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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1991 F25 jtJ LOS ANGELES TIMES ADVERTISING DINING ENTERTAINMENT VALLEY CALENDAR TROTTER: Jazz Pianist Tries It Solo lllf DIA viviuron "Recommended by Elmer Dills" Ss tiuc flea Fish 'N' Chips 9012 TAMPA AVE NOBTHBIDGE OtllyHm "Rnja't bountiful Warm English Hospitality British Beers Pub Grub Darts 6 La Ve Lee La Vd Lee, which features Modi-. terranean-style food, offers music nightly, including Brazilian jazz, rhythm and blues, and Latin jazz. Upcoming performers include Claudya and Antonio Adolfo performing Brazilian jazz tonight and Saturday, and Freddy Ravel presenting Now Ago and salsa on Sunday. Other upcoming entertainers are Ellis Hall and Gavin Christopher playing rhythm and blues on Monday; Candy Sosa performing salsa' on Tuesday; Ellis Hall and Bruce: Conte playing rhythm and blues on Wednosday, and Poncho Sanchez performing salsa on Thursday. The restaurant is at 12514 Ventura Studio City.

For mora Information, call (818) 980-8158. Oyster House Oyster House (The Original), i' saloon and restaurant located at. 12446 Moorpark Studio City, serves a variety of pasta specials for $8.95. Tho dishes include mostaccioll, spinach fottuccine, fottucclno Alfredo, angol hair pomodore, Anna Maria's pasta, fottuccine Lucia and' babaluccl. The menu also features salads for $8.95, Choices are a seafood salad with marinated scallops and bay shrimp; a hot chickon salad with sautaed vegetables; a cold pasta and seafood salad, and a hot cola-' mar? salad.

For reservations or information, call (818) 761-8686. Dr. Hogly Wogly's Tyler, Texas Bar-B-Q Dr. Hogly Wogly's Tylor, Texas Bar-B-Q is located at 8136 Sopulvo-dn Van Nuys. Barbecuo dinners include beof ribs, hot links, briskot, pork, ham, SDarorlbs and chicken.

Tho meals are sorved with a half leaf of broad, barbecue sauce and two sido dishes, with a choice of baked beans, coloslaw, macaroni salad and potato salad. For moro information, call (818) 782-2480 or 780-6701. Al I YOU CAN EAT! 18 COURSE CHINESE BUFFET! MANDARIN a 9ZECHIMN UUISirw MroCfeaMM Daffy aUBMJMKMC aMMMMMIP NOfOfK SXHMM CHCMN MKMD ft fCNlM EC I A "Trt rita in incredibly ClarictPmrf, Cilllomli Mtitms "I'm aihsmad to admit It but I had a great Jstotaon, LA. Tims TAKE OUT HOME DELIVERY -DELIVERY HOURS- 54pm, Fit TOuw-oin nours i lam-i AUTHENTIC TEXAS Salud Cocina Mexicana Salud Cocina Mexicana, a now restaurant Iocatod at 9084 Tampa Ave. In Northrldge, features an exhibition kitchen whore customers can watch tholr food cooked to ardor.

Salud's quesadlllas and burritos are made with whole-wheat tortillas. Only boneless and skinless chicken is used. Tho restaurant has a salsa bar featuring salsas mado fresh twice doily. Only pure vegetable oil is used for cooking. Salud offors all dishes proparod for take-out.

All itoms are packaged for easy rehoating and serving. An average check at Salud is $5. )amos Sherman, co-ownor and chef, previously worked at Chlnols on Main, DC3 in Santa Monica, Wost Beach Cafe in Venice and Rebecca's in Venice. Co-ownor Bradloy Saltzman previously worked at Gladstones 4 Fish in Ma-libu and R's Rib Joint In Beverly Hills. The rostaurant Is opon from 11 a.m.

to 10 p.m. daily. For more information, call (818) 772-8785. Ho Toy's Patrons in possession of Ho Toy's dollars which were glvon out during the Three for Seven promotion can spond the dollars now through Doc. 31.

