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May 1984 Kansas City's Free Music and Entertainment Newspaper Issue 41 Summer: Rock, C&W and Jazzjazzjazzjazzja 1T by Susan Binx Sas City Jazz Festival Commences All the Bulk rate news US Postage that's fit paid permit to pitch no. 2419 c PITcn KCMO May 1984 Kansas City's free music and entertainment newspaper Issue 41 Summer: rock, c&w and jazzjazzjazzjazzja 1t By Susan Binx sas City Jazz Festival commences. Jean-Luc Ponty, The Artie Shaw Orchestra and the 'e Summer. Hollywood saves its most brain­ Count Basie Orchestra with Joe Williams and less movies for this season. Publishers churn the Count himself will perform at Crown out "summer reading." And local music pro­ ,Center in free concerts. In addition, Starlight moters get ready for the onslaught of talent will feature some major jazz artists. For more and pseudo-talent designed to cash in on information call the Jazz Hotline at 333-2227 wallets grown fat from summer jobs. or the Jazz Commission in the mayor's office. This summer promises to be a one on Starlight will begin its season on May 19 the concert scene. Jazz and blues will with Huey Lewis and the News and think they've died and gone to heaven since guests Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double this summer Kansas City is hosting not one, ble. Merle with guest John but two huge jazz events. Anderson opening act Haggard are Jazz and blues are the centerpieces of the scheduled for May 20. On May 22 it's the zt week-long KC Spirit '84 festival, which will Clash. For more information call Dial-A-Tick d employ over 300 of Kansas City's best jazz at 753-6617. )- musicians. It begins with a bang: New York Besides shows already mentioned, Crown Jazz Quartet featuring Sir Roland Hanna will Center's free Friday night series Summer on perform at Crown' Center Square on Friday the Square will feature the famed Glenn Miller evening, June 29. (Their new, highly­ Orchestra, vintage pop group Tommy James acclaimed album, In Chicago, Bee Hive 7013, and the Shondells, folk artists Leo Kotke, $8.98 list, is available at PennyLane.) Four Judy Collins and The Kingston Trio, and stages will feature ragtime and dixieland, others. It runs from June 15 to August 31. For 1- blues, Kansas City big band and a jam session more information call 274-8444. ~, built around Kansas City's premier piano Music in the Parks, the free Sunday con­ players at the Liberty Memorial, Washington certs sponsored by the Parks and Recreation Pe~forming at Starlight Theatre on May 22 is the Clash, now reformed with a Park and Union Station on July 4 from 11 Department, begins June 3 and runs through new drummer and two new guitarists. Left to right: Paul Simonon, Pete a.m. to 7 p.m. The Kansas City Symphony September 2. You can look forward to hear­ Howard, Joe Strummer, Vince White and Nick Sheppard. and other bands will perform before the ing jazz, big band jazz and country and western fireworks display at 9:30 p.m. On July 6 in the acts. For more information call 444-3113. evening Heritage Hall Jazz Band from New Worlds of Fun has c&w and soul fever this George Jones, Ricky Skaggs, Lee Greenwood Juice Newton on June 2, the Beach Boys on lll~ Orleans will perform at Crown Center Square, year, although rock groups RE-Rex and and Janie Fricke. For a complete lineup call June 5, Dan Fogelberg on June 6 and The Local artists will play at the 18th and Vine Thompson Twins perform on Grad Night, 459-9211. Moody Blues on June 7. For more informa­ All events May 4 and The Stray Cats perform later in the There IS a new amphitheater in Bonner Spr­ tion call 287-6511. Tickets are at Sears, ~ f!ftnnmer. Soul groups perforrmftgincfude 'iA!I'near' the Ag Hall of Fame~ and the Seventh Heaven, Shane's Games, Dial-A­ Had enough? No? Well, there will be more DeBarge, Midnight Star, Cameo and Kool Renaissance Festival. It's called Sandstone, Tick and Capital ticket offices. ~e jazz over Labor Day weekend when the Kan- and the Gang. Country acts featured include and so far the bookings include Alabama with ~y The prince and the rude boy d st ~k Africa's stars: King Sunny Ade and Fela By Dwight Frizzell and Jay Mandeville less of its geography or color, regardless of its tivates even the pink & greenhairs. The man King Sunny Ade can at last open into friendly Iy home being in condo or crate. from Downbeat romps and hand-jives, territory and international recognition. in )r And you may find yourself another oblivious to all but the pattern and flow, the part of the world ... / And you may tell Same as it ever was/Same as it ever variable pitch and the unabashed tunefulness Isn't it weird/Looks too obscure for me yourself/This is not my beautiful of the African virtuosos onstage. Presiding as house!