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8 GOINGS ON ABOUT TOWN NIGHT LlFE-Cont'd ruvian thrush with the big lungs and the grande-dame manner, performs at nine and eleven Tuesdays through Saturdays. BLUE NOTE, 131 W, 3rd St., near Sixth Ave (475- 8592)-A long, narrow, bemirrored room with a piece of neon art on the back wall (the Manhattan skyline and attendant celestial bodies) and jazz people of various magni- tudes on the dais HERBIE HANCOCK, who played a Mozart piano concerto with the Chicago Symphony when he was eleven, is now a for- ty-eight-year-old pop star who sometimes takes a break from his electronic-funk projects and his movie-score projects to play a little spidery modern jazz, He'll be here through Feb. 25, with bassist BUSTER WILLIAMS and drummer AL FOSTER. FRED HERSCH, a young pianist who shares an alma mater (Grinnell) with Hancock, brings in a group on Feb. 27, Music from nine. Dining. BOTTOM LINE, 15 W. 4th St., at Mercer St. (228- 6300)-A great barn of a rock club, which, unlike many other such places, has (in addi- tion to rock) tables, chairs (four hundred or so), good French fries, country music, folk music, music of a dubious nature, and miscel- laneous theatrica] entertainments. A multi- tude of Irish and Scottish folk musicians- nátive and transplanted fiddlers, pipers, flutists, and bodhran players-gather here on Feb. 24; JIMMY WEBB, who wrote "Galveston" and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" and other prodigal pop-country songs, performs Feb. 25; CHERYL (PEPSII) RILEY, a Brooklyn soul singer with a nice voice and major-record- label backing, holds forth Feb, 28, Shows Sundays through Thursdays at eight and eleven, and Fridays and Saturdays at eight- thirty and eleven-thirty. Dining, BRADLEY'S, 70 University Pl., at 11th St. (228- 6440)-A Village bar that has long featured first-rate piano-bass teams and pro conversa- tionalists and that now also features horn players, Bradley's T-shirts, Bradley's sweat- shirts, Bradley's customized coasters, a per- son to take an admission fee, and a person to seat you and shush you. It's an institution. Pianist DON FRIEDMAN and bassist RON CARTER will be on duty through Feb, 25; Feb. 26 belongs to a trio led by trumpeter DANNY MOORE. Music from nine-forty-five. Dining, CARLOS I, 432 Sixth Ave" at 10th St. (982- 3260)-It's so nice in here-silken woodwork and long tables with pink tablecloths and pink napkins-you might mistake it for a jazz club on a movie set but for the rea] mu- sicians onstage, Saxophonist JIMMY HEATH di- rects a quartet Feb. 21-26; AL GREY, a big- band veteran who gets laughing sounds and deep wa-was and complete sentences out of his old talking trombone, arrives with a foursome on Feb, 28, Music from nine- thirty. CARLYLE HOTEL, Madison Ave at 76th St. (744- 1600)-GEORGE SHEARING, the London-born pianist with the feathery touch, will be in the pastel confines of the Café Carlyle for three more nights. Shows at ten and midnight Feb, 21-23, CAT CLUB, 76 E, 13th St (505-0090)-This room, which caters to thrash-metal buffs and cooler heads on weeknights, opens its doors on Sundays to swing-music fans, most of whom come to Lindy, Feet jitter, skirts fly, and a limber, nattily dressed gent gets a look on his face that says "Watch my next move, dar- lin'," Up by the stage, two men who have come stag scatter their feet when the band breaks into "Jumpin' at the Woodside," An octet called the HARLEM BLUES & JAZZ BAND-its members include GEORGE KELLY (a tenor saxo- phonist who played with the Savoy Sultans in the forties) and AL CASEY (a guitarist who worked with Fats Waller in the thirties and forties)-propels dancers on Feb, 26. Music from eight to midnight. EAGLE TAVERN, 355 W. 14th St., at Ninth Ave, (924-0275)-On Fridays, in the back room of this bar, you can drink from the cup that cheers and listen to bluegrass and old-timey music; on Saturdays, you