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CALL: 231-3361 or 231-3345 For Your Stereo Serving Kan.". City, North Kans". City, MI•• lon HI"., Westuood, We.twood Connection, Todayl HI"., M""on Woods, Liberty, A.,ondale and RI.,e.... de. en was the most exhilarating moment On "stormy Weather" I notiaed of my life and I really haven't that you did the arranging. experienced anything quite like That was my baby! In fact, the it since. It was my first real version out now hasn't really experience with an American gay been finished, we have an ex audience. I had experienced, the tended version a medley we hope European gays but it's such a to put out. The song is "Rainy mixed thing where there are a Days & Sunshine Dreams," it ex lot of gays and straights in the tends out of "Stormy Weather" same clubs. I just saw a lot of and it's more of a portrait- happy people and it didn't real type song, part of which I wrote ly register about the gay aspect. myself--it explains more of I don't care about wha t they where my head is. prefer to do at home, I like people. I don't think it's ne Is this positive that you'ZZ be cessary to qualify it. Why they ;re.aording it? have to put a category on them I've had such a positive reac bugs me. They do the same thing ·tion from "Stormy Weather" that wi th music--they try to put me I don't think I'll have a hard in the category of disco. I play time getting the pressed. music, I can sing arias, clas From reports I've sales sics, ballads and they tell me, for it here in Kansas "Hey, you're a disco person", I great. resent classifying my music as We mentioned earlier that my au disco, because there is so much diences seem to be gay but with more to ME as a person. To put a "Stormy Weather" my exposure to person in a category is not fair. gays and straights is increasing. It's not a true portrait of a In new places such as Kansas Cit person. we hope to br ing the two together. People tha t come to my How do you p'iak the songs that concerts and hear some of my seven years. It was a very edu you do? older stuff ("Gonna Get Along How did you get started in the cational experience. I went to I had been doing my own songs, Without You Now," "If You. Could music business? Europe originally as a back-up however when I was approached to Read My Mind") say they've been I've been singing all my life singer for Joe Cocker. do these songs, they were cute playing my records but didn't and at one point decided to do and I liked them. My version is know it was me. it as a career. I took my natu When I talked to your what made the difference when we ral talent and applied it to get promoter here for the aonaert. did a lot of covers. Do you have a specifia goal in a job in a nightclub. It was he mentioned one of the reasons your aareer? quite a few years ago, more to bring you here in June is to Are you going to put any of your Not a long range one, I want to years than I'd even care to talk help promote Gay Pride Week. original songs on reaord? find a really good record com about. But it was just going in Right, in Europe my audience was It's very hard right now but yes pany, one that wants to work to a nightclub and asking for a mixed so I didn't really notice that is one of my desires. I've with me and my songs. I feel job. It was from that experience it. It wasn't until I came back got such a track record at cov tha t through my songs a lot of that I realized I had a lot to to the States that it opened up ering now, it's difficult. They things I like to talk about are learn. my eyes and educated me more (the record companies) don't of said. A lot of my thoughts come about the gay society. ten want to take a chance, it's out in my songs. Where are you from? just that they know I can do a Los Angeles, Watts. I heard that you made a grand cover and it'll sell. It's busi There wi l l be a baby grand piano entranae at The Troaadero in San ness to them. A lot of record at the Uptown for your aonaert Was the first club you worked a Franaisao. companies didn't know that I did here (K.C.)