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Z KC 'Pitch • AUGUST . if~)I\.i1~i~~~{~~:~· .:.~~." .. ,.,..~~~i~.t.(.~'a~~~~ to concoct a new religion unparalleled in its the loose mirthlessness, the Presbyterian Church. "KC is uptight enough alreadY,' says Snopes. "Who ! KC pITCH ~ On needs the Presbyterians?" i 11 What KC does need, insists Snopes, is the ".. JACK CASHILL First National. "Wf!ve got the roots. Wf!ve got ~-~b' !} .."~"~;~ the members. Wf!ve got the theology. Wf!ve ~~.. August 1987 • Issue 80 ~~~ even got the Book (His twin uncles, Jimmy and ;~.. : ~'~i£~t¥r~~~{~"~1! Who needs 700 Shortly after Hank's untimely suffocation in Jerry, found it on a golfmg tour of the Holy ~?:.."''*' h~.:~i~':'b'$~~'~~ a mud-wrestling contest, St. Paul (aka Saul) Land). Write your councilman. 'Thke him out 4128 Broadway~~t Presbyterians anyway? assumed the leadership of the church and in for a beer. In the name of Jesus H. Christ, Kansas City, Missouri 64111 t~; stituted the sexually and socially repressive don't let this injustice persist!' • (816) 561·1580 f\'"~ o says the Reverend Otis Snopes, and measures - including the notorious "edict of Publisher Hal Brody a1 if he sounds a little bitter, he has the hairy palms" - that would haunt school Executi.ve Edi~or Donna Trussell ~~ good cause to be. While the city boys for centuries to come. Worse, St. Paul Excl usive Pitch ManagIng Editor Scott O'Kelley 'It fathers of Kansas City were ardently ordered all extant Books of Hank burned and ~llEditor Pro Tern Rev. Dwight Frizzell;~ courtings the Presbyterian church, they were all references to Hank expunged from the other Interview With Duran ~~, Advertising Hearne Christopher ~~ spurning the Reverend Snopes' advanced cold. four books. ~$ 1YPesetting Graphic Specialties II ~~~ For those of you who may not know, It got uglier. In the fifteenth century, various Duran at Sandstone ~~~ ~ri~tin~ Neff Printing ~~~ Reverend Snopes is site selection chairman for and sundry holy men concluded that the fpJ; DlstnbutlOn Saul Thcker, ~: Connie Yukon the First National Church of Jesus H. Christ. Catholic Church was not repressive enough, l\1 ~ ?y..~;it..1\,,~"r;.r..s:-{;,.1j.~·,,;.;;;-~~fi:I;.ii.~1::'i"!~~~.~ Currently headquartered in Bolivar, Missouri, and so they started what their PR men in STEPHEN SIMPSON the First National has long been seeking a site, sistently called ''The Reformation!' Leading the ~ Contributing writers: ~ Snopes claims, "more suitable for entertain way were John and Thmmi Fae Calvin who, ~ Lero~ Jack Casbill, Steve Walker, WItter ; ing out-of-town guests and pilgrims!' With its among their other fun-crunching acts, forbade "Simon ... wait a minute ... Nick I'm with r~ Stanford, Bill Marks, Joe Bob Brigs, j jazz tradition, its barbecue, its major league the utterance of the name "Jesus H. Christ!' '" Just a second ... John ... hey guys wait! Hold ~~ Jay Mandeville, Rev. Dwight Frizzell, :.:: sports and its soon-to-be-opened race track, In their wake came John Knox, a Scottish real on, just a couple of questions! Hey wait for "~1: Mary Ferrante, Clay Copilevitz, Steve f. ~ Simpson, Charles R.W. Station ~ Kansas City seemed ''a natural!' estate developer who specialized in retirement me!" So why then did the city turn a cold shoulder villages. In 1560 John blended the Calvinist ~ Contributing artists: 'ii. Sandra Summers, Rich Van Cleave Snopes' way. The answer, says Snopes, "pure tenets with the famed Scotch sense of frivolitiy ~~ i ·1!.'\..,,:... ~;~~~~:~~~~i~~·~~"~1~··~lt1!:~~'h-~~;; and simple is prejudice. Religious prejudice. ~ KC Pitch is sponsored by PennyLane /t. They'll never come out and say it, but those .~~ Records. Copyright • 1987 by Brody 1\ narrow-minded geezers just didn't like our ~~ Records. All rights reserved. Subscrip- ~ theology!' :~: tions are $5 for one year or $9 for two ,.~ 10 be honest, the First NatiolU!l ~.bave ~~ years. PennyLanemail order customers ~ un~ ~CaJ:hi&tory. According to NEW OWNER IS ~ and Preferred Customers get a free ~ SnopeS, the FIrst National was founded by ~ subscription. .. ~ Jesus H. Christ. The H stands for Henry, or ~~t~~l~9%:~~~~\~t"~~4}jJ~ ~I~~~~~~~~"-;-~";~~~" ollowers. rot er to esus- fathers:' Snopes chuckles - Hank was an even better carpenter than his belf.Md older llrq$her. Although he lacked Jesus' congenital flair for the divine, Hank could change a pile of lumber into a deck as quickly as his brother could change water into wine. Some say that Hank WESTPORT actually invented the deck. And certainly the Ie ·4128 Broadway Roman-inflated demand for his deck-building Kansas City, MO 64111 skills preoccupied Hank during Jesus' public (816) 561-1580 ministry. Nevertheless, Hank did chip in as time allowed. In fact, he was known as the "thir LAWRENCE teenth apostle!' And his easygoing, good-old 844 Massachusetts boy, live-and-let-live philosophy had a Lawrence, KS 66044 palliative effect on Jesus and helped distinguish (913) 749-4211 his mission from some of the harsher and more repressive movements that preceded it. Accord ing to Snopes, it was the crucifIXion that galvanized Hank into action. Upon Jesus' SOUTH KC ascension, Hank actually assumed control of 1201 W. 103rd the fledgling Christian movement, built a string 50% OFF MOST Kansas City, MO 64114 of churches across the Holy Land (all with DECO & '50s rrEMS (816) 941-3970 distinctive decks), and wrote the long lost BRING AD FOR DISCOUNT "Book of Hank!' This unusual book laid out what Hank believed was the real philosophy of Christiani OVERLAND PARK ty. ''And who knew Christ better?" Snopes 9641 W. 87th editorializes. It called, of course, for mercy, Overland Park, KS 66212 justice, forgiveness and religious tolerance. But (913) 341-5255 the book went further still. In it, Hank codified the basic rules of Bingo (gk. Bingos), his sec Records • Cassettes ond great invention. He set aside the "seventh day" for rest and the "sixth day" for "the Compact Discs • Videos track" (gk. hippodromos). He prescribed the ecclesiastical use of beer (gk. Budveiserikos). 7 ~ 5 WESTPORT RD And he also introduced the basic guidelines for 756-00~O "safe sex" (gk. utilitos prophylaktos). As Snopes jokes, "Hank left little room for the devil to maneuver. It was a hell of a church!' Unfortunately, good things don't last forever. ELVIS PRESLEY News mE 1987 COMMEMORATIVE REIJ~~ES RCA Records is proud to "...nt a fiffing tnbute to Elvis p~, the unctlSputed king of rock and roll. Four sfate-of·the-art recordings, all digitally ranlastered so you mn hear them with new darity.
Ip/cass. August 16 1977 is Elvis' death 8 + 16 + 1977 = 2001 CDs When composer Richard StrallSS was add· a revolution in YOUUt-consQousness and global 20% ing the final touches to the incomparable awareness that today,with Nierzscheanex. sunrise scene that opens "Also Sprach uberance, is still transforming us. off Zarathustra:' he had no inkling that his 1896 .>1 ·lIpauJto_U••• r .... , .. JJ_,_;j'~'"·~.!I~•• I.l.I.L_""Iii •••.• -.LiIIIllII·· ___ IIIII'.' _1...... \ strike a responsive chord in the soul of a young complicated young man, who would shrug off truckdriver from Memphis, llmnessee, who his hold on the world's attention with would himself become the spark that igJiWcl ~.seIf~on, was nevertheless the focus and causal link in a major shift in the history of Western ideas, pointing toward Davey's Uptown the kind of across-the-board unification of history, physics, folk wisdom and psycho political know-how that we are now witness ing in things like satellite data-links and the Ramblers Club multi-culture textures of popular music. With Kubrickian expansiveness, as dramatic as the shift from ape to spaceship in "2001;' 1987 pro vides us with a vantage point from which we can see the immense contribution of the guitar drum monolith to our next big move upward as a planetary society - and there, like a se BLUESDAY TUESDAY quin and silk Starchild in a pink Cadillac, we look in awe at the still explosive rhythm and OPEN MIC JAM SESSION EVERY TUESDAY blues gestures-in-a-global-context that was Elvis, and shake our heads in wonder that such SATURDAY AUGUST 8 AND 15 a phenomenon could ever have taken place.
