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une is an anniversary month States. Novelists and playwrights Kasten, who performs following J for the practically-legendary have appeared as well. The bar's each reading. Sunday afternoon Maple Leaf Bar first international reader was prom­ Normally the readings are far poetry reading series. At age six, inent Canadian novelist David from dull; there is noise from the the durable if unorthodox series, Adams Richards, who read this adjoining barroom, cats, dogs and which somehow manages to be past March. While many of the children come and go, floats pass both indigenous and cosmopolitan, Leafs readers boast considerable by in the plate-glass window behind is the longest continuously running reputations, the series also wel­ the reader on stage, occasionally reading series in the city. It is also comes talented beginning and there are floods. If newcomers are the only weekly series (readings, unpublished writers. None of the sometimes disconcerted by such scheduled for 2:30, begin around readers are paid: their only compen­ goings-on, regulars know to expect 3:00 on Sunday afternoons) and the sation is exposure to an intelligent the unexpected. only one regularly held in a bar - and high-spirited audience - which Bar-owner John Parsons, giving I usually on stage but sometimes in in turn pays no cover or minimum. special credit to Everette Maddox the Leafs plant-filled patio. During the past year the readings "for keeping it going;• calls the The idea for the readings was have been pleasantly augmented by readings "a wonderful thing for the suggested by Carrollton painter and the piano and vocal stylings of Fred bar:' Happy Birthday. bar-regular Franz Heldner in June r 1979. Nobody remembers the exact THE BEST FOR LEST MACON FRY I aturday night. .. late ... after date, or that of the first reading, by S midnight we get to St. There­ Everette Maddox and the late sa's ... a church? ... a school? ... Robert Stock. maybe. Mohawks, girls dressed up Early organizers of the like prom night 1948. Cool, man, readings were Maddox, Stock, cool. Is this '76 or '86? After sitting Maxine Cassin and Yorke Corbin. through the opening acts we notice, Maple Leaf Rag: An Anthology of no it can't be, Alex Chilton, tuning New Orleans Poetry, based on the a guitar on stage. Are the Cramps first season of readings and edited going to perform??? No. There is a by Cassin, Corbin and Maddox, projection of a panther in back of was published by the New Orleans him. The Panther Burns, led by the Poetry Journal Press in 1980, and legendary Tav Falco. Haven't seen remains the only comprehensive them for years. What to expect??? anthology of contemporary New They sound better than ever. Rock Orleans poetry. meets rockabilly in Memphis at a The Maple Leaf has since hosted street corner car crash. not only New Orleans poets but -Carlos Boll poets from throughout the United

DIANA ROSENBERG Down Honte Food With Blues On The Side lberta's Restaurant is situated close to the heart and soul of New Orleans. A Sister Alberta Lewis cooks in the front room of her shotgun home at Third and Danneel streets while her husband, Joe, sits in the adjacent dining room and holds forth amicably on his days as a blues singer, his future a~ a gospel singer, and how the fishing has been recently. The food at Alberta's defines "down home:· ranging from veal stew to pigs' feet, fried or barbecued chicken, and rabbit. The menu often features greens from the Lewis' garden (which \'vOn a blue ribbon in the Uptown Garden Club competition) and what­ ever fish Joe has been able to land. It's impossible to describe a typical combination plate from Alberta's because she always makes sure that everyone has enough of everything they want. On a recent visit I ordered barbecued chicken and got cornbread, red beans, and potato salad with it. Before the chicken was gone, Alberta was insisting that we try some of her sweet potato bread. The nat rate for such a spread is an unvary­ ing$3.25! ...J ...J A~ good as the food is, it's Alberta and Joe who give this restaurant its soul. g Alberta is from Magnolia, Mississippi, and owes her high cheekbones to her mother, who was half American Indian. Joe, also from Mississippi, grew up 9a: picking and hauling cotton on plantations around the delta and singing with ~ several blues bands.·Today the Lewises are the nucleus of The King's Brothers and Sisters, a gospel group that performs in churches and shows across the So, Step~ South and has several records on the Booker label. Say It Ain't The walls of Alberta's are decorated with the ubiquitous icons of soul: por­ fter years out of circulation, music-wise that is, Stephie has returned, traits of Jesus, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy and the Saints (not the foot­ A this time replacing her Whitesox with her new band, the Blacksox. ball team). 1n the corner there's a jukebox surrounded by pictures of gospel ...J Stephie, joined by John Swanka, Joie Messina, Jerry Negrotto, and Chuck groups. Drop in a quarter and play Sister Alberta's "Mean Old Jews Who Cru­ ...J Jonau, performs original music in a rather dark and heavy vein and cites cified My Lord;" drop in another quarter and let Joe select some old blues num­ g en influences as diverse as Dead Boys and lggy Pop to Blondie. bers. What better way to enjoy "the best for lest?" 9 -Carlos Boll -Macon Fry a: ~

4 WAVELENGTH! JUNE 1985 PUBLICATIONS .... VANITY FAIR HAS GONE THROUGH SOME CHANGES since reappearing a few years ago. No one involved seems to quite know what the magazine should stand for or be about. At this point in time, it's hard to get through an issue without welling up some anger or at least repulsion. Remember when the phrase Bad Attitude was popular? Well, Bad Attitude still fits Vanity Fair. If you are, like me, stuck with a subscription and don't really get off on Jerri Hall's memoirs and VFs recent push toward snide uppa crustisms, I have a suggestion. Cut out the photographs, which are generally the best thing in the mag, and can the rest. This malignant, misan­ thropic mess is chock full of myopic, mendacious malapropisms - the pages are wet with desire for instant fame and lust for A list living. Thke this one to the outhouse, quick. So this is what happened to the Soho News. Don't bother with a new subscription- this turkey won't make it to Thanksgiving . ....AN GAEL IS SUBTITLED IRISH TRADITION CULTURE Alive in America Today. Published out of the Irish Arts Center in New York City, AG features Irish poems, fiction, book reviews, cartoons and music articles written in Gaelige as well as English. For info write to An Gael, 553 W. 51st St., NYC, NY 10019 .

....PUBLISHED IN THE HEART OF BROOKLYN'S Caribbean commu­ nity, AFRICAPOP is distributed free around New York, reaching many people who otherwise wouldn't know anything about the subject. The Brooklyn Caribbean community is very influential on the rest of New York's many music scenes and Africapop helps. The trial of Fela Anikulaapo-Kuti, not a big issue in most places, was covered extensively by Africapop. If you are a nouveau African music fan, Africapop might give you some ideas on what reggae, highlife, steel orchestras and other sub-genres to listen to. Lords There are ads for records and record stores supplying African records. Afri­ capop's own ads want us to "Take the Mumbo Jumbo Out of African at Leisure Music~' Yeah you rite. And ... for all you guilty white liberals out there, you can read Ajricapop without feeling bad that your parents' parents' parents were born in Europe - Africapop doesn't have a members-only feel to it. he Lords of the New Church You can subscribe by sending a check or money order to Africapop Newspa­ T were all over New Orleans per, 1194 Nostrand Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11225 ... oh yeah, $7 gets you 12 during their mid-May visit. First to monthly issues. Leisure Landing, where (right) Stiv Bators remembered "great times .... PENNIE STASIK AND MARK EDWARDS provide the service of distrib­ with Madonna in Detroit" and uting promo records from independent labels to indie-oriented radio. An with other band members (above) outgrowth of their service is their publication POLLUTION CON· reminisced with his old pal New TROL. Within the pages of PC you'll find airplay lists, opinions and Orleans' own Danny Reid, for­ exchanges, networking and info on other publications as well as record merly of Syl Sylvan. Later the boys reviews and descriptions. Bristling with intelligence, PC is readable and were interviewed by high school informative. You can reach them at PC, 1725 E. 115 St., Cleveland, OH fans on Bunny Matthews' Vic & 44106. -Mark Bingham Nat'ly Show, then on to Jimmy's for the concert. Weathersby In Store n his first public show in quite a I while, Shad Weathersby per­ formed at Leisure Landing Record Store last month to a rather large crowd. Originally from New Orleans, Weathersby has come to national attention with the release of his first LP, Light Outside The Door, on the Dancing Cat label, a division of Windham Hill. George Winston, also from New Orleans, is reputed to be one of Shad's biggest fans as well as contributing his 8 piano playing to the LP. ir Weathersby currently has a single out, "Buttons:• which has been remixed to give it more of a country ~d was ...' flavor. He is now at work making the joint rockin' demo tapes for a new LP. lues boy B. B. King had 'em ree1in' and rockin' last month in the For­ His live performance was excel­ B tier High School band room. The benevolent bluesman took time out ...J ...J lent, making his recorded work from his annual Blue Room gig to present an educational afternoon of blues 0 CD sound a bit too tame. Hopefully the and boogie to both students and teachers. Ironically, it wasn't the youngsters IJ) 9 next LP will capture more of his who felt compelled to get up and cut the rug, or was it? The most oft-heard a: spark. comment from the enchanted audience? "My mama just loves you, man!" 5 -Carlos Boll -rico

JUNE 1985/WAVELENGTH 5 CARIBBEAN GENE SCARAMUZZO LookOut For The Bogeym.ah! With exotic instruments and native costumes, ... bands from Papua New Guinea and Barbados in the s g Caribbean visit New Orleans. il ogeymen from far-away cul­ sheepskin drumheads. The whole tures visited the Jazz and thing is held together with iron lugs. B Heritage Festival in New The Barbados Tuck Band revived Orleans this year, making the trip all an old Barbados slave tradition at the way from the Papua New Guinea their performance in New Orleans. and Caribbean islands of Barbados. During slavery times, at the (har­ One bogeyman took the form of the vest) crop-over festival, an effigy of "steel donkey of fear;• dancing the overseer, given the symbolic through the crowds to the accompa­ name of Mr. Harding for all the niment of a Barbados ruck-a-tuck hard work he demanded from the group calling themselves the Barba­ slaves, was burned. The tradition of dos Tuck Band. The donkey has Mr. Harding was brought to life by always played a part in the lives of the Tuck Band by Ife, a stilted, 12- the poor of Barbados, both as a foot-tall dread, who moved slowly mode of transportation and as a through the crowd performing acro­ transporter of cane, cotton, etc. batics and blowing a policeman's How it became associated with whistle. obeah is a mystery, but mention of The tradition of ruck-a-tuck the steel donkey used to strike fear in groups goes back to the 17th Cen­ the hearts of young children, and tury, shortly after the arrival of the those participating in festival cele­ British on the island. They appeared brations would pray that the donkey mainly for the crop-over festival and wouldn't approach them. Nowadays for the annual festival around Eas­ the donkey is seen as benign and, of ter. Presently, ruck-a-tuck groups course, the crowds in New Orleans come out for any occasion and to saw nothing more than a masked entertain tourists. In the past ten man wearing a painted, cardboard years there has also been a revival of donkey outfit. the crop-over festival. Try as we The ruck-a-tuck group accom­ might, we were unsuccessful at panying the steel donkey was a showing a link between ruck-a-tuck Bajan version of a fife and drum groups and the village/ band. Fife and drum bands are not a neighborhood gang tradition of new idea in the Caribbean, the Brit­ New Orleans and other Caribbean ish having spread this sound combi­ islands like Nassau and Trinidad. :::) w nation around the world. As many While ruck-a-tuck group members variations exist as the number of usually are from one neighborhood, - peoples who adopt the instruments they don't share the other character­ and meld them with their own cul­ istics which did or still do identify tures. In Barbados, the drums are the gang tradition ... fierce, some­ homemade and are used to play the times violent competition between 0 rhythm patterns unique to that rival gangs; yards, bars or club­ island alone. Instead of fifes, there houses where gang members gather are penny whistles of various sizes year round to make costumes and and pitches, instruments similar to jam; and rare public appearances (at recorders but made of metal and carnival and a few other Christian en without a bottom hole. The penny holidays). whistles are used to blow the melo­ dies of popular calypsos and for a Believe it or not, a second bogey­ sound similar to a slide whistle. man came to town for the Jazz Fest, Back to the drums, at least two are but this time in name only. If you used, a bass drum and a snare-like live in Papua New Guinea and wam drum called a kettle. The bass plays to scare your children into going to Your Newest Music Store very little, hitting the downbeat and sleep, just tell them that Sanguma occasionally punching a syncopated will be out looking for little children \Nelcomes the beat, while the kettle plays a variety who are not in their beds. And of marching cadences featuring a Sanguma did come to New Orleans few strictly Bajan easily identifiable in the. form of an eight-piece band 1985 NAMM International Music rhythms. The Barbados Tuck Band that brought along native costumes added a second kettle (this one a and instruments of New Guinea, as and Sound Expo to New Orleans Ludwig snare drum from a trapset), well as contemporary electric instru­ which played a second pattern of ments. 3215 Edenborn cadences over the homemade kettle, New Guinea is the home of over but always punched at the key 700 different cultures, each with its Metairie, La 70002 moments with the kettle to keep that own language (not different dia­ Bajan feel. The homemade drums lects ... different languages). The [504] 454-8331 were fashioned from wood (either music of these cultures is made rum barrels or, nowadays, plywood) mainly by voices and bamboo Call For Free T-Shirt or metal (salt meat cans) with bicy­ instruments in a strange-to-western­ cle wheel rims holding down goat or ears style called free time. Free time