--wiZZ you take ad gay club? My hit at that time was "Up On my own songs. When I came back vantage of it? Oh, no, that's been a recent oc The Roof" and the reaction of to America, for all they knew I Well I'm not the greatest piano currence. It's been something the crowd was mind-blowing. I had just started singing. They player in the world--I can mess that happened here (USA); I'd made my entrance through a 60ft. had heard my cover songs. The around on it and talk to the never really had contact with high skylight in a big puff of record companies now are very audience, as long as they don't that part of society till I came smoke, I was singing as I came surprised that I doooriginals. I expect anything great on it. back to the States last year. down and the minute the guys saw am a very serious songwriter, a my foot come down the ladder the very prolific songwriter. In my Smitty booked this as a danae say came back to place went into an uproar, it basement I have stacks and stacks concert--do you mind people I presume you were was outrageous. At that moment I of tapes hopefully to do a rec dancing during your show? was transplanted to some other ord here in the States. No, not at all. I want to see lived -there for about place, it was like a dream. It Kansas Cit strut its stuff. KCROQC,tPOP 'lOP 20 1. PAUL McCA"RtNEY /TUG OF WAR 2. HUMAN LEAGUE/DARE 3, VANGELIS/CHARIOTS OF FI RE ~ PEtRtYNE ~ 4. DAVE EDMUNDS/D. E. 7th Sfl'ECIAlISTSIN'U,COROEDMUSIC 5. ASIA/ASIA 6. QUEEN/HOT SPACE 7. RICHARD & LINDA THOMPSON/SHOOT OUT THE LIGHTS 8. SQUEEZE/SWEETS FROM A STRANGER 9. GREG KIHN/KIHNTINUED PRESENTS 10. FRANK ZAPPA/SHIP TOO LATE FOR A DROWNING WITCH ll. ELTON JOHN/JUMP UP 12. XTClENGLISH SETTLEMENT In a Dance Concert 13. MOTELS/ALL FOUR ONE 14. TOTO/IV 15. TALKING HEADS/MAYBE ITS LIVE 16. TOM TOM CLUB/TOM TOM CLUB Tuesday June 8 8pm 17. JOHN COUGAR/AMERICAN FOOL 18. RICK SPRINGFIELD/SUCCESS HASN'T SPOILED ME YET 19. CAT PEOPLE/SOUNTRACK UPTOWN THEATRE 20. VAN HALEN/DIVER DOWN SMITTY'S .,OP to DANCE 1. STORMY WEATHER 12" Viola Wi 11 s 2. GIVE ME A LITTLE MORE TIME LP Angela Clemmons viola wills 3. MEGATRON MAN LP Patric!< Cowley 4. DON'T YOU WANT ME 12" Human League 5. DIS-CHARGE LP Boystown Gang 6. RITE ON TARGET/PUSHIN TO HARD 12" Paul Parker 7. DO WHAT YOU WANNA DO 12" Cage 8. RHYTHM OF THE JUNGLE 12" Quick 9. RIDE THE NITE 12" Bobby Davenport 10. DANCING IN HEAVEN 12" Q-Feel
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Reso ley (our cover dancer), to the sic ian waves his clarinet in goals of the group lightly. "We nation remains movement because rhythm and blues of '60 's Motown a tphabetic configurations in want the kids to understand that it's a wave-form. It might be an music against the imagined back space (his initia ts) whi te p lay- dance is something to be played 'OMMM' or a - 'HUMMM, a 'BUZZZ' or -drop of a New York street scene ing, the kids become curious and with, just the way you play with a telephone wire. Everything is at the end of the beatnik era. excited. The dancers curve their painting or sculpture. It's a energy. It's just the various Kathleen has been working with arms, b01lJ their heads and 1lJave means of expression." "It's im- ways the energy manifests that the Westport Ballet for two bri ttiant co tored scarves, 1lJhi te portant to open the youngsters make the difference in what we years. She started dancing in another musician p lays a minia- to new ways of seeing things," perceive--whether it's f ire or Minneapolis as a student of I ture e tectronic keyboard (Casio- added Dwight Frizzell. "They are water or air or the cosmic lu Louise Holten, director of the' tone) to describe each movement. receptive to such twentieth cen bricant ether. Ib's like Wilhelm Minnesota Dance Theatre. "I was tury concepts as simultaneity, Reich's orgone energy. v.ery young. I wasn't studying it This is Improvidance perform synchronici ty, synesthesia and as an academic thing a tall. " ing at one of the Kansas City improvisation." "I really love ON I SADORA DUNCAN Soon she was dancing ill south area grade schools. Dancers Ran it when I see young boys hugging