58 - CAPE GAZETTE, Friday, August 1 - August 7, 1997
ARTS ENTERTAINMENT
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Nick Wayne Trio keeps the beat at local venues
Wonder or the Carpenters. Or you
may hear ballads from Barbra
Streisand or Whitney Houston.
Wayne said it all depends on what
type of mood the guys are in.
Wayne began playing as a
soloist at the Potpourri Restaurant
and Lounge in Rehoboth Beach
about 13 years ago, he said, where
he often shared the stage with
local jazz legend Larry "Scotty"
Scott. Meanwhile, he also played
with Doughten at Dover establish-
ments including The Nuts and
Plaza 9 during the winter. During
that time, Wayne also performed
stints in Atlantic City, but always
returned to the beach.
Currently, you can catch Nick
Wayne as a solo artist on piano at
the Potpourri Restaurant and
Lounge on Friday and Saturday
nights, and you can see the trio in
action at Sydney's Blues and Jazz
Restaurant on Christian Street in
Rehoboth Beach on Sunday, Aug.
3, at 8 p.m. You can also see the
guys perform at frequent gigs at
Savannah's Restaurant on Wilm-
ington Avenue.
Be on the lookout for a Nick
Wayne Trio CD, which is as yet
untitled, to be out in the near
future. The disc will include at
least three originals.
In other local entertainment
news...Local rocker Ed Shockley
will introduce his new CD, "vinyl
shockley," at Irish Eyes at Anglers
in Lewes on Friday, Aug. 1.
Shockley, who lives in New
York, is a former member of the
By Jen Ellingsworth
"Three guys having a lot of fun"
is how frontman and keyboardist
Nick Wayne describes the Nick
Wayne Trio.
"We try not to play above every-
body's head," said Wayne. "We
try to stay with the tried and true,
with some contemporary. But the
material has to lend itself to our
style."
Chances are, you'll never see
the same show twice when you
watch the Nick Wayne Trio. It's
that spontaneous and unpre-
dictable flavor that has brought
locals and visitors alike back again
and again to see the act for the past
15 years.
Wayne, a musician since the age
of six, said he and seasoned saxo-
phonist John Doughten have
played together on and off for
quite some time and have an
uncanny ability to read each oth-
er's minds when it comes to per-
forming.
'Tve been playing with John for
so long, he almost knows what I'm
going to do next before I do it,"
said Wayne.
Doughten and Wayne are joined
by drummer Joe Mongillo, a resi-
dent of Wilmington and BroadkiU
Beach. It's not only a wealth of
talent that the three men bring to
the band, but a chemistry that
enables them to really enjoy them-
selves while entertaining.
At any given time, listeners can
be treated to material from artists
such as Roberta Flack, Stevie
Kerry Kester photo
The Nick Wayne Trio is appearing regularly in the Cape Region. Often on Sunday nights at
Sydney's Blues and Jazz Restaurant, the band revs up with jazz, swings with the occasional
big band hit, then revels with old favorites by composers such as Cole Porter or the Gersh-
wins. The Nick Wayne Trio also sways with classic jazz sounds when it plays at Savannah's on
Thursday nights. Shown at Sydney's (l-r) are Nick Wayne, Joe Mongillo and John Doughten.
either wrote or co-wrote all of the
songs on the album.
For information about the CD
release party at Irish Eyes at
Anglers, call 645-6888.
You may think a lineup includ-
ing Cheap Trick and Matthew
Sweet would be a hard act to fol-
low, but the Bottle & Cork in
Dewey Beach is apparently up for
the challenge.
Upcoming this week as featured
entertainment at the popular venue
are The Almighty Senators on Fri-
day, Aug. I, and Flip Like Wilson
I
popular band Jack of Diamonds
and current member of the Fun-
sters. He said
his new CD
includes orig-
inal material
that he's
stockpiled
over the
years. He
describes his
latest effort as
music with SHOCKLEY
"roots in R &
B and country equally." Shockley
opening for Nebulous on Satur-
day, Aug. 2. Mondays this sum-
mer, you'll find the Fabulous
Greaseband in the spotlight at the
Bottle & Cork.
Also coming up for the rest of
the summer is an all-ages concert
featuring Mr. Greengenes, Mango
Soles, The Vibe and more (pro-
ceeds benefit the Dewey Beach
town hall/police station expan-
sion) on Sunday, Aug. 10; Joan
Jett on Thursday, Aug. 14, and
Matchbox 20 on Saturday, Aug.
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Exhibit of Price's jazz, other paintings opens at Framehouse
By Dennis Forney
When Doris Davis Price was
growing up along the shores of
Indian River, the sounds of jazz
musicians playing at the Rosedale
Beach dance hall beckoned her
from her home on summer nights.
Built over the river, the dance
floor boards and the water beneath
amplified and radiated the songs of
the musicians and the pounding
rhythm of the drums and dancing
couples.
"My uncle, Noah Harmon,
owned the land that eventually
became Rosedale. The first jazz
singer I remember seeing was Ella
Fitzgerald. Then there was Count
Basic, Duke Ellington and so
many other. I've loved jazz ever
since that time."
That love manifests itself amply
in the colorful and lively jazz-
inspired paintings that Price is
showing in an exhibit that opens
Friday, Aug. 1 at Framehouse
Gallery on Rt. 9 west of Lewes.
There's so much color and motion
in her oil and pastel renderings of
jazz musicians that sounds can't
help but fill the viewer's head.
"I try to capture a sense of
movement, mainly by the stance of
the musicians, and through that
form give a sense of the great ani-
marion of the players," said Price
this week as she began setting up
the show.
Examples of Price's "rock wall"
paintings as well as etchings will
be among the 20 or so pieces on
display. "The rock wall pieces
involve acrylic paint mixed with
sand on a variety of surfaces.
They're like ancient times when
drawings were done on the walls
of eaves - modem images from
yesteryear."
The Millsboro native and resi-
dent left the area for 45 years to
live with her husband, primarily in
Continued on page 61
Doris Price stands alongside one of her jazz.inspired paintings, on display now at Frame-
house Gallery.