8 WAVELENGTH/JUNE 1985 involves a constant and frequent mouth and blowing the flute at the change in time signature, resulting same time, somewhat in the manner in music that is not anything like we of a kazoo. Sanguma demonstrated in America would call dance music. these flutes onstage by simulating This traditional free time style trans­ many different animal sounds. TWo­ lates most readily to free form jazz foot lengths of bamboo of approxi­ at its most indulgent, and this is mately two-inch diameter were also where the band members of used as shakers by splitting the two Sanguma, all students of the music ends into about 20 strips, creating a school in Papua New Guinea, took sound similar to a shekere (a beaded it. During their set at the Koindu gourd). Bamboo of wider diameters were strapped onto a stand to be hit with sticks, making a hollow, woodblock-like sound. A piece of bamboo equal to the size used for shakers was used to make a devil chaser by carving jaw-like points on each end and cutting one hole on the jaws. The hole creates a whistling sound when the devil chaser is shaken and is used to chase away spirits. Each of these instruments, in fact, has a special purpose among the multitude of cultures in New Guinea. Traditionally they are not used in ensemble style, even though Sanguma used them in this manner occasionally. Caribbean Show recommenda­ tions this month are three new 12- inch singles, one from Jamaica, two from Trinidad/Tobago. Horace Andy, who recently had a great sin­ gle out called "Gunshot:' now has a hilarious dancehall hit entitled "Ele­ Stage, the audience was constantly mentarY.' Using the ever-popular West Beach Blvd. Gall Shore., Ala. frustrated by the rapid alternating !'Heavenless" riddim, this one gets between interesting, danceable silly with lyrics like "She don't have (205) 948-7693 rhythm patterns and non-danceable style, she don't have fashion ... cocktail lounge type jazz breaks. when she get far, she favor superstar, More interesting than Sanguma's but when she come near, she favor music (to these ears) was the variety Yogi Bear:' Elementary, my dear of bamboo and log instruments that Boo Boo. Apd "Don't Jam Dis" is they brought with them. the latest soca by Scrunter, with a Slit drums were made from logs killer hook boosted by timbales that of varying lengths and diameters is reminiscent musically of last that were slit lengthwise and hol­ year's "We Living in Jail;' winner of lowed out, and hit with sticks. These the Crown for Penguin in 1984. And are the telephones of New Guinea, one last bogeyman song (I promise whose range of expressions are this is the last): the Trinidad road unlimited, according to Tony, horn march winner for 1985, "Soucouy­ player with Sanguma. (Conch shell ant:' by Crazy, is finally available in THE FUTURECOPY PLACE horns are also used to relay messages town. A soucouyant is a blood­ in some areas of New Guinea.) The sucking zombie woman, and if you Copies · Reductions · Enlargements Passport Photos · Binding · And much more! band brought a variety of one-note find that your next-door neighbor bamboo flutes, some held sideways has been visiting your bedroom at like a flute and others long-ways like night, you might find yourself doing a recorder, used two ways: to blow the same thing as Crazy, bawling, one clear note and to create new "Suck me, Soucouyant!" Another sounds by making noises with the classic for Trinidad. 0 HOT Ei[]U~[) RE~~f[]RLEr:lE~T PRICES Live or Pre-recorded Ei YEi T E1':1 Ei Audio cassette duplicating Music Reinforcement at Howard Ave. location. Speech, Debate or Recital Recordings SYSTEMS FOR LIVE BANDS Rental Information:

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The group partially redeemed it­ Jolin Fogerty In Bangkok" self at the end of the show when the (Warner Bros.) MUITIY Held famous robot made its triumphal entry, (RCA) appropriately decked out with a garland 7 Behind The Sun "That Was Yeste~" of flowers round its neck. Now if only Eric Claplon Foreigner (Duck/ (Atlantic) it had been wearing a Hawaiian shirt as Warner Bros.) well ... 8 She's The Boss "Smooth Operator" Mlcll~r Salle lain Blair on Bryan Adams: (Atlantic (Portrait/CBS) "The Big Snore" 9 The Power Station "Some Uke It Hot" In some respects, Bryan Adams' current Tilt Power Station Tile Powtr Slatlon superstar standing and success is slight­ (Capitol) (Capitol) ly puzzling. As a performer and writer, 10 Katrina & "Eve~ Wants To he's certainly not particularly innovative The Waves Rule or1d" or original-he comes across as a hard­ Katrina 1 T1111 For Fu11 Tilt WIVII (Mercury) working, well-meaning fan of such el­ (Capitol) ders as Bruce Springsteen and Tom 11 Dream Into Action "All She Wants To Do Petty. In fact, his image and music are so Howanl.lonn Is Dance" well-scrubbed that there's no hint of any (Eiektra/Asylum) Don Henley possible controversy a Ia Prince or (Geffen) Frankie Goes To Hollywood. But he 12 Building The •. Obsession" must be doing something right-for his Perfect Beast Animation own fans at any rate-as these sell-out Don Henley (Mercury) shows at the Hollywood Palladium (Geffen) On Tour ••• proved. Greeted like some conquering 13 The Firm "Suddenly" Master guitarist Eric Oapton is in the midst of a massive North American hero, Tile Arm BlllyOcan Adams took to the stage in jeans (Atlantic) (Jive/ Arista) tour which began in the South and East in the Spring and continues until and sneakers (predictable, "honest" at­ hitting the West Coast in July. Oapton's new album, Behind The Sun, entered tire) and proceeded to chum out an 14 Steady Nerves "Axel F" Graham l'llbr I Harold flltemieyer the Billboard chart in the Top 50, proving that America's thirst for guitar hour-or-so's worth of music to match Tilt Shot (MCA) heroes has yet to be slaked. Not only does he have a hit album, but the (i.e. good, unpretentious rock and roll (Eiektra) anthems with such imaginative titles as single, "Forever Man," has also become a Top 40 favorite. 15 Valotte "Nightshift" "Kids Wanna Rock" - they loved that Julian Lennon Tilt Commodores one-or "Run To You," his hit single). (Atlantic) (Motown) Critic's Choice: fanatical Hawaiian followers, lending His backing band was tight, if unin­ some credence to the group's current spired, and Adams sounded suitably Charts courtesy of The Gavin Report. lain Blair Goes To The Beach "World Slavery Tour" motto. Wasting gruff and raspy for the sort of material he With Iron Maiden no time on idle banter, the band charged favors - songs that sound vaguely In this land of day-glo shirt prints and straight into a succession of fast and furi­ familiar at the time without threatening Personal Favorites pineapples, the black leather and studs ous headbangers, the best of which­ to lodge in your consciousness after­ The five favorite albums of Kelly of Iron Maiden slammed into Honolulu's numbers like "Run To The Hills," 'The wards. The singer even occasionally Keagy, drummer of NBC arena with all the firepower and Trooper" and "Running Free"- were revealed an unexpectedly ironic detach­ Night Ranger: subtlety of a latter day Pearl Harbor at­ played with force and economy. Fueled ment in his onstage asides, but predict­ 1) Genesis - Genesis; 2) 90125 - tack. With their bizarre mixture of Egyp­ by the twin-guitar attack of Dave Murray ably these were quickly buried in the Yes; 3) Eliminator - ZZ Top; tian sets and Conan The Barbarian and Adrian Smith and propelled by one usual stream of rock and roll cliches. Not 4) Building The Perfect Beast - Don antics, the English rockers were greeted of the tightest rhythm sections in heav} a bad show so much as a disappointingly Henley; 5) Bom In Tile USA-Bruce like visiting gods by a full house of metal, singer Bruce Dickinson climbe<: mundane one. Springsteen.

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~--·· JUNE 7th AT THEATRFS EVERYWHERE! JAZZ ROBERT WOLF New Orleans Jazz in Chicago: Part III As gangsters increase their hold on Chicago, jazzmen find work in the speakeasies, often with the likes of AI Capone and his men in the audience.

-A grow- ing nurt~ber 1923of Chica- goans are outraged over Mayor "Big Bill" Thompson's regime. For the last four years gangsters have increased their hold on city politics. Speakeasies, prostitution, and gam­ bling operations flourish. Judges, city aldermen, an assistant district attorney, even an Illinois state con­ gressman and a U.S. representative are in the syndicate's pocket. Demo­ cratic reform candidate William Deever wins the mayoral election with promises to prosecute big-time bootleggers. Johnny Torrio decides to move his operation out of town - and sets up headquarters in Cicero. Rival gangsters "Klondike" O'Donnell, Eddie Vogel, and Eddie Tancil try to block the move, but Torrio compromises and wins con­ trol of most of Cicero. Torrio puts his Iieut\!nant, AI Capone, in charge of Cicero business. "It's a shame:· Capone tells Cicero's working-class Wolverine Orchestra, about 1924. Left to right: Howdy Quickse/1, banjo; Tommy Gargano, drums; Paul Mertz, piano; residents, "that a man should be Don Murray, clarinet; Bix Beiderbecke, cornet; Tommy Dorsey, trombone. denied a glass of beer after a hard day's work:' beside a Victrola. One day a batch you know. We'd yell at him, ber, but we didn't encourage him:• Chicago jazzmen are finding of records by the New Orleans 'Change that note!'" The following year, 1924, the work in speakeasies. Some, like Bud Rhythm Kings lay there. Brand new. That summer, in 1923, Wolverines cut their first records. Freeman, claim they never wit­ Two sticky hands put the first record McPartland began playing profes­ Beiderbecke's cornet elicited the nessed any violence. Freeman refers on. Horns rang out like ... Like sionally, first with a small band at greatest interest among other musi­ to the gangsters as "gentlemen:• what??? YOW! Listen to that! Here Fox Lake, Wisconsin, and later on cians: his tone was splendid, his Others, such as Freeman's friend, they'd been playing dance music, an excursion boat. That fall he lines lyrical and relaxed, sometimes cornetist Jimmy McPartland, have stuff like Paul Whiteman, for returned to school, playing evenings restrained, as though he would not stories to tell. After Deever's elec­ gawd's sake ... They decided then at Eddie Tancil's club in Cicero, the l).ermit himself the passionate flights tion McPartland is playing in a joint that they had to form a band and one the Torrio mob cleaned out. It that his idol Armstrong took. There owned by Eddie Thncil. Newcomers chose their instruments: Freeman was there he met Benny Goodman, is none of the frenzied rush of Nick from Capone's mob come in, start tenor sax, Teschmacher clarinet, who sat in one evening. McPartland LaRocca, his first model, or the overturning tables and smashing Jimmy McPartland cornet, Dick was so impressed he started bringing brashness of many of the New bottles on bartenders' heads. They McPartland banjo, Lannigan bass Goodman - whom McPartland Orleans musicians he listened to. tell the band to keep playing - or tuba. They taught themselves to says could not have been over 15 - Nevertheless, within his self­ else. The band blows like crazy while play by listening to the NORK's to the Austin High Jam Sessions. imposed limits he brought great the carnage continues. Tancil, an ex­ records a phrase at a time and copy­ It was also in 1923 that Bix feeling. bartender, goes at it with Capone's ing. Eventually they added drum­ Beiderbecke and a few other young He listened carefully to Arm­ boys and does okay until they pull mer Dave Tough to the group, and a musicians, all of whom had been strong, going to the Lincoln Gar­ the blackjacks out. The thugs break pianist named Dave North. They playing for Northwestern University dens in 1923, when his jobs were bottles, jabbing the broken ends called themselves the Blue Friars, a dances, formed a band they called over, to hear Armstrong play with into faces and kicking bodies. Wait­ name taken from the Friar's Inn, the Wolverines. They played many Oliver's band in their late-night ses­ ers and bartenders are lying on the where their idols, the NORK, of the tunes first recorded by the sions. Plenty of other young white floor. A few nights later it happens played. On the evenings they weren't Original Dixieland Jazz Band. Bix musicians were going there too, that again, "much worse:• McPartland practicing, they were standing out­ was a self-taught cornetist, having year and later: the Austin High says. "That was the finish. Thncil side the club in short pants, listening learned to play by listening to ODJB Gang, Mugsy Spanier, George got rid of the band, and two days to the band. Inside, on occasion, recordings and repeating cornetist Wettling, Hoagy Carmichael, any­ later we found out he had been shot two well-known Chicago characters Nick LaRocca's lines. Within five one who knew about the music and dead:' Torrio was now in charge. could be found tapping their fingers years .he was a master of his instru­ loved it. As Freeman said, ''Almost McPartland had first started play­ to the music: AI Capone and Dion ment. every white musician in Chicago ing jazz a year before, while still O'Bannion. But before this, while still a stu­ played that way (in Oliver and Arm­ attending Austin High School in a Freeman was the only one in the dent at Lake Forest Academy, Bix strong's style) through listening to West Side suburb. He and his group who had not had musical was sneaking off campus in the eve­ King Oliver and Louis. They learned 1 brother Dick, Bud Freeman, Frank training and lagged so far behind nings and heading for Chicago to to play that beat and that feeling for I Teschmacher, and Jim Lannigan - the others that Teschmacher wanted hear the NORK, often importuning the blues ... We whites used to go all wearing short pants - used to to throw him out. McPartland's rec­ the guys to let him sit in with them. there - and incidentally the people I stop off at a local ice cream parlor ollection of Freeman's early playing Their cornetist, Paul Mares, later were wonderful to us ... They knew I after school every day to eat sun­ is often quoted. "There was one recalled, "He kept pestering us to we were there to hear the music. daes, drink sodas and play the latest thing I could recognize in Bud then play 'AngrY, because it was the only And the big black doorman who records that the owner had stacked - he had a terrific beat. .. He began one of our numbers he knew well at weighed about 400 pounds - every by playing rhythm, getting on one the time:• and their pianist, Elmer time he saw us he would say, 'I see Robert Wolf is a Chicago writer note and holding it; I mean swinging Schoebel, recalled that Bix's imma­ you're all out here to get your music and contributor for the Illinois on it, just that one note. He didn't ture style "didn't really work out lessons tonight:" Entertainer, where this series first change the harmony or anything, with the group that well. We'd let In 1924 Armstrong, at his wife' appeared. and we used to get so mad at him, him sit in occasionally for a num- prompting, cut loose of Oliver and

