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Momus fails because, we assume, a 'Torture' committee of its bluebloods gets Carnival 1985 commenced with together and makes up jokes about a chilly clime and ended with a New Orleans and New Orleanians. balmy, overcast Mardi Gras Well, there are tons of funny warm enough for t-shirts but not people in New Orleans but not one quite sunny enough for those of them is a member of the krewe dapper citizens known as Indians, joining, ball-going class. Those in who spend months affixing plastic doubt should attend one of the jewels and sequins to their suits. "social" balls at Municipal Without a blazing sun, these local Auditorium. We've been to Sioux lack half their glory. funerals that were more jolly. We've said it before and we see Momus' 1985 theme was "Our no reason not to repeat our plan: Own Language,'' a rather rich Carnival should be held in July. source considering previous Most people have no idea that endeavors by Robert Tallant, John Carnival has anything to do with Kennedy Toole and Bunny Lent (what right-minded modern Matthews. However, the god of person would ever give up mockery seemed fairly wimpy in something in these greedy times?), .his choice of jokes-depicting our the Church or the Pope. How silly seven city councilmen as po-boys it is that in other sections of this (too true to be funny) and World's nation, the one-minute silent non Fair chief executive Petr Spurney denominational school prayer is a trapped in a gondola with the subject of great debate and breast legend "Suemore D' Affaire" (too beating. Here in New Orleahs, we mild to be funny). celebrate a full-blown Roman Catholic holiday with more than a little cooperation from our municipal government. Along the parade routes, Lutheran congre gations sell hot dogs, Episcopalians retail German beer and devotees of Krishna dispense · fake "summonses," which "order"· the startled recipient to appear at a Krishna ceremony. The young lady who tried to present us with such a document nearly got punched in the nose. Next time, we The K.rewe of Hermes, founded by won't think twice about it. men of the tourist industry, In Rio, Carnival is celebrated at introduced neon lights to Carnival the same time as it is in New floats in 1938 and its parade is the Orleans but because Brazil is on last procession to feature a team of the opposite side of the equator, mules pulling the king's float. Brazil's Carnival is a summertime aefore the advent of tractors, all affair. Thusly, it's hot and cele floats were pulled by mules and the brants lack both inhibitions and sight of mules encased in white clothes. Tnebunda (as the well ~;,obes not unlike those worn by the shaped behind is known) is an Klan is awesome. Bravo to Hermes object of national pride, as is the for keeping the tradition alive! Brazilian's inalienable right to Hermes' 1985 theme was "All fornication in the streets. For One and One For All," In New Orleans, the height of depicting the tale of the Three "nastiness" is some poor coed Musketeers as it rolled through the from Alabama, drunk for the first city on Friday night. On Sunday time in her life (on Hurricanes or morning, the same floats (designed the like), discretely flashing her bra by the Barth Brothers) were used for the benefit of other drunk by the Krewe of Thoth, who called students. Oooh! They go wild over their parade "Classic Tales of Fact stuff like that on Bourbon Street! and Fiction.'' The Thothians What passes for decadence and tossed vibrant yellow plastic cups sordidness beyond the call of duty decorated with vikings, Egyptians in New Orleans is a young and of course, the Three insurance salesman or native hair Musketeers. And then there was dresser costuming as a woman (or the peculiar truck disguised as a at least the kind of "woman" seen portable jail, festooned with the in Las Vegas chorus lines). Next heads of the Jacksons and Sheriff year, they'll probably be A.I.D.S. Foti. Aboard the truck was what fatalities so these boys literally and looked like real prisoners (mostly liberally adopt the motto of the black) and real whores (mostly Knights of Momus-Dum white). One's first assumption was Vivimus, Vivamus- "While we that these celebrants were being let live, let us live!" out of their cells for reasons of Momus, which traditionally good behavior or perhaps asJjying parades along the Uptown route examples of what happens to bad on the Thursday evening preceding little boys and girls. Quite Mardi Gras, utilizes satirical mysterious, to say the least. themes for its parades. Momus Endymion, parading through on Saturday night with wouldn't be too happy about that. us Newton as its monarch, Zulu, parading first thing on simply too much. Too slow. Mardi Gras morning (although not • ts strung-out. We watched the as early as it once did), is JOUt comprised of mostly blacks in :ms. four or five floats, then drove and watched the rest on TV. blackface and an ever-increasing the TV commentators, amount of whites in blackface. We one Pat >Uettlhom•, kept pointing OUt almost caught a pair of official we Jazz from his high school who es black Zulu bikini panties but then ~ in floats. Since we know the Afro-American who was has been out of high taunting the crowd with the panties well over a decade and traded both the panties and an guys on the floats were official black-and-white Zulu masks, we found this umbrella to a white woman for a lnnd of reportage pretty mere can of Budweiser. IICfedible. As for Mardi Gras music, it was ohn We skipped Bacchus for the Madonna and the Jacksons. ame reason we've never been to During the Pegasus parade, we Disneyland. We were shocked heard three high school bands in a *n every newscaster in town row playing three different Rferred to Bacchus as the arrangements of "Torture." It was JAZZ FEST IS UPON US ... LOOKING TO FIND OUT WHAT JUT LOCAL MUSICIANS ARE GOING ys "Greek" god of wine. Dionysus heaven. TO PLAY THE 16th ANNUAL JAZZ FEST, A QUICK TRIP TO FESTIVAL ld's -Comus Jones HEADQUARTERS ey FOR SOME ANSWERS WAS IN ORDER. AFTER SORTING THROUGH MANY FILES, AND SEEING THE STACKS OF too RESUMES AND AUDITION TAPES THE TALENT COMMITTEE Rock On HAD RECEIVED, I FOUND OUT THAT THE DECISION MAKERS WERE STILL DECIDING. THERE WAS NO INFOR Radio MATION ON WHO OF THE LESSER KNOWN BANDS WOULD BE PARTICIPATING The 15th Annual Rock-On , AND THE JAZZ AND HERITAGE Survival Marathon hits Uptown FESTIVAL'S COMMITTEES WILL PROBABLY HOLD OUT ON 6om Friday, March 15 through AN ANNOUNCEMENT UNTIL LATER THIS MONTH. INFOR Sunday, March 17, 1985. Nine MATION ON THE NATIONALLY KNOWN MUSICIANS THAT aea bands will participate in the HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED WAS READILY AVAILABLE, AND event to be held at the Tulane Uni THE COMMITTED LOCALS ARE REPEAT PAST PERFORMERS mity Main Quadrangle. LIKE THE NEVILLE BROTHERS, ALLEN TOUSSAINT, The Marathon opens with CLIFTON CHENIER, IRMA THOMAS, ELLIS MARSALIS, THE Multiple Places scheduled to The marathon closes Sunday even DIRTY DOZEN BRASS BAND TO NAME A FEW. GATEMOUTH ~ppear from 4 to 6 p.m. on ing with a performance by BROWN IS IN THE LINE-UP TOO ... AND SO IS " TYLER'S" Friday, March 15. W oodenhead. JAMES RIVERS. DOUG KERSHAW WILL BE FIDDLING CAJUN by Activity resumes at noon on At press time, the starting and MUSIC SOMEWHERE AT 'THE FEST AS WELL. ALBERT KING Saturday, March 16 with the U~ fmishing times for each of the WITH HIS HUSKY VOICE AND FLYING V GUITAR IS A val li&hts, to be followed by Ramsey groups was unavailable. The 15th NOTABLE BLUESMAN THAT'S GOING .he TO BE THERE . .. McLean and the Survivors, the Annual Rock-On Survival Mara SARAH "I'M NOT A JAZZ SINGER" VAUGHAN WILL n of COME Radiators, and Lenny Zenith and thon is sponsored by WTUL FM TOO. PERFORMING SONGS WITH A MESSAGE WILL BE THE Pop Combo. The Cold will cap 91.5 and Busch Beer. Admission is STAPLE SINGERS ... WHO ARE NOW CALLING THEMSELVES II m!'Saturday's segment of the free to the marathon. JUST "THE STAPLES. the mrathon. In connection with the event, " SPYRO GYRA'S IMPROV JAZZ Sunday, March 17, opens with Jimmy's will present live music INSTRUMENTALS WILL BE AN EXPERIENCE THERE TOO. the illk music by as-yet-unscheduled the night of Saturday, March 16, THIRD WORLD, THE GROUP, WILL PLAY, AND SO WILL RY mes poops from noon to 1 p.m. Fol provided by Multiple Places, COODER ... klwing this will be the Continental Final Academy and more. PERHAPS THE MOST REVOLUTIONARY AN- 0 ll Drifters and the Batiste Brothers. -Scott McLetchie NOUNCEMENT TO DATE IS THE'JAZZ AND HERITAGE FESTIVALS FIRST OF THE EVENING CONCERT SERIES ... the A LANDMARK SHOWDOWN OF TWO OF THE BEST TRUMPET VIRTUOSOS IN HISTORY APPEAR TOGETHER FOR THE FIRST TIME ON THE SAME STAGE: YOUNG WYNTON ~ed CAPP' S-ulization MARSALIS AND THE GREAT MILES DAVIS WILL PERFORM AT THE THEATRE OF PERFORMING ARTS ON APRIL 26, AT · ~led "I'm pretty much a party Orleans. The dancing will :act 7:30 PM. THOSE OF US WHO WILL BE THERE WILL BE llimal," explains 29 year-old continue-upstairs and down TREATED TO A MUSICAL EXHIBITION.DOUBTFULLY TO BE George Lissarrague, a New Jersey with deejay Wayne Landry REPEATED IN OUR LIFETIMES. ~s lltive who has lived in New returning with his infernal discs. Orleans the past 14 years. Not There's hot pink walls downstairs OTHER EVENING CONCERTS ARE SCHEDULED TO BE being able to find the right with black and white tiles on the STAGED AROUND TOWN AT PROUT'S CLUB ALHAMBRA, mvironment for his animalistic floor, lots of mirrors so you can THE NEW STORYVILLE JAZZ HALL AND ABOARD THE partying, Lissarrague and his check your composure and RIVERBOAT PRESIDENT. partner Bret Guepet have done Lissarrague promises "lots of what many other local fun-lovers specials." These will include a THE JAZZ FESTIVAL WILL BE HELD APRIL 26 THROUGH •ve done on previous occasions "Gothic-Punk Night" and an MAY 5, WITH THE HERITAGE FAIR, AS USUAL, SLATED wben bereft of congenial "Oldies-New Wave Night." FOR THE FAIR GROUNDS ON APRIL26 THROUGH 28, CON ites-opened Oldies-New a bar. They've Wave?! TINUING ON MAY 4 AND 5. TO RECEIVE A COPY OF THE as picked a good one, too. "Yeah," says Lissarrague. BROCHURE, SEND STAMP SELF ADDRESSED ENVELOPE let Now called Capp's, formerly ''That's like the Psychedelic Furs TO NEW ORLEANS JAZZ AND HERITAGE FESTIVAL, P.O. BOX Andy Capp's and a variety of and bands like them." If the adler nllffies (even was a bank decibels permit, Lissarrague hopes 2530, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70176. FOR OUT-OF-TOWN ODCt, if our feeble minds are to present live bands and live TICKET ORDERS, CALL TICKET MASTER'S CHARGE-BY correct), the bar has long been the sounds. As for the dancing, there's PHONE SERVICE (1-800-535-5151). LOCAL INFORMATION premiere place for non- no cover charge ever. MIGHT BE LEARNED BY DIALING 888-4700. mosexual dancing in New -A. Pacoweigb -CAROL GNIADY March 1985/Wavelength 5 DINETTE SET BUNNY MATTHEWS General Publicity Englishman Dave Wakeling (left in photo) touring these shows with. General Public, can't quite fathom America'·s Musical Anglo ph ilia: Doesn't anybody remember the . Marvelettes? The divine glories of Mary Wells? Zydeco? ave W akeling, formerly of I like the "Tenderness" video the Beat (or the English because it's so non-sexist . .. DBeat, as lawyers on this Absolutely. We worried that the side of the Atlantic ordained), is video might come out looking over something of an old favorite in New cute but we though that it comment- Orleans. The Beat's loose-limbed . ed on the inherent sexism of MTV punky reggae, highlighted by the and the other cable channels and strong foot of drummer Everett that it would be very good to make Morton, the wails of venerable saxo such a comment Some of it's dis phonist Saxa and the sweet-and gusting, isn't it? sour boasting and toasting of I've got a daughter-3-and W akeling and partner Ranking she's mad on Boy George. I don't Roger, was a natural for this city think I'd like a 3-year-old child of grown(rhythmically) accustomed to mine ravaged by the Def Leppards the Meters, the Nevilles and fellow of this world. I really don't think she syncopators. Recitals were duly should grow up thinking she has to attended by fans with ponytails, walk around in fishnet tights and be shaved heads and most realms in dragged around in the air by over between. The Beat was Everyman's weight heavy-metal guitarists. It's band. awful. That was last year's more plebeian I was surprised. I've never really model, however. This year, Wake watched too much MTV until re deal and they live right on your be really great. They managed to ling and the newly-striped-with cently when we've stayed in one doorstep! miss out on Tamla/Motown entire peroxide Roger have returned with town for two or three days. That Especially in Los Angeles, they're ly. It went from one white bloke just General Public. The album is humb gives you a chance to go to some kinda scared of homegrown talent before T amla/Motown to some white ly titled ... All The Rage and since one's home and watch it there be They don't mind established sorta fellow just after Tamla/Motown Life nearly always imitates Art, the cause you never get it in your hotel. middle-of-the-road