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Wavelength (December 1983) University of New Orleans ScholarWorks@UNO Wavelength Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies 12-1983 Wavelength (December 1983) Connie Atkinson University of New Orleans Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uno.edu/wavelength Recommended Citation Wavelength (December 1983) 38 https://scholarworks.uno.edu/wavelength/38 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies at ScholarWorks@UNO. It has been accepted for inclusion in Wavelength by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UNO. For more information, please contact [email protected]. HRISTMAS ~ BLOWOUT-+---+­ -- SAL E-+--+---+----+: ____ 4425 CHASTANT METAIRIE, LA. 70002 (504) 455-2168 2 W AVELENG1lll DECEMBER ISSUE N0.38 DECEMBER 1983 dial ISSN 074 1-2460 direct "/"m not sure, but I"m almost positive, that all music came from New Orleans. · · for all your -Ern ie K-Doe, 1979 christmas Cover by Bu nny Mauhews gifts-send Wavelength to all your friends table of contents all year! F~nu~ ............. 504-895-2342 Mint Condition Jazz by Virginia Levie . .... 14 Call today and we'll Christmas Music send them a card by Vincent Fumar & Almost Slim 16 row Guitar Slini tomor by Almost Slim ............ .. 18 Bernadette Karrigan What could be a by Bob Rand~ ! ............... 21 better gift for your James Booker by Bunny Matthews & Jon Foose . 24 music-loving friends Steve Masakowski or family, here 1n by Y o~ke Corbin . .... 30 town or far away? 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He was merits a folklife pavilion would buried in Chicago. have to the people of the state and - Almost Slim to their own corporate prestige. He got some nibbles, interest at the Fair staff revived, and Jean Lafitte A Day Park put up the initial funds necessary to hold a site in the In The Fulton Street warehouse section. Folklife The wheels were in motion but the project still had a major The Folklife Pavilion at the 1984 drawback-no full-time director. In World's Fair got lucky this summer November, Missouri folklorist Jane when Mrs. Russell Long vis~ted a Bergey came on to head the pro­ special Smithsonian exhibition with ject. In addition to programming a large French folkways section. folkways for the St. Louis Gateway Surely, there would be something for the last several years, she is also like that at the Louisiana World experienced with a little known , Exposition? segment of Acadian immigrants, 8 Not necessarily. Though an ac­ the French speakers of southern Does Takee Outee sell guitar picks? tive steering committee had been Missouri. Boogie Bill's formed in May and people like The folklife exhibition intends to a string early in the number, The Nick Spitzer, Louisiana Folklife offer a rich mix of traditional Video Voyage Blues Rockers sustained the groove Program manager, had been music. Plans are for rwo stage with Mason improvising Chuck beating the bushes since 1981 for areas, one with a 400-person Down Bourbon St. Berry licks to the delight of his the sponsorship, so far no help had capacity and another smaller, more Mter Cox Cable capped the first older cohorts. Bill and Slim's solo been forthcoming. This was true, intimate setting. With about four­ installment of its Music City video performance was wonderfull eccen­ despite the wild success of a similar teen performances a day, the documentary series with a live tric, with Slim blowing wild to exhibition sponsored by Stokely musical focus will shift from wee~ recording of bluesman Boogie Bill Boogie Bill's classic offbeat meter Van Camp at the Knoxville Fair. to week. Some theme weeks under Webb and Mason Ruffner at The and authentic back porch Ninth Money was needed fast to ensure consideration include a Delta blues Absinthe Bar. Time Saver Stores, Ward vocalizing. space. Otherwise, Louisiana's uni­ week, old time fiddling, East Texas Inc., sponsor of the program, "You know, this is the first time que living heritage, including tradi­ music and zydeco. donated a copy of the series to the I've ever been down here to Bour­ tional music, would have to be In addition to music, the exhibi­ Jazz Archives of Tulane University's bon Street," Bill said. "I was sup­ sandwiched in with other entertain­ tion will include storytellers, in­ Howard-Tilton Memorial Library. posed to be leaving for Europe this ment programs, as space, funds digenous food, architecture, accor­ Bill Groome, General Manager of morning, but I had a funny feeling and inclination allowed. It was dion makers, weavers and more. CCNO presented the series of thir­ about it, something just didn't set looking grim. According to Bergey, space has teen tapes to Kurt Jerde, Curator right. But I'm glad I came down Mrs. Long communicated her been staked out and the official of the Jazz Archives and long­ here to play with these boys concern to her husband. The steer­ announcement of sponsors is just standing member of the New instead." -nco ing committee put together a five­ around the corner. The envelope, Orleans musical community. minute tape/slide presentation and please. - Virginia Levie Walter Brock and John Scheuer­ man were there representing Preston Jackson, WWOZ-FM (which simulcasts the Trombonist, performances every Wednesday night) and the local musicians Dies At 81 union, respectively. "A royalty con­ New Orleans jazz trombonist tract has been established that will Preston Jackson died November 12 directly benefit the featured musi­ at the age of 81. Jackson died in cians every time these shows are Blytheviile, Arkansas, of heart aired," added CCNO 2 Executive failure while on tour with Kid Producer Jim Gabour, "which Sheik's Jazz Band. Born in 1903, could mean substantial dividends Jackson studied trombone under for the players if we secure an ar­ Honore Dutrey (who played with rangement for European distribu­ King O liver) and Roy Palmer, tion of the series. We were also before moving to Chicago in 1917. lucky to have taped James Booker Jackson recorded in 1923 with Ben­ at the Maple Leaf Bar just a few ny Young's Band and later with weeks ago, which was his last Erskine Tate. During the 1930s, he recorded performance. ' ' recorded and toured with Louis The November 4 Absinthe Bar Armstrong and later with Jimmie taping was an interesting study in Noone. Jackson also played on "ii blues tradition, which has often Johnny Dodds' last recording ses­ 0 Anson Funderbwgh and Darrell Nulisch: Rocketry 'n' roll. been handed down from older sion in 1940. From the Forties un­ black players to younger white til the late Sixties, Jackson led his guitarists on the contemporary own jazz band. By the early Seven­ Texas Rockers: lot more fun to get lost in. Once scene. A slight generation gap was ties, Jackson had stopped playing you get sucked under by its cosmic apparent when Boogie Bill and his altogether because of poor circula­ Six Strings, current of magic music, you may accompanying harmonica player, tion and health.
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