August 16, 1987 - a day of cosmological THE NOW upheaval when the Mayan calendar runs out is the tenth anniversary of Presley's death. SATURDAY AUGUST 22 AND 29 Prophecies of the Maya, Hopi, Aztec and many other traditions all indicate a con vergence of evoluti~nary spirit-influences on this critical day. One exciting manifestation of THE BULLABREWS this convergence will be 440,000 people pray ing for peace and ooderstanding worldwide via simultaneous satellite-link. In Memphis the candles will be burning. For those· at Coldest beer in the hemisphere! Stonehenge and Maccu Piccu the stars may seem to move a little closer. And beside these lonely, lost-in-the-rnist observers, and amid 3402 Main 753-9841 groups of hopeful worshippers - the voice of Elvis, his body moves and blue suede shoes, burn like icons. -Jay Mandeville and Rev. Dwight Frizzell
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f you haven't noticed, the PMRC are French-Frith-Kaiser-Thompson * * * * * back on their witch-hunt again. Not "Live, Love, Larf and Loaf' only are they applying their political Rhino 70831, $8.98 list thumb-screws, there are other political Produced by Henry Kaiser religiousI groups in the midwest sponsoring This record gives the distinct impression that record burnings. For most of my life I've felt it's for the fun and not the money. With the a deep moral attachment to the rights of all likes of Fred Frith and Richard Thompson, people to have freedom of speech and the right who are well known for their heavier sides, it's to express that freedom. Inotherwords, I believe refreshing to see a lighter, more comic side in the First Amendment. Yet I see this in come out. Although the record has its heavy evitable right constantly shrinking and being moments, they're not overbearing. This is a attached. I find it extremely ironic that as our most appropriately titled record and a joy to freedom of expression keeps shrinking, some listen to. freedom is suddenly expanding in the Soviet Union. While journalists, musicians, artists Paul Kelly and the Messengers ~. and the general population are being encour "Gossip" ~ aged to open up and express their true feeling A&M 5157, $8.98 list in Russia, Americans are being subjected to Produced by Alan Thorne and Paul Kelly political and religious zealots applying every Now heres one that will grow on you. The sort of pressure to make the American public closest comparison I can make is, say, maybe X ***** submit to their way of thinking. Joe King Carrasco playing songs by Nick "See How We Are" Best of the month I must admit until recently r was feeling a Lowe. It's a quirky Australian pop sound that Elektra 60492, $8.98 list The Call lot of anger towards this push for censorship is very addictive. Produced by Alvin Clark "Into the Woods" of music, yet now I think there could be some This is one of the stranger efforts by the Elektra 60739, $8.98 list Produced by Michael Been and the Call flaws in their righteous armor. One flaw is that Robert Vaughn and the Shadows @ highly touted and sometimes maligned band if they were to censor music, I'm quite sure that "Love and War" I" from L.A. If there is a weak point it's the flail If you haven't heard the Call, it's been your not only would they make any allusion to sex Island 90614, $8.98 list ing guitar riffs that Billy Zoom took with him loss. If you have, you already know this is not or drugs illegal, they would also include Produced by T.J. Tindle when he left the band. Despite this shortcom your run-of-the-mill band. They sing and play alcohol and infidelity. That would immediately No, it's not the man from U.N.C.L.E., it's ing, the songwriting and vocal work are im with a passion you seldom see. It's that same elimjnate nIOfe· than haIf the country and the man from R.O.C.K. This record conjures peccable. John Doe and Evene Cervenka are p~sion and drive as found in the really solid western music in existence, not to mention a up images of early Graham Parker. If you're the core of this band and they've still got the bands like U2. This is as good as anything good percentage of all other styles of music. for high-energy Parkeresque rock and edge. they've done and now it's time to heed the Call.
ac one 0 men ca. ass, t e grass roots of this country, just might be a lit tle n' i fIed. Just imagine hanging out at your ImmacuIate.Fools ***** favorite saloon listening to the jukebox with "Dub Poet" songs about ~lanuning down a six-pack of Per A&M 5151, $6.98 list rier because your wife or husband loves you Produced by Andy Ross and Immaculate Fools so much and would never think of cheating. This is a real pleasurable listen. At times it's There would be no more blues songs because light hearted and up tempo, reminescent of it would be illegal to have the blues. Think of Haircut 100. Yet at other times it's hard and truck stopslmd bars with nothing to play ex cynical ala Andy White. No matter what mood cept New Age songs. This might have a few it sets, it's a good, solid record. These people feeling just a little tense, don't you Englishmen may be immaculate, but their not think? fools. Another glitch in this armor is America\ fascination with criminals. We've always made Neil Young and Crazy Horse * * * * * )..~roes out of them. Look at Bonnie and Clyde "Liftt' or <\1 Capone. More recently wttve made Geffen 24154, $8.98 list Heroes out of criminals such as Gordon Liddy Produced by David Briggs, Jack Nitzsche and Enigma Recording ArtIsts (who has a burgeoning acting career and is one Neil Young of the highest paid public speakers in I've always liked my Neil Young with a rough Dead Milkmen America), or Oliver North (who is being edge. And that means with Crazy Horse. Th~ with groomed to be a political heavyweight and seem to add a certain raw vitality that bring: touted as an American hero). Now if guys like the best out of Neil. Well, "Liftt' is just fur Nice Strong Ann these can be made into heroes, just imagine ther proof. Even the ballads have an angry edgl Homestead Records what kind of heroes we could make of the likes to them. If you like Neil's flowery shit, thi of Michael Jackson, Willie Nelson or Bruce record is not for you. But if you like Neil 01 Springsteen. So anyway, I say come out all you the rocks, then drink up. Lawndale record burners and PMRCers and go ahead SST ArtIsts and give us your best shot because you just The Classic Cup might be biting a lot more than you can chew. Well, hertts a few reviews, and if you're go ing to buy them I suggest doing so before they are censored or banned and keep fighting the good fight! Hurrah! "Tell God I'm Hertt' Arista 8489, $8.98 list Comlng In September Produced by Gil Forton If wttre real lucky, this might be the last The Replacements Hurrah! Reviews
discovery, drummer Art Blakey, has been start melodic shifts of the "Cost of Living:' Brecker fluence of that important recording has made led by Courtney's awesome solo explorations. proves that when his hom is out front the skies itself known through subsequent recordings of ROCK When Blakey invited Pine to perform with the will sing. the piece by John Eliot Gardiner and Andrew Jazz Messengers during the 1986 Camden Jazz Moving from sax to keys, it's been a banner Parrott, as well as in Philippe Herreweghe's Certain recording artists have a way of Festival, he couldn't guess that it would be month for jazz pianists. Foremost among them recording of the Motets. This recording of two polarizing fans and critics. One of these artists Courtney who would steal the show. The young is Joanne Brackeen. Her new release, "Fi Fi of the most prominent of Bach's Cantatas is is NeD Young. He has been called everything English lion played a ferocious final set. After Goes to Heaven" (Concord 316, $8.98 list), is from "an unmusical hippie" to "the most im- that "killer" performance, Pine was her first album as a leader of a quintet. Also portant artist of the philosophical about· the experience: '~ of interest is a rare appearance by Branford! '70s!' However, in the last five years even Neil's Blakey gives you support ewrywhere so you Marsalis on alto, dropping his usual tenor. most devoted fans have been puzzled by his can be rhythmically free. It seemed like being Such changes in approach seem to have paid radical stylistic changes. He has recorded an in a big blanket. I've never felt that way before' dividends. This album both jumps and electric vocorder album ("'frans"), a rockabil Big blanket or not, Courtney Pine is very much spellbinds. ly album ("Everybody's Rockin' "), a pure in demand these days. Brackeen should win an award for concep country record ("Old Ways") and last year's During the last year he has been involved in tual album-titling. "Fi Fi Goes to Heaven" is LP, "Landing on Water,' which was an in numerous jazz ventures. He is an active a musical commemoration of one of trospective work that can only be termed a member of Rolling Stones' drummer Charlie Brackeen's closest friends - you guessed it - downer. Watts' jazz big band. He also fronts his own her late, small dog, Fi Fi. Other material in The confusion about Young's true colors group, the Jazz Warriors. And Courtney is cludes two other newly written works, "Cos should end with the release of "Life" (Geffen gearing up for a tour of Japan as guest member monaut" and "Dr. Chang!' Brackeen is never 24154, $8.98 list). The album marks the reu of the Elvin Jones Jazz Machine. one to scrimp on standards. Her arrangements nion of Young and his old band Crazy Horse, Meanwhile, the young sax ace has released on both "Stardust" and "I Hear a Rhapsody" which began with an excellent tour last fall. his debut album "Journey to the Urge Within" transform the tunes without distorting their in Young seems to have rediscovered the fun of (Antilles 8700, $9.98 list). This recording tended mood. Joanne Brackeen shows how to rock and roll while at the same time maintain breathes with an unabashed jazz fue. From the be nice and play some jazz and still tum out ing his intelligent lyrics. The result is his best