rock and they're as if it never happened. single version of "Tenderness" has I'm not a prude I don't think but I willing to really stretch their imagina American radio has always been scored big on our national pop was really quite shocked. Some of tion to see what the latest English very segregated. charts. An Arthur Baker mix of it's so degrading. group's coming up with but if some Fortunately, there are signs that "Never You Done That" is deemed I was so surprised because Ameri body on the same street as them it's breaking down-even if it's just ready to second that emotion. can girls seem very intelligent and comes up with something just as MTV now having black faces. Or W akeling, speaking via telephone forceful in general. They seem fairly challenging, they tend to try and beingforced to have black faces. If from Oklahoma thirty minutes be independent I'm amazed that they ignore it or say it's rubbish. I find it somebody's number one on the fore a soundcheck, revealed that stand for it! Certainly the girls in ever so odd. charts, you can hardly say they're Baker, who has "customized" the England wouldn't stand for that sort It's the continuing story. America's not commercial. songs of Bruce Springsteen, Cyndi of continual stereotyping. always produced the most innova Also, things like the Talkinc Lauper, New Order and numerous To its credit, MTV has forced tive music. Everybody thinks it's Heads experiment: ·all the English others, would produce the next change upon American radio ... England. All that England does is it two-tone groups giggled and said, General Public album, with sessions It's really odd, isn't it? The com listens to American music properly "Oh, look-Talking Heads has gone to commence in the band's Birming bination of college radio and MTV and changes it and takes what they two-tone." But it did have quite a ham, England, headquarters. actually made for credible top 40 need and modifies it and puts it into profound effect, I think. Standard, What does Arthur Baker's re radio. their own experience. Ever since the middle-of-the-road musicians in mix sound like? Do you get to see many American Beatles, Americans all hold their America suddenly realized you caa He's made it tougher and sweeter bands as you tour? hands up and go, "Wow! This is fan play music with anybody you like. at the same time, which is a re You see support groups when you tastic! It's amazing music!" You can learn whatever you like. markable feat Roger thinks he's the do your own tour. You get a lot of I think there was, and probably Wouldn't it be great to have the only white Scientist-the only guy demos given to you. I get a lot of still is, a lot of inherent racism in best of American rock mixed with who gets equal respect from black cassettes. Arneri~.an music. Probably I like the best of American funk? You'd dancers and from white dancers. Do you listen to them? New Orleans because it's bne of the end up ... well, you'd end up with Do you have any interest in New Oh yeah. The good ones I give to few places where musicians seem to Talking Heads, which is, frankly, Orleans music? I.RS. [General Public's record be judged by how they play rather one of the best musics in the world I like Cajun music. Cajun music's label]. They haven't signed one that than what color they are. In a pop sense, at least my favorite American music by a I've given them yet There seems to So a lot of chances have been We've noticed that there seems to long way. be, as far as I can tell, an enormous missed in America. Tamla/Motown be much more in a way of multi Who c:zre your favorite Cajun reluctance from American record really had a strong effect on every racial interplay in America. But I musicians? companies to sign "new wave"-if body who played the guitar in don't think that every group has to be Well, I don't know their names you can call it that-American acts. England in the Jast 20 years. When I multi-racial. What I really think ~ really because they're all French. Sometimes I've said to people at speak to some American musicians that color doesn't really matter that You get kinda sampler cassettes of it I.RS. in Los Angeles, "Why does a or even some American journalists much. It should be accepted that dif. in England. I just like the rhythm of group have to come from Birming about favorite songs-and quite a lot ferent races, different colors and it-a particular rhythm that, I feel, I ham or Manchester before you're of my favorite songs are Tamla creeds do have an awful lot to learn can hear the same in African music interested?" songs or Stax songs or Atlantic from each other. They can offer each and any reggae music. I've seen three groups in Los songs-they don't know 'em at all. other enormous amounts. But New I like anything that plays between Angeles that are really good and It's really odd. Orleans knows that. an on-beat and off-beat and switches can't get a record deal. They would I even saw one dreadful program It's part of our heritage. New to and fro. Those are the things that get a record deal if they lived in "25 Years of American Pop Music" Orleans isn't a very American city. really excite me about music. England They can't get a record or something, which I thought would I think it's my favorite. I've seen it 6 Wavelength/March 1985 now. You never know what it was on a knife edge and that it was be like to Jive somewhere until always very close to the point of ac~ually lived there but I collapse-that somehow you'd al thought that if! lived on this ways sorta get through it but it was I'd either live in New very sorta anarchistic the way it was 0 San Francisco or Toronto. played. are not only exciting cities but General Public is kinda more IIIey have enough of their own cui reasoned. It's slightly more pro lure to make them feel like you're in fessional but certainly not staid. We F 11 individualistic sorta place. wanted to try and get a strong base to So when are you going to Mos make it more exciting. It's not like ... You'vegot "From Moscow to session guys. •n~lrPr~·v printed across the back Horace Panter (last seen in New album cover . .. Orleans as a member ofthe Specials) F fd like to go very much for a is a great bass-player! I don't think we'll ever be He's always been one of my to play there. They're very heroes and he looks so good on ALL USED RECORDS & TAPES [as in "stuffed shirt"] about stage. He really works hard. I playing there. We tried once must've recorded 12 concerts now our agent in England or- and on all of them, the bass is note ...., -.,~d" a tour for Kraftwerk to play perfect all the way through. Yet he's OVER20,000 IN STOCK: fiPnn,>nv, Hungary, Poland, still all over the stage dancing. Any •''-L"'•uv:Hu~ akia and Russia. They body who looks like he's tiring, have any problems with ideol Horace is straight over to them, r&b *jazz * rock 'n' roll because they played all instru- pumping them up. He works like a demon. comedy * hawaiian * country What they worry very much He kinda changes when he gets on new orleans music classical _,,~,y· are words. You're made to stage because, you know, he's very * write down all the lyrics to the songs, meek and mild and polite. He grows what you're inferring by them and in magnitude when he gets on stage what you intend to say in between and becomes a very forceful per during the performance. And sonality. 3129 GENTILLY not allowed to deviate from We do a lot of rehearsals without script that you've sent in. It any vocals at all so that everybody 282-3322 ICeltled like a bit of a pain. knows the songs as instrumentals, so I'd very much like to see Russia that everybody knows all the cues 38X/ S. CARROLLTON but I don'thave any Jove at all for the and all the links so that if anything Russian system. I think it's as call does go wrong, it's fiXed in a matter 482-8431 ous and as cruel as anything we've of seconds without anybody having managed to devise yet. There's just a to look at anybody else. And that tittle interest in the actual real needs makes it really good because from a o{ people as with capitalists. vocalist's point of view, you can There is something that runs all really take some chances. Ifyou say, Our Specialty is Seafood the way through Russian literature "Oh, I can sing it this way tonight," and Russian art that suggests that you can risk it, because you know so fried • broiled • grilled lbey are an enormous part of the long as you get back to the predes Oysters European legacy. Europe seems like tined point, you know everybody's Fresh Raw half a continent without the Hungar going to be there to meet you. ians and the Czechs being part of the In the Beat, me and Roger felt 15¢ everyday tradition. Before the Second World more and more confined-especial War, Eastern Europe was very ly as people started caring less and each 11 -4 much a big part of European less about the live side of things or culture-in art and music and litera saw it as an imposition and didn't ture. And now, all of that side of want to leave Birmingham and cer lbings has been taken away. It's a tainly didn't want to come to shame that Europe's been robbed of America touring. So the songs start a lot by what happened after the war. ed getting a bit scrappy around the But I don't suppose it'll ever be edges and it would be the vocals that united again. . would always have to suffer because Whate1•er happened to Saxa? it's like a jigsaw puzzle trying to He's here. I've brought him with make the words fit. It's very frustrat me. He's in fine playing form. We've ing when you've written a song been rehearsing him really hard. where the words fit it perfectly when Home of the Featuring Fresh Grilled Fish He's very healthy. He's off hard it was written and now all of a sud 95 liquor entirely- just a beer-sipping den, you're having to chop off the 7 Maine lobster Creole and Cajun Cuisine gentleman. New Orleans is his kind first word or the last word trying to One pound Lunch & Dinner oftown, really. make it fit. By having a greater sense For those who have yet to hear of initial discipline, it means every the new band, how does General body's free to take much greater Public differ from the Beat? chances on stage without them Fashion Show I don't know. I can't tell because collapsing. rm in it and you're so busy singing A little bit of the magic had gone Fashions by Yvonne Lefleur New O~:leans that it's very difficult to tell the dif out of the Beat. We realized that it 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of the Month ference. What I do know is from the was going to be better for every cassettes-it's very tight. And every body-as musicians-if they went Lunch 1 :30 p.m . • Complimentary Champagne body pays a Jot more attention to away and worked with other music what everybody else is playing. ians and tried to find out again why . UPTOWN LA PLACE METAIRIE WESTBANK One~ e~erybody in the Beat knew they were being musicians in the first what they were meant to play on a place. It isn't just a matter of tradi 7605 Maple Airline Hwy. 2708 N Hullen 3826 General OeGaulle song. they'd play it regardless of tion-that you're a musician be off street parking Ne>tt to the Landmark Now Open what everybody else was doing. cause you were last year. You're Sometimes that was very exciting meant to be a musician because you Al FARRELL ~LAYS OLDIES - Thurs., Fri., Sat. nites but it always meant that the music feel something passionately. 0 March 1985/Wavelength 7 • made good with their no-nonsense, "what-you-see-is-what-you-get." Hits such as "I Wanna New Drug" and "U This Is It" were pumped out with confi· dence and style, and the band's punch was jack~ up even more by the muscu lar hom lines courtesy of Tower of Power. Highlights mcluded an energetic version of Randy Newman's anthem, "I Love LA" and a surprise' guest appear: ance by Booker T. Jones and his "Green Onions." But the biggest cheer of the night was justifiably for "The Heart Of Hottest Videos Rock And Roll," the band's recent hit New Videos Added To MTV: which perfectly sums up their attitude "Material Girl" Madonna (Warner and music. Lewis and company may not Bros.) take any musical risks, and they're not "Just Another Night" Mick Jagger exactly challenging the boundaries of (Columbia) rock and roll- but their hearts are defi· nitely in the right place. "Lucky" Greg Kihn (EMI) " Save A Prayer" Duran Duran (Capitol) "Julia" The Eurythmics (RCA) Top of - "The Heat Is On" Glenn Frey (MCA) the Charts " Ballroo!fl Blitz" Krokus (Arista) " Underground" Angel City (MCA) No. Albums Singles "Gratitude" Danny Elfman (MCA) 1 Centerfield " Easy Lover" " High In High School" Madam X (Epic) John Fogerty Philip Bailey (Warner Bros.) ( Columbia) "Method Of Modern Love" Hall & Oates (RCA) 2 Building The " I wanna Know What Perfect Beast Love Is" Don Henley Foreigner Critic's Choice: .. (Geffen) (Atlantic) lain Blair Crows About Huey Lewis 3 Reckless " Careless Whispers" &The News Bryan Adams Wham I (A&M) (Columbia) · Veteran Northern California rockers 4 Agent Provocateur " You 're The Huey Lewis & The News finally.