can drink a tankard of cool stout and listen to traditional Irish music. Special Consensus, a Chicago blue- grass group, has the floor Feb. 2 4; John Murphy, who plays the bellows-blown Irish pipes known as the uilleann pipes. holds forth Feb. 25. Music from nine FAT TUESDAY'S, 190 Third Ave., at 17th St. (533- 7902 )-A low-ceilinged, belowstairs jazz S-M-T-W-T-F-S 1 20 21 1 22 1 23 \ 24 1 25 26 27 28 1 room, its walls decorated with alternating bands of mirror and red plush, which will seem intimate to some people and too inti- mate to taU people, who may want to remove their top hats before entering, STANLEY TURREN- TINE, a tenor saxophonist who has gone from playing rhythm and blues with Lowell Fulson and Ray Charles to making lulling pop-funk records, leads a combo Feb 21-26, Alto saxo- phonist PHIL WOODS, a hard-blowing Charlie Parker follower, brings in his quintet on Feb, 28, Music from eight. Dining FORTUNE GARDEN PAVILION, 209 E, 49th St. (753- 0101)- Two things not known to be avail- able in the next world-Chinese cooking and American jazz-can be found in this hand- some room, from which is visible (it has a greenhouse roof) some expensive Gotham real estate as well as a few untenanted patches of sky, NIELS LAN DOKY, a young part-Danish, part- Vietnamese pianist with a busy, rococo style, will be here with his brother, bassist Chris- tian Minh Doky, Feb, 21-26. Music from nine-thirty Tuesdays through Thursdays, eight on Fridays and Saturdays, and seven on Sundays. LONE STAR CAFÉ, 61 Fifth Ave" at 13th St (242- 1664)-A cramped Yankee version of a Tex- as bar. It's draped with flags and banners, and plastered with signs and stickers ("Don't Mess with Texas," "Western Swing Ain't Dead, It's Asleep at the Wheel," "Waitress Station Only: Do Not Stand Here"), and its denizens include guys who like to wave their long-neck Coronas around and say things like "Woo-wee" and "I need an LV, to rock and roU right now," R. & R, vet and sometime screen actor LEVON HELM has the floor Feb, 24-25; VASSAR CLEMENTS plays his souped-up country fiddle on March 1, Music after nine, Dining, LONE STAR ROADHOUSE, 240 W. 52nd St. (245- 2950)- The midtown branch of the afore- mentioned honky-tonk. The façade is a Silver Eagle bus, the kind your itinerant musician tools around in, The inside is upscale road- SEND NO FLOWERS Sixteen tall Washlngtonia robusta palm trees rise from the marble floor of the Winter Garden at the World Financial Center, in Battery Park city, stately reminders that architects, in thinking about columns, have found inspiration in the shapes of trees. On February 21st, the entire Winter Gar- den will burst into bloom, with four hundred potted white tuliPs, forty- five young palm trees, and a variety of herbs, troPicals, perennials, and evergreens, all at different stages of growth, Created by students from the Yale Schools of Architecture, Art, and Forestry, led by Diana Balmori, a landscape archztect, and Paul Bott, a florist, the installation is designed to remind us that plants are forms of life as well as handsome ornaments to buildings, An additional W, robusta, currently at what is delicately termed "the end of its life cycle," is featured in the disPlay, The team has titled the work "This Is Not the Flower Show," perhaps so visitors will not be shocked to find a dead sixty-foot palm tree I y- ing on the ground. By the end of the show, on March 5th, even many of the tuliPs are expected to be pushing up tulips. house; it has a couple of postage-stamp dance floors and some rea] pretty Gibson guitars decorating the walls Jack Casady. the old Jefferson Airplane-Hot Tuna guy, leads a rock band Feb, 23-24; TERRANCE SIMIEN & THE MALLET PLA YBOYS play some Louisiana two- steps on Feb, 28, Music after nine, Dining RAINBOW ROOM, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, (632-5000) -This great ballroom-in-the-sky, after being shut for a couple