The Central New Jersey Home News from New Brunswick, New Jersey • 54

Hey, hey, it's a Monkee i t. i I Valli and The Four Seasons are at the Westbury Music Fair in New York. Power Horn Jones ft the Hellions are at City Gardens. Sunday. Frank Zappa is at the Rothman Center at Fairleigh-Dickinson University in Hackensack.

The Nerds are at the Lone Star. Youth of Today is at City Gardens in Trenton. The Razorbacks are at John Peters in New Hope. Barbecue Bob ft the Spareribs are at Kenny's Castaways in New York. Monday.

Son Seals and Lonnie Brooks are at the Lone Star. Annie Haslam is at the Bottom Line. Wild Seeds and Mrs. Crows Garden are at Drums. Tuesday Alpha Blondy and the Solar System are at the Ritz.

XYMOX is at Drums. Funky Knights are at the Cat Club in New York. Dan Kidney and the Pulsations are at Nivana Club One in New York. Wednesday The Neighborhoods and Red House are at Drums. The Gun Club is at the Green Parrot Raging Slab is at the Cat Club.

Bob White ft the White Boys are at the Court Tavern. Thursday Belouls Some is at Drums. The Home Boys are at J. August Cafe in New Brunswick. Rick Danko is at the Lone Star.

Rush Hour is at the Corner Tavern. The Roches are at the Capitol Theatre in Passiac. Upcoming: Men Without Hats will be at the Club Bene March 25. The Cucumbers will be at Tramps March 25. Aging pop star Davy Jones, who has found an entire new generation of fans thanks to the resurrection of The Monkees' 1960s television show, will be making an appearance at Middlesex Mall in South Plainfield tomorrow at 1 p.m.

Jones, who recently was voted "Cutest Guy for 198r by subscribers to the Nickelodeon cable channel, will be autographing copies of his new book, an autobiography with the decidedly unimaginative title, "They Made a Monkee Out of Me." In it, Jones recounts his days as a Monkee, jockey, Broadway performer and actor, whose most recent roles have included episodes of "My Two Dads" and "Sledge Hammer." Meanwhile, concert promoter John Scher is launching a series of shows at the Rothman Center, a arena at Fairleigh-Dickinson Universty's Hackensack Teaneck campus. The first concert this Sunday is an evening with Frank Zappa. Tickets are available at the Capitol Theatre box office in Passiac or through Ticketmaster. Here's what is happening: Tonight INXS and Public Image Ltd. are at Radio City Music Hall tonight, tomorrow and Sunday.

Bob White the White Boys are at the Craftman's Inn in South River tonight and tomorrow. Jerry Harrison's Casual Gods are at City Gardens in Trenton. New Riders of the Purple Sage and The Surreal McCoys are at the Lone Star in New York. Null Set and I Dont Care are at the Court Tavem in New Brunswick. The Nighthawks are at the Bottom Line in New York.

JEANIE BRYSON Cabaret singer blossoms On the road Kathleen Fetchin' Bones and MamboOC are at Drums in New York. The Godfathers and Slammin' Watusi are at The Ritz in New York. Solar Circus is at Ruffino's in New Brunswick. They Might Be Giants are at the Village Gate in New York. Brave New Blues is at Tramps in New York.

Annie Haslam is at the Club Bene in Sayreville. Edgar Cayce is at Club in Woodbridge. Jah Love is at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park. Grapes of Wrath are at the Green Parrot in Neptune. Chuck Berry is at Caesar's in Atlantic City.

Tomorrow. Bruce Cockburn is at Town Hall in New York. Woodentops are at The Ritz. The OMays are at The Ritz in Elizabeth. Fetchin' Bones are at the Green Parrot Black Snakes, False Virgins and Solar Circus is at the Court Tavern.

The Girlettes are at Ruffino's. The Masterbeats are at the Corner Tavern in New Brunswick. Laser is at Drums. Bobby Bandiera ft the All Stars and Savoy Brown are at the Stone Pony. Whirling Dervishes and Breathing Method are at the Beat 'N' Path in Hoboken.

Filthy Rich and Exposure are at the Brooke Theater in Bound Brook. Frankle mitment to American composers. Wolff will conduct music from three generations of American composers. The orchestra's management will also undertake the first in a series of commissions. The world premiere of a work by New Jersey composer Ezra Lader-man will be one of the highlights of the orchestra's chamber series.