- and Foreigner lnsfciration" appropr.iately enough in the year of the • (Atlantic) Ch cago Olympics_:_ hit it big last year with their (Warner Bros.) multi-platinum Sports album. They also 5 Valotte "I Would Die For You " hit it big at this Forum sell-out with Julian Lennon Prince another winning performance that pro (Atlantic) ( Warner Bros.) vided the happy crowd with two hours 6 Word Of Mouth "Lover Boy" of hard-working, unpretentious, good Kinks Billy Ocean time rock and roll. (Arista) (Ansta) Lewis and his lads have no time for 7 Beverly Hills Cop "Metllod Of make-up, bizarre hairstyles or androg Soundtrack Modem Love" (MCA) Hall & Oates ynous posing- they wisely leave all that (RCA) stuff to the likes of Prince, Boy George 8 Chinese Wall " Uke A Virg1n" and Michael Jackson. Instead, like well Philip Bailey Madonna trained athletes, they just get on with the (Columbia) ( Warner Bros.) business of playing music with grit, 9 Cr~From " Neutron Dance" sweat and determination - all laced Th e eat Pointer Sisters with just enough ca.lculated showbiz David lee Roth (RCA). moves to give their show an edge of (Warner Bros.) First, there was Purple Rain- The Albuin, quickly followed by The Film. Now we have drama. Lewis is an appealing performer, 10 Tropico " Boys Of Summer" the band is tight and punchy, and to Pat Benatar Don Henley The Tour-starring The Kid himself, Prince Nelson. With Sheila E. opening, Prince (Chrysalis) (Geffen) started in the Midwest and is covering the West and the South into spring. Photo: Terry gether they are the epitome of local boys Sesvold/Pix International © 1985 os recently, cutting some tracks for artist In The Studio ... David Gruen. Tom Edmunds engi Translator are currently at work on their neered, assisted b y Roger Moutenot. third album for 415/Columbia Records. Also at Skyline were Manhattan's own Ed Stasium is in the producer's seat. Re Egyptians. The sessions were produced cording began at Studio D in Sausalito, by CBGB entrepreneur/new music pa CA and has s ince moved down to th e tron Hilly Crystal. Roger Moutenot en Record Plant in Los Angeles. The project gineered, with assistance from Eric Cal is slated to go to New York for final mix vi ... Canad ian artists the Boys Brigade ing . . . DeMola Adipoju from King are now at the Complex studios in Los Sunny Ade's mighty band is at Sound Angeles tracking their upcoming An Image Studio in Hollywood working on them/Capitol album. Producing the di~ a solo project for Moji Productions. John is Verdine White of Earth, Wind and Henning is at the board ... The Fugs, Fire and Tom Canning, who leads the those celebrated 1960's purveyors of "Thicke Of The Night" band and co-pro literary smut-rock, got together for a duces Al Jarreau's records with Jay Gra reunion concert recently at New York's don. Engineering for the Boys Brigade Bottom Line club. The show was com sessions is Chris Brunt. Sharon Rice is mitted to tape and is now being mixed at assisting . . . And at Starlight Studios in Midnight Modulation Studios in Sau Richmond, The Uptones have just fin gerties, NY. Michael Bitterman is at the ished up their debut EP for 415 Records, controls . .. Production ace Jimmy Io six tunes that will be coming out in the vine (Springsteen, Bob Seger, Tom spring. Petty, etc.) has been lined up to remix several songs from The Textones' ac claimed LP, Midnight Mission . These Personal Favorites special mixes will be serviced by Gold Singer Philip Bailey, best known for his Mountain/ A&M Records to radio sta work with Earth, Wind & Fire, is riding 17 mg. "tar", tions across the country . . . R&B stal high in the wake of his hit duet with Phil Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined wart Dennis Edwards is currently work Collins, "Easy Lover." Here Philip picks 1.3 mg. nicotine ing on a new LP at Sound Castle Studios his five favorite singers: 1. Dionne War That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health. av. per cigarette in Los Angeles. Dennis Lainbert is pro wick; 2. Deniece Williams; 3. Luther by FTC method. ducing ... Guitarist/producer Rick Der Vandross; 4. Stevie Wonder; 5. Sarah ringer was at New york's Skyline Studi- Vaughan. .. ' IT'S ALL MUSIC MARK BINGHAM ::~ Did Nixon Smuggle Satchmo's Stash? cu- of NEW YORK CITY- What's that chumminess did on occasion blan ~tic latest hot spot? What's the biggest AA is tops in NYC, latest on Wynton vs. Miles, ket the good times, . "I more often ·ar; "hang" for the musical elite? What's singers, the revival of revivals, and McFerrin was able to break down the must-attend daily event for those the barrier between audience and ~n important questions. the at the top of the pop? Why, it's performer. His shows were augmen Of Alcoholics Anonymous. The Soho ted by frequent solo spots from hit meetings alone could field an all star members of the audience - pre 1de jazz band while also providing the writer Xeroxed copies of Wynton's love of mid-Sixties British pop-a dominantly female. Michelle Hen not pick of the litter (and I do mean lit interviews for his music students. good singer is a good singer is a good dricks, daughter of Jon and pre ter) from the late Seventies punk They were not interested, asking me singer and it's all music, so labels sently employed as a waitress at the performance -art- blackclothes -all ifl had any Prince interviews.) Now, be damned. Blue Note, joined McFerrin for a night scene. As there have existed many journalists, who probably ..,. Stephanie Sieberth is a singer duet that electrified the already junk, cocaine and freebase cliques, didn't like Marsalis much anyway, who performs infrequently but is rabid crowd. McFerrin closed his welcome to the sober but brave new but went along for the hype-ride, are "deserving of wider recognition" as shows with a gospel tune. He alter world of abstinence and confession. coming at poor Wynton with pitch they say in down beat. nated choruses with members of the Narconon runs a close but less forks, tar and feathers. Let's hope ..,. Luz Marie and Adela are sisters audience. The words: "If I let God acceptable second. It's one thing to this talented young man can keep his (with no last name) from Guatemala fight my battles, I know the victory admit to and seek help for drinking, act together through the treacherous who now live in New Orleans. Their will be mine." but to admit to being a junkie i~ a territory he has chosen to walk. vocal efforts rival those of other Some thoughts ... Spearheaded great leap. Miles Davis has lived his nine nationally famous sister teams. by Bruce Springsteen, King Sunny lives and more, skillfully twisting the Alas, they nave done little perform Ade, Talking Heads and Grateful Watergate was just a hotel ... world around his .. . finger is not the ing, finding New Orleans somewhat Dead, music events with a warm Richard "Millhouse" Nixon was word. He is, of late. heavily MTV lukewarm to their brand of Latin revival feel are having an impact once the president ofa country known and pop influenced. He is apparent Soul. They plan to tour parts of once more. Concerts that were like as the United States of America. He ly an avid video watcher and has Central America and Puerto Rico, church were common 15 years ago was also a frustrated piano player praised the likes of Rick Springfield. where they are better received than but have become scarce in large who admitted that if he had it all to His new release is You're Under in New Orleans. scale mainstream rock circles. As do over he would have forsaken the Arrest, the title tune being a John ..,. Linda Ronstadt is not from New spectacle replaced unity, facile tech political arena for a career as ·a solo Scofield composition and the only Orleans. Never a fan, this writer was nical displays became the norm. A piano player much like his hero, Earl out and out jazz on the record. Other shocked to find himself swooning side product of MTV is that people "Fatha" Hines. Mr. Nixon was also pieces include "Time After Time" over Lush Life. No oversinging, are getting so much techno virtuosity a huge fan of Louis Armstrong. Dur by Cyndi You Know Who, "Mother hairychested operatics , maudlin self that they are looking elsewhere and ing his term as Vice-President, Mr. Nature" by Michael You Know pity or pointless virtuosity, Lush coming up with more participatory Nixon found himself at Washing Who and tunes by Debarge and D Life is listenable and even excep events. ton's Dulles Airport a few minutes Train. This record is a big departure, tional. Congrats to her voice teacher, Questions ..• Why has no one re before the arrival of a jet returning even for a man known for his in Linda doesn't sound like Ronstadt made Pass The Hatchet as a flat-out Louis Armstrong's band from a state congruous behavior. Miles actually anymore. dance floor tune? Why would a band department tour. Having always speaks on the record, his best line ..,. Bobby McFerrin is the nextjazz call itself Quick Zipper? wanted to meet Satchmo, Nixon being," Arrest some of this, Mother superstar. Hearing his recent shows Favorite Quote of 1964: "I believe went to meet the plane. The two men rucker!" One assumes it will be at New York's Blue Note, I came there will ultimately be a clash be met on the runway, chatted briefly blleeeped for the single. The funniest away convinced. McFerrin is cap tween the oppressed and those who and walked back toward the ter part of the record is Miles' use of the able of making large and small do the oppressing, but I don't think it minal. Nixon told Satchmo if there stock train whistle settings on his groups of people feel good about will be based on the color of the was ever anything he could do for Yamaha DX-7 synthesizer. He uses themselves and unified with the skin."-Malcolm X. him, don't be afraid to ask. Never the train whistle live to cut offhand world at large. His singing encom New Orleans quote of the month: one to miss a beat, Satchmo asked member's too lengthy solos. Miles passes all manners of sounds, styles "Lemme tell you something, little Nixon to carry one of his bags Davis is now healthier than he has and aspirations. He is a comedian. brother, I've been playing music for through customs. Nixon agreed, car been in years, excited about music His singalong-TV-theme-stump 25 years and I ain't missed a meal rying three pounds of fine marijuana and capable of doing decent Redd the-band sequence was both enter yet." -Joseph Modeliste. past the smiling customs officials. It Foxx and Rudy Ray Moore impres taining and embarrassing. Good job I'm happy for you, Zig. But re- is not known whether Nixon was sions. God bless. on Mr. Ed, Bob. While a forced member, it's all music. 0 aware of the contents. Singers . . . Before there were musi New Orleans News ... Miles cal instruments, there was singing. Dewey Davis at the J azzfest, on the New Orleans is chock full o' singers. same bill with Wynton Marsalis. Most people know about Aaron Both these men have new LPs. Mar Neville (" God gave me the voice of salis chose to do a record of stan an angel"), The Gospel Soul Child dards, Hot House Flowers, easily ren, Leigh Harris, Lady BJ, Johnny the best sounds young Marsalis has Adams, and Germaine Bazzle. The put on disc yet. Despite the skill real story here is in the churches and shown by Marsalis, the CBS hype of schools, not so much on the pro all-things-Wynton has met with con fessional scene. However, there are siderable backlash as of late, much singers who play nightclubs and of it centered on Hot House such that are worth hearing for their Flowers. Less we forget, Wynton contributions to today's music, not Marsalis is a young, developing for their museum potential. There is player, not the second coming. Jour a new singer in town, Jackie Jones. nalists of the "rewrite the hype, take She has a gospel background that the check, keep the free records and lends itselfwell to her choice ofstan guest list coming" school kissed dards. She sings for The Dukes of considerable ass in assisting CBS in Dixieland, managing to inject some their all-out effort to create a new life into a three set a night, six nights genius; wholesome, pure, educated a week routine. and thoughtful- not angry, funky ..,. Carolyn Odell sings and plays llld streetwise like those old-fashioned with The Uptights. While the Up type "jazz" musicians. Marsalis tights are the antithesis of most New helped with insightful interviews. Orleans bands-pop, Sixties nos He was definitely for real. (This talgia and originals that reflect their • RARE RECORD ALMOST SLIM Jazz On A TALKING HEADS Blue Note George Lewis and VIDEO PARTY His New Orleans Stompers Echoes ofNew Orleans Blue note 110 - ere's a classic New Orleans H jazz LP from the great clarinet ist George Lewis. As most jazz his torians know, Lewis (born George Louis Francis Zeno in 1900) first playing 3 3 ~ microgroove is actually made a name with trumpeter Bunk a ten-inch record, containing six out Joht)son around 1940. From that standing performances. Lewis is time until his death in 1968, Lewis accompanied here by "Kid" Howard was one of New Orleans most pop on trumpet, Jim Robinson on trom ular jazz musicians, not only in bone, Edgar Mosley on drums and America but Europe and Japan, too. the great Chester Zardis ·on bass. Thankfully he was recorded pro The sound is definitely lowdown, lifically, but his mid-Fifties