opening tenor growlings of "Miss Interpret" music that is intensely serious. album of the '80s thus far. to the haunting soloing on "Children of the Other piano jazz releases this month include The album begins in a rather inauspicious Ghetto" this album proves to be cost-effective. Chick Corea and his Elektric Band on "Light likely to remain controversial in the same way manner with "Mideast Vacation" which And it is Courtney Pine holding the ticket for Years" (GRP 1036, $8.98 list) and the 1987 and its influence .co\lkl ~ ju§t as great. sounds very similar to some of the drivel on an overwhelming jazz experience. Dave Brubeck Quartet on "Blue Rondo" (Con Perhaps the most controversial point of Bob Dylan's last LP. The pace picks up with cord 317, $8.98 list). And finally the digitally Rifkin's work is his use of merely one voice the current single "Long Walk Home!' Thelonious Monk classic from Although this is another song about "social consciousness:' the music is a real throwback. tice and its scholarship. But just as The harmonica and piano created a strong struments alone do not performance practice evocation of '~·\fter the Goldrush!' The side such a commotion over its cover design, even make, so the work of Rifkin is not confined continues with "Around the World" which winning a Grammy as the year's best. Monk to ensemble size alone. His decisions on tem sounds like a leftover from the last album. The is pictured in a WWII bomb shelter playing a po, continuo and style of playing are sure to last track, "Inca Queen:' is the latest of a series piano topped with wine bottles, binoculars and cause a few eyebrows to raise as well. of Young songs about the plight of pre hand grenades. The cow and the beautiful Joshua Rifkin is now in the same position Columbian civilization. It is an effective ballad machine-gun-toting women guarding the door that Nikolaus Harnoncourt occupied twenty and the highlight of side one. seem to be monitoring his fingers as they years ago: on the cutting edge of performance Side two is where things really get moving. stretch and curve around the keys. But it is the practice, almost in what could be called the "Tho Lonely" is an all-out rocker, and the band music contained within the package that all the lunatic fringe, It is to the Teldec recordings of has seldom sounded better. "Prisoners of Rock acclaim should have been about. Thnes such these works by Harnoncourt that I turned to and Roll" documents some of Young's dif as "Ugly BeautY,' "Boo Boo's Birthday" and for comparison, recordings that are am ong my ficulties with his record company. Young sings, "Green Chimneys" represent some of Monk's very favorite of the many Harnoncourt "We never listen to the record company man! best material ever. Who could predict that this Leonhardt Bach Cantatas I have, and which He tries to change us and ruin our band!' The would be Monk's last recording with his classic Michael Becker are controversial in their own right. Or perhaps next traCK. another excellent song titled "Cryin' '60s quartet sporting Charlie Rouse on tenor, "were controversial" is more correct. Rifkin Eyes;' sounds akin to Young and Crazy Horse's and the last small group album he recorded in Since the late '60s, Michael Brecker has ap doubtless has usurped Harnonoourt's claim to "Rust Never Sleeps" era. The last two tracks the United States? Perhaps "Monk at the peared on almost 400 albums ranging from that "lunatic fringe" which has characterized "When Your Lonely Heart Breaks" and "We Crossroads" would have been a more ap such front guys as Frank Sinatra to Frank his position in the musical establishment for Never Danced" put Young back into balladeer propriate title for this classic. But alas, only Zappa and Pat Metheny to John Lennon. So some time. Hamoncourt is now in the main mode, and he even plays acoustic on the latter. Monk knows for sure. why did it take so long to record his solo debut? stream; Rifkin is the one who's "way ou!!' Clearly, Neil Young 1S still devoted to rock -Bill Marks and roll. This one is a must have for fans. For Perhaps Becker was preoccupi:ed with jogging The first thing noticeable about Rifkin's per those unfaDliliar with Young's tecent work, to the bank to deposit those fat studio checks, formance of BWV 147 is the tempo: brisk, live "Life" is his most accessible LP in quite a or running his own New Jazz Club Seventh ly, animated. Rifkin's total time on this one is while. It earns a high recommendation. Avenue South (in operation from '77 to 'S5). CLASSICAL 27:04; Hamoncourt's, 31:33. Rifkin somehow -Clay Copilevitz Now he has fmally come out of the shadows manages to bring it all off without sounding on "Michael Brecker" (MCA Impulse 5980, rushed. He fairly sails through the soprano $8.98 list). The tenor virtuoso returns to his Bacb: Cantatas, BWV 141 "Herz uns Mund aria, "Bereite dir, Jesu, noch itzo die Balm!' jazz roots with straight ahead arrangements und 'Dlt und Leben;" BWV 80 ''Bin Peste Burg and yet it works. And if you thought Hamon .JAZZ that allow room for dynamic improvisation. ist unser Gatt:' Jane Bryden, soprano; Drew court took the "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" Obviously, the rhythm section appreciates this Minter, counter-tenor; Jeffrey Thomas, tenor; chorales at a clip, wait 'til you hear Rifkin. He's You are about to embark 9n a journey, an recipe for tasteful jazz cooking. B«Ickerdirects Jan Opalacb, bass; The Bach Ensemble not a great deal faster, but fast enough to make adventure in jazz. Meet your guide, tenor sax his jazz-chefs, consisting of piano man Kenny directed by Joshua Rifkin. I!Oiseau Lyre 417 me think it's second only to the pop version ophonist Courtaey Pine. At age 22, this Kirkland, bassist Charlie Haden and drummer 25()"1 (digital; $9.98 list). heard frequently a few years ago. Jamaican-born, British-bred wonder is ready Jack De.Johnette. Also popping up for a guitar I love this recording in spite of myself. In BWV 80, Rifkin turns everything around to escort you into previously uncharted jazz feature is Pat Metheny. This dynamite album Joshua RIfkin's B-minor Mass recording of and opts for slower tempos (Rifkin: 25:40; territory. both grabs and enlightens the listener. From a few years ago (on Nonesuch) is not the Harnoncourt: 22:57). The question of continuo Even the Christopher Columbus of jazz ~e hard. charging be-bop of "Syzygy" to the preferred version of very many, yet the in- enters here as Rifkin uses a harpsicho~ for the
6 KC Pitch keyboard instrument, organ occuring only in works, a mimportant contribution to per that won't be cheered by this. musicians are right there in the room with you. what would be the choruses were there more formance:Scholarship that serious Bach fans Did I say "fun" was the bottom line? Here's As in the Rifkin, the LP surfaces are great. than a quartet singing ("movements of full will not Want to be without. the next bottom line: the recorded sound is The album comes with the standard booklet scoring!' as Rifkin calls them now). Soprano The sound of the recording is excellent, the OUTS'{ANDING. These are not knock-your containing the notes and texts. The cover photo Jane Bryden does some fme work in the tone anc:t detail contributing much to the en socks-off works, but the sound here truly will sets the tone for the whole production, with soprano-bass duet and in the soprano aria, jorment of the performances. The LP surfaces do so with the quality it possesses. The entry Kirkby and Thomas guised up as their "Komm in mein Herzenshaus!' though I did are great~ with nary a tick or pop (yes, some of the horns in BWV 212's aria "Es nehme characters in the "Coffee Cantata!' You a1ready miss Harnoncourt soprano Wilhelm Wiedl's of us still contend with that - the record in zehntausend Dukaten" is an incredible exam know you're in for a treat. Recommended with ringing headtones, especially in the aria. dustry has perhaps forgotten that not all pe0- ple of what can be done by a knowledgeable enthusiasm. Cream and sugar with mine, Throughout both works there is more fine sing ple can afford CDs). 1lilingual notes and texts engineer. Thi$ is the sort of thing digital should please. ing from counter-tenor Drew Minter, and come in a booklet. The cover features a ISth be doing all the time: making you feel that the -Walter Stanford especially lovely work from him and tenor Jef century painting of two angels singing - shar frey Thomas in BWV 80's aria ''Wie selig sind ing a part book, no lessl This album isn't for docb die!' everybody, by any~. 