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TAINMEI 1 CTMMM PAGE B5 lEdffors: Don Butler and Jane Wilson, 596-3728 The Ottawa Citizen Wednesday, July 19, 1995 JCNTER BRIEFLY OTTAWA Alain Caron et le Band bop at Confederation Park while WHAT'S ON AT OTTAWA JAZZ FESTIVAL TODAY 12 p.m. Choonga Changa: Lunchtime Jazz, Confederation Park. Free. 12 p.m. The Moncef Gonoud Trio: Jazz at Noon, World Exchange Plaza.

Free. 2 p.m. The John Noubarlan Trio with Johnny Bond: Rendez vous Rideau Jazz, Rideau Centre. Free. 4:30 p.m.

Claude Williamson-Bill Crow Duo: Pianissimo Plus, National Gallery. 6:30 p.m. The Al Henderson Quartet: Great Canadian Jazz, Confederation Park. 8 and 11 p.m. The Unbeatables: Congo Square, Confederation Park.

8:30 p.m. The Woody Herman Orchestra: Concerts Under the Stars, Confederation Park. 10:30 p.m. The Page Cavanaugh Trio: Voices in the Night, NAC. 10:30 p.m.

The Steve Watson Trio: Late night jam session, Sheraton Hotel, Rideau Room. spectators Kathryn Cook with her daughters Maria and Anne Beamish groove beside a fountain. Vr 1 MUSIC REVIEW Joules knows how to rmov overwhelming technique and overpowering swing. The crowd, which had sat through considerable rain, demanded, and got, two encores. There is nothing unfamiliar about what Jones plays: well-known standards like Georgia on My Mind and Jeepers Creepers, jazz standards like Up Jumped Spring and 'Round Midnight, a Gershwin medley and a lot of blues.

Although he clearly loves ballads, playing two medleys of them, blues is what Jones does best and he demonstrated it in the gospelly Fulford Street music from my old neighborhood in as well as Hymn to Freedom by Oscar Peterson (whom he called "our national The two are Oliver Jones Where: Ottawa International Jazz Festival When: Tuesday only By Charles Gordon Citizen staff writer Oliver Jones says he's retiring. Not that he needs to. The 60-year-old Montreal piano player thrilled a packed Confederation Park Tuesday with a convincing demonstration that jazz is not necessarily a young man's (or woman's) game. Ably accompanied by Skip Beck-with on bass and Norman Marshall Villeneuve on drums, Jones displayed his usual combination of MOVIE REVIEW Big' jazz personalities highlight festival I CORNWALL, Ont Ray jCharles, Buddy Guy and Dave Brubeck will highlight the city's iirst jazz festival this summer. three are among 50 acts who Iwill perform at Le Festival de jlazz de Cornwall from Aug.

12 to 19. The festival will feature three itages: two free outdoor venues a tent beside the St. Lawrence River for the main events. The pre-opening gala on 10 features a two-hour Buddy Guy concert and an all-star jam session with bassist Charlie Biddle, pianist Oliver Jones, singer Ranee Lee and the Vic Vogel Big Band. Ray Charles close out the week with a jconqgrt Aug.

19 in the Cornwall -Civic Complex. Brubeck takes to 'the stage on Aug. 14. Biddle, who 3egan the Festival International Jazz de Montreal in 1979, has 4eamed with promoters Pierre Brouillard and Don Mallett to bring jazz to the Eastern Ontario I stops O'Connor's touring LOS ANGELES Sinead O'Connor will be a no-show at Lollapalooza '95 because she's "showing in other places. The 28-year-old Irish singer is pregnant and due in February, tour spokeswoman Heidi Robinson said.

"It's hard to sing when you want to throw up all the time," O'Connor said in a prepared statement. "I was aware that I was pregnant before I went on tour and thought I would be able to cope with the workload." Robinson said no decision has been made on whether anyone will replace O'Connor, who was a headliner in the continent-wide tour that includes Sonic Youth, Hole, Cypress Hill and the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Rock bad boys back on convention tour TORONTO KISS is back on tour. However this time the veteran U.S. band is mounting a 21-city travelling fan convention that includes stops in Toronto July 25 and Montreal July 27.

They are charging fans $100 a shot for a chance to spend 12 hours in KISS heaven. There is a two-hour question-and-answer session with the band, an unplugged performance, autograph session, drum and guitar clinics by band members, a set by a KISS tribute group, a chance to stroll through KISS memorabilia, even a KISS flea market. "It's more their convention," KISS bass player Gene Simmons said of the fans. "We're just sort of guests." Ontario artisans get funding break TORONTO Ontario-based actors, opera singers, musicians and dancers are getting a $220,000 career boost in training grants from the Chalmers Fund. Twenty-two artists "in the early stages of their careers" qualified for grants ranging from $2,000 to $14,000.