Blue but with a warm, powerful drive. Note recordings were among his Best of the lot is "Dauphine ·SL best ever. Blues" and "Just A Closer Walk" Blue Note Records of course has which have to be considered among reached legendary status and rightly the greatest dixieland performances so. Besides Lewis, other subjects of of all time. Found this and Vol. 2 early Bluenote releases were Sidney (Blue Note 1013) at a flea market in Bechet, Bunk Johnson and even Florida not too long ago for two bits Miles Davis. This particular long- a piece. TECHNO-PULP CARLOS BO LL Fun~ Fun, Mature and Single~ 12" Singles: LPs: Scritti Politti-"Hypnotize" Orange Juice-The Orange Juice Virgin VS 725-12 (The Third Album) Once upon a time there was a Polydor OJHP 2 SEE UNRELEASED VIDEOS OF . band that was sweet, they put out This took a little while to grow 011 several singles that sounded like . me. I hated the singles, most ci THE TALKING HEADS PL,US sedate rock with funk overtones. ·which were released before the Then carne a series of singles that album. The band now consists only HEADS GIVE-AWAYS AT approached white funk. Then it was ofEdwin Collins and Zeke Manyika METRONOME.ON THURS., discovered · that Green, the lead with Angela Claire Kenny (from singer/songwriter had been holed up Amazulu) on bass and Dennis MARCH 21 AT 7:00PM in New York for a while working on (Blackbeard) Bovell on keyboards. some new material. What emerged The songs are good, still featuring are some of the best dance/funk the loose guitar/tight drum sounds of SEE STOP MAKING SENSE AT songs ever. "Hypnotize" is the third -previous efforts, but none have the single by Scritti Politti in the series intensity and urgency of the older THE PRYTANIA THEATRE started with "Wood Beez." The material. The band has gone from a b:;tnd, comprised ofNew York studio wonderful "wimpy/pop" sound to a MARCH 22ND-APRIL 11TH. musicians, sounds ultra slick but more sensitive and mature sound doesn't enter the homogenized and Approach with caution. . sterile territory of, let's say, Steely Dan. If you like to move then this is Bill Nelson-Trial]Jy Intimacy one record that doesn't stop you. (The Book Splendours) Cocteau JEAN 2 The Monochrome Set This four-record set includes a book "Jacob's Ladder" of photographs and a set of post Blanco y negro NEG 4-T cards. It is a collection of unreleased This has always been a fun band, a recording Bill Nelson has made at hearty mix of humor with just the the Echo Observatory in Yorkshire. right amount of absurdity. This new This is arnbientmusicthatshouldbe fiv~-track E.P. finds them at their played loud in large rooms-music best. Imagine a non-political Clash that sometimes would take over the Pleasant at Magazine I New Orleans, Louisjana 70115 I 504-897-5015 singing fun and humorous lyrics over conversation. It would add someth neat guitar riffs. Continuing this ' ing to your idea or thought. It would current trend this band should have a make you dream. In color. Get hit here. ~ D 10 Wavelength/March 1985 chores. Backing is by a well rehearsed, brass-laden combo, which except for the inappropriate rock-tinged guitarist (my only be Rebirth Brass Band is per complaint with all Malaco releases) haps the youngest of the new is downhome all the way. marching bands currently You can't miss the impressive a wave of interest and ex and topical lyrics which really tell in New Orleans, perhaps stories about what's happening in most tradition-conscious city for the streets. Two of my favorites, in the country. Like their pre "Your Husband Is Cheating On the increasingly well Us" and "Keep Your Pants On," Dozen Brass Band, the have to tie for the far-out title of Jazz Band cut its chops on the year award. Once again Ms. streets, in parades, at jazz LaSalle one-ups Z.Z. Hill, this parties, and neighborhood time with a sizzling rendition of lin, and like their forebears, the "Bump And Grind." Others with leW wave of brass marching bands hit potential are "Why Does It first concerned with feeling and Feel So Right," where she tells the !pirit Although the Rebirth sound is ladies to "pull them rollers out of a yet fully developed, as the group your hair and find something sexy ..only been together for just about for you to wear!" If you want a llo years, the ragged edges and taste of the real thing, then this one JIISY innards of this music resonate should be on the menu. Iiiii echoes of classic blues, gospel, -Almost Slim 1M! traditional brass band themes Roy Orbison, before the sunglasses. lilhin a not-necessarily-traditional atext. The two trumpets, two tram Wynton Marsalis tuba, bass and snare drums issued in chronological order of arranged. Orbison's last regular ses a natural momentum often Hot House Flowers Charly's Roy Orbison, The Sun sion at Sun employed the accom The new long lost to electric instru- Columbia FC 39530 Years. album features all of paniment ofstudio musicians Roland Roy's output for Sun Records includ Janes (guitar), Dick and drum machines. Their Ketner (bass) ing undubbed versions of material and Martin Willis on sax. "Chicken is anything but un ynton Marsalis, the young released in the Sixties and Seventies Hearted," the fourth and final Sun the sharp changes and jazz sensation out of New W and five raw "demo" recordings. Of single, was culled from this session llrong attack on Here to Stay testify Orleans, has returned following his interest to record collectors is the and was a wimp-rock classic. Roy "the hours of practice and level of initial media triumphs with a tour de inclusion of the two rare sides re sang his most convincing lyric ever -.:ooragement that make the Re force album ofjazz, strings, and pop. corded for the Je-Wel label which ("I'd like to be a hero but I ain't got ~Jazz Band go. From the sacred Besides his prodigious talent, Mar are reissued legally here for the first the nerve") but the record met the Lord, Lord, You Sure Been salis has displayed near-perfect con time. same fate as the previous two and Good To Me" to the profane" Shake trol in the manner of speaking in In the spring of 1956, Roy and his Roy terminated his contract with Your Booty" through the more which he expresses his art. Stil~ it is West Texas band, The Teen Kings, Sam Phillips. r.niliar "Going To The Mardi something of a bold move to record entered Sun Studios in Memphis to The most interesting material on Gras" to the lest-often-heard "Blue an LP of mixed standards and r March 1985/Wavelength 11 By AI Kennedy • • Photos by rico • rn our he Music Educators National Conference Beverly Sills, who signed her for the New York has proclaimed the month of March Opera Aubry Bryan, a graduate ofLandry Senior " Music In Our Schools Month," and the High, was handpicked to sing in the Metropolitian ttheme of this year's celebration is "Music for all Opera's recent production of Porgy and Bess. D. ages." There is certainly no school district in this Antoinette Handy, performer, educator, music country more deserving of a celebration of its rich historian and now assistant director of the music musical heritage than the New Orleans Public programs for theN ational Endowment ofthe Arts, School District. graduated from McDonogh 35. And Pete Foun "How can one school district proon that is fre tain picked up his first clarinet as an elementary quently asked by visitors to the city, their curiosity student at McDonogh 28. aroused by the national spotlight turned on the When explaining the importance of music in the school district's music programs as a result of the public schools, you are also explaining he impor international fame of New Orleans Center for the tance of music to the city. In that regard the city Creative Arts (NOCCA) graduates Wynton and and its public schools are inseparable. Musically, Branford Marsalis, Terrance Blanchard and the city strengthens the schools, and the schools in Donald Harrison. It seems that Music in Our tum contribute to the city's musical heritage. Schools Month is an appropriate time to attempt to By the time they have entered kindergarten, answer that question. most New Orleans public school students have "We are extremely proud of the international already been captivated by the forceful music d performers who have graduated from our schools," the marching bands in the Mardi Gras parades. says Lorraine Wilson, the current supervisor of They might have witnessed jazz funerals and dan music and a product of the school district's music ced behind one of the city's brass bands. On their program. She makes it clear, ·however, that she is way to and from school they might hear gospel equally proud of the many non-superstars who go choirs practicing in neighborhood churches, blues throught he schools and acquire a love for music. musicians playing on front porcl)es or jazz music She points out that the city's gospel choirs, com ians performing on street comers. Music of many munity choruses and even barbershop quartets kinds, many styles and many emotions becomes (yes, New Orleans does have an active circle of the background music of their lives. "In New barbershop quartets) are heavily populated with Orleans, you hear music every day," explains Pete public school graduates. "In the schools they learn Fountain. "It can't help but have an influence to appreciate music," she said," and later on in life on you." they find they want to make their own musical By having the good fortune to have been born in contribution." New Orleans, students come to the public schools Mahalia Jackson, Wynton Marsalis, Allen with a musical awareness they couldn't get in any Toussaint, the Neville Brothers, James Rivers, other city. But just because this is New Orleans is George " Big ChiefJolley " Landry- they all went not enough in and of itself to guarantee that the through the city's public schools. Look closely at city's music tradition will survive. That's where any style of music, and you will more than likely the many music programs and the music teachers find a performer, musician, composer or arranger fit into the picture. From NOCCA to the elemen who graduated from the New Orleans Public tary schools, the teachers of music are in many Schools. Those same classrooms produced Gail ways responsible for the city's musical future. The Gilmore, a Fortier student whose performance of music teachers in theNe w Orleans Public Schools Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier in a Wiesbaden, are not just college-trained music academicians. Germany, opera house caught the attention of " They are dedicated, committed and highly com- 12 Wavelength/March 1985 ---~------iiiiiiiii~ - I rr~rk em or ptian s. D. ~us!c ~US IC ~rts, ]~un rtary b the tpor- 1 city rally, !>Is in ~en, ave ic of ldes. ~~~ i>spel ~l~es tlSlC- pany ~mes New ete min ools any sis By having the good fortune to have been born in New the ere come to the public schools with a ~hers Orleans, students r:; musical awareness they couldn't get in any other city. he Is s. m r.---~ March 1985/Wavelength 13 petent," said Wilson, "and many of them are still tributions of these families to music in New taught to marching bands. "We felt it is important performers." The combination of their love for Orleans." for young musicians to be exposed to this music as music and their inability to leave the city puts the A music program for an elementary school part of their own musical heritage," said musician/teacher in the classroom. planned to include someone of Allen Toussaint's Peddecord. musical stature is another hint at the school dis The final ingredient in the success story is the am Henry is a graduate of Cohen Senior trict's musical success. Although the music support of parents. "From the parade routes to the High, and his music credits include per teachers provide the bulk of the instruction, they concert stages, our parents are fully supportive of 5 forming and recording with such musicians get help from the city's musicians, many of whom their children," said Lorraine Wilson. A good as Ramsey Lewis, Patti LaBelle, the Staple Sing are also public school graduates. The musicians example of a supportive parents is Charmaine ers, Allen Toussaint and many others. A talented do not forget their schools, and it is not at all Neville, a graduate of Fortier Senior and a mem musician, he has tried to move away from the city unusual to see the names that appear in Wave ber of the musical Neville family, who performs on several occasions. "I always return home," he length's "Live Music Calendar" show up as guest with The Survivors. While pursuing her own said. "I like it here." He also knows that his deci lecturers or performers in the schools. The city's music career, she is ever attentive to her son, a sion to stay in New Orleans puts him out of the resident musicians frequently lend their pro third-grader at Hoffman Elementary, spending a more lucrative music mainstream ofa Los Angeles fessional services to their neighborhood public lot of time at the school as a parent volunteer, and or a New York. Instead, he stays in New Orleans school to help out with a benefit or fund-raiser. performing for benefits at other public schools. working as an itinerant strings teacher at three This friendship between musicians