1b those of you for But how does it work overall? The perfor whom it is meant, the recommendaiton is mances of both cantatas are lovely, expressive automatic. It's wonderful. and tbought-provoking. The quick tempos of BWV 147 express the joy of Visitation-Fest (the occasion for which Bach wrote it) in a singular ly lively manner, whereas the slower tempo in BWV 80 produces lengthened lines that sup port ''A Mighty Fortress is our God:' and ex 723 s.w. Blvd. KCMO press the solemnity of the Reformation-Fest. But in comparison, I can't help but feel more expression in Harnoncourt's versions, the tem lunch 11-3 mfJn·(ri pos and textures going to the heart more. It dinner 6:';0-10:30 becomes a question of apples and oranges, tIJIIIS, fr'.,fat fJnly however: I put on the Rifkin again and am still ... athow~ theSe performances are. sidewalk cafe I1fJW open fOr slimmer My one problem with this album lies in thOse * I * ~ Bach: Cantatas, BWV 211 "Coffee Cantata;" of multiple voices, perhaps not many, but cer BWV 212 "Peasant Cantata!' Emma Kirkby, tainly more tbBn one voice per part. SUchldeas soprano;·Rogers Covey-elump, tenor; David may work better in other cantatas, and theY Thomas, bass; The Academy of Ancient Music certainly work well in the Motets, but not in directed by Christopher Hogwood. COiseau these works. Andrew Parrott realized this in Lyre 417 621-1 (digital; $9.98 lists). his recording of the B-minor Mass on Angel. After the Rifkin, it's nice to have a new , Though Parrott acknowledged direct inspira recording of Bach that is thoroughly enjoyable tion from Rifkin's version, he still found it without the controversey. Let's leave the ALL RECORDS REVIEWED IN KC PITCH necessary to include a small ripieno group of musical theoreticians in the church; come out voices in the choruses. And this leads me to side, have a cup of - what else? - coffee, and ARE AVAILABLE FROM 'PENfYWNE. my biggest problem with the album, which has hear what Bach is like when he lets his hair nothing to do with the performance itself, but down. . Prices of all records, cassettes, and compact discs are $1.00 off with the notes. "... all available evidence in Well, at least partly. Bach may lighten up on list price, or 10% off if over $10. We pay shipping on orders of dicates that no more than one player or singer subject matter but he never, not for a second, 3 or more pieces. For one or two pieces, add $1.50 for postage. read from each copy of the music..!', writes relaxes. his skills as' a composer. There is Mail to PennyLane, 4128 Broadway, Kansas City, MO 64111 or Rifkin. What evidence? I wish Rifkin had gone wonderful music as well as music-making go call (816) 561-1580. All mail order customers receive a free one into more, much more detail on this point here. ing on here, and whatever version you may have year subscription to KC Pitch. Any musician in a choir or orchestra will tell of these works, you had better be ready to you that part books were made for sharing. replace it' with this. Besides, the choruses and chorales are prac The two cantatas here are pleasant enough address ______tically articles of faith, employing multiple diversions. In one, an irate father deals with cityfstalelzip ______singers so that the congregation may identify his daughter's addiction to not booze or drugs, with and even join in the liturgical service. Just but coffee; Life was much simpler back then, phone ______date ____ what evidence does Rifkin have that proves wasn't it, and the anti-caffeine lobby can just o Check Leipzig's biggest churches could employ no keep to themselves, thank you. The other is a o Visa or more than four people to sing? What of all semi-ribald romp during which the praises of those boys and young men it was Bach's a new landlord are sung (a real personage for o MasterCard # ______responsiblity to train and have ready for per whom the work was frrst performed on the oc artist title forming his works? I cannot imagine the con casion of his instillment in said post). ditions Bach had to deal with were that lean The performances are, in a word, fun! The - neither he nor the town council would have "Coffee Cantata" is excellent, the singing is stood for it. delightful, and the whole predicament is Rifkin certainly can be accused of being presented with humor. 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But, according to dresser of the sister of a distant cousin of the the stars, Los Lobos considered the effort a fan club secretary based in Des Moines, Iowa. labor of love that can only help validate And coincidentally, Los Lobos happens to be Richie's place in American history. featured artists on the soundtrack to the just While the stress of doing 16 interviews a day released "La Bamba:' The film tells the story could be viewed solely as a necessary evil to of R Valens, whose life comes to an untime- enhance one's reputation, both stars articulated ly end at the age of 17 in a fatal plane crash. the desire for the [tim to be viewed as a positive All of side one of this cOllection,plus two cuts experience showing how a family, through its on the other side, allows Los Lobos (Spanish troubles and shared love, can be a solid factor for "the gray wolves") to display their talents in developing a larger framework of respon- ~l11-... ItiMMe~·lr~I~· er~lzedCvoca s. e"i~~~~:e~~~~j='::U!~~:; remainder of tunes from the '50s and early '60s throughout the filming. And Lou Diamond are presented by such artists as MarsIIaII Oen- evolved so much into his role that the family shaw, in a somewhat rhythmic if not restrained addressed him as their own, "Richie!' fashion, and Bo Dlddley, with a strong dose -Charles RW. Station Glenn Medeiros makes his spectacular album debut of blues thrown in for good measure. Each cut on this album is exciting and, whenever possi First there was "The Movie!' Then others with this Amherst Records release. The music of this 16 ble, it should be played with the volume followed suit: "The Elephant Man;' "Mask" year old Hawaiian heart-throb reflects all" the romance cranked high. and maybe even "Roxanne" a tiny bit. Now, of the beaches, cliffs and tropical breezes of his home. -Lee Holly more brilliant than ever, Andrew Lloyd Web ber brings us "The Phantom of the Opera!' "La Bomba" Update (Polydor 831-273. $15.98 list). Just as Stephen Medeiros has become an overnig/lt sensation due to Sondheim and Harold Prince accomplished his phenomenal single, "Nothing's Gonna Change At 2 pm on Friday, July 10, Lou Phillip DIa with their 1979 smash. "Sweeney Thdd;' so mond and Rosanna deSoto held their thir does Webber combine elements from both My Love For You," which quickly climbed the national teenth interview of the day. For an hour they musical comedy and opera in his modem in charts into the Top 10. The sensitive love songs on discussed the shared conviction that the movie terpretation of the Gaston Leroux original. "La Bamba" is more than a biography of a The story concerns young Christine, an un Glenn's first album already have young,romantics rock star; more than an Hispanic film; more discovered singer working in the chorus of an referring to many of them as "their songs." than another vehicle to further their careers. opera house in Paris during the late 1800s. By While comparisons between "La Bamba" the time the new management of the theater This is an album of future standards. These songs are and any future rock 'n roll film will become discovers this youthful talent, they are also and industry cliche, the stars harbor no hesita overwhelmed with demands by the resident written for Glenn's style - fresh, sincere, yet undeniably tion that they have created a new standard. Nor opera ghost who promptly takes credit for exciting. Not since the days of Frankie Avalon has a teen are they unaware of the tendency to pigeonhole Christine's flair for music. Soon, it is revealed any film associated with ethnicity. And the that this "ghost" is really a mastermind com singer caused so much media talk and national attention. analogies of promotional tours and exhaustive poser who just happens to be severely interviews associated with life on the road, disfigured. The result is a musical battle of His songs are contagious. And, just like a trip to the necessary components of show business that wills that ensue with everyone from Christine Hawaiian Islands, they seem to end too soon. they share with the late Richie Valens, are not and her betrothed, Raoul, to the reigning prima considered as mere devices to attain stardom. donna and her male counterpart. The phan Their hope is that this film will serve as an ex tom's presence is marked with a stoic organ Glenn is destined to become a superstar. •. amination of what created the Richie Valens idee fixe that recurs with each appearance of persona. the creature. Overall, "The Phantom of the The film biography is inextricably woven in Opera" is a serious and sensitive piece, but the family life of Richie himself. The goal was Webber manages a sprinkling of clever lyrics not to simply chronicle the rise and fall of a and dialogue along with some powerful arias rock star. "Richie's was the all-American storY.' packed tightly into the format of your choice. PEttnWlNE ~ 'explains Mrs. deSoto (who plays Richie's The creator of "Cats:' "Jesus Christ Superstar" mom). Actor Lou Diamond (who plays Richie) anel "Evita" has got himself another big hit. amherst records maintains "his music was the important part -Lee Holly AUGUST • KC Pitch 9 Joe Bob goes to the drive-in "Death Ship" (1980): George Kennedy's lux JOE BOB BRIGGS Thny Franciosa, the original Grecian Formula Drive-In Movie Critic of Gra evine, Texas Goonie, in his 300th drive-in appearance, for ury liner gets rammed by a Nazi prison ship his grin alone; and Dario Argento, for deliver that's been driftin around the Atlantic for 38 ing his usual Eyetalian gorefest. years. Richard Crenna, Kennedy, Nick Man girls in the head, stranglin em with chicken re you reading this column today Four stars. cuso and a few others survive long enough to under the influence of Drugs? wire, and - here's the best part - stuffin their be Hitler Fued by the zombies on board, but Did you just read that first mouths with pages out of Tony's book. Tony Th is months drive-i n the best part is watching George slowly turnin sentence and say to yourself, just keeps grinnin and slickin his hair back and into a Nazi himself. 1Wo and half stars. "Hey,A how did he know that"? going to autograph parties with his agent, but video releases: Do you think it's strange that a newspaper then some kinda weird lesbo woman in red "The Kung Fu Massacre" (197?): It's not "Ghostkeeper" (1980): Canadian version of asks you questions and you can't answer back? high heels starts showin up in Thny's dreams, really much of a massacre for a flick made in "The Shining:' where some idiot tourists get Are you in the habit of talking to your and pretty soon you know what we got ... Hong Kong - only about 24 actual dead lost in a snowstorm, stay overnight in a creepy newspaper? Eyetalian Dream Gore. This is when they keep bodies - and it's got one of those plots about old lodge, and meet an old hag who forgets Do you ever get up in the morning, look in to tell em about that ghost creature that lives the mirror, .and discover parts of your face in the basement and feasts on human flesh. missing? Anybody who thinks about sex gets an ax in I guess Wfive all had these experiences at one the gizzards. Soft-core zombie footage. 