10 WAVELENGTH/JUNE 1M5 I left for New York to join Fletcher ambivalence on these Morton ses- something better.. !' Henderson's 12-piece orchestra. He sions. Morton and his men know Johnny St. Cyr said, "Reason his returned to Chicago the following what they want. Armstrong's group records are full of tricks and changes year to play with his wife's combo is not sure. His sidemen are looking is the liberty he gave his men. Some- and with Erskine Thte's larger band, back to New Orleans while he is times we ask him - we get an idea, which; like Henderson's, was pre­ looking forward, trying to forge a see-and we ask him to let us play a paring the way for the big bands of solo-oriented band. He is not an certain break, and he was always the Thirties. A few years later Oliver ensemble leader. Morton is. Morton open to suggestion .. !' was also to experiment with a larger is recording the culmination of the Morton was trying to create band, one he called the Dixie Synco­ New Orleans style, utilizing all the important works. Armstrong was paters. knowledge he and his men had out to have a good time and make a On his return to Chicago, Arm­ developed over the years: the tight few dollars. There certainly wasn't strong persuaded Kid Ory to leave ensemble unity of King Oliver's Cre- much advance planning for his ses- California to join him and a number ole Jazz Band, the standard New sions. Kid Ory said, "When we'd get of their former associates for Orleans polyphony and four-bar in the studio, if we were going to do recording sessions. The group, breaks, as well as solos and stop- a new number, we'd run over it a Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five, time choruses. It is more than an couple of times before we recorded was composed of trombonist Ory, eclectic pastiche; the parts are a it. We were a very fast recording clarinetist Jimmy Dodds, pianist Lil whole. band. In fact, the records I made Hardin Armstrong, banjoist For these sessions Morton made with the Hot Five were the easiest I Johnny St. Cyr, all of whom except frequent use of a number of the Hot ever made!' Ory had been members of King Five musicians: Ory, Dodds, and St. There is one cut from a session Oliver's Creole Jazz Band. Cyr. And while they fumble with Dodds recorded in the late 1\venties It is a commonplace in jazz histo­ Bud Freeman Armstrong, they display assurance with Armstrong and Hines, "Mel- ries to note that these Hot Five ses­ with Morton. Armstrong with his ancholy;• which is the equal of sions - beginning in 1925 - mark a true, but it is precisely because his virtuosity, it has been said, may have Simeon or Bechet's work. But for new departure for jazz: that Arm­ sidemen are not soloists, but ensem- intimidated them. Morton did not, the most part his solo work, as strong eventually discarded Oliver's ble players, that these sessions fail. he consulted them. Orner Simeon, evinced in his 1927 trio recordings, ensemble concept and substituted a Contrast the Hot Five cuts of who played clarinet on a number of is hackneyed. His phrasing is pre- series of extended solos for the old 1925 and 1926 with Jelly Roll Mor- the cuts, said, "He was exact with dictable, something that cannot be four-bar breaks; that Armstrong's ton's Red Hot Peppers, recorded in us. Very jolly, very full of life all the said of great soloists. Ory, likewise, cornet technique and range are like 1926 and 1927. The Hot Five time, but serious. We used to spend never grew beyond his origins, never nothing heard before in jazz; that he records seem full of exhuberance maybe three hours rehearsing four became much more than a "tail- displays a daring style, highly until we listen to Morton's cuts. sides and in that time he'd give us gate" trombonist. Both had been expressive within a wide emotional Morton's group has esprit and joy the effects he wanted, like the back- trained as ensemble players, and range; that some of the cuts make - the kind of joy we hear 40 years ground behind a solo ... Of course, that is how they worked best. There brilliant use of the stop-time chorus; later on the records Bunk Johnson Jelly had his ideas and sometimes is no faulting them for what they that his sidemen are primitive and made with fellow old-time New we'd listen to them and sometimes, were not, as you do not fault an inept compared to him. All this is Orleans musicians. There is no together with our own, we'd make orange for not being an apple. 0 ------~------~------

e In a smgle weekend, you'll hear speakers like Hal David, world-famous songwriter and president of ASCAP; Paul Cooper. general manager of Atlantic Records; and Des McCanley of London's ATV Music. You'll meet the brass from BMI, SESAC, Viva/Warner Brothers, and more. What's the occasion? The Fifth Annual Governo(s Conference on Music. Where you'll get two days of solid gold information on making it in the music business_:. from the people who make it happen. We'll give you smash hit workshops like Cassette Roulette, where national record company heavyweights critique songs picked at random from .. a basket of cassettes submitted by the audience. Will you be one of the lucky songwriters? Not unless your song's in the basket! Whether you're a songwriter, publisher, or performer, we've got what you want at this year's Governo( s Conference- mcluding a special segment on Lou1s1ana independent record companies and entrepreneurs. For more mformat10n, call the Lou1s1ana Mus1c Comm1ss1on: Baton Rouge [5041 342-6022; New Orleans [5041 525-0000. The Fifth Annual Governo( s Conference on Music The New Orleans Hilton June 29 and 30 10 am. to 5 p.m. Re!l!stration begms at 8 am. [Hegistratlon at door only.l Two days S35 One day $20 Co-sponsored by the Louisiana Music Commission and Loyola University

JUNE 1985/WAVELENGTH 11 IT'S All MUSIC MARK BINGHAM Jazz Fest: Monday Morning Coming Down It's the old blind-men-and-the-elephant story; azz Fest is over. I'm tired. My the dressing room. Miles says that exhaustion is tempered with all see the Festival in a different way, anyone who plays be-bop in 1985 is J largl! quantities of beer. It's and make it our own. an idiot!' Sunday night after another long day "That's because Miles can't play running around the Fair Grounds. be-bop anymore. He can't even play At 2:30 A.M. there is a party in my a scale in tune. His chops are apartment- a Jazz Fest wrap party. extinct!' Most of those present are from out "What about the slow blues - of town, getting in their last licks the second piece in the first show? before tomorrow's return to the real That was as good as anything I've world. Despite middle age and vari­ ever heard out of Miles' horn!' ous degrees of responsibility, we "He doesn't play trumpet any­ have all found time to do nothing more, he just dresses like a pimp and but clown around for the last week. plays with his johnson!' We like to party and we love New "Miles saw the Bar-Kays and Orleans. imitated their choreographed jerk­ The final Sunday of Jazz Fest is off moves!' rough. This year there was more "It's all Prince's fault, that little music to hear on that day than any whore!' other. Most everyone I was with was "I loved Purple Rain. Really love so fried by the final day that mu~ic the new record!' W~'S secondary to burn-out. Many "Sex, sex, sex, sex, sex ... I'm not : . .;ople sat catatonic in the Gospel ~appy with the aspects of sexuality Tent, not wanting to give up and go that are constantly being pushed in home to bed, but too pooped to advertising and popular music!' pop. By 3 A.M. Sunday morning "Prince should be at the Jazz the party is coming to an end. Some­ Fest!' one has been to Destin and brought "I think his new record is his back some ocean fish. The fish are attempt to destroy his own ~areer. ' on ice, arranged to stare at whoever "I'm glad he didn't show up to walks in the room. We stare back. sing 'We Are The World'" There is talk of cooking the fish, but " 'We Are The World' was the it's all talk. The action is over. The most walked-out-on song of the S< whole group is on tilt. It's becoming Jazz Fest!' more and more difficult to lift a "Even Chris Owens sang it. No glass, let alone make sense. We have . one walked out on her.' stopped making sense and are find­ "At least she didn't sing 'Toot ing it enjoyable. So this is senility, I Toot~' can't wait. We are crude, wobbly "You were wrong. Chris Owens and monosyllabic. Jazz Fest is over deserved to be at the Jazz Fest. In for now. Some of those here for the fact, she should close next year first time will never be the same. instead of Toussaint!' New Orleans hits hard, old habits "Fernest Arceneaux should close break and lightbulb in the head next yeaf.' flashes on and off rapidly. Tired but "John Mooney. He made Ry inspired we rant into the night. Cooder sound like chopped liver.• "AA is not big here!' "The Nevilles are still the best "They have drive-in Daiquiri band in New Orleans!' stands!' "Nine beers and any band is the "No one forced me to go to Fats best band in New Orleans!' Domino's house this year.• "If there's a national disaster I'll "We're in AF - Alcoholics For­ how wonderful New Orleans is. I here!' move here. Great town to be in a ever. Our motto is 'God grant me the always have different reasons for "All men love to talk about them­ crowd!' sanity to realize that an hour drunk thinking it's so wonderful!' selves!' "If you lived here you might feel is worth a lifetime of sobrietY." "Everything I've had to eat here "Yeah, Run DMC does nothing differentlY.' "Partyese, that's what language was covered with oil!' but talk about themselves!' "Look, every scene has its ugly they speak in this town!' "Six months ago New Orleans "They were put-down artists. side, its trash and innuendo. Just "No friction, no confrontation - was a joke. The whole world was Pompous. Inner city auctioneers stick with the beauty and avoid the English as smooth over.• laughing at us. Jazz Fest just selling tired ideas!' horror.• "It's not English and it's Par­ changed that picture. The people of "He was scratching his own "The cliques get to me!' tyease!' this town have asserted their warmth records!" "He who stirs the stinkpot smells "But if you don't speak partyese and uniqueness, taking the spotlight "Kinda nowhere!' the worst!' it's not cool!' away from the greed and corruption "I like hearing their records. It "Well plug up your nose and go "The New Orleans as eternal that were last year's big stories. Peo­ didn't come off outside!' on ahead noW.' party concept is really a bother.' ple want to love New Orleans!' "I couldn't find much to eat out "I heard Uncle Stan and Auntie "It's not the party, it's the food. "It's definitely a party mode, there!' Vera. They played!" Doesn't anyone eat vegetables in quick buck town. Is it hard to work "Did you hear Miles Davis?" "Too new wavey for me!' this town?" here?" "No, too much money for a dou­ "But good new wavey, the guy did "There's nowhere on earth like "The flip side of party is not ble bill of the Emperor's New his Byrne bit, but he was good New Orleans. This place is sJjecial work. It's recover from the party. Clothes!' though. Their whole set was like a and you should fight to preserve it!' what we have here is a party/recover "I call it Vamping for Dollars!' video, always dancing and using "Protective isolationism?" cycle!' "I really missed Al Foster.' space. I like them!' "How does that work with Par­ "New Orleans is poor. I see a lot "Wynton had food donated by "Bryan Lee was terrific!' tyese as the official language? Possi­ of have-nots. They seem to be better some local restaurants. Miles got "Almost better than Albert King!' blx teach it in schools? Berlitz?" off than the New York have-nots!' some little salad!' "I passed out in Tip's on my wed- "People from out of town tell me "I have-not a brain after ten days "Wynton was kissing Miles' ass in ding night listening to Albert King!'

12 WAVELENGTH/JUNE 1985 "I really miss Tipitina's:' Street performers are great:' "You're getting sentimental:' "Do you think Wynton Marsalis "Effective sentimentality is a dar- will end up on Bourbon Street?" ing statement in 1985 :• "No, he's got serious artist dis­ "Why do anything? It's all old ease:• news:• "His brother took a gig with "Your piece last month was too Sting. I heard the guys in the band sentimental. I was embarrassed for get $8,000 a week for 40 weeks a you. The mud, the swing. You could year. What do you think they really become the Rod McKuen of the get?" Eighties:' "The Police really meant some­ "Well I felt it, that's what hap­ thing musically. I'm not sure what pened. I don't write Partyese:' Wynton means:' "But you can party to Roy Orbi­ "He's just a kid, kids like to talk:' son who has a bleak, despairing "But he's to the right of Reagan message in most of his songs:• and he doesn't even know it:' "The greatest living opera singer.' "Kidd Jordan is the player Excitingly Different With · "Orbison was like a viet cong in around here:• An Atmosphere To Match his black silk pyjamas and his wig:' "Earl Turbinton:• "That's his real hair and skin "Maybe Exuma is Dick GregorY.' color.' "He's the Ernie-K-Doe of nutri- "Peelers and feelers. Roy was a tion. One too many fast:' Proper attire please. no blue jeans definite tilt:' "Mockery is the revenge of the "He didn't sing 'Toot Toot: Did impotent:• anyone count the times they heard "Look out, there's a CIA agent Thyrsdav: Ladies Niaht 'Toot Toot'?" under your bed:' "Reagan sang 'TC5ot Toot' at Bit­ "Wayne Bennet hates the blues:• All Unescorted Ladies Receive 3 Free Drinks burg:• "Everyone wants to be someone "He's making MTV videos:• else:• Friday: Two For One "Someone will start MTV... noth­ "Are you going to the Glass ing but Hitler footage. Reagan can House?" · All Bar Brands 2 for 1 'til Midnight narrate, just like Death Valley Days. "Too much smoke and too many Reagan can do it out of the spirit of tourists like us:• Sgturday: Happy Hour Till11p.m. forgiveness:' "You coming back next year?" "Evil that wins is Good. Evil that "We might move here before 75¢ Bottle Beer & Wine • $1.25 Bar Brands loses is Evil:' then:• "Sally Townes is sup,er, did you "More clever Yankees cluttering 8833 W. Judge Perez at Village Square. Phone 279-FACE see her?" up the gene pool:' "Most of the regular Bourbon "I could live here:• 0

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JUNE1985n¥AVELENGTH13 RARE RECORD ALMOST SLIM Early Meters Bon Ton The Meters 1ubilee 4010 orry about last month's S absence, but the purchase, ren­ siD ovation and move into a "new" on home kept me away from the trusty Ra IBM. (Besides, all my records were Jr. packed up in boxes that are only hal Clubs, Festivals, Private Parties now being reopened.) This month's WL Rare Record spotlights the Meters' first album, which dates back to 1969. It's a totally instru­ Zigaboo, Art, George and Leo, mental LP containing their first decked out in mod threads complete three chart singles from the Josie with flashy ascots (nifty). While this label, "Sophisticated CissY,' "Cissy album has been out of print for Strut" and "Ease Back!' some time, many of the tunes found The front cover has an interesting here were reissued recently by the ~BoHDMPsROOi.tA array of clocks, rules and meters, Charly label. ' while the back of the jacket has -Almost Slim ~-~ REVIEWS Sam Cooke find yourself believing the opening TABLES POOL DARTS Live At The Harlem line to "Rose of My Heart!' In fact, SANDWICH SHOP BURGERS,FRI£S Square Club, 1963 Bob and Charles Whitstein may be PO-BOYS It SNACKS the finest country duo to record in RCA AFL1-5181 the last 25 years. On their first MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT SUN Ladle.' 2 Ladle.' Dnft Beer 50' BuKh FREE Rotating $1.25 hat a stunning release! Most album the Whitsteins eschew the FREE Night Night Long Qv.ten Import Bloody definitely the party LP of "good ole boy" duet style (typified $1.25 2 Free 35' Dnft Necka 35' Draft Beer Mal'\/'a W Mo~ 8:00.12:00 $2.25 9p.m. Night 10 a.m. 1985. Live At The Harlem Square by Waylon and Willie, and Moe Pitchers -? 8:00.1:00 4p.m. Club puts Cooke entirely in a differ­ Bandy and Joe Stampley) and their ent light. This is a dramatic depar­ favorite topics of drinking and PATIO NOW OPEN ture from the suave-sophisticated cheating, for songs of love, loneli­ picture most often associated with ness, and longing for a lost home. 4801 MAGAZINE 899-9228 Cooke; instead we are given a rare They sing with a fidelity that speaks glimpse inside the world of one­ of thirty years harmonizing nighters on the chittlin' circuit. together. Cooke goes through a medley of Spiritually the Whitsteins are the his hits-"Cupid;' "Chain Gang;• musical heirs to the Louvin Broth­ "TWistin' The Night AwaY,' etc.­ ers, whose high and mournful but they are so far removed from the sound came to its full anachronistic Reel staid hit versions that they're barely bloom in 1956, the beginning of the recognizable. Instead Cooke rock 'n' roll era. Stylistically, how­ approaches the material with as ever, they owe more to the smoother a f't e r much subtlety as a car horn, tearing sounds of the Blue Sky Boys and through the set like Hurricane Everly Brothers than the nasal tenor Camille. He employs all of the emo­ of Ira, and Appalachian lead of tional tricks he learned during his Charlie Louvin. Three of the songs reel years with the Soul Stirrers, teasing of Rose Of My Heart are Louvin and working the crowd into a state Brothers gems, but the best songs of frenzy that seems on the verge of are "Weary Days" and "Eighth exploding at the conclusion of each Wonder of the World:' On these, song. Bob and Charles modulate playfully Of course Cooke delivers the in and out of harmony, their voices goods on "Bring It On Home To gliding and careening like a couple Me;• which Peter Guralnick rightly of freight cars on a mountain track. challenges in the comprehensive They maintain a tension even in liner notes, "try not to sing along!' their slower material without ever Cooke is more than ably backed by singing hard. the King Curtis Band, augmented With their well-developed vocal by his regular drummer, New Orlea­ style and considerable instrumental nian June Gardner, who refuses to talents (Charles plays mandolin and let up even once. Everyone and their Bob plays guitar), it is surprising brother should have this album. that these brothers from Colfax, of Incidentally, I'm wondering if the Louisiana, have eluded recognition phenomenal success of Solomon for so long. When Rounder I Burke's recent live set inspired RCA recorded them last year, they had left I to unearth these tapes. behind the musical ambitions that quality. • -Almost Slim carried them to the Louisiana Hay­ ride and the Grand Ole Opry in the The Whltsteln Brothers Sixties, and were living in Pineville, Rose Of My Heart Louisiana, playing occasional shows at schools and churches. Rounder Rounder has done more than unveil ~lttasontt ~tu~tos ''We're the best partners this one of Louisiana's musical trea­ world's ever seen, together sures; in Rose of My Heart they've as close as can be!' Listen to the har­ released one of the best country 7210 Washington Ave. - N.O., La. 70125 - {504) 486-4873 monies on this album and you'll albums of the year. -Macon Fry