America in both a folk dance and dy Barron, Kathleen Kingsley and each other as much as the girls Isadora Duncan is the mother of a ballet company (in Baranquilla Arielle Thomas join musicians do," Arielle Thomas cited during modern dance, and modern dance and Bogata, Colombia). "That's Ken Beck and Dwight Frizzell for an Improvidance performance. "I is essentially American. Isadora when I started doing choreogra the opportunity to introduce ex see why the Olivia Newton-John Duncan, ironically, did most of phy." Later in Tampa, Florida pressions and ideas through album Let's Get Physical was her work in Europe in the early wi th the Whose Move Dance Co., dance and improvi sa tion. "I t 's a tremely popular. People need to decades of the twentieth cen she performed in unusual spaces challenge to work_with children," be touched. That's why dance is j::ury. At a controversial concert outdoors, in museums, at parties explains Ka thleen. "They don't so important." in the u.-s.s-~if.-, -s-he ripped open and on the beach. Kathleen's think the way we think. We pre the front of her gown and bared previous "theatrical" dance in pare one thing for them and dis her breasts on stage. Later, ventions for the Westport Ballet cover their reaction is 'some while creating the stance tech includes "Caprices" and "The thing we didn't expect. You PEA K I N G nique she got in touch with uni Dream," both set to the piano really have to be open. They see versal energy by standing in her music of Darius Milhaud. through things. You can't be Arie Zte Thomas is an associate studio for days finding her cen dishonest with them." dancer 1lJith the Westrort Ba ttet, ter, and feeling the earth. She Randy Barron, co-director of originator of the Joy of Moving realized that all movement Westport Ballet, admits =-that he Al though the Improvidance per- Company, and in the Dance facuZ starts from the solar plexis. occasionally enjoys "hamming it formances have been de as ty at the University of Missouri Isadora Duncan's choreography up" at the Prospect. "You can at Kansas City. She danced in emphasized natural movement, get away with a lot because the the Kine tic Energy Danc e Company initiated the breakdown of the audience is part of the perfor in Austra Ua and taught at the structure of ballet, and did mance. We can see them and they University of sydney. Recent Zy away with whalebone corset tutus can see all we've got. We re she choreographed the music of and pointed toe shoes, instead spond to that and change." The Meredith Monk. She a Zso studied wearing Grecian. tunics and outdoor setting is ideal for the theatre and performed in a dancing barefoot. Westport Ballet fS sixth annual Datroit-based puppet thea tre for summer series. Bruce Maxwell three years. created and donated a stage spe cially built for the cobblestone courtyard at the Prospect. The combination of summer breeze, overhead trees, orange sleaze ON BREATHING decor and dancers' happy feet Breath, to me, is the cosmic in near eye level, should make for terface between the physical and an interesting spectacle. non-physical, from the material world to the non-material. Randy studied dance with Ta That's why I think breathing is tiana Dokoudovska (a former so important in dance. Every dancer in the Ballet Russe thing is in a state of movement. de Monte Carlo) at the In stillness there's that whole Conservatory, where potential for movement, that ki a working frien netic kind of suspension like a with Ken Beck, compo spring ready to release ... musical director There's a sense of movement Westport Ballet. there even though there's no has performed in visible arc in space. 