who are Across the nation, the cultural arts are in a bat elementary schools while pursuing his arranging teaching and those who have graduated from the tle for their rightful place in the curriculum. Many and composing work in the city's recording school district cannot be underestimated as a con school systems are cutting back on support of studios. tribution to the overall music curriculum. The music in the schools, as ardent "Back-to-the Henry typifies the many music teachers in the Chatters family, mentioned above, influenced a Basics" proponents don't equate music with read school district in that his contribution to his stu great many of the city's musicians. Shortly after ing, writing and arithmetic. dents doesn't end when the school dismissal bell being appointed to theNational Endowment of the In the public schools of New Orleans, however, rings. He gives his students the "extras" in music Arts, D. Antoinette Handy visited New Orleans, the children are getting their minimum daily re education that can only be found in New Orleans. seeking out Jocelyn Chatters, a teacher at quirements of the basics as well as the rich musical Working with two other teachers at Phillis Wheat Macarty Transitional School. Because of her heritage of their city. In many of the public school ley Elementary, Henry is preparing a "Music In friendship with the Chatters family and her inter classrooms, music is not treated as a separate sub Our Schools" program that would make envious est in the city's public school children, Handy ject. " When I teach music, I teach with the idea many graduate students in music. He is inviting (along with the members of. her "Trio Pro Viva") that I am teaching everything," says Sam Henry. Allen Toussaint, his lifelong friend, to come and gave the students an hour-long concert that ex " It just happens to be that I am using music." serve as guest lecturer to his students, who will posed the children to 200 years gfmusic by black The community has every right to be proud of even have the opportunity to play a synthesizer composers. That rare sharing of talent and know the music programs in the public schools of New under Tqussaint's tutelage. Later in the week ledge is a part of the school district's overall Orleans, and March's month-long celebration of Henry will take his music students to Toussaint's music program. music gives everyone the opportunity to recognize Sea-Saint Studio to get a close-up look at the Other teachers also find ways to make musical the school district's music teachers for their ac recording business. In addition, Henry is prepar contributions to the students. At Fortier Senior complishments. In complimenting his music ing a series of reports to acquaint his students with High, Jim Peddecord, and English instructor, to teachers and all the persons involved in music some ofthe "first families" ofNew Orleans music. gether with band director Elijah Brimmer, Jr., instruction in New Orleans, Pete Fountain said it "I want my students to know about the Lasties, the obtained a grant from the New Orleans Jazz and best when he ordered this writer: "You tell them Duvigneauds and the Chatters," says Henry. "I Heritage Foundation to transcribe the works ofthe they are doing a hell of a job!" want to give them a sense of the musical con- late Professor Longhair so that they could be We agree. 0 New From CBS! 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Scanlan) and Room Service with Clark Vreeland his car, and then went back into Tip's to say good You pass them on the highway, and they look He also worked with Eddie Volker and the late night. When he returned to his car, the guitars were great. No worries. Dad's driving, mom's riding Becky Kury. In 1977 he married Marilyn (whom gone. next to him, and in the back, three wide-eyed kids he'd met earlier in Colorado) and shortly after that Bluesman John 'Mooney and club manager. press their noses to the glass, looking out at what he decided to go solo. John Kelly came to the rescue. A Spencer (Cyril goes by ... There were lots of reasons. "I wasn't making Neville began to call him ''Expensive") Bohren No, it's not Donna Reed on vacation. It's enough money playing in bands, and working two night was held to raise money to replace the in Spencer and Marilyn Bohren, on tour. Last year jobs at once was terrible. And_all this time I'd been struments, and everyone from Rusty Kershaw to the family logged 44,000 miles and a typical playing one kind of music and listening to John Magriie showed up to play. The guitars month took them from New Orleans to Windsor, another.'! were replaced. · Ontario, with stops in Waco, Greensboro, · But with all its good feeling, Tipitina's alone Detroit, and Niagara Falls. ince 1966, when he'd first heard a Charlie couldn't pay the bills. Touring paid, but kept It's a lifestyle that requires mind-boggling Patton recording, Spencer had been listen Spencer away from his family. "I wanted to travel organization. Gigs are arranged months in ad S ing to the blues. In 1979 he began to play in order to grow, but what's the use in having a vance, and itineraries are planned around them. the music he'd always loved, combining his family ify,ou can't grow with them?" The solution The children, Django (~),Andre (5) and Corinna powerful vocal skills with a variety ofguitar styles. was to tour as a family, and it's a decision they 1 (2), are home schooled, and on top of the daily His music reflects a broad range of influences, haven't regretted Few nights can compare with routine common to all families, there is the from Snooks Eaglin to the "white blues" of Hank the Expensive Bohren fundraiser at Tipitina's, but "daily fire." Williams to the steel guitar sounds of Bukka there was a night in Iowa when a cornhusker left "When we decided to go on the road as a family, White, whom he met in 1972. - the bar and returned an hour later with fresh there were lots ofoptions. We were thinking about Spencer had a regular Monday night gig at . vegetables for the family and irises for Marilyn. a van or an old school bus, but some friends ofours Tipitina' s, and was gone the rest of the week, play Looking ahead, there's an album in the works, who travel with the circus talked us into getting the ing in Mississippi, Alabama and Texas. recorded last spring and featuring Mac Reben Airstream. They'd lived in one for years and were "New Orleans is important to me. My kids were nack, John Mooney and a hot New Orleans sold on it. They said the one thing you had to get all born here. In New Orleans, music isn't some rhythm section. Plans are still being made for used to was the 'daily fire'. Every day there's thing extra-it's a part of the fabric of everyday distribution, but advance copies (in cassette form) something- a slowleak in a tire, a slick club life. But as much as I love this place, I still felt a can be had by sending $8 (postage included) to owner, a noisy rear end, a sick kid. They said that if need to get out and around, to grow." Spencer c/o New Blues, River Rd., Pointe a Ia you learn to get through the daily fire, you've Monday nights at Tip's evolved into a minor Hache, Louisiana 70082. The album includes five got it made." institution. The crowds weren't huge, but fme Spencer Bohren originals that will be familiar to To that end, Marilyn (an accomplished midwife musicians would come and sit in. One fan remem Monday, night regulars at Tip's. who has delivered more than a hundred babies) bers: "There was a night when Spencer finished a There's also a· European tour. Plans are being has become an agent/business manager while song and said hello to everyone in the audience by made no\V to take the Red and White Chevy to Spencer has developed into a fair mechanic. name. On other nights Suzy Malone would be Europe in September and October. The Swedish During a recent stopover inNew OrJeans he did a there singing the hell out of Patsy Cline or Aaron Tota's Blues Band is arranging things across the valve job on the Chevy's rebuilt 283 V-8. al_ld Cyril Neville would show up and tum every pond, and the family has already found a place (in Spencer first arrived inNew Orleans in the mid thing into do-wop." upstate New York) to leave the Airstream. The Seventies, and for the next few years he played in a One Monday night didn't tum out so well. I only thing left is that daily fire . . . D March 1985/Wavelength 15 '\.~0.-Je . ~. \.e·~".--o\.e ~ ~o·\\. "eo~~').'\. \. ~~ ~'t.').. 't. v 'b'(\ ~-.>\. '<'e--3 "''e~\. 't.'<'ou II at 't. 't. 't.'<'e ~ \.'3 • e'-'t. 't.\'~ otP'o'C.c;, ~\.~'b '1}"'0) c~c "'~~ \..~').. \.e~ ~ ~C- \} \) t"' 't.'<'e ~ . ~, "io ~a# • 't.o '-O"' ~"- "o"' ~ ). ··: e ..... ,. "'0~ 't. ). ...At.~ • 0~ ). \}'C \.~"' r e~ . 't... - ...... 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The Null & Void fanzine is •:• ffed by Karen Lorraine (who's s t a d . n name denoted as KB Bal y, pe t Vivian Void), Joe, and a casff of deran~ed fiends who ~et o 11 the madness. In between ~~east~oled covers it's loa~ed How do VC'U honk with information on the bar these bands? core scene in New Orl~ans a~ J:B: They e 1ther know a bout 11 as reryorts rrom as rar away us and ~et in touch with At uresent we don't have we New York and Los An~eles; us or we call them. LA: XX any shows ~lanned, but a~d interviews with ba~ds. The (It turns out th(\ t the N&V when we do we •"lUt flyers ~ormat of the N&V is very busy . bookin~ a~ency doesn't 11~ uo. and chockfull of scribbles, dic to ness with band rna nager s tionary definitions of obscene and much prefers th ~ personal FANZINE: An amateur ~ublication words and phrases, notes tor ea aoToach. I'hey just call the that nrints whatever the writers bqnds on the )hone and ask say, including nasty words and readers, and olent them if theV I r like to COme ~oss illustrations, usually of friends and b aof photos do a show. ~ lacking half-tones on oictures, take some tim tans. It must A: We had some trouble once Jl.t ranging in various sha~es anc As it so hap e 0 paste together sizes and util~zing cost-effec pens Ka • th a band we'd tiki called serious student ; ren is a ln A. We ce.1 led just to see tive ~rinting (like Kinko's and commercial fr lends who work there).· Fan art ith an associate lf th . were interested in Lorraine is wor~~~ree from ~elgado. playing New Orleans, and zines are distributed among soon to open in N gat a museum t~ band j t showed up, under friends and sold to passersby publication is jue; Orleans. The the impressio hat N&V had on the streets to cover the ing accepting ad s bnow consider alre.,dy secured m a place cost of materials and beer. problem if you s, ut there's a to "llay • There are no subscriptions come out bef expect your ad to Ill: Most of the bands just available because they cost too ""-.want there's nod~~~ ~tcertain datea much to send. time. N&V pops n e publication it aA •wants t up when and whe~ VA: Ne had some trouble once hard enough o. But if you loo~ with a band we'd called to find it 'y~~djyou really want in L.A. We CRlled just ' ust .might. to see if they were in terested. in olaying in in New Orleans, and the band just showed up, under the imoression that N&:V had already secured them a place to olay. lB: Most of the bands just want money for gas to ~et them home, and maybe some food money. Oh yeah, the band called MDC got some national coverage recently with~ slight .Wunderetag,a'ng 'taeytpe frer mi~understandin~. They're from Baton Rouge and ~e l~tters in the band's name stood for "millions of dead cops. The B.R.P.D. got the wron~ impression and thou~ht there was a conspir acy going on--shortly after, the band, with more pr~esure around town, decided to change their name to some other morbid meaning. 00: How.do your followers find out about the upcoming shows? March 1985/Wavelength 17 ' ) ., . . . .. ' . ' . .. . . , .. ' I.., ' ,_· .( \. .. .. ~ • • • ,. • • lt. . , .. , .. .. ' . . . ' . , . ' • 0 0 G G ·Q 0 IF01r WfL {\,Vicl TlwMS Cot\\pOStlr of "~ohf:rto \.f~~"te!':Ma_g~'!.il\e, Str~~t': ''Broad St~~t'~ ~N&.po1~o"'' .- By -~ T.M.Gerard A. NJ;AP March 1985/Wavelength 19 ROBERTO CL·EMENTE DAVID THOMAS ROBERTS Rather slowly (J = 63), warmly and solemnly - ~~, '} ~ J .J_j J ~=I I .J I 1 ~ l l l - I I L.....J I v _!"' ~ ' -mp - legato sempre ~ ~ ~ ~ 1- 1- 1- ,. b. j . .- ~ ., • l:..- --- ~ - --- L- --- ~ .::::. 'I .. I --- r I - I . - . 