The program is funded by an $ll-million endowment from the Chalmers family, Toronto philanthropists, and administered by the Ontario Arts Council. Ty Herndon pleads guilty to drug charge FORT WORTH, Texas An indecent exposure charge against country music singer Ty Herndon has been dropped in exchange for his pleading guilty to drug possession. Herndon, a Dallas resident, topped the charts this year with his ballad, What Mattered Most. He was arrested June 13 after police said he masturbated in front of an officer. Police found two grams of methamphetamine in his wallet when he was searched at the jail.

Herndon, 33, was sentenced to five years' probation. 'mumm i Died: U.S. poetnovelist May Sar-ton, whose feminist writings and stories about independent women endeared her to the women's movement, at age 83 from breast cancer in York, Maine. Citizen news services Music Celso and Carllnhos Machado: Brazilian jazz guitarists, 7:30 p.m. Pare I'lmaginaire, 9 rue Front, AylmeY.

Bring lawn chair. Free. Comedy New talent Night: Yuk Yuk's Kome-dy Kabaret, Capital Hill Hotel and Suites, 88 Albert 8:30 p.m. 'MM FESTIVAL 1995 crowd! madly for two more choruses before Jones returned the piece to its quiet beginnings. Jones was also not above adding a touch or two of Erroll Garner, particularly in his tendency to mysterious introductions of familiar tunes.

There was nothing new in this concert, but nothing less than fine either. Oliver Jones is a consistently musical performer and he deserves the applause he gets. That goes for the Order of Canada and the honorary doctorate from McGill too. In the retirement of which he has spoken, Jones will cut back from his present 100 concerts a year to something like 15. Well, OK.

As long as some of them are here. Nietzsche and like flannel, but who's kind of a Baldwin, if you think about it. This is all like a combination of Heathers and Beverly Hills 90210 and like YM magazine, especially if you're like some old movie critic who's totally clued out. Because Cher is like so mentally challenged that when someone asks if she likes Billie Holliday she's all, "I love him," but she's cool enough to know who Polonius is. And one of the characters is like Christian, who's Justin Walker from Chain of Desire, who is so hot and acts like Sal Mineo or something, which is like furiously weird.

Another one of them is like a skater named Travis, who is Breckin Meyer who does the same part as Sean Penn did in Fast Times at Ridgemont High, which is like the first movie by Amy Heckerling, which is totally flipped. Because it was supposed to be the truth about high school but like, hello? So like there's all these funny lines that fit in between all this clued-out stuff, and these vague and undefined characters that you don't know what they're supposed to be? So half the time it's like buggin and half the time it's like random? So they're probably just like real kids, which is why like old guys can't fathom what's going on? So like maybe that's it, and I get it after all? As if. so she talked to real Beverly Hills High students for guidance. Here's a guide to some of the Clueless vernacular: A Betty or a Baldwin: gorgeous woman or man Audi: I'm out of here Furiously: very or extremely Surfing the crimson wave: having your period Wig: Become irrational or freak out Tscha: Surely, you jest Doable: Sexually attractive Hurl: Throw up Southam News Like CByeless is EticEtin, whatever from the same neighborhood musically as well as geographically and Jones shares with Peterson an ability to move a crowd with the earthi-ness and swing of his blues playing. On the Peterson tune, Jones incorporated the thunderous crowd-pleasing roll often employed by Peterson, but on Fulford Street Jones trotted out an even more impressive trick of his own, rapid-fire two-handed block-choVd triplets.

His treatment of Thad Jones's A Child is Born, a highlight of the concert, demonstrates Jones's sense of structure, as well as his ability to swing in 34 time. Beginning quietly, then building the rhythm gradually over four choruses, the group swung chaos. And so Mr. Hall has Miss Geist and Di has a boyfriend, and Tai becomes a major Betty, but suddenly Cher is all, "I'm clueless," because she realizes, hello, she doesn't have a guy. Except like maybe Josh, who's Paul Rudd from Sisters, who's like her ex-stepbrother who's into complaint rock and THURSDAY 12 p.m.

The Steve Groves Quartet: Lunchtime Jazz, Confederation Park. Free. 12 p.m. Panache a Trois: Jazz at Noon, World Exchange Plaza. Free.

12 p.m. The Mike Webster Quartet: The Shops of Holland Cross? Free. 2 p.m. The All-Gloucester Big' I Band: Congo Square Afternoons, Confederation Park. 7 p.m.