14 WAVELENGTH/JUNE 1185 Rockin' Dopsle & noW.' It seemed to be an appropriate The Cajun 1\visters description of the relationship Good Rockin' between the serious, determined demeanor of young Marsalis and IT! GNP2167 the playful posture presented by • VCR's opsie's latest from Sonet/ GNP elder statesmen Davis. DCrescendo is easily his best LP What was most obvious about the • Stereo since his "Greatest Hits" collection two trumpeters on this evening was on Rounder. Very heavy French and that both had definitely come to BARD • Power Amps R&B influenced, a Ia Domino and play. There was certainly no beating Jr. Parker, Dopsie only vocalized on around the bush, and the alleged ~ and more! half of the LP's 10 songs, other competition or antagonism, which vocals chores are aptly handled by the media had been pumping up for INC. guitarist Russel Gordon and 'guest' weeks in advance, was completely ~LECfRONICS, Joshua Jackson- who is this guy? absent. In fact, every aspect of each PHONE - who contributes two tremendous performance was a perfect comple­ '1 METAIRIE COURT METAIRlE. WUISIANA 70001 887-0096 performances. Dopsie's accordion ment to the other, right down to wails away in down-home fashion, Davis' flashy black Zorro outfit and while the band plays some of the Marsalis' dignified white suit. hottest stuff this side of Slim's Y ki Davis and his six-piece electric ki. This is some of the best zydeco to band hit the stage and jumped right come our way in some time. Paul into a groove off the Tribute To Jack Senegal, John Hart, Alton Rubin Johnson album. It was clear that Jr. and David Rubin put their all there was a genuine chemistry and into the job - this has to be the hot­ flow of ideas between the band test zydeco band out there. Tracks members. The backgrounds they are from 1983 and are well recorded. · provided for Davis included churn­ A must-get item for all swingers. ing Afro-Cuban funk, heavy metal -Almost Slim reggae, Star Wars freakout, shuf­ fling blues, Spanish-tinged exoti­ cism, and tender, sparse balladry. James Booker Davis soared with both open and King of the New muted trumpet, delivering long lines SALES... SERVICE ... INSTRUCTION Orleans Keyboard with his trademark sound. Even on JSP 1086 a single pop tune like Cyndi ALL MAJOR BRANDS e COMPETITIVE PRICES Lauper's "Time After Time:· Davis e COMPLETE TEACHING FACILITIES he second album in the JSP exhibited a creative approach. His TRecords "James Carroll Booker fine-tuned ensemble accented his 2013 WILLIAMS BLVD. 466·8484 Ill Memorial Bootleg Series" is out, playing, with an economy that made apparently culled from the same every note count. The two main European concert tour that yielded soloists besides Davis were saxo­ album one. phonist Bob Berg and guitarist John Those who see Booker as a syn­ Scofield, who effectively sparred thesizer of the New Orleans pianists and conversed with the trumpeter. who preceded him will be pleased by Having proven his technical prowess the inclusion of "Tipitina" and years ago and having pioneered "Blueberry Hill;' although both countless creative trails in modern cuts are short, with no room for music, it seemed the Miles Davis of development. More interesting are 1985 is content to deliver simple "Black Night;• which is strangely statements of beauty with a broad­ subdued in comparison with the based appeal. "Piano Prince of New Orleans" ver­ Marsalis opened his set with a sion, and "Junco Partner,• with its blasting second line intro intended sublime instrumental intro. to let everyone know that the home­ Five takes on this album had pre­ boy was ready to strut his formida­ viously been recorded by Booker ble stuff. While Davis had empha­ y (some of them almost note for note sized the delicate and sparse, on the Island LP), and while the Marsalis provided a perfect antithe­ r~ playing is never less than fine, this sis with a hard blowing showcase of disc doesn't seem to reach a typical technical proficiency. When the Booker album's quota of extraordi­ young trumpeter did tum his atten­ ~ nary tricks. Booker fanatics and tion to a ballad, "The Nearness Of New Orleans music archivists will You:• his liquid phrasing created a ~; want this release, but surely fresher, lush melodicism, yet he never let al more electrifying samplings of the anyone forget the sheer virtuosity he ld master's art will come to light even­ possesses. Brother Branford's saxo­ ~ g tually. phone work is the perfect foil for f· -Tom McDermott Wynton, with its loose, easy swing. ~n The highlight of the set was a piece er dedicated to Jason, the youngest ft Miles Davis/ Marsalis brother, called "Black at Wynton Marsalis Codes;• which featured the hard­ ~ - Theatre for the driving, bravura-filled influence of Performing Arts Lee Morgan. ~ Just as Davis controlled the direc­ al April26, 1985 tion of his electric ensemble, Marsa­ s. n the midst of the opening Miles lis was clearly the focal point of his e~il IDavis I Wynton Marsalis double acoustic group, and both bands bill, Bob Dylan's classic line kept obviously were feeding off the crea­ e~ coming to mind - "I was so much tive energy of their respective lead­ ry older then, I'm younger than that ers. -Bob C.taliotti EUZABETH FONTAINE 504 838-8750 ry FOR BOOKINGS CAU:

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ew Orleans will host the croak in 1910 but has been laying low because of biological will be the highest earners in a NAMM International Music & on Audubon Place or somewhere. predisposition"? Another topic of technocratic society [heard that one, NSound Expo from June 22 - Among all the product displays, Mr. Wilson's-whose latest book is too], longer life spans will mean 25 at the Convention Center, and demonstrations and ballyhoo that entitled Tone Deaf and All more divorce and the longer life while that might not sound exciting surrounds these things, there are Thumbs? An Invitation to Music spans are coming [though not for to you (oh, another bunch of guys also quite a few seminars, which Making for Late Bloomers and anybody we know since this isn't in strange hats in Bermuda shorts have titles like Using The Computer Non-Prodigies-is the link between going to happen for half-a-century and badges that say Fargo, N. To Stimulate Band Instrument Sales athletes and musicians, although the or so], Japan will slip from 2nd to Dakota or Tipton, Indiana, clutter­ (Sandy Feldstein of Alfred Pub­ differences reside in the stationary 20th place in the ranking of in­ ing up the streetcars), the Conven­ lishing Co.), Everything You position most musicians use while dustrially stable nations, etc. tion includes 23,000 exhibitors and Wanted To Know About Harmon­ performing (has he ever seen Little Actually, Mr. Cetron, who head­ dealers in musical produce, and is icas But Were Afraid To Ask (Dick Richard, Dorothy Love Coates or ed the exploratory development the largest convention the city has Gardner of Hohner), The Use Of even David Lee Roth?) and the fact department of the Navy for two booked this year, and considering Portable Keyboards As A Step-Up that musicians can both go on decades, is a specialist in techno­ projections for local tourism, pro­ To Traditional Organs (three "top forever-look at Casals or Ruben­ logical forecasting and technology bably for the next decade. It's so keyboard retailers") ... well, you get stein-or can begin training at any assessment. And whether or not one large, as a matter of fact, that the the idea. point in life. really believes a word of it, it's never convention has co-opted the River­ If the above simply isn't arcane The second event of interest, is, in completely without interest. Mr. gate because the paltry Convention enough for you, these two events case even this sounds too bland, Dr. Linkin adds, I think rather touch­ Center just won't hold everything. ought to make you sit up, or lie Marvin Cetron, on June 23, in a ingly, "[Dr. Cetron) has told us that The NAMM boys are excited about down depending on where you presentation called "Encounters he has a personal interest in music, the whole thing (as should be local began, and take notice. The first is with the Future." "I'm a forecaster, being a former player in his school hoteliers, restaurateurs and Dr. Frank Wilson, "a neurologist not a futurist. Futurists are general­ days, and that he is eager to offer shopkeepers), and Larry Linkin, and special consultant to the ly utopian-they want things to get his views on where we might be Executive Vice-President of NAMM American Music Conference, who better. [does this make him a dys­ headed." says, "The city has such a musical has gained wide recognition as a topian?] My clients want to know If you want to attend and are not tradition, and we intend to help all leading authority on the relationship where to put their money... " a NAMM member, it is a mere $25 Expo attendees enjoy that tradition between the brain and an Among Dr. Cetron's previous to check all of this-not the dinner to the fullest. We have some un­ individual's capacity to play a forays into the land of Mother Ship­ dance, but all of the presentations believable musical events scheduled musical instrument," will present ton, Nostradamus and the Amazing and seminars and exhibitions at the during the show"-chief among (afternoon of June 22) a discussion Criswell are the following: Reagan Convention Center and the River­ them, Gumbo Ya Ya, an "All­ of such things as mounting evidence will resign from office to give gate; you can register on-site or Industry Dinner Dance" at the that musical training changes the George Bush a chance, because of avoid lines by writing for pre-regi­ Superdome with a passel of gospel way the brain processes sound infor­ technological advances the work stration to: The National Associ­ singers, snake dancers and Pete mation-and thus do the differences week will be 20 hours [heard that ation of Music Merchants, 5140 Fountain, all of it narrated by Mark between musicians and the rest of us one before], and 'creative Avenida Encinas, Carlsbad, CA Twain who, one supposes, didn't exist "because of training or people' -chefs, artists, writers, etc. 92(X)8. (]

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he cover of Ann Allen Savoy's new book not completely dissimilar. And, most importantly, entitled Cajun Music: A Reflection Of A both couples· have etched a permanent place for T People s\lows an old photographic portrait themselves in the history of Acadian music. of the legendary accordionist Joe Falcon and his The Savoys, together with Beausoleil's Michael wife Cleoma Breaux Falcon. Perhaps unwittingly, Doucet, have recorded two beautiful traditional the aufhor may have sensed a subtle kinship across Cajun albums for Arhoolie Records, including time and tradition, between the seminal duo and last year's Les Harias Home Music (Arhoolie she and her husband, Marc Savoy. In fact, the 5029). This album is alternately playful and poign­ Falcon/ Breaux and Savoy I Allen comparisons are ant with Doucet's marvelously slippery fiddle and numerous. Falcon sang and played diatonic accor­ Ann Savoy's child-like tremulous vocals playing dion, so does Marc. Ann accompanies her hus­ off Marc's virtuoso accordion. "Our music is not band on guitar and vocals, as did Cleoma. The some heirloom to be taken off the shelf once a Savoys may spend an afternoon playing many .of year;' Marc says on the subject of homemade the same songs as their predecessors, in the same music. "We believe Cajun music is a natural part pure Cajun style. Even their choice of clothes is of. everyday life~'

JUNE1985AMAVELENGTH19 on lry Lejeune, followed by Aldus Roger, Lawrence Walker, and the father/son duo of Shir­ ley and Alphee Bergeron. The music of the Balfa family gets a large section entitled "A Return To Traditional Fiddle Music;• followed by the "Mod­ ern Cajun Song Writers" D.L. Menard and Belton Richard, including Menard's signature "La porte d'en arriere" ("The Back Door") and a radio talk between Belton Richard and Shirley Bergeron. The Creole and Zydeco sections feature Bois Sec Ardoin, Canray Fontenot, The Carriere Brothers, John Delafose, Rockin' Dopsie, Clifton Chenier, and a delightful interview with the unac­ claimed granddaddy of Zydeco, Claude Faulk. "Claude Faulk was the man from whom Rockin' Dopsie and Clifton learned a lot of their music;• Mrs. Savoy explains. "He was the king of 'laJa: the music that came before Zydeco:• The elderly Mr. Faulk has not been recorded to date, but he has passed on many of his songs to his younger followers, mcludmg Chenlef'~s popular .. Lucille~~ Ann Allen Savoy was raised in Richmond, Vir­ ginia. She has played guitar since the age of twelve, studied French for the past 15 years, and taught high school French. In 1976 she met Marc < Savoy at the National Folk Music Festival in < Washington, D.C. A year later they were married. The Savoys live eight miles outside Eunice, Lou­ isiana, with their three children, Sarah, 7, Joel, 5, and Wilson, 4. Home is a beautifully restored cypress Acadian cottage that has been in the Savoy family for generations. Thrkeys and sheep rest nearby or amble up to the gate when the family stationwagon pulls into the canopy of live oaks. A short walk from the house is Marc's barn-like workshop, bathed in the sweet scent of fresh­ worked wood. It is up here that he fashions the basic elements of his internationally acclaimed Acadian accordions.

