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Chicago Tribune, Friday, September 28, 1979 Section 3 3 I i i vu 4 Clubs New Getz group talent-jammed STAN GETZ HAS LED many bandi, and I have heard many of them many times. A performance by one of those bands (which included Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, and Tony Williams) is among my favorite musical memories; and never did I expect that Getz and the partners he brought with him this time would reach that level of Inspiration. They did, however; and that makes the Jazz Showcase where Getz, keyboard player Andy LaVerne, guitarist Chuck Loeb, bassist Harvie Swartz, and drummer Victor Jones will be appearing through Sunday an essential place to visit. This is a fairly new group, with the exception of LaVerne, and a fairly young one, too; although Getz has made a habit of surrounding himself with hot young players. The hottest one with him now is Jones, who is the most swinging, musical drummer I've heard in some time.

Interestingly, for someone who looks as though he Just graduated from high school, Jones is a bit of a revivalist who bypasses the swishing, cymbal-oriented style that Tony Williams created and men like Alphonse Mouzon debased. Instead he combines the snare and tom-tom patterns of such giants as Art Blakey and Philly Joe Jones with the popping, super-syncopated feel of Billy Higgins. If that makes Jones sound like an anthology, well, his taste in influences is unerring. LaVerne, who looks as though he could be Woody Allen's younger brother, is a very pretty player who may be too lush for some tastes. But he offers Getz strong support; and his impressionistic, unaccompanied solo on Wayne Shorter's "Infant Eyes" was as good a Ravel Impersonation as I've heard.

Swartz is another of the seemingly endless legion of Scott LaFaro disciples a good one though and Loeb solos with heat and logic and writes some nice tunes. THE BENEFICIARY OF all this talent Is Getz, who tore through the first set Wednesday night as though he were born in 1947, not 1927. Long identified as a Lester Young disciple, he has always James Woods (left) and Franklyn Seales in a scene from "The Onion TRIBUNE MINI-REVIEW: The crime after the crime "THE ONION FIELD" mew In iwwo pecser. ecreenixey Miin wiw beuah bind en hie novel; photoaephod by Cherlee teener; edited by John W. Wheeler; mutle by Euro Deodeto; produced by Welter Cobteni; en Avco Embeeoy Winn at neighborhood theater.

Rated R. CAST: Klfl HerttlflQMfeooeeeoeeeooeeeeeoeeiiiiiiiew JptW SCVftQt OrM Powell. Woods) riovios 'Onion Field' a strong film at every layer ONE REASON "The Onion Field" is so good is that it tells more than one story. First, and most powerful to my mind, is its story of two rummy stickup men working in Los Angeles in 1963. Ever wonder what criminals do all day? "The Onion Field" gives us a look at their bars, seedy day-rate hotels, furtive sex relationships, and strange conversations in dark hallways.

Is that Hollywood? Well, in "The Onion Field" it all plays as very real as real as the criminals in "The Friends of Eddie Coyle" and "Straight Time," the two best working-class-crooks movies of the '70s. The other story "The Onion Field" tells based on a real crime is what happens after these crumbums are searched en route to a robbery by a pair of young L.A. cops. During the search, one of the criminals panics and pulls a gun on the cops. The cops are disarmed and taken to a deserted onion field near Bakersfield, where, in the dead of night, one policeman is executed.

The other escapes. The two criminals are apprehended within 24 hours, and the ringleader eventually confesses to firing one shot at the dead officer. But he accuses his partner of firing four additional shots. The partner claims he cannot remember exactly what took place. Their conflicting stories, coupled with a series of legal manipulations, resulted in the longest-running criminal trial in California history seven years! AND SO "THE Onion Field" turns out to be a story about the crime that occurs after a crime the havoc wreaked on the lives of those who are party to a crime, in this case the dead cop and his partner and their families.

The surviving policeman (John Savage, who played the crippled soldier in "The Deer Hunter" and the farm boy in turns to shoplifting to get caught and be punished because he feels guilty about turning over his gun the night his partner was killed. His is the most tragic story, until we realize that the other young officer is dead and in the ground. The families of both officers are destroyed. A district attorney quits in disgust over the protracted legal proceedings, which turn into a carnival with one of the crooks serving as his own attorney and asking questions of himself while on trial. (The actual criminals were both convicted of first-degree murder and are eligible for parole in 1983.) So now you know a lot about what Jimmy 8mlth ton Ten Stan Getz: His group is only great.

seemed to me to be more closely related to other, more conservative, swing-era tenormen, particularly the late Chu Berry. Getz's sound is in the Lestorian mode; but his sense of rhythm has a compulsive, almost boogie-woogielike drive to it. Combine that with his agile harmonic sense, and you have a musician who can adapt to almost any swinging setting without being a chameleon. Important, too. and one reason why Getz has alwavs been a very popular though uncompromising artist, is his sense of profile the way everything he plays seems to explain itself as it emerges from his horn.

