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the oxamlnor Tuesday May 23 1978 By PAUL DELEAN Examiner StaffWriter year And nothing but Its the blues for Mason Dutch Mason has been away from home more than Dutch Mason ot Horseshoe Valley Friday as he stood on overlooking the greenery of the Horseshoe Valley Resort ski hill and balcony These records at top of list By THE CANADIAN PRESS Following are lists of the top 10 sales in record singles and albums in Canada for the last two weeks as compiled by the Canadian Recording Industry Association The association bases its lists on an auditors statement of re ports from retailers in major markets across the country The top 10 singles and albums showing the title artist for group and position this week with position on last chart in brackets are Singles Night Fever Bee Gees Youre The One That Want John Travolta Olivia Newton John Staying Alive Bee Gees 14 Goodbye Girl David Gates We Are The Champions Queen Thank You For Being friend Andrew Gold 15 With Little Luck Paul McCartney and Wings 15 If Cant Have You Yvonne Ellimantt Dust In The Wind Kansas lt9 Ebony Eyes Bob Welch 1t 11 Albums Saturday Night Fever Vari ous London Town Wings Slow Hand Eric Clapton News Of The World Queen t4 Rumours Fleetwood Mac Bat Out Of Hell Meatloaf The Stranger Billy Joel t8 AJA Steely Dan 12 Endless Wire Gordon Light fooi9 lt5 Longer Fuse Dan Hill 1014 golf course it was getting to him Sure miss it This this is like home here he said gesturing toward the younds Home for Mason is the Maritimes where he was born 40 years ago and 16 years later began to sing and play the blues Hes been doing it steadily ever since Over year ago though he and his band made the move from Halifax to Toronto It was supposed to be temporary Thats not how it turned out We just came up to do the El Mocambo and the Colonial In between we did the Peter Gzowski show We were supposed to go back to Halifax after the Mocambo but we started getting booked all over the place Weve been working out of Toronto ever since Mason explained during an in terview at Horseshoe Valley where he and his fiveman band entertained Friday and Saturday Theyve been held over for another three nights this week Wednesday Thursday and Friday Mason isnt exactly overjoyed to be based in Toronto Musically though it was an opportunity too goodtopassup You go from Halifax to Toronto to get recognized in Halifax And you go from to Toronto to New York to get recognized in Toronto This isa strange business almost forced the band to come out here But were out to do something and thats why we came You could be the best blues band in the world in Halifax but whos gonna know Mason admits to being surprised by the warm reception the band has had in theeast Blues isnt your everyday music For some of the laces weve played its the wrong music thats for sure think its coming back though People are listening to it again dragging along friends to hear us You have conversions its almost like church work People who hated blues who were just there to be with friends started coming back The Maritimes where Mason built his reputation is no more blues hotbed than anywhere else in the country hesays We were strange down there too No place is hot spot for the blues But Id been playing it so long there people started to like and understand it Blues whole blues and nothing but the blues Thats what Mason and band deliver With stetson on head paunchy body swaying gently and cigarette at hand for quick puff between verses Mason resembles Ronnie Hawkins as he grabs the microphone and rips into familiar selections like Rider Tobacco Road Hard Times and The Thrill Is Gone Mason was once member of Hawkins band He also played with blues great John Lee Hooker for spell during that era the late 19503 and wrly 605 Music in general has changed considerably since then but not Masons All hes ever wanted to play is blues regardless of the trends He dislikes most rock loathes disco Since moving to Toronto last year Mason and band have played almost every major club in the rovince starting with the Co onial We started at the top Ill tell you the first time was ever scared in my life was when we played the Colonial Just the thought of all the iople who had played there fore was enough to make me nervous With strong Ontario and Quebec followings now complementing his East Coast popularity Mason is looking west He wants to be national name and that market hasnt yet been tapped Still his thoughts this night are of the Maritimes which the group will not visit again until August and only then tor the duration 01 series of concerts Well probably move back home again he says without elaborating on when As for now theres work to do blues to popularize reputation to establish Dutch Mason 24 years on the stage expects to be there while yet As he puts it Im just gonna keep playing until cant play no more Quartet it must be amply clear to all lovers of this sublime form of the art that something FOIA 106 Op 77 Nos and Op 102 ow Vienna just what he could London Treasury Series STS do in his form and also to pay 153336 four disc5 homage to Haydn Because of These are the last of Haydns this latter reason they are With Mn Watholv works in themedium They are known as the Haydn Quar 9w Hgmv supreme creations it would be tets ldw an exercise in the unnecessary There is nothing Mozart and also probably impossible wrote that is better than these ma say Your wt to write of the magnificcnfie quartets They stand with the hamlfiohkm of these quartets Anyone greatest compositions of all has ears to 50 will hear me 25 YRS EXPERIENCE MEMBER OF 833 this The third No 16 in EFlat CALL COLLECT i4lb7463200 As in the earlier two volumes K428 and the fourth No 17 in Vol Op and 1t BFlat 458 The Hunt quartets Vol II 71 and 74 are played here by the Melos 101 MID ID50 II DOWNSVIEW ONT Six quartets the Aeolian players demonstrate their By KING DURKEE at breadth of feeling for ese quartets and they play them with grand style and impeccable technique Heres lovely disc of the Mozart Four Quartets for Flute and Strings Paula Robison flute Tokyo Vanguard VSI 71228 with members of the String Quartet the Italians fashion them into Quartet Stuttgart compositions for the composer but they are most unusual 96 Mozart wrote most of his works quite splendid is in the making at This set includes Op 76 Nos Something splendid in making with release of this volume Deutsche Their reading of the slow Copley News Sciviceh beautiful additions to the Grammophon 2510 800 movement the adagm of tThe From an unusua eavy catalog currently the only Hunt is as lovel iece of publication of chamber mlusic Boccherini string quartets ofTeMihliyegdT work as yourelikelyto ear SStofig ggifiérgecem ere hsfildem quartets approach to this music is warm Rubinstein and the Guarneri and full and comes across as have added yet another gem to With the release of the third Mozart wrote in Vienna bet dee movm ex Hence up volume of Haydn String ween December 1782 and pe UH mrmw ladem Quartets played by the Aeolian January 1785 were not unique commission he wrote these SawM rtets because he wanted to While these works contain some brilliant writing for these strings the conclusion of the Major for example it is the generally holds centre stage This is what we would expect because Mozart flute that constructed the quartets so that the flute takes the part of the first violin Robison is one of the premier flutists of our day Her playing of the Bach Sonatas for Flute and Harpsichord tVanguard season or two ago was superb The Tokyo players are one of the very finest of the younger groups They have done number of things that are the equal of or better than anything on record Itheir Haydn for example Together on this disc these youthful players turn in ex tremely handsome pcrr formanccs of the Mozart Elegance is the word that best describes the quartets ltaliano It marks everything they set their bows to In many ways their playing of the Beethoven 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