1Wo time or another. Sure, we SAY wfire OK. We and a half stars. keep a little heroin around the house, three, maybe four kilos, JUST ENOUGH for par "Fireback" (197?): Hong Kong flick starr ties. It's harmless, right? We never shoot in the ing Richard Harrison as a Vietnam vet who daytime unless somebody happens to drop by comes home from blowin up Cong to find a and wants to watch "Leave It to Beavef.' We dead wife who used to look great in a bikini always know our limit. We never shoot up and - so he goes in his garage, starts building anti drive, cause we don't have a car ever since we tank weapons, lures an evil black ninja wife sold it to have enough for the last party. And kidnapper to a cave, fights off a hunnerd we never, ever freebase China White with a police, and says the f-word a lot. One star. Ex blowtorch unless someone else is with us. It's cellent dubbed thwacking. too bad we had to learn this last lesson from Joe Bob says check em out. Richard Pryor's face getting burned off. Is this a description of you? You may not think you have a problem, but you do. You're gettin ripped off. You're spendin ALL YOUR Joe Bob's advice to the MONEY on this stuff, so you don't have any hopeless left over for dope, booze, punk rock razorhead Communist Alert! Nobody will put up the parties, or slutty underwear purchases. That's money for Bo Derek's next movie, "A Knight why you need help right now. That's why you of Love;' which she got the idea for, and wants need to run, not walk, to the phone and dial 1-800-DRUGGED, where you'll get 24-hour advice from our investment advisers in Bogota, Colombia. But, more than that, you need to change one simple thing about your life. It's Derek's career another 30 years. Remember, easy. It costs you nothing. And it works. without eternal vigilance, it can happen here. Just say yes. To discuss the meaning of life with Joe Bob, That's all there is to it. When the beef-face or to get his fun-filled "We Are the Weird" Eyetalian dude in a Giorgio Armani suit shows newsletter full of free-junk offers, write Joe up at the party flashin horse, just say "Yes~' Bob Briggs, P.O. Box 33, Dallas, Texas, 75221. Hfis a pusher. And the first onfis always free. When the black dude in purple suede and a cowboy hot moseys out onto your HI JOE BOB: Don't know if I wrote you schoolground wavin pills, just say "Yes~' The about what happened to me a week or two first onfis always free. BEFORE you wrote about that BEING in the When the bleach-blond hooker in a Thny Godwill Box 'cause I oft git wasted away in Thnille jungle dress comes up to my room and Low-key ad campaign for Tony Franciosa's comeback film, amnesiaville but believe it or else 'cause I was make a giant fried burrito out of your brain:' blown away cuz for REAL, BEFORE you just say "Yes:' "Si:' "Oui oui:' Eat it, drink it, come up with it, I was in FACT inside my first snort it, watch it do the Hula through your confusin the real scenes with the dream scenes some gambling crook that wanted a virgin and and only Goodwill Box having gone thru the blood vessels. Cause you've discovered the until you can't tell who's axin who in the head so he killed an old man who saw him kill the hole head first like Santa with a jub of secret to kickin that habit: There's REALLY and who's just DREAMIN that they virgin's father and then framed another guy, Thunderbird having misplaced my guitar THOUSANDS of these people out there. You got a spiked high heel through the earlobe. but the other guy is a kung fu master and so across the mall - which I found later when can go YEARS withoutrepeatin suppliers and Anyhow, this one was made by Dario Argen he gets out of prison and goes back to the I had to stop at a gas station. At least I was keep ever cent you ever earn. Go ahead, turn to, who always has the bloodiest George crook's casino and starts flinging dominoes alone so my reputation is still a breed apart. your life around today. Your friends might hate Romero Eyetalian rip-offs, and this onfis even through foreheads. Some decent kickboxin, Crazy get-ups. You see one, you seen a mall. you for it, but it's your life they're messin with. better than usual cause you can't tell it's nunchucks, poleaxes, trampoline work. 1Wo What does it mean? Th write the great Human They're just tryin to control you. dubbed. Dario also uses a Murder Cam, so all and a half stars. Being Novel (I'm also a writer) - OR, to be Let me put it this way. Why do you think the bimbos are killed by the CAMERA. You a novel human being. What is the purpose, they call it a "controlled substancfi'? Huh? I know, the camera goes in a hallway, bobs "The Fiend" (1971): Kenny is a cop who a) earthling? rest my case. around, looks over here, looks over there, and loves his mama, b) keeps his uniform squeaky Who knows - after the fact I may sing you hear some heavy breathin, and then you clean, c) says his prayers three times a day, d) "they're gonna sh ow me in the movies" and Speaking of permanent brain damage, "Un see the HAND of the camera come out in front lives in a house with a Puritan preacher, and I'm hopin' you'll gimme 4 stars & say "I'd give sane" is the best horror flick of 1987, and AS of the camera lens and kills somebody. Great e) loves to watch hookers die. One of the best more if I could!' USUAL it was made by the Eyetalians, who Murder Cam. British horror flicks, with great performances So, if you can get on the stick & reach me keep setting new levels of gore and new ways Four breasts. Eleven dead bodies. Throat by Ann Thdd as Mama ("Kenny, you must before around June 24, I'll be here to make Tony Franciosa make a fool of slashing (ear to ear). Novel stuffing; Repeated never let them tempt you - they will try and incarcerated. himself. This time Tony is a best-sellin author tummy-hacking. Skull-severing. Chicken-wire make you have sex like THAT woman and your Your friend I think, MICK MCNEELY, who flies over to Italy to promote his new strangling. Arm-slicing. Excellent vicious father"), Patrick Magee as the preacher (who PRISONER NO. 934408, CELL 5B12, book, "Thnebrae;' which is about a murderer attack-dog sequence. Gratuitous accusations of takes his spiritual orders from a loudspeaker MARICOPA COUNTY JAIL, PHOENIX who usees a barber-shop razor, only as soon sexism. Spiked high heel Fu. Italian sculpture in Arizona), and Tony Beckley as the lunatic DEAR MICK: I understand your letter com as Tony gets there somebody starts axin young Fu. Drive-In Academy Award nominations for bobby. Four stars. pletely and will be seeking immediate therapy.
10 KC Pitch • AUGUST involved was thinking about Yoshiwara, a more succinct description of the plot of ing social work" and "preventing starvation!' Reviews Tokyo's red-light district, circa 1956. But put "Maedchen" could not be had. From the in "The Fatherland needs iron beings:' explains Mizoguchi's mood-epic "Street of Shame" into troduction and indoctrination of the "new Emilia Unda in her deliciously austere perfor VCR "N.' and "Maedchen in Uniform" in VCR girl" into a closed society (militaristic mance as school headmistress. But soon her "B" and watch the similarities pop up on your girl school / organized crime-controlled Prussianism and discipline figure oppressive VIDEO monitors. bordello), to the plentiful food metaphors in ly in the plot, leading her girls to the brink of both fIlms, the two societies depicted are linked disaster and accurately forecasting the ultimate on-screen to a parallel pattern of injustice, destruction of Hitler's schizophrenic world Iron beings in hunger, dehumanization and the high-risk view. In "Shame's" Japan, the war is over, but regimentation runs when confronted with Eros. the aberrations remain. For 300 years the Dreamland "You're pretty big for 14:' new-girl-at-school Yoshiwara district has been run the same pro "Maedchen in Uniform;' directed by Leontine Manuela is told as she is given her flrst uniform fitable way. Who wants to hear about anti Sagan; screenplay by Christa Winsloe. in "Maedchen!' "Shame" depicts the winsome prostitution bills and the problems of day-to Mickey (Machiko Kyo) auditioning for a job day existence when you're in, or better still, the "Street of Shame:' directed by Kenjo at Dreamland by stepping into a huge seashell owner of Dreamland? For Manuela, im Mizoguchi; screenplay by Masashige and exclaiming "I'm Venus!' The radiant beau aginative and feeling alone, what better Narusawa; music by Toshira Mayuzumi. ty of Hertha Thiele as Manuela makes the shoulder to cry on than the sensitive represen statement equally explicit. Amid the stern tative of the institution that's destroying her, When you've got 125,281 frames of film to squares and rigid rectangles of the German Fraulein von Bernberg (played by Anais Nin flll, what're ya gonna do? Heads, it's post-war school, the under-fed students chat of im lookalike Dorothea Wieck)? "W/ire social Japan, tails, it's pre-war Germany. At least "Street of Shame," 1956. aginary coffeecake, fried rabbit and ham from workers:' the brothel owners admonish their when world-class directors Kenji Mizoguchi home. Beneath the mushroom-shaped, billow girls and send them padding off into confor and Leontine Sagan are involved. When "A lunatic and a near murder! What a day!" ing "edible architecture" of Dreamland, pro mity and anguish. Sagan's 1938 girl-school masterpiece "Maed exclaims one of the customers at Dreamland, stitutes stuff their faces with plain rice and When the school play, Schiller's "Don chen in Uniform" was being created, no one the mythical Japanese brothel in "Shame;' and listen to businessman-pimps lecture about "do- Carlos;' offers Manuela and the other girls an outlet for expressing their passion (with the help of some spiked punch), Schiller, speak L\F £ IN ing through Manuela, exclaims, "One moment in paradise is not too dearly paid in death!' HE.LL,. Manuela's developing crush on the beautiful von Bernberg comes to a public climax as the young girl, clad in a tight-fitting bodice, shouts ecstatically, "Long live Fraulein Von B.!" and collapses in a swoon before the entire class and MOW TO BE A CLEVER FILM C'ITIC the shocked headmistress - who demands that teacher Von Bernberg and Manuela never see or speak to each other again. CLEVER WORDS TO After an aging prostitute's only son rejects US •. IN R£vtG.WS SO her and her lifestyle in disgust, "Shame" cap tures her progressive distress, bewilderment and AS TO ENSURE. ~OU fInal insanity, wherein she strolls through the WilL 8£ QUOTED brothel, smiling an idiotic smile as she crosses IN t='ILM ADS ODIC> !:lOu HAVE:. NO the miniature bridge and sings a cracked little PIC.1e. O""E FR.OM cow"'''' A song in a cracked little voice, while her fellow F~\et-.lC>S AS A c.HIL.Dr At-IO ()t.)E F~o"" ~I-UMN S employees and their customers look on. When o 00 !:lOu SA\,..\IIA'TE. AI COLUrv\N ~ COLUMN § iHf: SN\&.\..L. OF STALE: Manuela nearly casts herself from the top of POPCOIC.~,? the stairwell in Germany, the same gesture of HAu.vTI""0 erotic despair and hopelessness before a rigidly o DC> ~ou T+iIC.\LI.. AT "THe TOU<:"tifNc" orthodox society is made. PILOSPt:Cr OF S~OI":'<:> Ae.SoI