JUNE 1985/WAVELENGTH 21 arc first became interested in CaJun accordion arrived, it was only natural that some of stranger in a crowd would be an understatement. I music in 194'7, at the age of seven, after it had to leak out through my fingers:• he recalls. would have been the laughing stock of my school M hearing his grandfather play Cajun fid­ "I think my rate of improvement must have been had it been known that I listened to Cajun music~ dle: "The thing that impressed me as much as the about directly proportional to the degeneration of Undaunted, he continued to build, repair, and sounds being emitted from the little wooden box my Hohner.• play accordions in his spare time. was the look that came over my grandfather's Not long after his assault on the Hohner The early Sixties found him playing in a popular face. Thinking back over that moment, it was as diatonic had begun, young Savoy was exposed to Cajun band called The Rambling Aces, whose though he was no longer in the room with us. He the superior tonal qualities of a pre-WWI German manager, an ostentatious young music entrepre­ had escaped to some private little world all his "Monarch" accordion, an experience that was to neur named Huey Meaux, would later take on own. From that moment on I remember thinking, have a profound effect on his future. He soon such popular acts as Dale and Grace and Freddy 'When I grow up I want to be able to make sounds acquired a broken-down Monarch and was able to Fender. The Aces earned a solid Cajun following like that also:" restore it to original condition, having already dis­ with authentic releases like "99 Year's Waltz" and Though they weren't musicians themselves, sembled the Hohner a number of times. Thus "The Wedding March!' Marc's parents had a deep appreciation for Cajun began Marc Savoy's obsession to design and build As his disillusionment with the rigors and artis­ music and would often hold "Bals De Maison" in the world's finest accordion. tic compromises of honky-tonking grew, Savoy their home. Before he had reached his teens, Marc Throughout his teenage years Marc's love and quit the barroom gigging and poured himself into became the proud owner of a $27.50 Hohner respect for the Cajun tradition grew, a fact that full-time accordion building. Using a few simple accordion, via Sears & Roebuck. "With all the often put him out of vogue with his rock 'n' roll­ tools, a handful of electronic equipment, and with music that had soaked into me before my new ing peers: "To say that my school days were like a plenty of hard work, he wrestled the age-old prob­ lems of woodwind design: "I was faced with years of making and remaking until finally I I began to get an actual 'feel' of my work. It became almost like a spiritual communion just by touching my work. I would grasp a piece that I was working on and I would get a feeling that this piece had completely delivered itself to my every whim. It was as though I was in total control over something that had potential, but was also inert!' By 1%5 Savoy had arrived at the original ver­ sion of his "Acadian" brand accordion; he found that most of the better local players were using his • instrument because of its superior response and CAPP'S tonal characteristics. Almost a decade later he 111 N. Carrollton Ave. would hear the phenomenal playing of Canadian Philipe Bruneau on bis instrument and take the Acadian back to the drawing board for a final revi­ sion. Only after he was satisfied that he had an instrument that could "keep up with Mr. Bru­ neau" did he call that legendary accordionist and, in typical Cajun fashion, invite/ demand Bruneau to come from Montreal and pick up the instru­ ment in person. The Acadian is currently considered to be the best diatonic accordion money can buy. Savoy spares no expense in construction. Using the fin­ est materials such as bird's-eye maple and Brazil­ We said: Tell us what you want New Orleans! ian rosewood, he achieves a masterful level of fun!! Pure, unadulterated fun!! craftsmanship. His lathe work seems relaxed and You said: We want effortless, but finely focused. Five hundred and We said: You want pure? You got pure! thirty-two individual parts go into each instru­ ment, by hand. Consequently, the price is more than twice that of an assembly line instrument, yet Two large dance floors Savoy still can't build instruments fast enough for Everything from the demand by people willing to buy the hand­ made Acadian. New Wave to Live Music Savoy spent several frustrating years trying to educate his clientele to the inherent wisdom of Tuesday and Thursday- Ladies' Night investing in quality, but he believes that "it takes a Wednesday- Hard core Night very stubborn and hardheaded person who believes enough in his work to be able to disregard 2-for-1 Happy Hour the opinion of the majority and cater only to a select minoritY.' Everyday 3:30-7:00 p.m. Today he tries to educate his listening audience by playing in the pure Cajun tradition. At one point in his career, however, Savoy became fed up with the large-scale folk festival circuit ("a prep You want pure?? Get Pure!!! school for folkie5") enough to quit playing festi­ vals entirely. "But I have changed my opinion and started going to folk festivals:• he points out, "to offer an alternative. There's no glitter, no glam­ CAPP'S our, everything is cut down to the bone. There's no bullshit, no gimmick. All there is, is good, solid, powerful Cajun music. My calling in life seems to be that I have to set an example, I have to offer an KIND OF PURE alternative. A lot of people have accused me of 'taking the icing off the cake: but I'm saying the cake js so damn good it don't need icing! You don't need to put any goop on it, but if you wanna Call For Listings put some goop on it, let's use real sugar and but­ 484-6554 ter, let's not use saccharine and margarine and powdered milk and all this crap. Let's keep it pure, you know?" 0

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As Rockin 'Sidney Simien s zydeco ditty 'Von 't Mess With My Toot-Toot" inspires covers by such as Fats Domino and Do us ershaw, Jean Knishts version hits the Billboard Hot 100 and Creedence Clearwater s fohn Foserty visits the bayou to "Toot-Toot" with Sidney for a Showtime video special.

24 WAVELENGTH/JUNE 1985 by Ben Sandmel

uge corporations may dominate the record business, but they have yet to H achieve an absolute stranglehold. Inde- pendent fluke hits still break through, occasion­ ally, from a wide variety of grass-roots sources. 1\venty-some years ago, for instance, Baton Rouge bluesman Slim Harpo hit the national Top Ten with "Baby, Scratch My Back!' A recent odd­ ball success was Jump 'n' The Saddle's "Curley Shuffle:• which paid tribute to The Three Stooges. Unique as such breakthroughs were, though, they were one-shot affairs that didn't spawn any cover versions. But the latest national trend-bucker has The author, Rockin' Sidney, recorded "Toot-Toot" at his home in Lake Charles. inspired a flurry of colorful competition. The excitement, jockeying and gossip are worthy of a heated "break your face" warning which the song a zydeco record should hit big in New Orleans; for Louisiana governor's race. issues to would-be toot-toot messers. it to happen mainly through grapevine exposure, The record in question, of course: is Rockin' Rockin' Sidney Simien recorded "Toot-Toot" without substantial radio support, is nothing Sidney's "Don't Mess With My Toot-Toot:' As about a year ago, at his home in Lake Charles. He short of incredible. zydeco goes, "Toot-Toot" is hardly a masterpiece, overdubbed all the instruments himself, except for With "Toot-Toot" a proven hit, the cover ver­ or even an especially representative number. It's a drum machine. This was an unfortunate choice, sions began to appear. The first was by Jean "Mr. undeniably catchy, though, and has now evolved given the presence of great zydeco drummers like Big Stuff' Knight. Her vocal performance is into a certifiable craze. "Toot-Toot" was played to Robert Peter and Nat Jolivette, but the computer strong, but producer Isaac Bolden replaced Sid­ death at the Jazz Fest, with renditions by Cajun age is apparently relentless. In any case, "Toot­ ney's accordion with a strident synthesizer, and bands (including traditional fiddler Dewey Balfa), Toot" first appeared on Sidney's My Zydeco abandoned such Creole-isms as "Fais pas ca!" zydeco bands, New Orleans R&B singers (such as Shoes Got The Zydeco Blues album, on Floyd (Don't do that!) for "Yeah you rite!" As a result, "Frogman" Henry), rural blues outfits, and mar­ Soileau's Maison de Soul label, out of Ville Platte, an authentic regional hit has lost much of its ching brass bands (like the Olympia Brass Band, Louisiana. At that time a tune called "What's charm, thanks to bland homogenization. Bolden who have already recorded it). You could hardly Good For The Goose Is Good For The Gander" was able to arrange a national distribution deal, stroll around the racetrack infield without hearing was regarded as the album's most likely hit single. however - something which Swallow Records the familiar strains, and the tune was similarly distinctly lacks- and Jean Knight's version, on prominent at the River City Blues Festival in the Soulin' label, is now nationally charted. As of Baton Rouge. Most significantly, there are now six y early this winter, however, the "Toot­ May lOth it was No. 59, with a bullet, on the Bill­ recorded versions, with God knows how many Toot" phenomenon began to manifest board Pop Charts. Billboard editor Fred Good­ more to come. Bitself. When Rockin' Sidney opened a man anticipates a Top 20 rating. While it's great It's a difficult and subjective matter to analyze Solomon Burke concert in Plaquemines, the that Jean Knight has another hit, it's a shame that "Toot-Toot"'s popularity, but one factor may be emcee- Baton Rouge OJ E. Rodney Jones­ many listeners will never learn of the tune's true the ambiguous lyrics. What ex<\Ctly does "toot­ made quite a few witty references to the song. It origins. toot" mean? For starters, it does not refer to turned out that most of the audience knew the lyr­ WYLD, New Orleans' leading black station, cocaine. "Toot" is an anglicization of the French ics by heart, and Sidney led them in a mass sing­ was playing both Sidney's and Jean Knight's ver­ word "tout:• which means "all:' and "toot-toot" along. Since the record was at this point receiving sion around Carnival time. "Then:' explains pro­ translates idiomatically as "everything!' "It's just only minimal airplay, such underground popular­ gram director Del Spencer, "we had to choose one a term of endearment:• explains Ann Savoy, ity made a big impression on the music-business or the other, and our audience poll was 2 to 1 for author of the definitive book Cajun Music: A professionals in attendance. Cleon Floyd was Jean Knight:' Spencer discounts Cleon Floyd's Reflection OfA People. "Some people read some­ especially impressed, and went on to play a crucial charge that the decision was based on WYLD's thing dirty into it that's not necessarily there. It role in establishing the "Toot-Thot" dynasty. business interest in Knight's record. "We feel it's ' was used in another song title, "Ma Cherie Toute­ Floyd-the manager/uncle of R&B singer King our responsibility to play as many New Orleans toute:• by the Cajun fiddler J .B. Fusilier, quite a Floyd - is also the president of the New Orleans artists as possible:• he adds. few years back!' Street Jocks Association. This organization serves Knight's great success inspired a direct cover by Rockin' Sidney is noncommittal on the subject. as an informal union of sorts for the record spin­ soul singer Denise LaSalle, best known for "Everyone asks me what a 'toot-toot' is, and I just ners who work area clubs and discos; it settles dis­ "Trapped By A Thing Called Love" and an x­ tell them it's whatever you want it to be:' he has putes among jocks, keeps people from rated version of "Downhome Blues!' Malaco stated. Nevertheless there are some distinctly undermining the price structure, and allows the Records of Jackson, Mississippi, was so confide.nt erotic nuances. Nick Spitzer, director of the Loui­ jocks to buy records at wholesale cost. Floyd in LaSalle's rendition that they took the radical siana Folklife Program, reports that "a Creole brought 20 copies of Sidney's single back to New step of recalling and re-pressing a completed musician explained to me, with some embarrass­ Orleans with him, quickly distributed them, and album so that "Toot-Toot" could be included. ment, that a tout-tout is: 'well ... I can't say it... had to re-order. By Carnival time, the record was Like Isaac Bolden, the Malaco producers elimina­ well ... it's something underneath a lady's dress!" all over area jukeboxes and discos, and Soileau ted all authentic "zydeco-isms" from their ver­ This translation would certainly explain the was running out of pressings. It's odd enough that sion.

JUNE 1985/WAVELENGTH 25 Fogerty on the bayou. "It's such a unique song, the kind that'll be around long after you and I are gone."

iven John Fogerty's lyrical fascination with swamps and b~yous, it's not surpris­ Ging that he, too, should board the "Toot­ Toot" bandwagon. On May 1 the former Creedence Clearwater leader recorded his version at Master Trak Studios in Crowley, Louisiana, with backing by Rockin' Sidney and band. Fogerty ftrst learned of the song from Bob Merlis, a staff member at Warner Brothers Records. Merlis, a Cajun/zydeco enthusiast, was pitching the record to Warner executives in the hope that they might pick it up for distribution. "Their deci­ sion not to do so made sense in a waY,' Fogerty said in a recent phone interview from WB head­ quarters. "It would have been a hard record for them to work with. But at the same time I felt bad that they passed on it. It's such a unique song, the kind that'll be around long after you and I are gone. "My thoughts started to run away with them­ selves;• Fogerty continued expansively. "I started thinking about the song, and examining it closely, and I thought, 'to be a serious pop contender, what this song needs is more words, since the lyrics repeat several times~ Then I thought, 'What if some mythical person sang it in a higher register, a little more raw and bluesy, with a real drummer instead of a machine?' "My thoughts continued to run awaY,' he went on, "and I decided that I would be that mythical person, and to record it in Louisiana to get the right feel. From there it was a logical step to go ~ right to the source and record with Rockin' Sidney J and his band. I called Chris Strachwitz at l Arhoolie Records and he put me in touch with Sidney and Floyd Soileau. The whole thing was put into motion very quicklY.' Fogerty did add some lyrics, but only with the permission of both Sidney and Soileau. "I'm not taking credit or changing the royalty situation or anything like that:' he explained. "It's sort of analagous to when the Beach Boys recorded 'Sur· ftn' U.S.A~ and used the tune to Chuck Berry's 'Sweet Little Sixteen~ I'm just expanding a little on someone else's established idea~' For the time ALWAYS WEAR A HELMET AND EYE PROTECTION. Fora free broc1ue, see )'OUI"HondaScoolerdealer. Call·lm-447-4700irthedealernearestyou. Oi985AmericanllondaM<>oor-Co., Inc.

