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4) Tuesday, April 23, 1985 The Philadelphia Inquirer 5-D Poprock: U2 performs at Spectrum Review By Ken Tucker Inquirer Popular-Music Critic You're not supposed to say anything derogatory about U2, the Irish quartet that performed at the Spectrum last night this is a band widely admired for its intelligence and earnestness. Indeed, the lead singer named Bono and the lead guitarist, called The Edge, are uncommonly articulate fellows in interviews, where they offer what is probably the most eloquent discourse on leftist politics in rock music today. U2's concerts are festivals of fellow-feeling, and last night's event was no exception. A packed Spectrum audience seemed to spend most of the evening on its collective feet, cheering on the band and singing along on nearly every song. For its part, U2 reciprocated with a glowing star quality of its lead singer, Maria McKee.

Watching the band perform at the Spectrum only confirms what you might think upon hearing the album: This is a band with a first-rate lead singer and second-rate material. McKee is beguiling, if just A bit studied: She overdoes the wracked-sob edge in her voice, and her image baseball jacket tossed over a purty l'il gingham dress is very self-conscious. But when she belts out a song and dances in a wild, loose-limbed style, you can't help being won over. Too bad at least half of the supposedly intelligent, open-minded U2 audience spent most of Lone Justice's set booing and calling out for the headliners. Note: U2 and Lone Justice will perform at the Spectrum again tomorrow night.

And as admirable as their politics are when they explain them in interviews, they are hopelessly garbled in the vague imagery and meandering lyrics of songs such as "MLK," "Elvis Presley and America" and "The Unforgettable Fire." In concert, where lyrics tend to get swallowed up by the cavernous acoustics of a place like the Spectrum, it's easy to ignore these drawbacks and enjoy the marvelous showmanship of U2. Nonetheless, part of the supposed greatness of this band is that it intends to stand for something more than mere entertainment. Preceding U2 was the Los Angeles band Lone Justice, making its Philadelphia debut. This group arrives highly touted for its upcoming debut album on Warner Bros. Records, which contains old-fashioned rock-and-roll, country music and the Jazz festival here mtmutmi 12.50 IT Ul TIMES I im chistiiut tI By Francis Davis Special la Tht Inquirer It's all but official: In all likelihood, there will not be a major jazz festival in Philadelphia this summer.

"It's getting too late to think about putting together a festival for Philadelphia this year the way we have the last three years," said George Wein, the New York impresario who produces Kool Jazz Festivals for the Brown Williamson Tobacco manufacturer of Kool cigarettes. Wein had announced in February that, as a result of Brown Williamson's decision to cut back from 12 cities last year to six this year, there would be no 198S Philadelphia Kool Jazz Festival. At the time, however, Wein said that his company, Festival Productions, would seek alternative underwriting in an effort to stage a jazz festival in Philadelphia this summer. J0IIHHV iiiATIIIS JEAililME BURNER opens rowre thru SUN. APRIL 28 Tue.

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I THE CORNER OF I 1 19TH CHESTNUT 972-0539 1 unlikely cided to concentrate its efforts on the New York Festival, which runs from June 21 to June 30, and on weekend stadium concerts throughout the summer in Cincinnati, Atlanta, San Diego, Houston and Memphis, Tenn. cities in which Kool has drawn from 20,000 to 40,000 people a night in past years, according to Wein. Despite Philadelphia's poor showing at the box office the last three years, Wein said yesterday that he was still optimistic about the city's ability to support a jazz festival. He said he would eventually mount another festival in Philadelphia. "It'll happen again," he said.