of years, has been restored to its stately and beautiful Art Deco self (The original chandelier, hung from a peach- and-pale-blue ceiling, is back, and the dance floor, a replica of the old one, is revolving once more-at its nineteen-thirties half a mile an hour.) The non-stop music is by the Rainbow Room Orchestra, a streamlined society band featuring a graceful, velvet- toned trumpeter named Joe Cabot, and by Mauricio Smith and Friends, a rocketing Latin band, Music from seven-thirty Tues- days through Thursdays, from eight Fridays and Saturdays, and from six Sundays, Din- ing, Closed Mondays"., RAINBOW & STARS (632-5000): A new, glossy, multilevel ma- roon-and-silver cabaret, seating about nine- ty, and located on the north side of the sixty- fifth floor, in what used to be the cocktail lounge, The performers, working in a shallow well in the center of the room, do unwitting battle with the bejewelled backdrop of Cen- tral Park, Lenox Avenue, the G, W. Bridge, and points north, ROSEMARY CLOONEY may not outshine her surroundings, but she more than holds her own when she sings "Manhattan" and "How Are Things in Glocca Morra?" She's an exemplary popular singer; she swings without seeming to try and makes her feelings clear without shouting, She'll be here for five more nights (Feb, 21-25). The MC GUIRE SISTERS were up here the other night-they looked girlish as all getout, as if they'd been transported straight from the fifties- to see Rosemary Clooney; they take over her spot starting Feb 28, Shows from nine, Dining, Closed Sundays and Mondays SOUNDS OF BRAZIL, 204 Varick St., at W, Houston St. (243-4940)-A big, cheerful room, paint- ed a light tropical blue, where you can pick , em up and set 'em down to sounds from Brazil, Africa, the Caribbean, and elsewhere. The schedule: Feb. 21, MANNY OQUENDO'S salsa band; Feb, 22, MARIO BAUZA'S Latin-jazz or- chestra, plus YOMO TORO; Feb. 23, the Latin ensembles of DANIEL PONCÉ and MARIO RIVERA; Feb, 24, TABOU COMBO, a Haitian band; and Feb, 27-28, TOOTS & THE MAYTALS. Music from nine Tuesdays through Thursdays, and from ten Fridays and Saturdays, Dining. SPO-DEE-O-DEE, 565 W. 23rd St., at Eleventh Ave, (206-1990)-A curious mixture of swank and down-home, (The name comes from the 1949 Stick McGhee song "Drinkin' Wine, Spo-dee- o-dee," which was Atlantic Records' first hit.) The food is barbecued ribs and such, the music is mostly R, & 8" and the furnishings include ballroom-size chandeliers, king-size sofas, and green velvet drapes sprinkled with stardust. BIG TWIST & THE MELLOW FELLOWS, a Chicago R, & B, outfit fronted by a jumbo- sized singer with an affable baritone, holds forth Feb, 23-25 SWEET BASIL, 88 Seventh Ave, S" at Bleecker St. (242-1785)-A knotty-pine-and-brick-walled boîte, crowded with jazz fans from Japan, France, Germany, Denmark, Greenwich Vil- lage, and other countries, PETER ERSKINE, who has drummed for the loud Maynard Ferguson and the louder Weather Report, leads a sep- tet Feb, 21-26, JIM HALL, a guitarist who usually comes in on tiptoe and departs the same way and in between fills the air with soft, beautiful sounds, will be around with a quartet starting Feb, 28, Dining. VILLAGE GATE, 160 Bleecker St. (475-5120)-In the downstairs room, which is as big and plain as a mess hall, JOHN CEPHAS and PHIL WIGGINS, a country-blues duo from the Wash- ington, D.C" area, perform Feb. 24-25 at nine and eleven-thirty, , , , CJI One flight up, in the Terrace Bar, pianist WALTER NORRIS and bassist LISLE ATKINSON are on duty nightly, ex- cept Mondays, from ten, Norris, who played with Ornette Coleman in the fifties and with Mingus in the seventies and now lives in Ber- lin, is always worth hearing, VILLAGE VANGUARD, 178 Seventh Ave. S., at 11th St. (255-4037)- This house of worship opened on Feb, 26, 1934, in a Charles Street basement that was equipped with a twenty- five-dollar upright piano a four-burner gas