Wolff, who will begin his fourth season as the orchestra's music director, and John Hyer, the orchestra's executive director, announced the plans and noted that, for the fourth consecutive year, the orchestra has a balanced budget The budget for next season will be about $5 million, Hyer said, reflecting an increase of nearly $1 million over the budget for the 1987-1988 season. In addition, Hyer noted, subscriptions this season are up 36 percent to 11,000 subscribers. This season, roughly 200,000 con-certgoers will attend the orchestra's programs, he said. "Our concert halls are sold out and we continue to enjoy fiscal health," Hyer said. The orchestra will continue to hold three series the major concert series, with 11 programs played in four locations (Engle-wood, Red Bank, Trenton and New N.J.

Symphony notes new season perform with you she said." Bryson met John Bianculli, a talented local pianist, while in college. Bianculli encouraged Bryson to continue her singing endeavors. "He told me, You really have a good voice, and you ought to pursue if recalled Bryson. In 1981, Bryson answered an ad for a jazz singer for a restaurant in Princeton. She quickly assembled a band with musicians she knew from college and from around New Brunswick.

Sang in Princeton "But, after three gigs, they told me, we like you, but the band has got to go. So at that point I recruited John Bianculli," said Bryson. Although heavily jazz-influenced, Bryson's singing fuses Latin and Brazilian jazz, and popular standards of the 1930s and '40s. "I love Gershwin, and I love Ste-vie Wonder, and a lot of the material I sing was written by my mother," Bryson said. "I think one of the most important things I've learned from my mother and from the standards by people like Gershwin, is that nobody really pays any attention to words anymore.

Instead, everyone pays attention to images. My mother taught me to really pay attention to what words mean, what images they evoke, and to think about what words really say when they're put into a song." The future looks good for Bryson, who celebrated her 30th birthday last week singing at Terra Nova, a nightclub on West 38th Street in Manhattan. Now, after just six years of singing professionally, Sire Records in Manhattan appears to be interested in working with Bryson in a pop capacity. Record deals can and do slip through the fingers of a lot of good artists, for more different reasons than there are fingers. So, Bryson is keeping her fingers crossed.

By RICHARD SKELLY Home News correspondent Jeanie Bryson was a late bloomer in the world of cabaret singing. Her career didn't really get started until after she was out of college. As such, she provides a ray of hope for people who dream of becoming singers but hold themselves back because they weren't singing as children. "1 got started in college, through my interest in American Indian music. I was singing American Indian music before I was singing jazz," the 30-year-old Bryson said.

Bryson attended East Brunswick High School and Colorado State University, then returned to the East, graduating from Livingston College at Rutgers University in 1981. She appears from 6 to 10 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays at the Hyatt Regency New Brunswick, 2 Albany St. "Some friends convinced me to sing at a coffeehouse in the basement of one of the dorms," the East Windsor resident recalled. 'Always so shy' "I played the flute in high school and college, and I've always been interested in music, but I never thought of myself as a singer, because I was always so shy," Bryson said Bryson debuted professionally in 1981 with Bloodline, a rhythm and blues band she formed with her mother and husband.

Bryson's mother, an East Brunswick resident has been writing songs for 25 years, peddling her lyrical wares to ASCAP and other music-publishing organizations in Manhattan. "Bloodline sort of fizzled out when my mother decided she wanted to concentrate more of her efforts on songwriting, and less on performing. 'I'm not good enough to ark); the chamber orchestra series, which will enter its third season with four programs in three locations (Princeton, New Brunswick and Englewood); and the Winter Pops series, with four programs in two locations (Trenton and Newark). Wolff will conduct seven sets of programs in the major series and two sets in the chamber series. The remaining programs in the main series will be led by associate conductor Michael Pratt and guest conductors Joseph Silverstein and ZdenekMacal.

The orchestra's management is currently negotiating with a major recording company for a compact-disk debut recording within the next 18 months, Hyer said, though he declined to name the firm. Among the soloists appearing with the orchestra for the first time in the major series are violinists Shlomo Mintz and Joseph Silverstein (who will also conduct) and pianist Jeffrey Kahane. Returning guest artists include cellists Lynn Harrell and Carter Brey, clarinetist Richard Stoltz-man, pianist Jorge Bolet, contralto Maureen Forrester and the Westminster Choir. By RENA FRUCHTER Home News music critic WEST ORANGE At a press conference yesterday afternoon, New Jersey Symphony Orchestra music director Hugh Wolff announced plans for an expanded 1988-1989 season with three primary series and some thematic programming including a three-part, turn-of-the-century music festival and an expanded com- ON THE GO! A weekend guide to entertainment and leisure-time activities. Editors Kathleen Dzielak, features editor (201) 937-6000.

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