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Roberts t age 29, pianist David Thomas Roberts, a exclusively relied on 19th-century "classical" describes hearing his music for the first time, in Mississippi native who has lived in New harmony, some of the new compositions 1974, as his "second biggest confirmation and AOrleans off and on since 1977, has com achieved a modern sophi~tication extending revocation ... a grand retriever of so many posed nearly sixty ragtime pieces, more than beyond much of today's pop music (Bolcom's moving elements which had been deeply set Scott Joplin and almost anyone else. More , use of bi-tonality, for example). within me but had been dormant." Roberts' important than these numbers is the consistently . For Roberts, the essence of ragtime is light first recording (the 1978 Music For a Pretty high quality of his work. AI Rose, jazz years removed from the Fifties' straw-hat-and Baby, released on the Mardi Gras label) was, historian, Eubie Blake's biographer and a man garter-play-as- fast -as-you-can-rin ky-tink con excepting two cuts, devoted entirely to Morton's often critical of contemporary performers, has notation promoted by Shakey's and other pizza music, and his . current musical work-in called Roberts "the foremost ragtime composer collectives; nor has he embraced the harmonic progress, the seventeen-piece suite New Orleans of this half-century." revisionism of some of the 1970s composers. As Streets, has a decidedly Mortonesque flavor in Ragtime music and composition have known he explains in the liner notes of Pinelands many passages. two revivals since the music's initial popularity Memoir, his third LP: "For me the piano rag is Roberts sees the New Orleans Streets as not so in the first two decades of this century. During a confessional medium, a form fulfillingly much Morton-derived as influenced by the Latin the first rejuvenation, in the Fifties, the music lending itself to the most intimate-and trusting feeling that permeates New Orleans and the was performed in part on rinky-tink "tack" expression. It is also an invaluable channel for Gulf Coast, a mode that encompasses pianos by men whose rau-cous monikers my obsession with the people-land relationship Gottschalk and Tex-Mex music as well as ("Knuckles" O'Toole, "Slugger" Ryan) re which is present in all my work ... its expressive Morton's "Spanish Tinge." The non-Latin flected their· generally unsubtle approach to range is limited only by the mind of its world is represented in abundance as well in this the music. The second revival, the Seventies, practitioner. I recoil at the hickish and suite. "Broad Avenue" has an early rock 'n' roll was spear-headed by classical musicians who demeaning notion that ragtime is primarily a section, with the melody in the bass and Fats approached Scott Joplin's and a few others' lighthearted genre. In fact, it is the gentle Domino-like chords on top. Hebraic elements, piano music as they would Schumann's, with a sadness so pervasive in Midwestern and "in an American context" inform "Magazine pr'eviously neglected attention to dynamics, Southern ragtime that has always seemed to me Streets" while 19th century romantic piano phrasing and nuance. It was a dramatic shift; to be the overarching facet of its personality.'' styles gush through the "Waltz" and Joshua and Rifkin and Gunther Schuller's While Roberts can appreciate some of the work "Farewell" sections. And while most of the recordings of Joplin topped the classical charts that other modern ragtime composers have sections have a habanera or tango bass, while William Bolcom, William Albright, produced, he is more often critical of their "Napoleon Avenue" is a straightforward Donald Ashwaneder and Max Morath created a efforts. "Many contemporaries have failed to "folk" rag. new corpus of ragtime literature that was often discover the crucial identity of ragtime," he · Roberts has big plans for the New Orleans reasons. "They've played with the inessentials Streets and subsequent compositions. Having without comprehending that core that could thus far recorded for three small labels he would Opposite page: the first strain from one of provide a basis for ragtime evolution." like now to do work for more prestigious Roberts' best .works, the folk elegy "Roberto For Roberts this core is best associated with a companies. When it comes to his music, his Clemente," recorded by Roberts on the Euphonic .love of rural Amer-ica, a feeling musically obstinancy -can be as wide as the Missouri /able (Pinelands Memoir and Other Rags) as well exi3ressed in ragtime's earliest days by "folk" pla!ns; he's been known to turn around and tell as by the Norwegian pianist Morton Gunnar Lar ragtimers like Charles Hunter, C.L. Woolsey tafkative people in his audiences to shut up, and sen on Stomp Off(Morton Gunnar Larsen plays and Callis Wellborn Jackson. "It's important to wear tennis shoes at formal concerts rather RobertQ Clemente, Poor Jimmy Green and Other for me to have a consciously folky foundation than compromise his artistic dress code. Ragtime-Jazz Compositions). In addition, Lar ... with this it's possible to give full reign to the Roberts' narcissism is remarkable, even by the sen has recorded four ofRoberts' pieces on the eclecticism I've always wanted in ragtime." standards of other artists. "Certainly I have a Hot Club label (Echo of Spring) and Roberts has About half of Robert's works are named after greater melodic sense than Beethoven" he once recorded two albums for Stomp Off (his com places he's visited, including nine in Mississippi. remarked matter-of-factly. He sees narcissism positions on Through the Bottornlands and assort When not composing, Roberts seeks out and as necessary in getting great things done. "I am ed composers on (An Album ofEarly Folk Rags). cherishes small town rura.l America. ''I'd lo"ve to a private theater to myself ... in the absence of Stomp Off Records is located at 549 Fairview tour Kansas for three months" he says in . heroes-and there have been times when 1 found Te"ace, York, Pennsylvania 17403. complete earnest. no one to heroise- I had to be my hero." March 1985/Wavelength 21 PLAYBOY'S SIZZLING VIDEO MUSIC PROGRAM IN THE MAKING Ten sultry singers from Playboy's Girls of Rock & Roll-a hit in our january issue-return for a wild pictorial encore this month. Catch . these up-and-coming stars on the set and behind the scenes as they create Playboy's first rock home videocassette. And be sure to check your video store or video club for this exciting new release from Playboy Video. Playboy's Girls of Rock & Roll-it's music like you've never seen it before! THE YEAR IN MUSIC, PLUS PLAYBOY'S READER POLL RESULTS Who's hot and who's not? Who's tops in punk and first in funk? The answers to these musical questions-and a whole lot more-await you in April PLAYBOY's star-studded salute to The Year in Music. Warm up with our hilarious Tina Turner Workout. Chuckle at our editors' tongue-in-cheek tributes to artists of distinction-· and extinction. And check how your own picks compare with the final results of PLAYBOY's annual Music Poll. It's all in April PLAYBOY. AT NEWSSTANDS NOW Record producer, label owner, and self-admitted hustler, ' Senator Jones has spent his life promoting local By Almost Slim artists- and himself. en a tor Jones is the last of a dying breed As vous breakdown and just got out of the hospital. I a producer and independent record label used to work with him back in 1961 at Jessie's in S owner, Jones is one of the only local Marrero. He sounded good, so I got some studio recordrnen who still is willing to record and prom time down at Cosimo's after he moved to Camp ote black New Orleans talent Since the late Six Street. The record didn't do too much but I still get ties, his circle of small labels has been a source of letters from Europe asking me about it" excellent jazz, blues and soul singles. Artists such After the two issues on Shagg, Jones decided to as James Rivers, Johnny Adams, Stop Incor fonn other labels including Superdome, Jenmark porated, Walter Washington, Charles Brimmer, J. B.'s and Hep Me to issue records on the other Las Vegas Connection and Eddie Lang have all artists that he was recording. "As I got more waxed excellent singles for "the Senator." artists, I didn't want to go to a radio station with A self-admitted hustler, by hook-or-by-crook, seven records on the same label," points out Jones has been able to keep his head above water Jones, "because I know the deejays would just say in the swirling sea created by the record industry, 'Oh I can't play all of those records, they're on the even ifjust barely. While his detractors claim he is same label.' So I started new labels and I switched a know-it-all and that he takes advantage of his open. After Watch, Jones contracted to Bob the colors on the record labels to make them look artists, Jones still has an open ear, and is perhaps Robin's International City label, which was som~ different" until recently, the only person in town who can get how tied in with Huey Meaux's Crazy Cajun label Most ofJones' releases eventually wound up on a local record played on the radio. in Texas. Hep' Me, which got its name in a curious manner. Born in Jackson, Mississippi, on November 9, According to Senator "The Sheriff' and According to Jones, "When John McKeithen was 1934, his name actually is Senator Nolan Jones. "Eenie Meenie Minnie & Moe" did well in New running for governor he would get on T.V. and say "I was always interested in music," he recalls. "I Orleans and kept the demand up for live appear 'Won't you please hep' me.' Well, that got him was a big blues lover, you never could play enough ances. The highpoint of his recording career elected. I figured if it was good enough for him, it's blues for me. I used to duck in the cafes and ice occured in 1967, when the otherwise forgettable good enough for me." cream parlors on Farish and Fortification streets "Miniskirt Dance" b/w "Sweet Thing" was Ray J. kicked offthe Hep' Me label with a cover and listen to people like Buddy Johnson, Muddy leased by Bell Records for national distribution. of Dr. John's 1973 hit "Right Place, Wrong Waters, Jimmy Liggins and Louis Jordan on the Nonetheless sales were negligible and Senator Time" which sold well locally. Ray J. is actually jukebox. I even saw Elmore James play in soon found himself in a new role within the record Raymond Jones, a multi-talented musician who Jackson." business, this time on the other side of the record arranged many sessions for Senator Jones and Jones moved toNew Orleans along with the rest ing board. who also teaches music at Xavier prep. Both of his family in 1951. His parents didn't find the "I could see that the local acts weren't being Joneses collaborated with one Nonna Jean, to city appealing and returned to Jackson after not recorded as much as they should," points out produce the first Hep' Me LP This Is Our Song Of too long. Senator, however found the city to his lik Senator. "I sawNew Orleans acts that didn't have Love, a hard-to-fmd collector's item. ing and decided to stay. His first active role in records steal the show from national acts with hit One of Senator's earliest commercial successes music didn't come until after his draft notice records. That's when I started to think about was the Carnival record "Second Line" by Stop arrived in 1953, when he was stationed in Fort producing. Inc. "That group was led by two brothers, Clyde Benning, Georgia. "I joined a group called the "The first thing I recorded was 'Kid Stuff' by a and Bryant Toval," recalls Jones. "I did about six Desperadoes as a vocalist. We worked around group called the Barons. I put that record out on or seven records on them, but they were too hard to Augusta and Atlanta." Shagg 711-Shagg was a nickname a lot of artists control in the studio. Bill Sinigal had recorded the Jones claims that other members of the Des called me. 'Kid Stuff did pretty well, Cosimo original ' Second Line' on White Cliffs (in 1961) peradoes included Oscar Toney Jr., and Jo Jo Matassa leased it for Dover [Dover Distributors] but the master had been lost and it was a real pop Benson, who would go on to wax giant hit records during the session. He paid me $800, which paid ular Carnival record. I asked Bill ifl could record it in the late Sixties, and Benson's brother Gene. off Wardell Quezergue and the musicians." again and he said it was okay. That's Alvin The group often worked with other touring R&B. At the time Jones wasn't in the financial posi Thomas who pl:lys the tenor sax on the record bands including Hank Ballard and the Midnighters tion to bankroll a fledging record label, so he had to because no one in the group could get that second and the Five Royals. rely on Elmore Sonnier, Ferdinand Prout and line feeling. That came out originally in 1974, but His army ended in 1957 and he returned to New Whitney Picou to fund his early projects. Jones' it comes out every year now." Orleans where he joined the fringe of the local next record was waxed by the mysterious Guitar Another"hit" from 1974 turned out to be a sur music scene. Besides sitting in when he could at Ray, who had earlier recorded for Hotline and was prising downhome item "Food Stamp Blues" by local clubs, he helped AI Johnson write new distantly related to Earl King. The coupling of Eddie Lang. Lang's career goes back to the mid material, including" You Done MeWrong" which "You're Gonna Wreck My Life" and the emotion Fifties when he recorded as "Little" Eddie Lang was issued on the Ric label. laced" I'm Never Gonna Break His Rules Again" for RPM. "Food Stamps" was eventually leased Jones wouldn't step into the recording studio on remains one of the best blues releases of the by Jewel Records, which made the record into a his own until 1964, when he waxed" Sugar Dee" period. modest seller, largely through continually airings and "I Think Of You" for the Watch label. "I had a record shop on the comer of Galvez over 50,000-watt WLAC radio. Although the perfonnance was less than memor and London A venue and Ray brought his guitar by By 1975, Jones and his various labels were well able, it nonetheless kept the door to the studio and told me he had some songs. He'd had a ner- represented in the local market. Jones had made a March 1985/Wavetength 23 ------c!