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cent globe-sp of psycho-religio ages, via satellite celerated the unsnarli disturbances rampant since n,s£tJ~~~it~"'itr5+&~~'.~I:t~ Gondwanaland. Sus.o, whose lineage can be traced back to the Since it began as a mere trickle in pre r:~ kora pI¥. Foday, along with his Man Columbian Olmec influences, the Afro }dingo Griot:'!ociety, has made home base in American nexus has been building to a head. Soon, even the reaction the U.S., where he participated in several Not long after the first wave of modern to be able to sing and rap in .~ .. recordi. projects with the purposely detailed African culture was having its heyday in turn and multi-dimensional patois 0 ;keybofls of Herbie Hancock and Bill Laswell of-the-century New Orleans, Jimmie Rogers his funky, music-crazy co-co 'On blllil. was picking up a guitar and donning the Black Unlimited). ,~But rot the pop players back in Mali, where metaphysical cloak of the country bluesman. By the mid '70s Mapfumo's Acid t41 gig 4 where to plug in are major obstacles. become a force to reckon within Zim Ntarly aI: the groups working are sponsored politics. His message of defiance, commi e regJ.00a.l government one group for each and concern, always told in the symboli e seven;regions. Independent bands rare biguous and poetic medium of the S ly survive due to equipment costs and the tongue, eluded the oppressive militarists Ii availability Of electricity (periods of only three length of time Mapfumo needed to g hours of elctricity per week in some areas). message across. But the oppressors got If you" book a band, just apply to the him quickly, and he was often in trou of that region, as it is he who ap- the law-and-order factions controllin babwe in the late '70s. In fact, it was same regime the Mapfumo resisted tha pursue the diabolical tactic of blasting ra Acid Band music over loudspeakers from fleet of military helicopters to encourage the 'fravelling across the Atlantic on early very independent-living bushdwellers to follow gramophone records, Jimmie made a big the sound into town to be regimented and col splash in Lagos, Nigeria - the next leg of a lectivized - incidents that must have cost circular journey that had began when Africa Thomas Mapfumo some anguished moments. and America were geographically joined. By the 1930s, recordings of Cuban rhumba groups, British ballroom orchestras, Hawaiian Fela rocks Walden guitar bands and American country and "I want to achieve a few things:' Fela ing on tip western songs were absolute necessities at any Anikulapo Kuti said in his last London inter r gentle voices, points the bandleader. As governors come and well-heeled African palm-wine party. This was view before his return to Nigeria and subse smgmg style, have been an go, so do bands. the origin of juju and a dozen other African quent imprisonment (1985). "The artist should enormous hit, from South Africa's bee-hive of Despite the odds against them, the Super musical styles that pool the best ideas cross be the spiritual light of the world:' he added. single-sex dormitories where migrant workers Rail Band was the first pop group to be spon ing the ocean back and forth since then. In the "The African concept is the concept of the are housed, to the Burbankian labyrinths of sored when the Ministry of Information de '80S, this incredibly forceful, melodic and future. Africa will create a new naturalism, the NBC's Johnny Carson Show. cided it was time to safeguard the development sophisticated synthesis is making the biggest new force of the future . . . a new dimension The vocalists of Ladysmith Black Mambazo of Malian pop music. They got a regular gig impression ever on world-consciousness - towards justice, to freedom, being able to have are primarily from three families in Ladysmith, at the Buffet Hotel de la Gare de Bamako in bringing us all closer to the vital intertwining a new science. I see no reason why a musician located in a rural grassland 200 miles outside the middle of Mali's capitol, where the danc-
14 KC Pitch • AUGUST the post-rift culture
ing and refreshments from the spacious buf Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey ZAIREAN SOUKOUS SOUTH AFRICA fet bar seldom cease (group rates available). "Juju Jubilee" Rochereau with Orchestre Mrisa Various artists Shanachie 43031, $9.98 list International "The Indestructible Beat of Soweto" "Thbu Ley" Shanachie 43033, $9.98 list The wrap up ZIMBABWE Shanachie 43024, $9.98 list Various artists Various artists "Viva Zimbabwe" Franco and Rochereau "Soweto Never Sleeps - Classic Female Now that we arejinally coming into our own Earthworks 2001, $9.98 list "Omona Wapi" Zulu Jive" as participants in the communication Shanachie 43024, $9.98 list Shanachie 43021, $9.98 list renaissance, the planet &rth, its continents re Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks jOining electromagnetically, is at last starting Unlimited Ladysmith Black Mambazo to feel like home again for those ofus that have "Ndangariro" "Induku Zethu" sensed something missing in the post-rift Carthage 4414, $9.98 list Shanachie 43021 culture. Like the benign, baby-cheeked Olmec heads (evidence of a Nubian presence in pre Thomas Mapfumo The MaJaotella Queens, Maldathini and Columbian America), the African spirit is wat "The.Chimurenga Singles 1976-1980" Other Stars ching over our culture, recreating it as we move Meadowlark 403, $9.98 list ''Phezulu Eqhudeni" towards 2001, with pan-oceanic wisdom and Carthage 4415, $9.98 list rhythmic unity. FELA ANIKULAPO KUTI Fela with Egypt 80 PuseIetso Seeman and Tau Ea IJnare "Live in Amsterdam" "ReO Oe Oe!" Recommended recordings: Capitol 12359, $13.98 list Globestyle ORB 003, $9.98 list NIGERIAN JUJU King Snnny Ade and his African Beats Fela with Mrika 70 1Chico and I..es Offaclers of Mrican Music MALIAN GRIOf AND pop "Juju Music" "Black President" "Full Steam Ahead" Foday Maso Sase and the Maadingo Griot Mango 9712, $8.98 list Capitol 16292, $6.98 list Globestyle ORB 007, $9.98 list Society Flying FISh 76, $S.98 list King Sunny Ade and his Mriean Beats Fela with Mrika 70 Pablo Lubadika Porthos '~ra" "Original Sufferhead" "Pablo! Pablo! Pablo!" Super BaR Bud of the Buffet Hotel de la Island 90177, $8.98 list Capitol 16293, $6.98 list Globestyle ORB 008, $9.98 list Qmlede ...... "New Dimensions in Rail Culture" "p8ePn AdeWaIe Feia with Egypt 80 Various artists - GlobestyIe ORB 001, $9.98&t "Adewale Play for Me" "Army Arrangement" "Sound d'Afrique II: Soukous" Rounder>SQ1S. $S.98 Uit .. ' ~uleiti.lOt."9;98·1isl~., .. ;.;,hl,,;;':,l"~"'~'~~~;~~list Artwork-Rich Van Oeave
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16 KC Pitch • AUGUST From tbe Hip his image comes alive in his many mms now Jones, Walter Matthau and Vic Morrow; based VIDEO Judd Nelson stars in this comedy about an available on video. Titles are too numerous to on the Harold Robbins' novel "The Story of unorthodox lawyer. list here, but these highlights are sure to il Danny Fisher.' luminate many screens as we approach August Video releases August 13 16. Jailhouse Rock (1957) Brighton Beach Memoirs Directed by Richard Thorpe; songs by Stoller August 5 A coming-of-age film written by Neil Simon. King Creole (1958) and Leiber; starring Judy Tyler, Mickey Crocodile Dundee Directed by Michael Curtiz ("Casablanca"); Shaughnessy and Dean Jones. Specially priced at $29.95. Paul Hogan stars The Good Father costumes by Edith Head; starring Carolyn as an Australian adventurer transplanted to the A disturbing look at relationships and parent- streets of New York. hood starring Anthony Hopkins. Grand Opening! Three Amigos August 19 Starring Chevy Chase, Steve Martin and Mar- Radio Days tin Short. Woody Allen's look at life and radio in 1940's New York City. August 7 The Fringe Dwellers August 26 Directed by Bruce Berestard ("Crime of the The Mission Heart" and "Breaker Mount") Empires collide in 17th century South August 12 America. Starring Robert DeNiro and sound Bedroom Window track 'by Ennio Morricone. A tale of murder and secrets starring Steve Guttenberg and Isabelle Huppert. August 27 Betty Blue Native Son Two troubled lovers fmd themselves at odds Starring Matt Dillon, Elizabeth McGovern, with reality. A much acclaimed love story star- Oprah Winfrey, Geraldine Page. ring sensual French actress Beatrice DaIle.
Critical Condition Elvis: The songs, With Richard Pryor. the moves, the action he 'People Sleeper' sofa/sleeper. Made of Working Girls It's easy to see why Elvis rose to his height T fine hardwood maple. Great for your apart A day in the life of a high-class brothel. as singer, gyrator, actor and cultural icon when ment or guest room. Now, when you buy the frame and a futon, you get a soft canvas cover free, a $45 to $60 value! . . We're,:.s~lebrati~g our grand opening. So, many ,. ~"' 1tems are __ on sale! Sofas, beds, 215 MAIN • KANSAS CITY. MISSOURI 64105 • 816 474-7070 lamps, and more. Stop by and see us at our new downtown $.50 Margarita Ta Draws Ni ht Fr Sa location. Aug 5 Absolute 6 7 8 BLU[ Hollow Men Cei!!.ng True Trip H[RON Shakespeare Sin City Stories 937 Massachusetts St.,(downtown)Lawrence, KS, 841-9443 Rock Disciples Rock Rock Open: Mon-Sat 10-5:30, Thurs until8.p.m. R&B 11 12 13 14- 15 Long Sons A Picture Gaddites Unidos Riders Rock Made Reggae R&B Rock Rock 19 20 21 Homestead Splinters Crayons Greys Rock Rock R&B 6 27 28