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:RON A JUNE LISTINGS JON NEWLIN & DIANA ROSENBERG ulal to 2. Frank Trapam. 2:30 to 4:30. Tues.11 : 7 the winner IS announced th1s evemng at 7, QUOTES OF THE MONTH: "Ttme does not con· Li'l CONCERTS Oklahoma Jazz Ensemble, from 3. Wed .12: Air June 3. Dennts Assaf leads the Jefferson sole, 11 eftaces ."-Francots Gutzot. Rae Saturday, 1 Force Sky Power Band, 1 to 2. Sat.15 Teddy Chamber Symphony and the Jefferson Com­ " If you think ... that anything like a romance ts Fer Riley. 1 to 3. Sun 16: Layten Martens. 1 to 3. mumty Chorus m a Bach and Handel program at prepanng for you . reader. you never were more Ma Summer Dance Festival, from 12:30 to 6.30 Sat.22: Clive Wilson's Camellia Jazz Band , 1 to 8. June 5 at 8, Gilbert and Sullivan's The mtstaken Do you an!lc1pate senllment. and Bar p.m .. Lafayette Square-maybe they'll stage one 3. Sun 23 : Netl Unterseher's Raspberrie Rag­ Sorcerer, stmulcast on Channel 12; June 8 at poetry, and revene? Do you expect passion. and Roc of those "Dances To Summer" that Jules Feiffer ltmers, 1 to 3. Sat.29 to be announced . Sun 30 : 10:30 a.m.: Beverly Sills talks wtlh Terry Gross sttmulus . and melodrama? Calm your expecta· Pen was always doing cartoons about-the partlct· Misstssippi Panorama. 1 to 2, followed by a band on Fresh Alf. June 10 at 8. Claude Frank per­ lions; reduce them to a lowly standard. s~ ope paling groups are the Komenka Ethnic Dance to be announced . forms Debussy. Ginastera. Beethoven and thtng real. cool. and solid lies before you, some­ Poll Ensemble, Kumbuka Dance ana Drum Collective, Schube" at 8. June 11 t1me I. b.a .. Wynton Mar­ thing unromantic as Monday mormng . " 521 Pterre Descant on fiddle with Peggy's Cajun FESTIVALS salis performs Haydn 's E-flat Trumpet Concerto -Charlotte Bronte. Shlfley fror Dancers. the Amencan Gypsy Theatre, the New Tyll Orleans Performing Company. and the New Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 j3Zl Orleans Repertory Dance Theatre. Kenner Okra Festival, Williams Blvd at 3rd St., anc Ivy, aboard the Natchez, beginning around 10. from 10 p.m. Saturday and from 1 p.m. Sunday. WPJ Monday, 3 468-7200, ext.474 zle. Cenlabralion, downtown Alexandria, next to Con­ day Frankie Goes To Hollywood, I don't know about vention Hall. 318·442-6671 ; 318-442-3711 : you but I'm susptcious of any group that makes ~ thetr film debut in a Bnan DePalma picture. 318- 445-4531. ext 103. Saenger, 8 p.m. Sunday 2 Au( Wednesday, 5 Bayou liberty Pirogue Races, St. Genevteve var Tut Happy Together wtth The Turtles, Gary lewis and Church. 3'h miles west of Slidell on LA 433. 255-2384 or 641·7322. mo· the Playboys, The Buckinghams, The Grass us Roots -dozens of chart-toppers between them. Friday 7 and Saturday 8 ThL plus Rob Grill-one of the closest things to a male Mamou Cajun Music Festival, Jaycee Park on TuE sex symbol 1n that dismal patch that was post· Mam Street . Paul Tate. Jr • POB 200. Mamou Fn Elvls·pre·sike·a·delia. plus the group that made LA. 318-468-5266. ThL the fastest version I've ever heard of Lawdy, Ulti Mtss Clawdy, etc etc .. at the Hibernia Bank Friday 7 through Sunday 9 Pavilion in Audubon Park. 8 p.m. "Taste ol louisiana" & Chill Cookoff, Sulphur, Saturday, 8 Cal Cam Fatrgrounds. Algia J Johnson. PO Drawer X. Sulphur 70664, 318·527-9371, Ivy, 9 p.m. at the American legion Hall, 2431 Jambalaya Festival, Gonzales. Estelle Carpenter. Metairie Rd. This is a benefit for Marine Distract­ POB 1243, Gonzales 70707-1243, men! (many of us could tell stories about how 504·622·2331 . we've distracted Mannes during the Cold War era, but they would. natch, be unlit for the eyes Sunday, 9 or mucous membranes of the readers of this Black Heritage Celebration, Morgan City. PG-13 publication. and aren't you relieved?); 504-385-5785 . information at 467-0022 or 469-1409 . Acadian Village Swamp Pop Music Festival, Sunday, 9 lafayette. 318-232-3737 Chamber Singers of the Concert Choir of New Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 Orleans, 3 p.m. at the Playhouse. Longue Vue Louisiana Peach Festival, Ruston. POB 150, House and Gardens, 7 Bamboo Road, $2 with ad­ Ruston 71273-0150. 318-255-2031 mtssion to gardens. Saturday 22 and Sunday 23 Wednesday, 12 Flllclana Puch Festival, Courthouse Square, Kltrlnland thl Waves, Jimmy's, I think, in her Clinton. Gordon Peters. POB 8186, Clinton quasi-Renoiresque way Katrina is a looker, 70722. although the band's Big Song reminds me-not uncomfortably-of Lesley Gore's similarly titled Friday 28 through Sunday 30 excursion 1nto Epic Sentimental Metaphor, Sun­ Bayou LaCombe Crab Festival, Lacombe Park, LA shine, Lollipops and Rainbows. 190. Tom Aicklen, Dorothy Calderone, Marge Madere. POB 1573, LaCombe 70445; Saturday, 15 504-882·7218, 581-1720 or 882-5972 Bobby Cure and the Summertime Blues, on the KayCee Fishing Rodeo, Hwy 190 W. Houma. w. Natchez. starting about 10 p.m. Donald Melancon, POB 1492, Houma 70360; Cab Calloway atreating over the ether... Sunday, 23 504-879-1032. and in fJBTSon at the Blue Room through Tuesday 4. Milllton Festival, Jeanerette. 318·276-5851 Albtt1 Collns , after whose brother Tom a drink was named. and Lonnie Brooks . Storyville Jazz RANDOM Friday, 28 through July 7 Club, 9 p.m. OUTTATOWN Festival International de Jazz de Montreal, wtth Violent Femmes, McAlister Auditorium, Tulane; DNERSIONS 800 musicians. Need one say more? InformatiOn this is one of the great group monickers remin­ Monday, 3 at 514-871-1881 , or for credtl card holders. ding us of the famous 1938 French pic that ran La Fete, this generally under-publictzed event The 7th Annual "Event ol the Year" Jacques 514-288-3782 By matl 355 rue Ste . Cathenne into censor-and-scissor problems in this country, begins at the end ol June wtth Festtval Fanfare at d' Ambolst National Dance Institute. Madtson Ouest. port 301 Montreal. OC . Canada H3B lAS. Club des Femmes. part of whose plot was. accor­ the Sheraton Hotel lobby, at 5 p.m. on June 27, Square Garden. New York Ctty, 1n the Felt ding to the New York Times reviewer, devoted to including a J3ZZ parade and ceremomes for the Forum-Andrew Jackson and the Battle of New " the borderline young woman, stifling her im­ National Festival ot FOOd and Cookery 1985. Orleans. starring 1,200 school children plus Mr. UVEMUSIC pulse toward the innocent young blond [sic) in Fri.28: Classes-each Friday unttl Aug.3-thrice d'Amboise who in his younger days bore an un­ the next room, but dnven to murder when her daily (Creole Brunch at 9 a.m .• SeafOOd & Poultry canny resemblance to Joe Dallesandro in his .... UPTOWN vestal is outraged through the conmvance of the at 11:30 a.m. Favorite N.O. Rectpes at 2 p.m.) younger days, Judy Collins, Cloris Leachman (as Benny's, Camp at Valence. Live mustc on Mon· club's serpent.." Wow! with such masters of both the performmg and General Packenham? Domtmque You? Governor days. culinary arts as Joe Cahn of the N. 0. Cooking Claiborne?), Shaun O'Bnen, Ann Reinkmg, Tony Carrollton Station, 8140 Wtllow. 865-9190. Friday, 28 School, Frank Bailey of Indulgence, Tom Kovacs Randall, the Harlem Boys' ChOir, and the New Mostly blues or blues-related Sat . 1 Johnny J Thr11 Ooa Night , 8 p.m., Hibernia Bank Pavilion, ol the Sheraton, Emeril Lagasse of York City Dancing Police Officers. and the Hitmen. Sat.8. R.l Burnstde . Sat 15: Audubon Park-guess all these shows there are Commander's, Jason Clevenger of the Upperline, Friday, 7 through Sunday, 9 Scott Detweiler Sat.22 R.l Burnside something like Old Timer's Night at the Boston that great cooking-and-comedy team (when Caronna's, 2032 Magazine. 523-8527. Call, 1f Chicago 2nd Annual Blues Festival, around town. Pops when the bejeweled and bewheelchaired together) Chris Kerageorgiou of La Provence and you dare. performances by Koko Taylor. Etta James. audience would listen to the likes of After The Ball Goffredo Fraccaro of La Riviera. Michel Marcais with "Guitar Jumor' • Johnson, Stevte Ray Glass House, 2519 South Saratoga, 895-9279. and Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-De-Ay .. . of the Sonesta and many others: $15 per ses· luther Vaughn, and mo' and mo' Information at Mondays The Chosen Few wtth Tuba Fats sion, at diverse locations (June 28 at the Jimmy's, 8200 Wtllow. 866-9549 Sat.1 the Saturday, 29 312-744-3315 Sheraton), and naturellement. you get to taste ever-lovely John (••ck me baby. • •ck me baby. Top Cats, on the Natchez, from about 10 p.m. the stuff. Also each Saturday. from 8:30 a.m • Saturday, 8 all night long. as he used to sing) Kay and Sp1ce of life tours, caravanserai to spice and A Day In The Country, at Moneyhtll Plantation tn Steppenwolf (thank God he dtdn't name that fOOd manufacturers. bakeries. and coffee Abita Springs, from 10 a m. Softball, picnicking . band Magtster Ludt) . Thurs.6. Reality Pallo and CONCERT roasters, followed by a tradtllonal LoUisiana pony rides, Cajun music. raffles. water slide. and the Rogues. Fn .7: Future Image . Sat.8 : Multiple lunch, $35 per person (so the lunch may be a bit more. A benefit for the N.O. Ctty Ballet; tickets Places. Wed .12: Katrina and the Waves SERIES more substantial than a potato po-boy wtth gravy. from the Ballet's office at 522-0996. Thurs.13 Socials and Pnvate Joy (as opposed. Brown Bag Concerts, in Lafayette Square. 11 :30 a Hubig's pie, all washed down w1th a Barq's). one tmagmes. to public nUisances) . Fn.14: a.m. to 1 p.m., Wednesdays. 5: Val Barbara and Bus leaves from the Sheraton at that early Thursday, 13 through Wednesday 19 Radtators . Sat .15. Exuma Thurs .20 Teaser. his Fantastic Band. 12: Oklahoma Jazz Ensem­ hour- since bakers and coffee roasters usually SummerArts Piano Festival in the Rockies. Fri.21. Network Sat 22: the Cold . Fri.28 : TBA. ble. 19 Mason Ruffner and H1s Blues Rockers. hitthetr stride around 6 15 a.m • we're told . The Workshops. guest recitalists. compellllons. lee· Sat.29. Uncle Stan and Auntie Vera 26: The Shepherd Band. FOOd Fest at the Rivergate. a smtdgen of this and turers and classes Information at 801 -581 -6762 Maple leaf, 8316 Oak. 866-359 Sundays: The French Market Concerts, Sat.1. Kid Sheik Colar. a smtdgen of that. and asoupcon of cette et cette or by mail from Susan Duehlmeier or Bonme Grit­ Contmental Drifters. Mondays: Juke Box Jury 1 to 3 Sun.2. Murphy Campo, 1 to 3. Thurs.6: et cette is Sat.29 and Sun.30. ton. Directors of SummerArts, Universtty of Utah Night. Wed J. Monque 'D. Thurs.: Bourre. Air Force Sky Power Band, 1 to 2. Sat.8: Pud WWNO. 90FM. June 1 at 7: The Seventh Van Music Depart. Gardner Hall 204, Salt lake City, Sat.l : File. Tues.4. classical guitanst Russell Brown, 1 to 3. Sun.9: Mississippi Panorama, 1 Cliburn International Piano Competttlon. June 2 at Utah 84112. Brazzel. Fri 7: John Rankin and the Spectac- l ASSIFIEDS