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Produced and Directed by KEVIN RAFFERTY JAYNE LOADER PIERCE RAFFERTY PAGE 10 kC PITCI1 ~'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.llI1i11"'.' • ...... • S PEe I A L REP 0 R T m<;>us Jean-~uc Godard, Jean-- amiable ~an, he sp:mt a couple • - D Int t" 1F"l r;1 st" 1 P~erre Gor~n, I expected a heavy of days ~n Denver ~ntroducing - I enver ema lona 1 m L' e IVa handed dida~tic tract. Ins~ead, s<;>me of his old films as well as! _ I was surpr~sed by a charm~ng h~s recently completed work, a • INlAY 6-21 1982 by JERRY HARRINGTON, director of fi Zm bookings story o~ the Kenn7dy twins, two t::ibute to American director - -I ' at the Bij ou Theatre youn<:! g~rls who, ~t was thought, N~cholas Ray (Rebel Without A • had ~nvented their own private Cause). It was made while Ray - i A arew language. As it turns out they was dying of cancer in his loft I _ Theatre aren't precocious linguists but in New York. It's a moving, - • a their worn youngsters who picked up their sometimes incoherent homage to a. _ waiting in the grandmother's German, their mo- great director. Ed Asner was i I aa tah another ther' s broken English, and their also at the fest to open his new_ _ 5th Denver f':lther's Ameri~an slang. The film O'Hara's Wife. Also honored. I Festival (May f~lm broadens ~ts scope in the was the actress Lee Grant; the - i exaited about ~~t~~~ ~:!~n~~s b~~~:p\~ymd~~~ment ~!~yec;~~e:ei:~s:~g~~~~~i~~l~~d ! _ in foreign and I This is a pleasant dilema and broken dreams. makers. Aribam Syam Sharma, an ! _ easygoing festiva l un like Indian director, whose film, ~ • I grind of the New York or The biggest clinker was a Ja- Son, My preci0';ls was ':In ~ntense- _ _ Franaisao film fests whiah panese film called Demon Pond a ly human and.l~fe-:-a~f~rm~ng, I ! round-the-aloak showings. truly wretched piece of reject story of an ~lleg~t~mate,ch~ld _ Denver Festival only has mara- Chan is Missing celluloid made by a respected who, after many years, f~nds a • •_ thon programming on the week- director Marashiro Shinoda. It 's home~ was on hand at ~he Denver - I ends; otherwise, it's two films old movies like the Charlie Chan very heavy with seriousness, al- s~ow~ngs. When ':I sked ~f he a~- • _ a night. It's held after most series and TV cop dramas (espe- most deadening until two men, I?~red ~o make b~g budge~ mov~es - I other major festivals have a l- cially the Dragnet-like narra- one dressed as a rubber crab ~n Ind~a, Mr. Sharma sa~d he ! - ready oaaured and usually gets tion) as well as a satire on felt much more at home with I • the best from the other festi- Chinese-American stereotypes. small budgets and weekend film- - i va ls. ~~~v:;~r~h;ei~~k o~O;w~h=~~i a man ~~~~n~e w;;~l~r~~~~s ~uih:u~~C= ! i The most exciting film this who suddenly disappears and who <:!ood work, prod';lced over a per- • _ year is Smash Palace, a sort of no one, when asked, can agree on ~<;>d of years, w~th r;onprofes- - • Shoot the Moon from down under. just who he was or what he did. s~onal act<;>rs and d~~carded~ ! _ The film chronicles the dissolu- It's a funny, intelligent film scra~chy f~lm stock ~s a tr~bute. ! tion of a marriage between a as quick witted as director to h~s art~stry ~s .w~l~ as the _ race-car driver/junk man and his Wayne Wang, who had to be the unp~ummeted poss~b~l~t~es of the. •_ wife who comes from a wealthy, most low key and self-effacing med~um. A humb~e, gentle man Mr. - • cosmopolitan background. They of the guests who attended the Sharma was eas~lr approachable • _ live in a very uncosmo town si- festival. and ve;ry support~ve and under- - Imilar to Newton, Kansas in an stand~ng of the, dilemmas tha~ ! _ unsophisticated country, New Demon Pond confro~t evel:.Y ~ndependen1: hlm- • • Zealand, which is alot like Kan- with giant unwieldy snappers, maker ~n the world. We had a _ i ~:~i~!t~sm~u~;~~~~ti~~:t~~~~tal i~:h~t~~~ea~p a o~~l~~y t~~O~!~~. ~~~r;~!·\~~~d~~:S te~~~h~~~\~~~! i drama but quickly reaches sur- From then on it's Godzilla-like point of my visit here. • _ real heights that no Hollywood hilarity complete with bad spe- - • films dare touch as the husband cial effects which includes a A film caught at the last min- • .. does some very strange things in ·tidal wave that destroys a town ute of the festival was the one .