The Moncef Genoud Trio: Pare de L'lmaginaire. Free. p.m. and 6 p.m. Haskel and the Cleavers: Rendes-Vous Rideau Free.

4 p.m.-7 p.m. Dr. Jazz marching L' band: Marches through the ByWard Market as part of Swing 'n' Rhythm. 4:30 p.m. Dave McKenna: Pianissi: mo Plus, National Gallery.

6:30 p.m. The Gene DiNovi Trio; i Great Canadian Jazz, Confederation" Park. 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. Tsu-Guy: Congo Square, Confederation Park.

8:30 p.m. Medeski, Martin and Wood: Concerts Under the Stars, Confederation Park. 3 10:30 p.m. Jane Ira Bloom and the Night Skywriters: With an Edge, NAC. 10:30 p.m.

Steve Watson Trio: Late-night jam session, Sheraton Hotel. Prostitute pleads not guilty in Grant case LOS ANGELES (AP) A prostitute arrested during a Hollywood liaison with British actor Hugh Grant has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor lewd conduct in a public place. Stella Marie Thompson, 23, who also uses the alias Divine Brown and Estelle Thompson, was ordered back to court for an Aug. 18 pretrial hearing. Thompson was released Tuesday on $12,000 bail imposed for violating probation on two 1993 prostitution convictions.

-1 Last week, Grant, 34, pleaded no contest to lewd conduct in a public place and he was fined and placed bn two years' probation. The Nine Months and Fouryted-dings and a Funeral star and Thompson were arrested June 27 by vice officers as the couple sat in Grant's white BMW. The officers followed the actor after witnessing him pull over to the curb on Sunset Boule: vard and pick up "a known prostitute." 1 Outside the Hollywood courthouse, one enterprising merchant sold T-shirts reading, To Err 3s Hughman. To Forgive is Diving. Thompson was paid up to $150,000 by a London tabloid for her version of the encounter with Grant.

Meanwhile, the teaming of Jay Leno with Grant toppled David Let-terman from his No. 1 rating Grant, in his first TV appearance on July 10 since his tryst with a Lbs Angeles prostitute, lifted NBC's Tonight Show to an 8.0 rating and its first head-to-head weekly victory over CBS's Late Show with David Let-terman. The two shows split the rest of the week, averaging a 4.8 ratings tie, according to preliminary national ratings issued by Nielsen Media Research. A single ratings point equals 954,000 TV homes, or one per cent pf the U.S.'s 95.4 million television households. ft MAJOR SHOPPING: Alicia Silverstone finds she's clueless because she doesn't have a guy happy and raise her grades, even though they're played by Wallace Shawn and Twink Caplan, who aren't doable, except maybe to each other.

And they adopt Tai, who's Brittany Murphy, and give her a makeover because makeovers give Cher a sense of control in a world of Clueless Starring: Alicia Silverstone, Stacey Dash, Brittany Murphy Written and directed by: Amy Heckerling Rating: PG Playing at: Capitol Square By Jay Stone Citizen movies writer Cher is like this total Betty who lives above Sunset and is like furiously golden at her high school? And she's like rich and way popular and like wears really important clothes and helps out her friends? Like that book she read that said, "Tis a far, far better thing like when you do stuff for other people?" Whatever. So she's played by Alicia Silver-stone, who is majorly doable and was in that Aerosmith video Cryin that was voted the best video of all time. Can you imagine? And she looks like a combination of Goldie Hawn and Carol Lynley, whoever they are. Aren't old people cute when they think they understand something? So anyway, Cher has this friend Di, who's Stacey Dash from Renaissance Man, and Di and Cher don't hang with the skaters or the loadies. They're just too kickin.

They like to do stuff for other people, like getting their teachers Mr. Hall and Miss Geist together so they'll be TOTAL BETTYS: Silverstone I i A 1 Cher is like so mentally challenged that when someone asks if she likes Billie Holliday she's all, "I love him," but she's cool enough to know who Polonius is. Zup? Don't wig over words i A VV and Stacey Dash are buddies IN BEVERLY HILLS, California In the adolescent world of Para-mount's Clueless, a hottie is a gorgeous girl or a babe. A loadie can be a drug abuser or "someone you might party with but wouldn't want to be a part of." Ask somebody "Zup?" and you're really saying "Is anything new?" or "What's up?" Amy Heckerling, who wrote and directed Clueless, says creating the language was the most fun. Even though the film is an escapist piece, she wanted to give these Beverly Hills teens a vocabulary that was not only amusing but also credible, i.