"I can tell you that." The bad news for local jazz fans is that Wein cannot say when that festival will be. It appears certain, though, that he and his cavalcade will not be here this summer. RETAILERS! WHOLESALERS! MERCHANTS! Choice Space Available! Join more than 100 ether SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSMEN in ESTABLISHED 3-DAY MARKET! Downingtown Market 215-269-4050 I NINJA MISSION (rJ 52.50 Til 1PM 12:16,2:18 4:16,6:18 8:15, 10:15 16TH CHESTNUT STREETS PG 131 16TH i CHESTNUT STREETS 567 2310 REGENCY $2.50 TIL 1 PM 12:30,2:25,4:20,6:15,8:10, 10:05 A MAGICAL FUN-FILLED ADVENTURE jAifrJtAwks. RHEASin BV WARNER BROS ALL SEATS $2.50 TIL 1 PM is called spring of the Newport Jazz Festival, which Wein initiated in the Rhode Island resort town in 1954 and which soon established itself as an annual summer rite for jazz fans from around the country. In 1972, after riots in Newport the previous summer, the festival moved to New York, entering a marriage of convenience with Brown Williamson in 1975 and adopting the Kool name in 1981.

Philadelphia was one of the cities Kool visited in 1982, the first year the festival hit the road, and it remained on the schedule the next two years, despite mediocre attendance figures. Last year Philadelphia's Kool Jazz Festival, though boasting an impressive lineup of stars, including Sarah Vaughan, Stan Getz, Ray Charles and George Russell, drew a total of just under 13,000 people for seven events spread over a week in late June. This year Brown Williamson de so Furw? INQUIRER COMICS every day of the week and Sunday! BRE A A CLUB 12.50 Til 1PM 12:30,2:25 4:20,6:20 8:18, 10:16 SANSOM STREET WALKWAY BETWEEN "To be cherished" -NEWSWEEK. David Ansen LOST IN AMERICA DISTRIBUTED BV WARNER BROS (o ISANSOM STREET WALKWAY BETWEEN 2nd FRONT. 6Z7 5966 0LDE CITY $2.50 TIL 1 PM 12:30.

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Yesterday, Wein said his efforts had met with "no success thus far." "At this point I would have to say that prospects do not look good for this summer, and we're already beginning to think in terms of 1986," he said. "We're in a period of transition now with Brown Williamson," said Wein, whose company is in the last year of a five-year contract with the tobacco company, which has written his annual late-June, early-July New York jazz, extravaganza since 1975. "We are therefore talking to Brown Williamson and to a number of other potential corporate sponsors, and Philadelphia is one of the cities we're trying to sell them on. Philadelphia has too rich a jazz heritage not to have a jazz festival, and it's just too important a market to ignore." The Kool Jazz Festival is the off Special to The Inquirer SUSAN MAY TELL cluded enormous fake fur coats, short denim jackets teamed with big shirts and long jersey tube skirts, and jodhpur-style pants worn with stars-and-stripes-patterned sneakers. Paisley sneakers were the scene-stealers in the "One Bride for Seven Brothers" tableau that was dominated by Smith's menswear: loden and brown plaid or striped suits worn with loose paisley overshirts.

Top model Pat Cleveland made a rather risque bride in a midriff-baring shirt, shorts and hiking boots. It's all in keeping with the designer's funny, freewheeling approach to fashion. the Mercer County Symphonic Orchestra will perform at 2 p.m. May 5 at Edith Memorial Chapel on the Lawrenceville School campus. Poria Sonnenfeld will conduct Grieg, Saeger and Pachelbel in the free program.

Soloist will be violinist Esther Hamori. The Delaware Symphony Repertory Orchestra will play a Mother's Day concert at 7:30 p.m. May 12 at the Wilmington Music School. Leo Ah-ramjian will conduct Schubert's Symphony No. 4, and Brahms' Tragic Overture.

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Naumberg Prize-winning violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg will play a recital at 8 p.m. May 5 in the final program of the Music Society of Southern New Jersey series. Her concert, at Cherry Hill High School East, will include works by Beethoven, Franck and Wieniawski. string training ensemble cf KiDTOWl ALL SEATS (2.50 TIL 1 PM 12:30, 2:25, 4:20, 6:15, 8:10, 10.C5PH SENIGN CITIZENS $2.50 ANYT1L1E CHESTNUT ST. AT BROAD STREET 1 AMC BUCKS COLONIAL 2 CLASSIFIED 103-5000 BUDCO QUAKERTOWN 3 Rt 309.

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