That's a rarer quality than one might think Dexter Gordon has it; so does Sonny Rollins and it enables Getz to create complex lines while never leaving his audience behind. Each solo he played during the first set displayed that special brand of lucidity; and almost every piece eventually built -up quite a head of steam. Getz used to be tagged, with some justice, as a cool musician; but now he is as warm as anyone could wish one of the most thoughtful and approachable artists jazz has to offer. Larry Kart PkKco Ronrry Cok OevM Hurrmen Chrtetopher Lloyd Dtttrtet Attorney. JalttmiM lawyer.

I tmtm nejfeTn nvniniivT.t.M nun Chrttele CempbeA- appears to be pulled along on Greg Powell's crime spree. Seales calls this role "the best role for a young black actor in the last 10 years," but that's more of a comment on the state of black films. Suffice it to say that Seales makes us feel sad for Jimmy Smith without ever letting us forget that he is, at the very least, an accessory to murder. His performance also is worthy of Oscar consideration. "The Onion Field" is one of the year's best films, spoiled only by a run-on ending that dilutes our horror at how criminals can twist laws to their own advantage.

It is a most welcome serious drama after a summer full of rotten, mindless motion pictures and a personal triumph for cop-turned-novelist Joseph Warn-baugh, who personally financed the film after being outraged at the way Hollywood has treated his other books. Screenwriter Wambaugh did his book proud in its adaptation to film, and be owes much to the purposefully ugly look of the film as composed by cinematog-rapher Charles Rosher who also filmed Robert Altman's beautiful "Three Women." Harold Becker served as director of "The Onion Field." His is an impressive debut after a career of making films for TV. Becker tells the story cleanly, with a lot of long shots. It's a powerful true story, and Becker is mature enough to not try to gimmick it up with fancy camera angles or cutting. One more thing: Only long after you've left the theater do you realize that you're still not sure who fired all of the shots in "The Onion Field." And what's important is that it doesn't really matter.

This is no cheap "whodunit." This film has far more important concerns. Fun to do Tours and exhibits hail Hull House 90th birthday happens in "The Onion Field," but by no means have you experienced the movie, which is extremely powerful and sad and shocking. It's almost convincing enough to make you want to do away with the constitutional guarantee of one's right to a fair trial. Almost. Actually, at the end of "The Onion Field," you wind up wishing that the Constitution guaranteed victims of crimes the right to a speedy trial.

In effect, "The Onion Field" takes the police frustration at the root of Clint Eastwood's melodramatic "Dirty Harry" and makes it much more real and human. AT THE CENTER of "The Onion Field" is a bunch of superior performances. James Woods (the persecuted artist in. "The is a standout as Greg Powell, the ringleader of the crooks, a horrible creature with a scarred face and a quicksilver personality that ranges from murderous to fatherly to murderous in a matter of seconds. Woods deserves an Academy Award nomination for this role.

Because he's a newcomer to movies he'll probably get it in the supporting actor, category, even though this is a leading role of incredible power. Franklyn Seales is also excellent as Jimmy Smith, a young black crook who needed.) The two structures have been painstakingly restored and are filled with artifacts, photos, documents, period furnishings, and other memorabilia from the early days of Hull House. There also is a 25-minute slide program tracing the life and times of Jane Addams. And as a special tribute to the 90th anniversary, a collection of 32 Wallace Kirkland photographs will be on display at the Illinois Bell Lobby Gallery (225 W. Randolph 727-3848) from 8:30 a.m.

to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, through Oct. 5. Kirkland, the famed Life photographer, was an early Hull House resident and made his earliest ventures into photography there. His photos show life in and around Hull House from the mid-1920s to the mid-19303.

For information on other 90th anniversary events, phone the Jane Addams Hull House, 996-2793. Howard Reich NINETY YEARS AGO this month Jane Addams opened' the doors of Hull House at 800 S. Halsted St. To celebrate the anniversary of the renowned settlement house (now a museum) several tours and exhibits will give visitors an inside look at the historic site. They're all free and offer a rare view of life in Chicago nearly a century ago.

Currently featured at the Jane Addams Hull House is "Ethnic Groups in the Hull House Neighborhood, 1850-1914," an exhibit tracing the lives of Chicago's Irish, German, Italian, Jewish, Bohemian, and Greek immigrants. Also on hand is a scale model of the original 13 Hull House buildings, which housed vocational training and social services. Only 2 of the 13 buildings still stand, and you can take a guided tour of these National Historic Landmarks from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday (no reservations Gene Siskel Gene Siskel regularly reviews the movie scene at 5 and 10 pjn.

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