~~· ------1 deal with Marshall Sehorn, where Jones ex number of great records on Hep' Me. The Jones releases were of much higher quality. Case changed a percentage of his record sales for studio Adams relationship has been on stormy terms is" After All The Good Is Gone," an old time at SeaSaint That· was also the year he since the very beginning and although they presen Twitty tune released in 1978. Once the enjoyed perhaps his biggest hit, "God Blessed Our tly aren't on speaking terms, Jones still admits, became a strong regional mover, Ariola Love" by Charles Brimmer. Brimmer was a talen "Johnny is by far t,he greatest singer I've ever leased it and also contracted to release an ted soul singer whose recording career went back heard. When they tagged him the Tan Canary they Arguably some ofJohnny's best sides apJJeare 24 Wavelength/March 1985 By Lou Berney reach it. None forget it. People who can afford Floor seats can afford to an open vtew of the stage. They stand up; the peo It's the promised land at the bottom of the miss Sheila E. ple in the other rows stand up. Then the front row "You got front section floor tickets to Prince stands on their chairs; the other rows stand on their the Floor, in the first ten rows ofseats, there and you can pick your woman," a man in a brand chairs. Then the front row climbs onto the tops of gleam in many eyes and a fever in many new purple polyester shirt with a wide collar says. their chairs; the other rows climb onto the tops of His woman wears leather pants and a purple bikini their chairs. It is a wobbly and precarious and alcohol are scarce. Those who make top. She humps his leg in preconcert excitement. situation. · loor have risen above the controlled sulr The Floor is loud. The Floor is violent. _ of mortality; they are gunning for a state of Nothing separates the Floor from the wall of Any seat vacated after the lights go out is lost. that is unaffected by anything physical. speakers specially designed to send Prince's The people in the back press forward. They are "'""r"'u is tight. message to the furthest row of the Dome. Veteran seldom polite in their advances; they have the do not belong on the Floor, you do not floor-sitters have little balance; the fluid in their manners of rabid jackals. Security guards half the Floor. You do not reach the ground level. eardrums has been sucked out and spat onto the heartedly try to keep order; they dissolve into the do not reach the escalator that leads from the concrete by ambitious sound technicians. darkness when the main act goes on and the trou level down to the ground level. You do not "What?" the young white girl in a black lace ble starts. the roped-off and doberman-guarded sec negligee asks. "I can't hear you." The Floor is "I ain't saving your seats! You hear me? You the plaza level that surrounds the top of the hot. leave me now and I ain't saving your seats." that leads to the ground level. The heat of 50,000 bodies has no place to go. It A girl with purple hair refuses to save her the Floor, there is no room for drunken rises, rebounds off the ceiling and gravitates brothers' seats. The brothers are nervous; they -~c~~~~~c:u who wander down from their loge downward. The concrete becomes slick with decide to stay. to stare at the braless groupies. There is no sweat and spilled beer. Fat people with underarm The Floor is exhilirating. for winos and derelicts who crawl in from the stains thump through the aisles in a weird dance to People in the terrace do not see the sweat on the concession stand and back; they brush against Prince's upper lip. They do not see Sheila E.'s nip There is no room for anyone who has not cor each other and create a dangerous kind of friction. ples. They do not feel their livers thump against a valid ticket or an elusive ~ress/guest Small children are pinned to chairbacks; they their kidneys on every bass note. They do not risk often hyperventilate. their life for a drumstick. They do not get hosed "Oooh, baby. You think it's hot now. Wait for down by an ejaculating guitar. Prince. Wait for Prince. Wait for Prince," the The Floor is the final and ultimate goal of all large black woman chants. "I hope he squirts his concert-goers. guitar on me. Yeah." The greed-crippled little men who guide the She is lucky. Prince masturbates his guitar neck juggernauts of arena-scale music performances and hoses down the first few rows with water. She know what the Floor means and handle it accord is among the wet. ingly. The Floor is unattainable for all but a few, The Floor is crowded. nailed far up on the wall, out of reach; ordinary The people in the front row are not content with humanity can only drool and lunge. [J LISTINGS BY JON NEWLIN AND DIANA ROSENBERG as famous for his lewd ditties as ever WYU TV·12 and Cable Chann•ll,. CONCERTS Madam Splvy or Tampa Red were. Mon.4 at 8 on the former and throughPrecious Legacy exhibit, Sat. April 20 through Sat. May 4; Information at olau:erolae, with music SYMPHONY The Hlatory of 488-2631 . by Mark Bingham, choreography by Max Ine Snow, sets and costumes by Steve Tues. S·Thu1'8. 7 Sweet, 8 p.m., Contemporary Arts Center. The Celebrated Mau of Hleron~ua Philippe llntremont conducts, soloist is ... Boaoh, a performance art work dealing cellist Dewld Gertngu. Works by Rossini, Julian Lennon, Lsu Assembly LIVE MUSIC with the extravagant fancies of an artist Debussy, Hlndemith and Dvorak. Orpheum, Center, March 29. now thought to be a member of some 8p.m. UPTOWN heretical sect who probably avoided con ventional masses as he would the infernal Sat. 0 a casting demonstration from noon until 5 Blue Room, In the Fairmont Hotel, cannibalistic pandemoniums of his paint Lionel Hampton appears with the Sym in the Glass Shop at the Newcomb Art 529-7111 . Through Wed.13: Brenda (I cal ings. Written by David Wheeler, scored by phony as part of its Great Performances School, followed by a pot luck supper at 5 'em weiners) Lee. Thurs.14 thr~ Jimmy Robinson, performed by Lula Elzy series. Orpheum, 8 p.m. and a slide show at 7. Tues.26: Rita Coolidge, who adopted 1-. and members of the Performance Com habit of wearing Indian regalia from 1-. pany, 8 p.m., Friday and Sunday, 10 p.m., Sat. 18 Wed. 13 father, "Silent Cel" Coolidge, occupantd Saturday, Contemporary Arts Center. The McLain Pamllr Band of Kentucky The Harlem Globetrotter•, UNO the White House for six years or so, w11o appears with the Symphony as part of Lakefront Arena. had a weakness for posing In his war boo Sun. 10 Superpops 1985, In Country M.. ta net and was famous for witticisms like "I A popa o,..n concert by organist Leo Claaaloal, Orpheum, 8 p .m. Sat.18 do not choose to run." From Wed.27: Keely Abbott, Christ Church Cethedral, 2919 St. U.S. Hotrod Truck & Tractor Pull, Smith about whom words are fairly super· Charles Avenue, 4 p.m. Tuea. 10·Thu1'8. 21 Louisiana Superdome. fluous though if you lasted through the .lullua Rudel conducts; works by Paine, mostly-embarrassing marathon on PBS Thul'8. 14 Dvorak, Bach. Orpheum, 8 p.m. Thul'8. 21 through Sun. 24 called Jukebox Saturday Night, you may •ddle MurphJ, UNO Lakefront Arena. La. Sportaman Show, Louisiana Super recall that Miss Keely was one of the~ Sold Out. dome. nonembarrasslng participants. Reserva BALLET tions; dinner, dancing. Sat. 18 Sat. 30 Carrollton Station, 8140 Willow, The Pointer Slatera, Baton Rouge Cen Fri. 1 S, Sun. 17 Mid-south Suparclome Wreatllng b· 865-9190. Fri.8: Paul Sanchez. Sat.9: Scci Detweiler and Organized Noise with open. troplex, 8 p.m. TicketMaster. The llew Orl.. na CltJ BalletiCinoln· w1th such behemoth beau trawagan:u, ing Lenny Zenith-the way you've always Porelgner; Gluttrla, Mississippi Gulf natl Ballet Companr performs Le Beau ideals as Kerry Von •rlok, "Gentl• to him-solo. Wed.20: Palacb Coast Coliseum. Danube, Raymonda Variations and Jubilee wanted see man" Chrla Adame, Ted DlblaM, the (they' re either named after Richard Boone Moonlight CruiM, Steamboat President, at the Theatre for the Performing Arts, 8 Guerrero Brothera, the Road War· on ihat old TV show or that one-block-~ 10 p.m. p.m. Friday and at 2 p.m. on Sunday. Ticket both (llleed and rlora, "Haokaawa" street in Metairie). Sat.23: Continenli at 522-<>996, group Master; Information Duggan), more. Louisiana Superdome; Drifters. Sat. 1 8, Sun. 17 rates 524-2494. Ticket Master. Stew• Lawrence and •rdle Gorme; Columna Hotel, 3811 St. Charles, Corbett Monloa, Saenger, 8 p.m., a 899-9308. Wednesday evenings, Andr• Hall's Society Jazz Band, from 8. benefit for Congregation Gates of Prayer; the Month I Lenten ~ltlon: RANDOM Quote of Palrmont Court, In the Fairmont H'*IJ, Ticket Master. " ... when I consider besides that our joys 529-7111 . Tuesdays to Saturdays, Juc1r and excrements are lodged together pell DIVERSIONS Duggan on the plano bench from 9 to 1. Pll Sun. 17 mell, and that sensual pleasure at its height Mitchell at the same hours Sundays and Statler Brothera, Mississippi Gulf Coast is attended, like pain, with faintness and Mondays and again during the week from Coliseum; tentative. Sat. 2 through Sun. 10 moaning, I believe it Is true what Plato says, 5 to 7. Porelgner; Gluttrla, LSU Assembly llew Orl.. na Boat Show, Louisiana man is the plaything of the_gods: Truly that German r Garden, 1101 S. Peters, Center. Superdome. a cruel way to sport with us! (Ciaudian.) and a .. 528-9366. Tues. through Sun.: Johannes that Nature was in a mocking mood when a. ti mit seinem Original Osterreich Oumtel. Wed. 20 Thul'8. 7 she left us that most common and most dis from 7 and on Sundays from 2 Dawld Allen Coe, Steamboat President, first turbing of our actions to make us all alike Gl.. a Artlat G~ Verbola presents Hratt Hotel, 561-1234. Sundays, tO and put us on the same level, wise men and a.m.-2 p.m., Chuck Credo and the Basil fools, men and beasts ... Every one avoids Street Six in the Courtyard Restaurwt see1ng a man born; every one runs to see Fridays, 4-8 p.m., Bobby CUre and the &Jn. him die For his destruction they seek out mertime Blues in the Mint Julep Lounge. a spacious field, in the full light of day; for Federal Fibre Mil his construction they creep into some dark .led'a Lookout, Building, 523-7365. Cell for listtngs. little corner. It is a duty to hide and blush when making him; and it is a glory, and the .llmmr•a, 8200 Willow, 866-9549. Fn t source of many virtues, to be able to un Lenny Zenith's "jiffy" Pop Combo. Sail make him. The one is offence; the other is The Models. Thurs.7: Channel Zero. Fri.! grace .. "-Michel de Montaigne, On Some The Mistreaters. Sat.9: Johnny Reno and Lines of Virgil, Essays, Book Ill., trans the Sax Machine, preceded by the Mis(bll Trechtmann, 1927. not the Mister)Treaters. Wed.t :'1: Unicll "Most people are better than what happens Chant. Thurs.t4: Teaser. Frl.15: The Cold. to them."-Naomi Bliven, recent book who will demonstrate the manifold uses !I column in The New Yorker Lipton's Onion Soup Mix between sell Sat.16 and Sun.17: the WTUL Rock On Marathon. Thurs.21: Starlight and tilt Shepherd Band, this latter a reggae bR VIDEO and no relation to the Shepherd Sisters • once asked the musical questiOII, "Alone.. why must I be alone?" Fri.22:1'bl llualc Cltr, On Cable Channel 2, Radiators. Sun.24: Southside Johnny a Wednesdays at 6:30, Saturdays at 10, Mon the Asbury Jukes. Fri.29: The Continenlll 0 days and Thursdays at 10:30. Wed.6: Drifters and Li'l Queenie who, SOE!akinall• ,..•z Bourre and Walter Mouton. Wed.13: Tab continental drift, reminds us of by Thomas and the Houserockers. Wed.20: crack, " I used to be Snow White. and the Avon (I)~ The Dynamic Smooth Family drifted." Sat.30: Uncle Stan and zm dale Community Choir. Wed.27: Exuma. Vera. mCD IIOVAC, 2010 Magazine, 524-8626, offers Maple Leaf Bar, 8315 Oak, 866-93!1 :II in editing, WAmll•• Q continuing programs and classes Sundays: The Wabash Company. camera operation, computer graphics, etc. days: J. Monque'D. Thursdays: The Harlem Globetrotters at UNO's Lakefront Arena, Wednesday 13. Call for information. Fri.1 : John (he's tall that's all) Rankin'sM 26 Wavelength/March 1985 Old Abalntha Houaa, 400 BourbQn. FRENCH QUARTER Wednesdays through SundayS', Bryan Lee & MARIGNY . and the Jumpstreet Five. Mondays and Tuesdays, also Saturday and Sunday after· Artlat Cafe, 608 lberville, 523-9358: Call noons, Mason Ruffner and the Blues for listings. . Rockers. Bonaparte'• Retreat, 1007 Decatur, Old Opera Houae, 601 Bourbqn, 522· 561·9473. Sundays, a string band from 4:30. 