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JUNE 1985/WAVELENGTH 33 5 Sat. B. Beausoleil. Tues.11: TBA. Fri.14: Tomato. On the last Sunday of each month. the U'l Queeme and her Boys of Joy. Sat.15: New Orleans Jazz Club holds an open )am ses­ Oadiators. Tues .18 R.L. Burnside. Fn.21 sion m the lounge. ernest Arceneaux and the Thunders. Sat.22. McAllister's, 3619 Fat City Avenue. 456-1525. ~arcia Ball. Tues.25. Mount Pontchartrain String Tues 4. Nasty Nasty. Tues.11 . P1. Tues 18. S.S. &nd. Fn.28: Anson Funderburgh and the Steel. Tues.25 Lillian Axe. liackets Sat.29. Exuma. Showboat, 3712 Hessmer Ave .. 887·9682 Man ~nny Post, 5110 Danneel. Sundays. Always and Thurs. from 10: Jake the Snake. Sat.1. R.C. ~en mike. Check the board as you go in Sal.15 Dmo Kruse Band. Fri.21: Seven. ~-··-':~!:lt:~1:-::-n H:tc+,.---20~~- ~t. Chu1:;::; A-.~., 124·0581 Piano bar m the Bayou Lounge mghtly" ..,.. MID-CITY rom 5 yler's, 5234 Magazine. 891-4989. Modern Capps, 111 N. Carrollton. 484·6554 . Call for zz. Mondays. the M1ke Pellera Trio. Tuesdays listings. Jmd Thursdays Leslie Sm1th and Co Chinatown, 1717 Canal St. 525-7937. Fridays· Wednesdays· Ellis Marsalis and Germaine Baz­ Vietnamese mus1c from 9. Other nights: Voi e. Fridays and Saturdays James Rivers. Sun­ nhung chuang dac sac do cac nghe si thai danh lays. Willie Tee. tu San Francisco, Los Angeles. Houston .. ve trinh d1en . V01 cac loai thus pham kho dac sac. LAKEFRONT Co ban va cho muon bang nhac. VIdeo tape, cassette gie's Delago, West End Park Rock and roll of Dorothy's Medallion, 3232 Orleans Ave. R&B. rious sorts. Sat 1 and Sun 2 The Clique. Fri. -Sat · Johnny Adams with Walter Washington ues4. Mislead Wednesdays through the and the House Band. ~onth Tncks. wh1ch JUSt as Mark Lindsay told Ike's, 1710 N. Broad . 944·9337. R&B. Sundays: s about K1cks. keep gettmg hard to fmd Chuck Jacobsen and the Wagon Train Band . ~hurs.6. Edge . Sat.7-Sun.9: Perfect Strangers Parkview Tavern, 910 N. Carrollton. 482-2680 . 'ues 11 Ground Zero. Thurs.13: Edge. Fri . 7: Paula and the Pontiacs. Call for the balance True West, photographed standing on a floor vent, n.14-Sun.16· Rainstreet. Tues.18. TBA. of the month's hshngs. urs.20: Arm Wrestling Tournament. Fn.21. an with Alex Chiffon and Multiple Places, Dream Palace, Saturday 1. timate Ridiculous Co. ntest .. for which we could ggest many candidates. but w111 refrain from ~ N.O. EAST Bayard's Jazz Alley, 701 Bourbon. 524-9200. Marriott Hotel, 581-1000. Tues.-Sat., 8-11 ing so. sponsored m conJunction w1th WTIX . Beau Geste, 7011 Read Blvd., 242·9710. Thursdays-Sundays: Banu Gibson. p.m., Jeanne D' Avray in the River View Lounge. tri.21-Sun.23: Silk-n-Steel. Tues.25 and Blue Room, in the Fairmont Hotel, 529-7111. Mahogany Hall, 309 Bourbon. 525-5595. Fri. ·Sat.. 10-3. Richard Madda and the Rich Thurs.27: TBA. Upstatrs: Sat.1-Sun.2: The Boys. , Dancing. dining. chic and eclat. Through Tues.4: Tues.-Sun .. 8 p.m.-1 a.m .: the Mahogany Hall ubry Twms Fn 7-Sun.9: Murmers. Fri. The Club, 1701 St. Bernard, 947-9334 . Jazz the high-cotton tones of Cab and Chris Calloway. Jazz Band (on Fridays and Saturdays, the band 14-Sun.16: TBA. Fn .21-Sun.23: The Aubry workshops every Sunday 7·11. Wed.5 to Tues.18: the ineffable Lainie Kazan . plays an hour later at both ends of the clock and ms Fn.28-Sun.30 : TBA . From Wed .19: Buddy Greco. Reservations. has Mary Mayo as vocalist). Mondays: Banu Gib­ e Bounty, 1926 West End Park. 282-9144. ~WEST BANK Bonaparte's Retreat, 1007 Decatur. 561·9473. son. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. un. and Wed. at .10: Stitch. Call for the balance Music changes daily-walk by and check. Maxwell's, 400 Burgundy, 522-0879. Call for the month's listings. Bronco's, 1409 Romain. Gretna. 368-1000. Brew House, Jackson Brewery. Decatur St., listings. xus, 6200 Elys1an Fields. 288-3440. Call for Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays: 525-9843. Friday nights and Saturday and Sun­ Old Absinthe House, 400 Bourbon. Wednesdays· formation. Mississippi South day brunch: Home Grown. Sundays: Bryan Lee and the Jumpstreet Five. ~frivateers, 6207 Franklin Ave .. 288-5550. New 1801 Club, 1801 Stumpf Blvd .. 367·9670. Wed­ Cajun Country, 327 Bourbon, 523-8630. Mon .-Tues.: Mason Ruffner and the Blues :nusic. Sat.1. Soc1als. Sat. B. The T1mes. Sat.15: nesdays through Saturdays : Janet Lynn and Ya Tues.-Sun: the Gela Kaye Band at 8. Mon.-Wed .: Rockers. orce of Habit. Sat.22: Yesterday. Sat.29: Ram­ Ya. Mike Cascio. Old Opera House . 601 Bourbon, 522·3265. Call tree!. Fat Cats, 505 Gretna Blvd .. 362-0598 . Call for Cosima's, 1201 Burgundy, 561-9018. Jazz on for listings. hshngs. Sundays and occasionally on Wednesdays; call Pete's Pub, in the Hotel Intercontinental. ..,.. METAIRIE Weasey's, 1610 Belle Chasse Highway, the bar for information. 525-5566. Call for information. 361-7902. Tues.-Sat.. Firewater unhl1 a.m. and Dream Palace, 534 Frenchmen. 943-6860. Preservation Hall, 726 St. Peter. 523-8939. iiandannas, 4724 Utica St .. 454-7984. Sat.1: on weekends until 2. Thursdays: Fantastic Films (see Cmema listings Sun.: Harold Dejan and the Olympia Brass Band. l~asty Nasty . Wed .5. Origmals. Thurs.6. Seven. for same). Sat.1 : True West. Alex (when I think Mon . and Thurs: Kid Thomas Valentine. Tues. ri.7: TBA. Sat.8. S.S. Steel. Wed.12 : Avatar. ~ FRENCH QUARTER, about the good love you gave me, I cry like a and Fri.: Kid Sheik Colar. Wed. and Sat.: The Thurs.13: R.C Fri 14 p1. Sat.15: TBA Wed.19: MARIGNY & CBD baby, etc.) Chilton, Multiple Places. Fri.7 :lSnug Harbor, 626 Frenchmen, 949-0696 Sun­ Feelings, 2600 Chartres. 945-2222. Thurs. -Fri.: days: Ellis Marsalis and Lady BJ. Tuesdays: the Kenny Ard Saturdays: Harry Mayronne. Jazz Couners. Sat.1. Guest Night with D1ane Mon.-Wed .. Kenny Butler Lyle. Mon.3: lronmg Board Sam. Thurs.6: Phil 544 Club, 544 Bourbon. 523-8611. Wed. -Sat.: Parnell Anmversary Party Fri. 7: James Moore Gary Brown and Feelings CMS from 9 to 9 Oumtet Sat.8: Ramsey Mclean. Mon.10: R.L. Fridays and Saturdays and from 9 to 3 other Burnside with John Nerenberg assistmg at the evenmgs. mouth-organ Thurs.13: Ray Bonneville Blues Pete Fountain's , in the Hilton. 523-4374 Pete Band Fri. 14: Astral Project. Sat. 15: The Pfister Fountam and his band n1ghtly at 10; one show Sisters w1th Amasa M1ller. Fn.17: the triumvirate only, reservallons. of Earl Turbmton. Johnny Vidacovich and Jim Gazebo, 1018 Decatur. 522·0862. Saturdays and Singleton. Thurs.20· Ray Bonneville Blues Band. Sundays. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m .. The Pf1ster Sisters Fn.21 Wayne Bennett with Mighty Sam Mc­ m their April-ln-Pans-By-Surface-Maii-Whlch­ Clain Sat.22: Johnny Adams and Walter Explams·Why-lt's-A-Month-Late revue, w1th Washmgton. Mon.24: Leigh Harris and Amasa Amasa Miller keeping up w1th them; from 1 to 6 Miller (my more penpatet1c collaborateuse caught p.m .. John Royen and New Orleans Rhythm th1s act at Town Hall and described it pithily as Fndays and Saturdays, 8 to midnight. Nora Wix­ "fabulous"). Thurs.27: Ray Bonneville Blues ted. Band. Fri.28: Harry Connick Jr.'s Graduation Hyatt Hotel, 561-1234. Sundays, 10 a.m.-2 Party. Sat29: Glenn's Birthday Party. Mon., July p. m . Chuck Credo and the Basin Street Six in 1· Leigh Harns and Amasa Miller the Courtyard Restaurant. Fridays. 4-8 p.m. m Storyville, 1100 Decatur. 525-8199. Thurs.13: A the Mint Julep Lounge, Bobby Cure and the Roomful of Blues. Sun.23: Albert Collins and Summertime Blues. Lonnie Brooks. Live traditional 1azz every night. Landmark Hotel, 541 Bourbon. 524-7611. N1ght· Call for the balance of the month's special ly save Sundays m Cabaret: ELS. 9 p.m. to 2 events. a.m Piano Bar: Cindy Rapp, Mon.-Thurs .. Town Hall, N. Rampart at St. Peter. 581-9705 8-midnight. Fri. -Sun: Cindy Rapp from 5 to 9 Self-proclaimed " Dragoon " Allen Lozito, come­ p.m .. and Shirley Stripling, until 1 a.m. dian. doing his act on Fri.14 and Sat.15, and do­ Maison Bourbon, 641 Bourbon. 522-8818. These ing a 105-minute version of The Wizard of Oz in bands alternate. 2 daily, 3 on Saturday-Lloyd which he essays every role on Sun.16. Not to be Lambert and the New Orleans Jazz Band, the Roy missed, we're told. Liberto Band and Lou Sino and the Bengals. The Veranda, in the Intercontinental Hotel,

