Our Hospitality plays with jazz score by Ken Aldcroft & Our Hospitality — Buster Keaton’s 1923 silent film with a new jazz score performed live by the Ken Aldcroft Quartet at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre (1895 Venables St.). Sunday, June 18, 7 and 9 p.m. Tickets $12 280-3311. John Goodman This Week editor Mgoodnan@nsrews.com ‘THREE generations of Keaton ente in the silent film comedy Our Hespitality -— Buster, his father Joe and his one and half year-old son Bobby. Buster Keaton made his second independeny feature in Reno, Nevada in 1923 bringing the usual suspects from Hollywood with him. Legend has it Keaton hired talent to play on his baseball ream -— filmmaking skills were sec- ondary. He put his son in the pic- ture to override his wite’s about taking him hen he gave her the lead role to end the argument. The silent comic grew up in show biz learning the rupes as a child star in vaudeville before switching over to films. Keaton never had to separate family from work playing off one against the other for most of his career. The story for Onr Hospitality is loosely based on the Hatfield/McCoy feud with Buster’s gag team building up a silent feature of comic sight gags and romantic interstices around the concept. Keaton always performed his own stunts and almost always got into trouble at sorne point during filming -— in Our Hospitality the wire anchoring him to the shore broke away while he was riding a log in the rapids with the whole thing caught on tape. The duality of reality vs. fiction is constantly confronted throughout Keaton’s work: Is this a movie or a documentary about making a movie? — who cares as long as the film keeps See VECC Page 2 Friday, June 16, 2000 — North Shove News - 17 New music set for Keaton fii Photo Rice —Brownlow/Koha! THE Ken Aldcroft Quartet will perform a new jazz score for Buster Keaton’s 1923 film Our Hospitality at the Vancouver East Cultural Centre on Sunday. Keaton (shown here ir: a scene from Go V/esf) put together a string of comic gems during the 1920s. 24 Monterey (not exactly a shown) GAS Make us an offer no reasonable request denied! WHITFIELD Direct Vent EURO 55 N. Gas Direct Vent 37,000 BTU's 2 ONLY Showroom 32,000 BTU's 1 ONLY WHITFIELD Direct Vent. KINGSMAN Free Standing 26,000 BTU's 2ONLY Made! FV5000 B. Vent ‘ype om WHITFIELD insert 37,000 Btu's 390,000 BTu’s Showroom 1 ONLY DELRAY AiO Cast lron Direct or Natural Gas ZONLY SYMPHONY Electric WHITFIELD insert O-Clearance Fireplace with Fan 26,000 BTU's 2 ONLY anerON as ice 1 E as Inse CASCADE DELRAY Propane ngert Showroom 20,000 BTU's 1 ONLY 26,000 BTU’s NLY 31,000 BTU's Radiance Direct to Go. : Vent 1 ONLY INSTAFLAME Trim Kit Parts FREE STANDING GAS STOVE B. '20Seis DVTKAB/OVTKPE Vent Type 40,000 BTU's 1 ONLY &8-CLEARANCE 5” B. Vent Type MENBOTA Free Standing Gas__-‘Decoratives N.Gas_ 1 ONLY Stove 33,000 BTU's 3 ONLY SECOND HAND VALOR B. Vent Type Free Standing 20,500 BIU's 1 ONLY SATURDAY INSERTS The Monterey has the largest viewing area of any 30.000 BTU Gas Fireplace insert. List Price $2,677 SECOND HAND Direct Vent Valor Free Standin: 20,000 BTU's 1 OR FRANKLIN W005 BURNING Y Cast iron Free Standing 4% ORLY OPAL TYPE Free Standing Gas or Wood Burning Stove 4 ONLY AIB TIGHT Wood 8urning Insert 1 ONLY RY DECORATIVE 3-Sided Propane 32,500 BTU's 7” B. Vent Type O-Clearance unit. 1 ONLY SHOWROOM HEARTH PADS Must Go. 3 ONLY HOLLAND CLASSIC Propane or N. Gas 2 ONLY RANGE HOODS Bathroom Fan 1.5 Decals 1 ONLY afaha. A division of A&A & peter " pry nat sa GAS FIREPLACES LT e Furnace Bepot 1500 Pemberton Ave. N. Vancouver 1506 Pembe NL 2 blocks south of Marine Dr. (Open Tues.-Sat.) 986-7055 iy % ig John Goodman This Week editor jooodman@nsnews.com “DD. Jackson is to me the wost innovative musician of hisgen- eration.” — David Murray, Village Voice, 1997. @ *«%x D.D. Jackson — ... 50 far (RCA). @ xxx D.D. Jackson — Anthem (RCA). We have here a summer's worth of sessions from Montreal’s D.D. Jackson. The ...80 far solo piano material was taped May 8 and 9 of last year in Montreal while the ensemble put together for Anthem went into New York's Avatar Recording Studios on August 19, 20 and 24. ‘The two projects are as dif ferent as night and day with Jackson acknowledging past masters on one CD while the other looks for new directions. Each track on ...sa far is dedi- cated to a different musician from the classical and ja worlds, and with the excep- tion of Ornette Coleman, all: of them are pianists. “Maybe Not” for Coleman (sandwiched between a “Come Sunday” gospel tune tor Duke Ellington and a “Playground” reverie for See WSQ Page 21 ‘4 ees Serrke ead te er: TEL: 987-6644 «© rax: 987-6155 STORE HOURS: MON TO FRI-8AM TO OPM « SAT & SUN-SAM TO 7PM ey