3265. Sundays-Fridays, 4:45·8:30, Kathy Wednesdays: Drew · Possner, guitarist. Lucas and the Loose Band. Mondays-Wed· Thursdays, Frank McClory, guitarist, both nesdays: Chocolate Milk. Thursdays· · of the latter beginning their sets at 8. Sundays: E.L.S. Cajun Countrr, 327 Bourbon, 523·8630. Praaarvatlon Hall, · 726 St. Peter, Thursday through Sunday; the Gela Kaye 523·8939. Sundays: Harold Dejan and the Band.at 8; Mondays through Wednesdays, Olympia Brass Band. Mondays and Thurs· Mike Cascio. days: Kid Thomas Valentine. Tuesdays and Coslmo'a, 1201 Burgundy, 561·9018. Call Fridays: Kid Sheik Colar. Wednesdays and for information. Saturdays: The Humphrey Brothers. Dream Palace, 523 Frenchmen, 943· Roral Sonaata Hotel, 300 Bourbon, 586· 6860. Fri.1: Scott Detweiler and Organized 0300. Rick Fielding, in the Mystick Den. Noise. Sat.2: Woodenhead. Thurs.7: Sugar Rran'• SOO Club, 441 Bourbon, 525· Minott and the Black Roots Players. Fri.8: 7269. From 9, Mondays-;>aturdays, the · Multiple Places. Sat.9: John Mooney's Blue Celtic Folk Singers. slana Band. Fri.15: Li'l Queenie. Sat.16: The Seaport Cafe and Bar, 424 Bourbon, Radiators. Fri.22: Steady Rollin' Bob 568-0981. Wednesdays-Saturdays, from 9, Margolin and John Mooney. Fri.29: The Sundays-from 2·6, Sally Townes. • Radiators. Sat.30: Li'l Queenie. 711 Club, 711 Bourbon, 525-8379. Tues Famoua Door, 522 Bourbon, 522-7626. days through Saturdays, Randy Hebert. Monday and Tuesday, Thursday and Friday, Thursdays through Mondays, AI Broussard. tl, Thomas Jefferson and his Creole Jazz Band Snug Harbor, 626 Frenchmen, 949·0696. ill from 8; Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sun Sundays: Ellis Marsalis and Lady BJ. Sat.2, lh days, Mike Cascio from 8. Germaine Bazzle and Johnny Adams. Mon. er Feellnga, 2600 Chartres, 945-2222. 4: Paula Rangel!, Smokey Johnson, Crazy er Thursdays and Fridays, Kenny Ard. Satur Rick Allen. Fri.8: The Pfister Sisters with of days: Harry Mayronne. Mondays-Wednes- their Sand·ln-Our-Shoes-Lent-ln-Our-Navels 10 ..llerru:10n days: Phil Kaplan. . ·revue (rated XX) with Amasa Miller. Call the S44 Club, 544 Bourbon, 523·8611 . club for the balance of the listings for the Wednesday through Saturdays, Gary Brown penitential season. . and Feelings. CMS from 9 to 9 Fridays and' Storrvllle Club, 1100 Decatur, 525-8199. Saturdays and from 9 to 3 other evenings. Wednesdays and Sundays at midnight, .....''"''• Delago, West End Park. Fri.1 Gazebo, 1018 Decatur, 522-0862. Lady BJ and David Torkanowsky; Thurs Silk-n-Steel. Wed.6: Prowler. Alfresco ragtime piano each day noon un days-Saturdays at midnight and Sundays at Joneses. Fri.8 through Sat.1 0: Pen til 4; the New Orleans Rhythm and Blues 3:30, the ursine Luther Kent. Mondays at . Wed.13: Risky Business. Thurs.14: Jazz Band weekends . 8: Teddy Riley and the Jazz Masters. Gnomes (either creatures who play Quata•a, Jackson Brewery, St. Peter Street Tuesdays and Fridays at 8: Placide Adams ART in the Paris subways or a spinoff from at the river. Friday and Saturday, Mimi and the Original Dixieland Jazz Band. store?!) Fri.15 through Sun.17: Garberry Guste from 6-10; Ronald Jones Wednesdays and Sundays, from 8: Chrjs A Gallarr for Fine Photographr, 5432 Wed.20: Zone One. Thurs.21 : and Toby Domino from 9·1 a.m. Burke and his New Orleans Music. Magazine, 891·1002. Sat.9: ali-day magic • ·:IIIID:hild. Fri.22 through Sun.24: Tricks. I & I, 903 St. Peter,. 524·9024. Call for Thursdays and Saturdays from 8: The lantern presentation of Joshua Pallet's pic Thurs.28: The Classifieds. Fri. listings. Camellia Jazz Band. . tures of the World's Fair, with the stereop : 6th Birthday Weekend Landmark Hotel, 541 Bourbon, 524· Until Waiting Filla, 940 Chartres, 523· ticons going back to normal every thirty .,.,F'Arf~!r.l Strangers (I know how they feel 7611. Mondays to Wednesdays at 9:30 and 8442. Call for information. minutes or so. From Sat.16: photographs best birthdays have been spent 11, Thursdays through Saturdays at 8, 9:30 by Andrew Jackson Pickett. strangers and a few imperfect and 11, A Night In Olde New Orleans from Aaron-Haatlnga Qallarr, 3814 Maga Upstairs: Fri.1 through Sun.3: The Frances Parkinson Keyes' sizzling best· MID-CITY zine, 891-4665. Through Wed.13: work by through Sun.10 and Fri.15 seller with Becky Allen (as Muffalotta Can Sally Heller and Bradley Wes~er. From Sat. Sun.17: The Murmurs (in this case noli) and Jerry Clark. Chinatown, 1717 Canal St., 525·7937. 16: work by sometime cartoonist Robert 1101 ~trece March 1985/Wavelength 27 underclothes from the Victorian and Edwar McLaglen as Gypo who spends his thirty You Axed For It! dian periods. Also, Mike Smith's Spirit pieces of silver far too recklessly, and World remains a burst of joy amid the Margot Grahame as the madonna-faced dozens of dour faces of [someone's, not angel of destruction; a great many ioomirQ ours] Louisiana ancestors; from Sat.16: shadows. velvety photography by Joe Chinese Traditional Painting 1886-1966: August, arty (for an American picture ill Five Modern Masters, an Important exhibi 1935) angles. Fri.8: A Compaceida, 8 tion of Chinese work outside the socialist- - Brazilian comedy-morality play, made in realist style that has dominated that coun 1969 by George Jonas. Wed.13: The Upris try's art for the past four decades or so .. ing, a fictional film about the last days~ the Somoza regime made by Petei"''LHilllf thai, a West German, with a script by the Chilean writer Antonio Skarmeta. Fri.15: Autumn Leaves, wacky, tormented, in dispensable 1956 Joan Crawford picture about a stenographer wl10 foolishy responds to the attentions of a younger ITllll only to find insanity, incest and bigamy lurk· ing not too far in the background; directed with his characteristic pipe-wrench lightness of touch by Robert Aldrich, will Vera Miles, Lorne Greene. Tues.19: I Decamerone, Pasolini's 1970 version~ t •. Boccaccio is more straightforward and in souciant than The Arabian Nights and less mean-spirited than The canterbury Taler, the high points to most people are, one~ • SPENCER BOHREN poses, the story of the stud who pretends Carl Mack's Computer Cabaret, to be deaf and dumb while working as a at Borsodl's. convent gardener but we much prefer the E~~~~g~ teenage lovers who solve their parents' dl Marlo VIlla Gallery, 3908 Magazine, ferences and the unpleasant treatment ac 895-8731. Call for schedule. corded Ninette Davoli who plunges into 8 New Orl.. na Muaeum Of Art, City vat of shit. Fri.22: Algiers, John Cromwell's featuring ... Park, 488-2631. From Sun.3: Ida Kohl 1938 nearly-shot-for-shot remake of meyer: Thirty Years, a show of five dozen Duvivier's Pepe le Moko is a dark, more Or: John and John Mooney paintings from public and private collec bonbon-like treatment of raffish material, CASSETIE TAPES. $8 EACH FROM: tions throughout the country by the although Hedy Lamarr in an early incarna celebrated local painter. Group tours for the tion is very much something to look at,IM NEW BLUES deaf the fourth Sunday of every month. not to listen to; with Charles Boyer as Pepe, Newcomb Coli... Art Gallery, Tulane I Sigrid Gurie, Joseph Calleia as the slicll River Road campus. Sun.3 through Thurs.21, Ida native inspector, handsome Johnny Downs Pointe A La Hache Kohlmeyer: Sculpture 1967-1985, in con (one of the few things the French coulm, Louisiana junction with the NOMA retrospective; improve upon), Gene Lockhart wheezing 70082 Sun.3 through Wed.27: Hecho ella Repub and whining, Alan Hale. Tues.26: Orfeu WE ALSO HAVE THE NEW SPENCER BOHREN HOT-ROD BLUEST-SHIRTS lica Dominica, paintings by Frances W. Negro, Marcel Camus' rather touristy IN CREAM, GREY, LILAC & BLUE, $8 POSTPAID. Long. melodrama reeapitulating the old Orpheus Pouelt·Baker Gallery, 631 Toulouse, and Eurydice legend in the slums of Rio 28 Wavelength/March 1985 HOT STRINGS OVERNIGHT ACCOMMODATIONS New Orleans' favorite string group for Reservations now available for Jazz Fest, JlllrWedding or party. Call837-3633. ten night special. An exciting find for jazz I BUY COLLECTIONS-any amount, enthusiasts: prices are modest ($25 to $45 in rt'f category. Disc jockeys, sell me the per room), the ambiance is upbeat and the a IIIICOrds you're not playing. Pay cash- fair hospitality is downright southern. Call or in prices. Record Ron makes house calls. write for brochure: 906 Mazant, NOLA ·s· 1129 Decatur Street, 524-9444. 70117 504/ 944-2662. of ELECTRIC VIOLINI ST CENTERVISION Productions produces JIZZ. Rock-seeking local groups to play with broadcast quality video demos for music groups and bands at reasonable rates. For ~5: «form new group. Call Rod. 523-1831 or 367-7808. more information, contact Glen West at FENDER RHODES ELECTRIC PIANO (504) 833-2815. 1981, 12-key, excellent condition. $500, MUSICIANS HANDLED WITH CARE wilb bottom. Elizabeth at 242-6430, 288- America's largest Entertainment Agency 1093. Network needs touring Hotel and Rock acts. EXPERT DRUM INSTRUCTION Call National Headquarters in New York. lccinners to advanced, all styles, Jazz, Horizon Management, Inc.(607) 772-0857. 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Capitol ...... 353-3517 March 1985/Wavelength 29 LAST PAGE The Dixi-Kups, New Orleans' most esteemed girl group (and better known-before copyright infringement-as the Dixie Cups), began their comeback in earnest with a set of February gigs at New York's Bottom Line. The Kups, whose hits include "Chapel of Love" and "Iko Iko," co-starred with the terminally-exotic Ronnie Spector (for whom all of the Beatles had the hots) and the Exciters, renowned for ''Tell Him." The Dixi-Kups, incident ally, are sisters Barbara Hawkins and Rosa Lee Hawkins, and new member Jo-Ann Kennedy, who replaces original member Joan Marie Johnson, a cousin of the Hawkins sisters. Says Barbara: ''The time feels so right for us to get back out there, it's almost as though we have no choice." Roll over, Cyndi Lauper. Documentarian Les Blank, producer Martin Rosen and script writer Michael Goodwin (last seen cosuming two dozen raw oysters at Jaeger's accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Joe Nick Patoski) plan to collaborate on a film about a young New Orleans trumpeter and his ascent (or more likely, descent) Cartoon courtesy Blues and Rhythm, The Gospel Truth, one of our fa into the music world. The trio says magazines,which can be obtained by writing 18 Maxwelton Close, Mill Hill, London NW73NA. that this movie will do for New Orleans what The Harder They day. Alabama-the country band from Leonard Feather. In the Los which means that the LVLA Come did for Kingston, Jamaica. and not the state-has a new hit Angeles Times, Feather noted: phones should stay tied-up If they mean that hordes of young record entitled "There's No "Butler's unpredictability is part , indefinitely. The number to call is Americans will start heading for Way," written and composed by of the attraction of a visit with 504-523-1465. New Orleans in search of cheap Will Robinson and Toto Robinson him. One never knows whether any PICKS TO CLICK: marijuana, we say, "Forget it!" hopes that his cousin can come up given passage will be solo or trio, 1. My African Baby-the And anyway-this is the 11th with a few more hits because tonal or modal, in tempo or Socials. Real New Orleans movie about New Orleans Toto's been lending the boy money rubato. His agile and supportive teenagers in action. musicians we've been informed of for years and wouldn't mind left hand was well displayed in his 2. New Africa-various this year and they all sound like getting some of it back because 5/4 work 'Fiving Around.' " selections from Celluloid Records' ludicrous ideas. We're chauvinistic well, caviar doesn't grow on trees, "National Blues Week," in case African catalogue, includina about this kinda stuff and we don't y'know. you missed it (it was Mardi Gras "Government Chicken Board" by like outsiders coming to town, Ernie K-Doe wants his fans to around here), was February 17 Fela. "discovering" culture. So there. know that he's been spending most through 23. In Dallas, the 3. The Offs' First Will Robinson is a bona fide New of his evenings at Rams II, 2139 festivities included The Li'l Joe (actually, "First Album")-punk Orleanian and his grandmother, Simon Boliver, digging on the Blue Dinner Show, held at the soca from San Francisco, cover by the late Martha Robinson, was disco sounds and bending the ear Narobi (sic) Room, and in an Jean-Michel Basquiat, · the largely responsible for the of lovely proprietress Estella unknown location in Mississippi, punk/Negro darling of New Y preservation movement in this city. Powell. Robert Johnson did a somersault last seen collaborating with A.., Will's first cousin is Toto Alex "My Baby-She Wrote Me ' in his grave. Warhol and Francesco Clemente • Robinson, who was largely A Letter" Chilton has produced a The Arts Council of New the Gallery Bruno Bischofberger iJ responsible for the get-down-and new single for Joe Fincher and Orleans-sponsored Louisiana Zurich. pop-the-gator movement before he Force of Habit, set to be released Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts 4. Rockers All-Stu immersed himself in the "straight in the near future. program now offers pro bono Explosion-more Augustus Pablo life" and afternoon teas and deb New Orleans pianist Henry (free) legal services to needy artists stuff from Alligator Records, balls and excursions to South Butler, yet another musician-in and arts programs. We assume which has all but deserted the blues America and eating caviar twice a exile, recently got a rave review that this also includes musicians, for Nattyland. 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