Remains Little Ipso Facto Del Women Reys Rock Reggae Reggae R&B 2 4 5 Sep Tupelo True Floyd And Red Zone Chain Stories The Flavors Dancing Sex Rockabilly Bears Rock Rock Rock J ~ r $ IFrj 70 HY'f~-' Coming up: Webb Wilder, John Hiatt Graffitti- tain boogie, toss in some anecdotal folk August wisdom and reassuring melodic lines and you got an acoustic evening under the stars at Starlight with Mike Cross and Seldom Scene. Mike Cross is a multi-talented singer/song Trip who? writer/guitarist/fiddier/storyteller that has long e.e. cummings did it. And Bonnie Raitt and been a favorite at the Winfield, Kansas folk Peter Wolf followed suit. Then Matt Wilson, festival and throughout the country. If his new psychedelicized songwriter for the Trip album on Sugar Hill label, "Solo at Midnight:' Sbakespeare band, dropped out of a successful is any indication what his live show will be like, school career (at Harvard, no less) to pursue then check it out: some rambunctious twelve his own literary career, this time with a group string guitar picking on "Rusty Waterwheel:' of throbbing rockers. gyratin' fiddling with his "River Song:' a heart When Matt reached Elaine Harris, a percus rending love song "Fare Thee Wee, Marianne:' sionist with wicked hands, it was too late. She and "Dear Boss" with its warped and witty had already graduated from Harvard with a sense of humor. degree in biological anthropology. After all And if this isn't too much already, Seldom those years of study she was ready to do it with Scene, one of the most renowned bluegrass Matt: go on the road with a group of intense, bands, is right there to sooth and refresh us: enthusiastic and all-original rockers. And John While never for a moment forgetting their Munson, the six-and-a-half giant spider roots in traditional American acoustic music, fingered bass player was right there: dropping the five members of Seldom Scene are quick out of Chinese lit. to heed Elaine and Matt's call. Add guitarist Dan Wilson, Matt's brother, and you got the current nip Shakespeare lineup. llip Shakespeare's hot live shows, melodious writing and attentive groove action prompted Thrin Cities Reader music editor Martin Keller to "wager a tidy sum on this artistic foursome to go to faraway places and leave its inscrutable dene' Now its time for this Minneapolis-based group to make a big dent in the boisterous audience that is to decend on Parody Hall for their s'how on August 8. Winfield comes to KC Let's start it off at the top - August 1 and 2 - add some cool,. Appalachian
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18 KC Pitch • AUGUST to adapt good songs by Bob Dylan or Eric threat youth-culture banger of the year. Eat Clapton, transforming them with perfectly your guitar out. blended four-part vocal harmonies, acoustic guitars and banjo, into a head-rush of musical titillation. Guitarist Phil Rosenthal is respon KC Swings again 4117 Mill Street • Kansas C sible for writing several group originals that The heart of Kansas City will be swinging bounce, kick and profess gospel sentiment. again the weekend of Aug. 29 and 30 with the This is a show that traditional music lovers fifth annual Kansas City Jazz Festival. The Producers willi True Stodes have been waiting for. And if you're not a fan The free festival, featuring up-and-coming .AugustSth already, bring the family, friends and loved ones pianist Hilton Ruiz and a host of local talent, all for a starlit treat. is being held on the Frank A. Theis Memorial Mall, just east of the world-famous Country The Verandas Club Plaza. An estimated 100,000 people attended last August 6-7-8-10 year's two-day event, which featured an all-star swing band including Buddy Tate, Claude FIRII-IUIIK "Fiddler" Williams and Jay McShann. The 1987 festival will also feature another big-name Meat Puppets national act for the Sunday finale, whose ap pearance had yet to be confirmed at the time Thursday, .August 13th of thhl release. Among the local musicians scheduled to ap Red Zone SASQUATCH )"/cnoss ~MElUCA pear in one of several "jam" groups are guitarist Sonny Kenner, featured in the film A Gratelul Dead TrIbute The Dead Milkmen/ "The Last of the Blue Devils:' and trumpeter Carmel Jones, who has played and recorded Tuesday, August 18th Sasquatch threat with such notables as Ray Charles and Count The Dead Milkmen come alive at the Grand Basie. Emporium August 24. Watching these self- True Stodes glorified princes of snot rock is like being in The festival was created as a means of pro- an encampment of punked-out leprichauns. moting Kansas City's rich heritage of jazz and Wed., .Aug. 19th Wed. Sept. 2nd After their new release on Enigma, "Bucky its city parks. The mall site, also known as Fellini:' who knows what to expect? The Volker Park, is a continuation of the expan- management at the Grand Emporium along sive south lawn of the Nelson-Atkins Museum with the crazies at Firm Productions have of Art. thr llecti~.kS~T~};bvi: ~~~~F':::i:::1o=~e,by:e ~;~n7: out on their "Sasquatch Across group headed by president Aaron March. America" tour, to the bilI. This triple- KY·I02 Modem Music Monday Showcase
415 WESTPORT ROAD (LOWER LEl'EL) KANSAS ClTY. MJS8O\lBJ 561-3747 Now Open Till 3 A.M. Monday - Saturday 6nly SI COl_ CIuJrge. 8,,118,,__ on Friday & Saturday nights. The reBt of the week is free. Blayney'. continues Us long standing polky of prol.urlng .he bt>8t regionallh.e entertain t".rt WARM UP ACTS ment at the lowest price. ..,V•• Tues. - Jeff Black }'ou don't hUl'f! to pay $210 $10 cover chargeB Fri. - Dave Krull to hear good mU8'ic. AUGUST 1987 ENTERTAINMENT SaL - Allen White Just ('orne to Blayney's. ******* BWE BAND- COMING 8/5-8/8 ATTRACTIONS Everyone's fa\'orite KC BLUES 4 SKNNS Rock & Soul band BAND JAM "CLASSICAL • • • • • "ROCK• THE & SOULBLUE AT BAND ITS BEST" • • • • • • retums from Iowa ******* with Bobby Dorr on lead vocals and harp 10 11 12 14 15 and Good GolI)' Miss NACE BROS. Molly on bass and elec KC BLUES 4 SKNNS tric fiddle. This group • • BABY LEROY • • • • JIM SWENEY • • BAND JAM "ROCK" "ROCK AND FUNK" "R&B. TULSA STYLE" "ill get your toes tappin' *** and fingers snappin'. BABY BABY LEROY- 17 18 19 20 21" 22 8/12-8/13 and 8/21-8/22 • UPFRONT LEROY Recently reformed with KC BLUES 4 SKNNS BAND • new lead singer Brenda "RHYTHM ROCK TBA • • BABY LEROY • • BAND JAM "AT" Petty. this group FROM "ROCK, FUNK, R&B" *** brings new meaning to LAWRENCE" KCBLUES the term funk. They are 24 25 26 hot, so come see them. 27 28 29 JIl\l SWENEY - KC BLUES 4 SKNNS *** 8/15-8/16 TBA • • * • THE-CRAYONS • • • • Many people will BAND JAM "ITS" "CLASSICAL ROCK" CRAYONS remember Jim Sweney and the JumpShOIz. This is a different band 31 9/1 9/2 9/3 9/5 *** with a smoother sound 4 SKNNS that features Jim on KC BLUES 4 SKNNS lead vocals with his Joe BAND JAM "BEST" * • • • * • • * • TBA * * * • * • * • • Cocker style of singing. Don't miss him!
AUGUST • KC Pitch 19 The new album . Still life (talking) Available on lp, cassette and compact disc Geffen 24145 $11.99 CD . -The live concert $6.99Ip/cass. PEttnWNE August 20 at Sandstone Also available from Geffen: Lyle Mays new release on all formats (Geffen 24097) 20 KC Pitch • AUGUST World class iazz Egypt and just north of East Jesus" as their ing posed photos, because the music itself is stereo echo that bounces from left to right and John Hicks, the phenomenal jazz pianist, is press release says? Could be. But after seeing as forceful and appealing as ever, with a high back again over the chorus. And "Heaven" is bringing Elise Wood, flautist, for some in Mamou on MTV's "The Cutting Ectge:' it's ob gloss production finish. as sweet and honest as the simple video where ~te duets at the Jazz Haus in Lawrence, vious that this hard driving rock-oriented trio The Furs will perfonn live at Sandstone. the Furs play under streams of rain. KanSas on August 20. He has played on a has its real roots somewhere in the swamps of with opening act the CaD. Friday August 14. Richard Butler sports a fresh athletic ap legaCy of rec:on:Ijngs with Pharoah Saaders and I..ouisiana: With half of their lyrics in Creole proach to his stage performance, looking con under his own name. Pharoah's beautiful and French and cajun accordian lines transposed fident and fit as he bounces back and forth, surprisingly accessible "Journey to the One" to Stratocaster, the newly expanded dance floor slithering about in tight black leather. Yes, it's (Theresa IOSII09, $12.98 list) features John on at the Grand Emporium is sure to be hopping a new, commercialized image complete with a the title track and the Rogers and Hart stan on August 3. stunning light show, but they play it well. This dard "Easy to Remember.' John's own music, will be an engaging show under. a summer sky as ~plirted on "John Hicks in Concert" at Sanc:Istone. If you are a Furs fan, ·don't·miss (Theresa 123, $9.98 list) is a mixture of lucid, Flaming lips it. straight-ahead swing, the modal expansiveness -Mary Ferrante of 1hme and classical technique. "My father munchdown got me a teache(,' explains John, "who was an Wait just one moment. Don't kiss me there! immigrant from Russia. One of his exercises I'm going to catch the FIamiDg Lips at Elijio's CONCERTS was to do the Bach Partitas ... at least three Cantina on August 22. You know the Lips, of them through all the keys. All that trainina right? Just back from that three-day festival Get 'em fast, 'cause the tickets are disappear is very useful in my playing noW.' in RoskiIde, Denmark where 57,000 Europeans ing to the "summer of blues" buster - John came to see them and Sonic Youth, the Dream Lee Hooker backed up by none other than Lit