RED GLARE. Ah, those carefree days of summer--don't you wish it were all about hot dogs, cold beer, baseball and fireworks? Well, tonight it is, as the Tucson Toros return to town to host a spectacular Memorial Day weekend fireworks fiesta. Following tonight's ballgame against the Las Vegas Stars, fans will be invited to lounge in the outfield while the bombs burst above. The Toros continue their four-game series against the Stars through Tuesday, May 27, and start a four-game series against the Phoenix Firebirds on Wednesday, May 28. Games start at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday and 7 p.m. on weekdays at at Hi Corbett Field in Reid Park. Tickets range from $3 to $6. For more information call 325-2621.
Sunday 25
The free concert is from 4 to 6 p.m. at the Green Fields Country Day School, 6000 N. Camino de la Tierra. Dinner is served from 4 to 5:30 p.m., and tickets are $10 a plate. Bring lawn chairs and blankets. Call 322-0895 for details. MAJOR SPREAD. More than 50 of the Old Pueblo's top jazz hands converge on St. Philip's Plaza today for the annual Super Jam. The show will include such local luminaries as Cool Breeze, Jeff Haskell and John Denman, Sounds of Brazil, Xavier Marquez and Out of Nowhere, and Descarga. Benefits go to maintain the Tucson Jazz Society's education fund, which in turn provides scholarships for local high school and college students, and helps pay for the Society's all-county high school band, Jazz Werx. Performance is 6 to 10 p.m. in St. Philip's Plaza, 4380 N. Campbell Ave. Tickets are $8, $4 for TJS members, and available at the door. Call 743-3399 for information.
Monday 26
EARTH WORKS. Four noted artists strut their creative stuff when the Obsidian Gallery hosts a show of earth, wire and stone.
Exhibit runs through early July at Obsidian Gallery, 4340 N. Campbell Ave., in St. Philip's Plaza. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday. For information, call 577-3598.
Tuesday 27
SATAN'S PILGRIMS. Hang on to your souls, rock and roll children, the Pilgrims are coming! Arriving via Portland, Oregon, these five, clean-cut young men (Bobby, Teddy, Johnny, Scotty, and Davey Pilgrim) will be decked out in matching outfits, capes a-flying, to bring Tucson a maximum reverb-and-twang fueled dance party starting at 9 p.m. at The Rock, 136 N. Park Ave. The cream of '60s revival all-insto surf rock, Satan's Pilgrims unleash music as fresh today as the Ventures were in their early heyday. The electric guitar trio (one whipping up a razor sharp rhythm, another rolling out the ground-shaking reverb, and still another riding all over the place with melodic leads) is backed by a rhythm section with a swinging beat that'll show you the business end of a Silvertone bass and ride cymbal. Don't even get us started on the Hammond H-3 organ named "Betsy."
Washington state grange-hall rockers Girl Trouble open the show, along with Tucson's own The Fells and Los Federales. Ticket to ride is $5 dollars cheap. Call 629-9211 for more information. BARRIO EMBODIED. Latino artists exploring the realms of printmaking, sculpture and literature take center stage, when the Tucson/Pima Arts Council hosts the second annual Cuentos del Barrio. Sponsored by the Southern Arizona Coalition of Latino Arts, this year's theme is Bodies and Borders. Exhibit runs through June 26, with a special reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, May 30, at the T/PAC Community Gallery, 240 N. Stone Ave. Regular gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Call 624-0595 for information. GOING, GOING, GONE! If you're suffering the post-partum blues over Hale-Bopp's departure into the great galactic void, you might mitigate that misery with a little trip down to the UA Flandrau Science Center, where everything comet-related awaits you. Telescopes, hands-on exhibits, even a laser show called Comets Are Coming, are all available for your spatial pleasure. The Flandrau Science Center is located on the University of Arizona campus, on the northeast corner of University Boulevard and Cherry Avenue. Admission to exhibits is $3 for adults, $2 for children under 13, and free with the purchase of a show ticket. Show tickets range from $4 to $5. For show times and other information, call 621-STAR.
Wednesday 28
INSIDER'S PERSPECTIVE. Being a 19th-century member of Uncle Sam's Army was hardly a walk in the park. But it is today--literally--when the museum at Fort Lowell Park hosts The View From the Barracks, featuring timeless frontier photography from the Buehman and the Owen Wister collections.
That style is most notable in an 1893 shot of Fort Bowie, which also revealed the pioneers to have had their priorities firmly in place. "There was a fire at the post trader store," Faust says, "and the great thing about it is that they had a soldier in full dress, standing outside guarding the beer."
The View From the Barracks is on permanent display at
the Fort Lowell Museum, located in Fort Lowell Park, 2900 N.
Craycroft Road. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday through
Saturday. Admission is free. For information, call 885-3832.
City Week includes events selected by Calendar Editor Mari Wadsworth. Event information is accurate as of press time. The Weekly recommends calling event organizers to check for last-minute changes in location, time, price, etc.
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Show is 8 p.m. in Tohono Chul Park, 7366 Paseo Del Norte. Admission
is $6, $3 for park members. For details, call 575-8468.
seminar and booksigning from 2 to 4 p.m. today at Bookman's Used
Books, 1930 E. Grant Road. For information, call 325-5767.
Now the club allows everyone a glimpse into the humble card's
heretofore unknown significance, with a display of the historical
and the collectible. Exhibit runs during regular mall hours at
Center Court in El Con Mall, 3601 E. Broadway. Call 297-0980 for
details.
FIDDLIN' AROUND. Peter Rolland is the real McCoy. He may
not hearken from an old 
Included are artists Joy Fox, a veteran of Oracle's Rancho
Linda Vista known for her inimitable, primitive style; Ralph Scala,
a Chicagoan who favors a powerful blend of strong texture and
intense color; Maria Simon, whose elegant carved bowls and wall
pieces recall 
If you enjoy the surf sounds of 
"Buehman specialized in shots of enlisted men, particularly
of the black troops coming through Tucson in the 1880s,"
says museum curator David Faust. Wister, who also gained fame
as author of The Virginian, included plenty of architectural
photography in his work, with countless photos of human subjects
caught in the mix.