Under the promotion, hold In honor of the restaurant's 37th anniversary, patrons wore givon threo Ho Toy's dollars for every $10 thoy spent at the restaurant. Ho Toy's offors on all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet luncheon and salad bar every Monday through Saturday for $5.95. The specialties change daily, with items including spring rolls, friod chickon, swoet and sour chicken Or pork, shrimp chow moin and friod rice. Family-stylo dinners includo soup, toa, and fortune and almond cookies. Polynesian-style drinks, cocktails, imported and local boor, and wine are available.

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4-9pm "Those of Us still high on the hog think Dr. Hogly Wogly's Tyler Texas Bar-B-Q should have a monument erected in its honor." L.A. Magazine's 30 Best- Kept Secrets in L.A. DAILY NEWS' HIGHEST HATING n.J IWIo LUncn Oi UlllllBi aoivou uoujr WOCIiV'S we CATER! Van Nuys (818) 782-2480 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING 1-800-LA TIMES CELEBRATE HALLOWEEN N1TE PONCHO v2y SS Tvler Texas JSBU -e-j Thai West Thai Wost, located at 9839 To- panga Canyon Blvd. in Chatsworth, features lunch specials from $3.50 and dinner spocials from $5.

Lunch choices Include thai bar becued chicken or spare ribs, Thai aatay, chicken curry, pappor steak, chicken with cashew nut or a vegetarian dish. Lunch specials are of fered from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The romilar monu includes a va riety of salads, soups, noodle dishes and such appetizers as fried Won ton, naked shrimp and tempura. Chickon.

cork, beef, seatood and vegetarian dishos are available. Curry dishos are also served. For moro information, call (8181 718-8648 or 718-8549. Dial Mysteries Dial Mystorios, the audlonco- participatlon mystory dlnnar show produced and dirocted by Peggy Phillips since 1985, is featuring spe cial Halloweon performances Sat urday and Thursday in Los Angoies end Orango counties. Prizes will be given out for the best costumes.

Dial now has a pormanant lo cation at Vols restaurant In Toluca Lake. Europoan Chef Otto Clootta has croated a menu exclusively for the Dial dinners. Dlnnor suosts can simply watch the dotective expaso the cities or may become involved by interro gating other guests. Tho event includes a rocoption, a four-course dinner, dossort. and coffoo.

Prizes will be awarded to tho bost detectives. Dial Mystorios stages perform ances every Friday and Saturday in Los Aneolcs and Orango County. Tho company also offers groups of six or moro a llmousino rido to tho show for $25 per porson. For moro information, call 18181 1953-4256. The Panda Chinese Restaurant Coloring is avallablo at Tho Pan da Chinaso Restaurant in North-ridgo, which features Mandarin and Sichuan cuisine.

Tho rostaurant offers lunchoon specials from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday, except holidays. Choices include kungpao chickon, Mongolian boef, assortod vegotablos, sweet and sour pork and shrimp with lobster sauce, the lunches come with soup, egg roll, fried won ton and fried rice, The Panda also faaturos special family dinners for two or more por-sons. Specialties include diced Hunan chicken, subgum won ton plattor, volcano shrimp, Imporial lobstor, moo goo gal pan, Poking duck, dumplings, abalonc with mushrooms and ogg foo yong.

Tho restaurant, located at 18434 Dovonshiro is open from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and from 11:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

For moro information, call (818) 1360-3830. L.A. Cabaret L.A. Cabarot Comody Club in Encino opons at 5 p.m. Saturday and 6 p.m.

Sunday through Friday for dinner, appotlzors and comedy. Show times arc 8:30 and 10:30 p.m. Friday, and 7:30, 9:30 and 11:30 p.m. Saturday. Thore Is a $9 covor charge for wookond shows excopt tho 9:30 p.m.

show on Saturday, which has a $12 cover. Thero is a two-drink minimum and drinks nro pricod from $3 oach. Continuous stand-up comedy is provided from 8:30 p.m. to midnight Sunday through Thursday featuring professional comics. A comody workout and showcasa with both professional and amatour comics is hold In tho loungo from 6 to 8 p.m.