JUNE 1985/WAVELENGTH 31 Tilden-Foley, 4119 Magazme. 897-5300. A ART group show through the month . A Gallery for Fine Photography, 5432 Magazme. Note; Friday 7 June is the deadline for appiO 891·1002. Through 20 : recent work by Eve Son­ lions for the 1986 MuniCipal Endowment Gran!s nemann . From 22: photographs by Aaron Siskmd tor the Arts. Information from the Arts Council at life in the 523-1465 . renowned lor his treatment of Harlem fcelir Fort1es and his studies of graffiti. Aaron-Hastings, 3814. Magazine, 891-4665 . THEATRE Through June 20: work by Skip Kobbeman and Bonaparte's Dinner Theatre, 1n the Quality Inn. John 0' Bnen. 3900 Tulane Ave. 486·0625 Call for perlor· Arthur Roger, 3005 Magazine. 895·5287 mance t1mes. Through Sat.22: Blithe Spmt. Noel Through Wed 26 neon work by carol Stoops Coward's farce about spinllsm and ectoplaSITliC Hurst. mtervention m daily life or what passed for same Arts Council, 522-ARTS; a telephone number in Cowardland, mvolving a skeptical wnter. wh1ch dispenses information about local art Charles Condomine. his present wife Ruth. hiS events of some currency deceased but still very lively w1fe Elvira. and an Bienville Gallery , 1800 Hastings Place, old duck of a medium named Madame Arcat1 525·5889. Through June: sculpture by Mark Le Petit Theatre, 616 St Peter. 888·8181 Guilbeau and works on paper by John Balsey. Thurs 20-Sun 23. Thurs 27-Sun 30. Stagget­ Davis Gallery, 3964 Magazme. 897-0780 New lee. a new creation by Verne! Bagneris based on acquisitions from West Africa. the black folk fable wh1ch goes back long before Duplantler Gallery, 818 Baronne, 524·1071 Call Lloyd Pnce. stars the sublime Ruth Brown (the for listmgs. great d1va of AtlantiC Records' NeolithiC PeriOd. Galerie Simonne Stern, 518 Julia. 529·1118 . Call responsible for such magmflcent works as Lucl.y for listmgs. Ltps. 5-10-15 Hours. Mama He Treats Yoor Gasperl Folk Art Gallery, 831 St Peter. Daughter Mean, Bye Bye Young Men. ao 524·9373. A group show of gallery art1sts. gloriam) and Larry Marshall. seen most recent~ Louisiana State Museum, on Jackson Square and as the young Cab Calloway m Coppola· s The Cot· elsewhere. In the Presby1ere's cloth1ng gallery, ton Club. and Lady BJ. JuaOIIa Brooks. Sharon Intimately Revealmg . underclothes from the Vic· Nabonne. Carol Sutton. Leon Williams . Br~ tonan and Edwardian periods, through the end of Bradley and Regg1e Johnson as Tmy. Mr. Bag­ July. Endmg Sun.2;Chmese Trad1ttonal Pamtmg. nens wrote and directed. the mus1c is by Al'en F1ve Modern Masters. continuing at the U S Toussamt. Tickets S15 from the above T1cke~ Oh Frankie, relax and do it! Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Sasngsr, Monday 3. M1nt Mardi Gras m New Orleans and New Master number Orleans Jazz. two large and self-explanatory ex· Minacapelli's, 7901 S. Cla1borne. 888·7000 525-5566. Since Leroy Jones is leaving lor Sing­ film (should one defy the boycotts and leftist im­ hlbits. Through June. Ne11 Simon· s Barefoot In The Park apore in June. someone else is assuming his jazz peratives and see this? would it be politically cor­ Mario VIlla Gallery, 3908 Magazine. 895-8731 about two newlyweds JUSt renting the1r very f1rst brunch dulles-Lucien Barbann IS the name ban­ rect') directed by Jam1e Uys and already QUite a Call lor mformallon . fourth floor walk·up m New York and the compi­ died about. Call for information. cult favorite about a bushman who d1scovers a New Orleans Museum of Art, City Park. cahons that ensue. Coca-Cola bottle dropped from a plane, and the 488·2631. Through July 7 a memorial tnbute to Player's Dinner Theatre, 1221 A1rline Hwy. VIDEO ensuing theological-sociological confusion. the late Clarence Laughlin cons1stmg of e1ghteen 835·9057 Through Sun 16 John Willards Reports are favorable on this. portra1ts of him from h1s own collection. also ancient-and-ageless The Cat and the Canary. 1n ACE Awards , cable· s equivalent of the Emmy Loyola Film BuH's Institute, 895-3196. Wed.5: several important photographic shows of works wh1ch-one stormy night-the relatives gather~n (you hoped when you got that box you had Wva Villa. this curiously violent-not considenng by Aaron Siskind, lise Bing and Imogen Cunning­ the decayed manse to hear Lawyer Crosby reatl escaped some of that nonsense didn't you?) will its subJect matter. but considering 1ts studio. ham. Through Aug 11 19th Century Decorat1ve the w111. full of mysterious masked people. sliding be held on June 3 in Las Vegas; CBN (where you MGM-1934 him about the Mexican bandit-cum­ Techntques in Glass. From Sun June 16: panels. a Sinister housekeeper. a com1c s1ssy can see such stars of yesteryear as Gale Storm, liberator (Wallace Beery. reputedly one of Holly­ Japanese Fan Pamtmgs from Western Collec­ who proves herOIC, gloved hands appeanng from Joan Davis, Bob Cummings. Peter Tong, Duncan wood's bigger shits. which means he had some tions. On extended loan: the 1938 Euchanslic nowhere. etc. Th1s prototypical nonsense IS ore Renaldo, Harry Von Zell, and-best of all-Tues­ rough competition, is typecast as Pancho)was Conference Monstrance. a stupetymg p1ece of of the earliest treatments of the trapped-m-the­ day Weld as Thalia Menninger and Warren Beatty written by Ben Hecht and photographed by work mdeed. Group tours for the deal the fourth old·dark-house story. Begmning near the end cA as Milton Armitage on the Doble Gillis show) will James Wong Howe and Leo Carrillo and Fay Wray Sunday of every month the month Company. Call for dates and t1mes broadcast highlights. if any. of the awards in late and that apogee of reptilian glamour Katherine Newcomb College Art Gallery, Tulane campus . Rose Dinner Theatre, 201 Robert St . Gretna, June. Mus1c C1ty has received two nominations DeMille are all in 11. so need one say more? Through Thurs 20 watercolors by Margaret 367-5400 Through Sun 9 No Sex Please. Were this year, alter wmning two awards last year Thurs.6: Number Seventeen. a 1932 Hitchcock Willson and glass sculpture by Robert Willson . Brrt1sh. Call for balance of month. Stay tuned. B-mov1e and a mess; the fmal bus chase isn't Possalt-Baker Gallery, 622 St Peter. 524-7252 Tulane, 1n the Lupm Expenmental Theatre Bunny Matthews . on Cable Channel 2 Fndays at bad but the intermmably stagey entrances and Through Fri.14 01ls. prmts and drawmgs by Through Sat.15: Absent Fnends. From Fn.2t: 5:30 (only in Orleans and Jefferson) and ex1ts in the deserted house at the beginning are Takeshi Yamada Baoy With the Bath Water repeated at 10:30 in Orleans, an attempt to cap­ soporific; with Anne Grey, Donalp Calthrop, Leon ture the vanished glamour and glitz of New M. Lions. Barry Jones. Tues.11 Htroshima. Mon "Oa" Vic & Nat'ly Show, with your host Bunny Matthews- Orleans Night People, we hope with an eight­ Amour. Alam Resna1s · famous 1959 film about second delay. war guilt, memory. collaboration, etc .• is famous giving Morgus the Magnificent a ron for his money-on Cable Channel 2 MTV will have a one-hour special w1th local and influential and like so many groundbreaking nitsly at 5:30 and 10:30. footage by John Fogerty on Fri.14 (check local works-chiefly through the structuring of J listtngs tor t1mes) during which he will perform Marguente Duras· screenplay-it doesn't seem -hold your pacemakers-Tout Tout. which I'd nearly as impressive as when. as a pretentious be delighted to stomp if he'd call and ask me. youth, I tried to keep awake thro 1gh this Impor­ Music City , in reruns through the summer, check tant Work at the Royal Art Theal e; w1th Eman­ EPG and maybe your EEG while you're about 11 nuelle Riva as the actress. and E1i Okada as the NOVAC, 2010 Magazine, 524·8626, offers Japanese gent she rolls around with. Wed.12 continuing programs and classes in editmg. Vera Cruz. 1954 Robert Aldrich western m wh1ch camera operation. etc. Call for information. even Ernest Borgnine is bearable (unlike later Aldrich pies like The Legend of Lylah Clare or CINEMA Emperor of the North); really quite a bit of fun. Dream Palace, 534 Frenchmen, 943-6860. w1th Burt Lancaster. Gary Cooper, Denise Darcel. Thursdays at 8 p.m .• Frantastic Films: June 6 Cesar Romero and the sublime star of. among Transatlantic Tunnel, a 1935 bit of Gaumont­ many others. Pecado de Amor and El Ulttmo Cu­ British science fiction directed by Maurice Elvey ple. Santa MontieL Tues.18: Le Sang d'une about a tunnel to America being laid 'neath the Poete. Cocteau's famous, somewhat overrated ocean like Cyrus Field's cable. with Richard Dix, allegory of celebrity and my1hopoeia (not as funny Leslie Banks, tough-cookie Helen Vinson, baby­ as Mme. de Stael's Cormne but close) is worth faced Madge Evans and such old poops as C. seeing tor such minor figures as Lee Miller with Aubrey Sm1th. Walter Huston and George Arliss. her face all painted w1th orbs on her eyelids and June 13: the annual Armand Ruhlman F1lm Barbette, the famous drag aenaliste of the period Fest1va1. one of Our Town's most glittenng social impersonating the Vicometesse de Noailles events. June 20: Tarantula, Jack Arnold's arach· -who although her husband had partly financed nid nightmare of 1955 in which-speaking of old the film, refused to appear in it; the film takes poops-Leo G. Carroll is the mad scientist place in the time it takes a demolished factory operating in Arizona. while John Agar and the in· tower (right out of di Chirico!) to hit the ground. effable Mara Corday are trymg to get out of the Thurs.30: Murder, 1930 Hitchcock film in wh1ch way of the whole thing; inordinately fun. June the murderer is ('') a transvestite -unseen by 27: The War of The Worlds. Byron Haskin's 1953 us but friends who have caught this say It's pret­ rendition of the sombre H.G. Wells novel about ty wild; Herbert Marshall is a juror in a murder Those Unstoppable Martians; the actors-Gene case and sets out to prove the accused young Barry, Les Tremayne. etc.-are nothing much woman innocent, falling in love at the same time but Hal Pereira's art directiOn and George with her; with Nora Baring, Miles Mander. Esme Barnes· bleak cinematography give the film a Percy, Phyllis Konstam, Edward Chapman. Films mild b1t of stature. are shown in Bobet Hall, on the third floor. usual­ Prytania, 5339 Prytania, 895·4513. Through ly at7:30; admission IS either by FBI season sub· June: The Gods Must Be Crazy. a South African scnption ($15) or $1 .50 at the door

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A note just handed this desk is now and there's talk about a scrawled with the following arcane movie." message, "Branford Marsalis going Ovis, a new artist being produced on eight-month tour with Sting by Michael Murphy, is recording at -getting married this summer" Composer's Recording Studio with -I'm no one to point fingers and I the help of such local notables as hope Branford and Sting will be Bruce Blaylock, Duncan McCord of happy, but so often, these sho:w-biz Multiple Places, and Noel Ken­ marriages just don't work out-oh, dricks and Reginald Veal of the Jazz okay, maybe I did misunderstand Couriers ...The National Associa­ this. tion of Independent Record .. Along with. such throats of Distributors voted The Neville gold and plutonium·as those of Alex Brothers' · album, Neville-ization, Bradford and Gertrude Malissa Nix Best Album of the Year, while the Pridgett "Ma" Rainey, two local cover design by talk-show-host­ youngsters have discs on WNYU's caricaturist Bunny Matthews rated Shake 'Em On Down pick-hit list an Honorable Mention ... a favorite (the station is located on New among headlines, or sub-heads in York's posh LaGuardia Place) the Musical Press this month comes -Amos Milburn with Chicken from ROCK Magazine: "The dB's: Shack Boogie, a record under whose Southern Gentlemen Attempt to spell a young Crescent Mattress Co. Rescue American Pop" (we always worker named Antoine Domino fell thought Jim Dandy had been to that ages ago, and Can't Get Enough of pie Places has added a saxophone Calloway. Some of the local per­ particular rescue)-the band, from That Ooh Pooh Pah Dooh by Jesse (and someone to play it) to their formers involved in this "musical North Carolina, includes local-in­ Hill, hack driver and hip-shaker ex­ lineup .. David Byrne's new LP is fable" (also the subtitle of Gypsy origin comic character Mr. Bill on traordinaire ... Local quartet Tavas­ rife with evidence of time spent at for those of us with long grey the video for their tune, co has signed with Mid South local joints like Tipitina's and the beards), which opens at Le Petit "Amplifier," described as "a Records (is this an arm of Mid Glass House; local opinion is, as Theatre on Thursday, June 20 and humorous look at suicide''-so roll South Wrestling?), will release an they say, sharply divided. runs through the end of the month over Emile Durkheim and tell album and video soon, and accord­ The Parkview Tavern has a new on weekends, are Lady BJ, Juanita Madame de Stael the news!. .. Best ing to their Press Release, "has look, a new stage (with a wrought­ Brooks, Sharon Nabonne, Carol recent musical quote comes from prompted professionals in the music iron fence around it to keep bobby­ Sutton, Leon MacDonald, Leon Father-Of-Bluegrass-Music Bill industries to make such statements soxers away from the guitar straps Williams, and Bruce Bradley. Monroe, who explains part of what as 'Here comes another Kool and and other dangling appendages of The Pfister Sisters, who have makes his music unique: "There's the Gang, Cameo, or Earth, Wind the musicians onstage), and is now been leaving a wake (probably an no filth and no sex in it." Roger and and Fire.' " ...Woodenhead also maybe the fourth or fifth place in Irish one) of success in cabarets all out. has a video corning out this summer the city to listen comfortably to around town behind them are being Aaron Fuchs, who runs the Tuff to accompany their recently­ music .. .Bandanna's, the Metairie coaxed into the studio this month at City record label, is looking for Ne\1 recorded-on-Broken-Records show club, is also a nice jernt, this John Berthelot's Great Southern Talent for his rap-hip-hop label. If release, "Can You Feel The Heat." month featuring Network, a band Record Co. Distribution deals are you want to be a star, send a tape to More Marsalis news-do you containing members of Kansas and already made, and there are rumors him, at 46-31 Mount Vernon Blvd., ever get enough? Just open any bag LeRoux, and also responsible for that as a special tribute to yours tru­ Long Island NY IIIOI .. .Fred Le of Dorito's or O'Grady's truck-tire­ the soundtrack of the new Chevy ly for my endless jabs, snipes and Blanc, former drummer for the sized potato-chips, or any Frito-Lay Chase film, Fletch, we're potshots in the press, they will Backbeats and Mistreaters, and now "salty snack" and send the proof of informed ... People Say In Boston record my favorite lip-synch record an Atlanta resident, and who always purchase and $4.65 and you can Even Beans Do It Department: the from childhood, Kay Starr's im­ looked like the image of Dennis the have a copy of Wynton Marsalis's third orangutan to be born at the mortal "Kay's Lament" in which Menace to us, has made a demo for Think Of One ... shouldn't that be Audubon Zoo's World of Primates background voices urge, ''Sing it, Dash Riprock in Atlanta. His tune, Betcha Can't Eat Just One? Other exhibit is a male, unnamed as yet; Sister Katie!" ...Toni Tenille's re­ "Serious Talk," is being played on artists in this prestigious offer, good the proud parents are Mama and cent Blue Room set included two WTUL in this day and age ... the cor­ through the end of the year, are Frankie ... Speaking of Frankies, one other lip-synch favorites of mine rect address for Rebel Rouser, Elvis CosteUo, The Chipmunks, of our favorite ones, Frankie Ford, from the Grim Fifties, though the which bills itself as "The Rockin'est Barbara MandreU, Men at Work has released a new single, "Whiskey songs themselves are much older: Rag Around" and can any journal and Merle Haggard ...Gonzales alle­ Heaven,'' from that Clint Eastwood "Hard Hearted Hannah" (for named in hom mage to Duane Eddy gorical portraitist Douglas Bour­ picture whose name escapes me. which I used Ella Fitzgerald's be anything but grate, is c/ o John geois, whose canvases depict every­ Vernel Bagneris, who played the rendering from Pete Kelly's Blues) Seminerio, Box 125, 2067 Broad­ one from Elvis to the Debarge fami­ accordion so well in Pennies From and "Our Love Is Here To Stay" way, Room 41, NYC 10023 ... ly, joined the roster of the Galerie Heaven and gave One Mo' Time to (the version that provoked me as a George (1 Drink Alone) Thorogood Simonne Stern here in Mirliton­ a waiting world, is unveiling-do child had Pearl Bailey urging her ac­ donated the $60,000 proceeds from Land last month. The press release, you do that with a play?-his new­ companist, "Don't you have any a concert to combat drunk driving which delightfully keeps alive the est creation, done in collaboration dignity, honey, play the in students through an innovative late Madame Stern's often fractured with novice songwriter Allen Tous­ cha-cha!! "). program by which sloshed teens can English by using words like [sic] saint, called Staggerlee based on the On the heels, or at least the mid­ phone a hot line and get transporta· "Michievous" and "Rythm," says exploits of the fancy-dan black folk thigh, of Bullmoose Jackson, im­ tion home safely rather than to the of Bourgeois' work: "The subjects , hero immortalized musically by mortalized for his R&B risque, "Big local cemetery. Keep it up-the are musically oriented which is sources as diverse as Bessie Smith Ten-Inch Record," comes Ernie good work that is-George... Lastly, brought out by the flamboyant use and Lloyd Price. The play stars that K-Doe with a big twelve-incher: all these rich thoughts from the prolific of color." One wonders how that matchless specimen of the "broken­ of this because Jon Foose sent tapes medulla oblongata of Zeke Fish­ read in the original, before transla­ note" R&B vocal style, Ruth of K-Doe's exuberance over head, in the latest issue of Fish tion. Brown, known in her glorious hey­ WWOZ to Sue Sawyer of Epic Headlines, "Did you ever get the Technopop singer-songwriter­ day on Atlantic as Miss Rhythm, Records' LA office; she played the hanker to be in the back-seat of an musician Tommy Jefferson of among other things, as the owner of tapes constantly, and one A&R man air-conditioned cadillac cruising Baton Rouge has released his first the Cozy Corner Bar (which I'd flipped out, sent them to Ron Nagle through the desert with something single on Computer Records, "I always thought was a few blocks and Scott Matthews in San Fran­ pretty that don't speak English?" Love To Be Loved" and "Time," from my house, at Dauphine and cisco where a special pressing on Ah, well, most of my cruising turns the latter described as "perfect for Congress), andLarry Marshall, who virgin Naugahyde is being prepared, out to be with things, pretty or not, ·break dancing or just listening.'' He recently appeared in the Francis with new music, for release soooon. that speak neither English nor any is billed, P.T. Barnum-style, as Ford Coppola wide-screen-buck­ K-Doe's typically modest comment: other charted language. That's Earl, "Half Man Half Machine" .. Multi- and-wing, The Cotton Club as Cab "Yeah, they got a record out on me brother... D

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