Syndicate and the Cult. And then they were tle Charlie and the Nightcats at the Grand Em Desert or swamp? featured at the only New Music Festival in the porium on Fri., August 7. Little Charlie's new Are they really from "south of Bumtruck, big apple just days ago. Elijio better tum up album, "All the Way Crazy;' (Alligator 4753, the air conditioning for the big Flaming Lips $8.98 list) is receiving rave reviews. And when KC munchdown. they take the stage with John Lee. they will be making music history guaranteed.to push the blues right outa the box. Psychedel ic attitude P Furs' Richard Butler The Sandstone schedule offers a variety of musics this month, from the humorous Jim "It began, like all the best things, as an at I saw this sh ow in St. Louis in May at the Fox my Buffet ad the Coral Reefer Band on titude rather than an ambition!' So states the Theater and is was spectacular. The band was August 4 to the new age jazz sounds of the Pat current Columbia records biography on the up and tight, performing all their best songs: Metheny Group on August 20. Steve Ray Psyehedelie Furs. Longtime fans are sure to "Sister Europe:' "Mr. Jones;' "Love My WaY,' Vaughn will be joined by guitarist Gregg notice, however, that with the Furs' latest "Heartbeat;' "Shock:' etc. Definitely the AUman for a really big show on August 22. release. "Midnight to Midnight:' the we-wanna show's highlight is "Sleep Comes Down~' Hom be-stars ambition has replaced the here's-who maSterMars Williams adds a catchy new riff No, not all of our regional talent split the heat ,~t~_. attitpde. But so what? that onebopes is captured on tape for a future in August. You can check the BeIairs out at the l.ook past the black leather outfits and sneer- live album. :"Heartbreak Beat" focuses on a Jazz Haus on August 7 and 8. The Red Zone '.. f,~~:;:'~~r4lli'·~:&:!~~ll/il'!t!l%"··-i'~;_EtJNI6N S.ept.. 7 ~13, 1987 in Lawrence,Kansas 9:00-11;00 pm, Liberty Hall: An Evening of Spoken Words and Music by Rock 12:00-1: 1'8li:Oread Book Shop, Kansas Union: booksigning (names TBA) ., Poet Michael McClure and Ray Manzarek; also, .l\anny Sugerman 2:00-3:30 pm, Liberty Hatl: Robert Frank films "Pull My Daisy" and "This (author of "No One Here G~ Out Alive," the Doors bioifaphy) lads (price Song for .Jack." aw.!~ Ba1cb film "Towers Open Fare" (price TBA) rnA) 2:00-4:30 pm, Pine Room, fGnsas Union:group.poeIry reading (readers TBA) 9:00-12:00 pm. (location TBA): open-mike poetry readings and perfonnances by 2:00-4:30 pm. Walnut Room, Kansas.Union: group fiction reading (readers TBA) students and other guests 4:00-5:30 pm, Liberty HaD: Robert Frank films "Pull My Daisy" and "This Song for Jack." and Antony Balch film "TQwers Open Fire" (price TBA) Friday Sept. 11 th 7:00-9:00 pm, Union Ballroom, Kansas Union: Anne Waldman and Andrei 11:00-12:30 pm, Kansas Union: filmmaker Stan Brakhage speaks Codrescu read 12:00-1:30 pm, Oread Book Shop, Kansas Union: booksigning (names TBA) 9:00-11:00 pm, Bouleneck: Robert Creeley, James McCrary and other poets 2:00-3:30 pm, Liberty Hall: filmmaker Stan Brakbage with his films read (price TBA) "Faustfilm: An Opera" by Rick Corrigan and Stan Brakhage, and "The Dante 9:00-12:00 pm, (location TBA): open-mike poetry readings and perfonnances by Quartet" by Stan Brakbage (price TBA) students and other guests 2:00-4:30 pm, Pine Room, Kansas Union: group poetry reading (readers TBA) 2:00-4:30 pm, Walnut Room, Kansas Union: group fICtion reading (readers TBA) Wednesday Sept. 9th 4:00-5:30 pm, 'Liberty Hall: Robert Frank film "Me and My Brother" (price 12:00-1:30 pm, Oread Book Shop, Kansas Union: booksigning (names TBA) TBA) 2:00-3:30 pm, Liberty Hall: Robert Frank film "Me and My Brother" (price 7:00-9:00 pm, Lawrence Arts Center: group poetry reading (readers TBA) TBA) 9:00-11:00 pm, Liberty Hall: Jim Carroll, Ed Dorn and Ed Sanders perfonn 3:00-4:00 pm, (campus location TBA): Andrei Codrescu speaks to (literary (priceTBA) group) 9:00-12:00 pm, (location TBA): open-mike poetry readings and perfonnances by 4:00-5:30 pm, Liberty Hall: (film TBA) (price TBA) students and other guests 7:00-9:00 pm, Union Ballroom, Kansas Union: Allen Ginsberg reads 9:00-10:00 pm, Bottleneck: (poetry, musical perfonnances TBA) (price TBA) Saturday Sept. 12th 9:00-12:00 pm, (location TBA): open-mike poetry readings and perfonnances by 12:00-1:30 pm, Oread Book Shop, Kansas Union: booksigning (names TBA) students and other guests 2:00-3:30 pm, Liberty Hall: Timothy Leary speaks and takes questions on "The .... Emergence of the Cybernetic Person during the Roaring Twentieth Century Thursday Sept 10th (priceTBA) 12:00-1:30 pm, Oread Book Shop, Kansas Union: booksigning (names TBA) 4:00-5:30 pm, Liberty Hall: Conrad Rooks film "Chappaqua" (price TBA) 2:00-3:30 pm, Liberty Hall: Conrad Rooks film "Chappaqua" (price TBA) 8:00-11:00 pm, Liberty Hall: William Burroughs, Andrei Codrescu, Diane 2:00-4:30 pm, Pine Room,Kansas Union: group poetry reading (readers TBA) DiPrima, Allen Ginsberg, John Giorno, and Anne Waldman read 2:00-4:30 pm, Walnut Room, Kansas Union: group fiction reading (readers TBA) from their works (price TBA) 4:00-5:30 pm, Liberty Hall: filmmaker Gene Bernofsky with his films "Group," "Dropcity," "Glamour," "Lawrence of America." and "Postmaster" Sunday Sept 13th (priceTBA) 2:00-6:00 pm, (location TBA): final Reunion party for participants and friends 7:00-9:00 pm, Lawrence Arts Center: group poetry reading (readers TBA) 9:00-11:00 pm, Liberty Hall: Husker Do musical perfonnance (price TBA)
AUGUST • KC Pitch 21 will be invading the same Lawrence stage ing a free concert of works by Ravel and August 27. And the BCR band, whose new Poulenc Sun., August 2, 7 p,m. at Loose Park. album, "Which Earth are We On?" (Fifth Street 1078, $9.98 list), is charting at area Kurashiki Chor Kleine, a 50-person choir from stores, will be appearing August 27 at the Kurashiki, Japan, Kansas City's sister city, will Grand Emporium and August 28 and 29 at give a free concert on Thurs., August 20, at 7:30 Harling's Upstairs. The Remains will play p.m. in White Recital Hall, Center for the Per Harlings the preceding weekend, August 21-22. forming Arts, 50th and Cherry streets. The And if it's a good dose of jazz (and dining) young choir will sing a program of Japanese that suits your fancy, check out the City Up' folk songs, modern Japanese songs, and Orchestra at City Light every Thurs., Fri. and American and European songs, conducted by Sat. throughout the month and the Milt Abel Hiroshi 'Dmkaka. The accompanist will be Quartet every Mon. and Thes. Douglas Nledt, Keiko Okada. guitar, and Mary Posses, flute, both faculty And who was it that said Kansas City was dull members at the UMKC Conservatory, are play- in August? You can catch Suzanue Vega at Futons. !he Best 8ele~ In KaDS.S Cityl ------;\ ""'r. ,. '. \ ~ '~~~~
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KY102 o Wed. Sept. 2nd THE TRUE MODERN TRUE STORIES CLIQUE STORIES CHARLIE &- the STINGRAYS MUSIC NIGHT NO COVER .NO COVER I I 22 KC Pitch • AUGUST Memorial Hall on 'TIles., August 18 and the News flash. The word is just fresh out: 810 Presents double bill of Bonnie Raitt and John Prine at is confirmed for the Uptown Theater on ~~ Starlight Theater on August 26. And if that's August 6. And Poco will be right at the same not "hard" enough for ya, Metal Rage Night place the next night, August 7. For two ear at the Uptown Theater August 8 may be what fuls of soulful singing, experience the Whispers the music doctor ordered. and Stephanie Mills August 23 at the Midland The Music in the Parks series continues with Theater. "Fruitarians make better lovers:' say a hot line up for August. Jazz fusionists Free the two members of Packed Fruit. The reeds Flight play Lakewood Park, Vivion and North and percussion duo will take over the Epitaph Norton, Sun., August 2. The Gary Bnrton stage August 25. Whew... Group comes to Brush Creek on the Plaza, August 9. On August 16, it's the hot, new sounds of Blanchard-Harrison Quintet. This THEATER fresh trumpet/alto sax-lead group is an Art Blakey alumnus and some great bard bop. See Danny Cox recreates the era of the "summer them at Swope Park, east of main entrance, of love" through songs and storytelling in Meyer Blvd. and Swope Parkway. Herbie "Vanguard Nights:' a coffeehouse tribute at the Mann and !.es McCann team up for a show Midland Theater on Monday nights starting August 23 at Brush Creek on the Plaza. August 3.
Quite a line up at the World's of Fun Forum Adrian Zmed is still in town. You probably Amphitheatre in August. Leading off is Crystal remember him as Johnny in "Grease II" or as Gayle, Sat., August 1. On August 2, it's Randy guest on "Bosom Buddies:' "Goodtime Girls:' lhtvis. Menudo plays the Forum, Fri., August "I'm a Big Girl NoW,' and "Dance Fevef.' Zmed 7. The Forester Sisters perform on Sat., August is in KC nightly, appearing as Paul Burnette, 8. On Sun., August 9, it's Dan Seals. The Everly who is desperately trying to rekindle the fire Brothers, back together and better than ever, in his marriage in "Beginner's Luck:' playing perform Sun., August 16. On Sat., August 22, at Tiffany's Attic through August 9. it's the real King of Rock & Roll, Chuck Berry. Brother Ray. Ray Charles, plays two days, Willy Russell's "Educating Rita" comes to the August 29-30, to close out a great month. For Missouri Rep August 4-23. It's all about Rita, info, call (816) 454-4545. a determined young Britich hairdresser who gets what she asks for to the dismay of her Crown Center's Summer on the Square free middle-aged tutor. Friday concert series heats up in August. !.eo Kottke starts things off, Fri., August 7. Danny "Nunsense" comes to the Waldo Astoria Din niors turn Cro"P. <::~ll.wriJUg~,~., ner.,Playbouse for the entire month. sock-bop, Atlgus(}lt. It's Ben E. King, "Nunsense" is no "convent-ional musical!' It's : t~~~~~:~:~~ ~~::,t;!:,~:~ J~~l~~~;~::; ::~t~~'W~~;~~;~!;±;~01_~0'...", ...... :~;;:.:::.::~~=:::~::~!~=::~;..._.. ..-I .. I
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