Sunday through Friday. From 6:30 p.m. Sunday and Thursday patrons can sing along with Ton! Drago on tho D.K. Karaoke Singing Machine, which features more than 200 tunes projocted on tho big-screen TV. The Learning Tree University prosonts a free singor showcase on Tuesday from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m.

Tho club is at 17271 Ventura Encino. For moro information, coll (818)501-3737. nrwuna HjeattciNNnc rmir oeaiwrra Continued from F25A In the jazz realm, besides infrequently appearing with Trotter sporadically leads his own quartet or quintet. On one occasion at Le Cafe last year, his band, included Carlton, who sounded just' fine in a rare strictly jazz performance. Trotter plans also to perform unaccompanied, and with a trio.

He says stepping out under his own name is difficult after years of functioning principally as an accompanist. "I'm finally getting to the point whore I have enough confidence," he says. "I'm so used to being with, other people, accompanying them, you get in that frame of mind. The spotlight on you can be so intimidating. Now it's not." With Garfield who has played with Freddie Hubbard and George Benson and is known for his stylistically diverse performances at the Baked Potato in North Hollywood, where he appears every Tuesday-Trotter explores a personal brand of contemporary jazz.

"'We do some standard jazz tunes, like Sonny Rollins' 'Airegin' or Miles Davis' but we also do contemporary originals, some Pat Metheny tunes, some sambas," Trotter says. Though admitting that he's not completely enamored of the rock-irifluenced modern idiom that's often called jazz-fusion, he does respond to some of it. "I like to have various contexts to work in; I like to mix things up," he says. "That makes me think and hear differently. I have found a way of expressing myself through a medium like, say, jazz-funk, and still be honest, still be myself." Trotter says he plans to record his first solo album in December.

It will be produced locally and feature ensembles of various sizes, including a two-piano piece featuring one of his longtime inspirations, pianist Clare Fischer. Trotter does not have a label deal at this time. In the classical arena, Trotter, who plays the acoustic piano ex clusively, has begun an association with Thomas Stevens, principal trumpeter with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The two recorded a duo album of classic pop standards called "Philharmonic Standard Time" on Crystal Records and are preparing to make another, album that will include contemporary classicist Kent Kennan's "Sonata for Trumpet and Piano." "We are planning to do some concerts, with classical works in the first part, and more jazz-slant ed pieces afterwards," Trotter says. The two worlds of jazz and classical music have long been at the forefront of Trotter's musical thinking.

He started classical piano lessons at age 6, then heard his parents playing jazz records at home, and became interested. He has been a professional since he was 15, and has taught piano since he was 18. When he went to a concert at the Philharmonic Auditorium in down town Los Angeles, then on Grand Street near the Biltmore Hotel, and heard the English classical pianist Solomon Cutner "that changed my life," he says. "He had a sound and a presence that was mesmerizing. From that day on, I have tried to create that kind of feeling.

Trotter's ears were further opened by Pete DcSantis, with whom he began jazz studies at age 13. "He guided me, showed me how to play over chords and showed me a lot of music I hadn listened to. That's when I knew I wanted to play music for my living." Saxophonist Charles Lloyd- noted in the late '60s for his tune, Flower" and then a stu dent at USC heard Trotter at a dance job, and took him under his wing. Soon Trotter was performing with such now-notables as vibra phone player Bobby Hutcherson, trumpeter Don Cherry and bassist Charlie Hadcn. As time went on, Trotter gained a reputation as one of Los Angeles top players, working with Lloyd, Ornette Coleman, the Lighthouse! All-Stars with Conte Candoli and Art Pepper, drummer Lenny McBrowne and many others.

He was on the verge of the jazz big time when he declined to audition for Davis. Looking back, Trotter isn't that displeased. "I've learned from ev crvthine I've done, even the mis takes, and I'm still fortunate that I make my living in music," he says. I surviving. And i piay ing more of the music I want: i Pinnist Terrti Trntter and key boardist David Garfield will co-lead a quintet p.m.

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