/And you may tell yourself/This eye of the cyclone in this exotic, hard-driving New York was a different place, and not at all friendly to Nigerian sounds, when Fela o is not my beautiful wife!' From Nigeria to New York is seven hours if melange, the small, intense Ade clarifies the you're in a hurry. King Sunny Ade flies there structure of each event with the sure touch of a Anikulapo Kuti arrived with his band to per­ ~t It's Nigeria, DaVid. We're in Lagos, an ur­ first class, but he's still taking his time. "Music born dancer/conductor. form there in 1969. A quixotic mission at best, ban African melting pot of a city, sweltering travels faster," he remarks as his cab creeps to Already a star at home in Nigeria, King Sun­ no one would listen to and no promoter would atop one of the world's worst conglomerations his gig. Three electric guitarists (and one more ny Ade has been dubbed King of Enjoyment book this strange, hypnotic African ensemble. of refuse (The trash heaps outscale the on pedal-steel), eight conga, maraca, gu-gu by native fans. Born a prince into the royal "New York is hard to believe," Fela told buildings in some quarters.), and we're here (cowbell), trap drum and talking drum players family Ondo, Ade was from day one a natural friends later. "I felt like a cockroach there." for the music. And David, the corrugated and six members of his dance troupe are musician and entertainer. He used his advan­ In LA he met the Black Panthers, studied shacks and hand-to-mouth lifestyle are about already there waiting. Smiles all around. Real­ tages to reach the people and infuse them with African culture from American perspectives as far downscale as you can go from the New ly full circle from home base, Lagos. Even his juju enthusiasm. Now the pundits and punks and listened night and day to black urban-pop York nouveau-condo set. The only connec­ some creatures called music critics will be mix­ in the Apple have grasped and praised to the music, picking up on what he liked and tion between Lagos and Soho, one could ing in the strange-breed audience at the Savoy sky Ade's life-positive sensibility, imported discovering his own musical niche. "This is the is this yearning, pliant sound, this this p.m. "Oh well," Ade shrugs. "Perfection from the grass plains and urban jungles fed by gift I received from America," he concluded, of homesick and love-happy rhythms is what brought us here." the Niger River. Perhaps the time has come his reminiscence aboui the 1969 trip ending that winds around the human heart, regard- The concert beginning, the juju music cap- when any cultural boundaries remaining for (continued on page 4) MAY IS ROCK 'N' ROLL MONTH ALL ROCK MUSIC 20% OFF 4128 BROADWAY 817 VERMONT KANSAS CITY 4l~I"'INE~ May 1984 SCORPIONS Special Guest Bon Jovi KC PITCtI Sunday, May 13, 1984 4128 BROADWAY, KANSAS CITY, MO 64111 (816) 561~2744 Municipal Auditorium PUBLISHER KC PITCH is by PennyLane EDITOR Kansas City, MO ADVERTISING. at 817 Vermont, (913) 749-4211 TYPESETTING Records. All CONTRlRUTORS: reserved. Subscription for one Saul Tucker. Art Coats, LeRoi®, Dick year or $8.50 for two Send check or Wright, Stroud, Dwight Frizzell, Jay money order to 4128 Broadway, Mandeville, Randy Nelson, Willi Kansas City, MO 64111 PennyLane mail Loth. order customers get a free subscription INI KAMOZE * * * * Although some tracks sound predictable, Mango 10 1 $5.98 list Out Deh' has enough going for it to satisfy old One of many new JA artists beginning to fans and break in some new ones. Backed as make skankers take heed, Ini Kamoze has just usual by the Radics and recorded at Tuff unleashed a powerful set of first-rate rockers Gong, the Cool Ruler continues to prove why on this Island mini-LP. Actually, only the price he, along with Sugar Minott and Dennis is mini because this album contains six full­ length tunes with plenty of spaced-out, dub­ style rydims, courtesy of Sly 'n' Robbie, along with "Wire" Lindo on guitar and Robbie Lyn Reggae on piano. The sound is sparse, but with Chan­ nel One's in-house mixer, Solgie, anything can Brown, is one of the most successful post­ happen and more often than not, it does. Marley vocalists to keep reggae advancing. The lyrics ani on the sleeve so you can catch The opening track, "Good Morning," has a the drift of what this Rastaman got to say.
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