- I order to win his daughter and which looks like a surfing wave that I had been hoping for, Mar- - wife back. It's an unpredict- on the credits of "Hawaii 5-0," garethe, von Trotta's Marianne i I able, surprisingly well acted and a water fall that is and Jul~ane (part of MOMA' s New _ -. and directed film that should straight out of rejected footage Directors/New Films program) • • _ get some play here, possibly from old Tarzan movies. It's the ~tory of two sisters - • 1985 knowing how slowly films who wer7 ~nvolved with the 70' s • _ take to get to Kansas City. What sets film festivals apart revolut~onary movements in West - .' from just another movie showing Germany. Juliane is the editor • _ d Th7 best of the Amer~can pro- are the guest appearances by of a feminist magazine and Mar- i .luct~ons was Chan Is Missing a PotoandCabengo directors and stars. This year's ianne is a member of a desperate _ _ . ow- udget mrstery by Wayne. Wang . top guest was West German direc- terrorist group. When Marianne • • of San Frar;c~s~o. Mr. Wang ~n- most enjoyable. Directed by a tor Wim Wenders (The American is arrested, Juliane visits her_ - troduced h~s f~lm as a parody of former collaborator of the infa- Friend). An intros ective but in prison. Across the visiting., ...... table they begin to relive their- i ~ let's fasten our seat belts and the mor.e I think th.a .. t .. Yo. u would _ c~ildhoOd and adolescence. The! _ () B salt the popcorn and talk about probably enjoy thisr$.CO!!'dJllOre I f~lm ;W • some film music. if you skipped the film. i - - ()B B _._ 1 QUEST FOR FIRE/Philippe Sarde CAT PEOPLE/Music :Giorgio Moroder I iw RCA ABLl-4274 $9.98 l~st Lyrics:Dav~d Bowie $9.98 list _ ! ._ L)~ 131~(""r ~ k- Erf'Pf'l [)15H ~ Backstreet/MCA BSR 6107! • ! Hello again! I want to thank ~i~h~r~~;~~Wo~~i~fr;~~~/~~m ~~ ~ ~ee this film, • -. I everyone fo: the cards and let- holding his nose and falling but this music makes me want to. - _ - ters. Espec~ally the ones with over. The music tries to be Moroder has scored big before, • • I cash in them. Several readers real dramatic and overoowering. both critically and commercial- - - -I wrote to ask th7 same question, Most of it sounds downright ly, with Midnight Express and ! • and the answer ~s, yes, checks dumb. I mean who can like a re- American G~golo. Th~s set might I - i are acceptable. In response to cord with titles like "The Small be h~s best yet. It also doesn't • _ the marriage proposal, sorry; Bl ue Female" or "The Beginning hurt to have David Bowie doing Marianne and Juliane .- I already taken. Last but not of the Future" and my personal one of his best songs in awhile, _ least thank:s to whoever sent the favorite "The Bear Fight." In either. The better soundtracks and the period of change they i • case of,Oog,Biscuits. I've al- short, where there's smoke, lately are the electronic ones. are caught up in. If it has a _ i~:~: :~~~~~~~~~l~~o~~n never i~:~e ~~e f~I~~. use this record to ~~~v:~m:~~~~~\;~~~/~~:n t~ ~~~:b~~k~ei=~~h~~/t;h~e:~~~e~: ! sp~~~s t~:~: fosr f~hlmis mmuos~tch. Or as s,! HOW ARE FILMS BOUGHT BY, EXHIBITORS. WE TALKED BEFORE ABOUT BLIND BIDDING WHERE EXHIBITORS BID MONEY FOR A PICTURE BEFORE THEY GET A CHANCE TO SEE IT. IS THIS STILL DONE? BY LAW, IN THE STATE OF KANSAS, TO SELL A PICTURE TO EXHIBITORS, YOU MUST SCREEN THE FILM IN THE TWO LARGEST CITIES. THAT'S WICHITA & KANSAS CITY, KS., INSTEAD OF SCREENINGS OCCURING AT THE COMMONWEALTH SCREENING ROOM IN DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY, MO. THEY NOW TAKE PLACE AT THE INDIAN SPRINGS (THEATRES) IN THE MORNINGS. THEY WILL NOT AWARD FILMS (FIRST) USUALLY, ON THE MISSOURI SIDE OF KANSAS CITY. INSTEAD, IN MY OPINION, JOHNSON COUNTY IS CONSIDERED THE KEY AREA FOR FILMS IN THIS CITY LIKE 'WESTWOOD IS TO LOS ANGELES. TECHNICALLY THEY COULD SELL A FILM SEPARATELY TO KANSAS CITY, MO., BUT DISTRIBUTORS ARE SMART ENOUGH NOT TO DO THAT. SO THEY'LL WAIT TILL IT'S SCREENED, AND THEN GET IT HOME TO JOHNSON COUNTY AND ADD TO IT, AND BID THE FILM OUT ACCORDINGLY. WE'RE VERY CLOSE TO HAVING A SIMILAR BILL SIGNED IN__ MO. THAT WILL THEN MAKE MO. ALSO AN ANTI-BLIND BID STATE .. _THE BLIND BIDDING IS BASICALLY BUYING A PIG & A POKE. (A) GUY SENDS YOU A LITTLE BID INFORMATION AND TELLS YOU WELL ••• TAKE FOR EX AMPLE THE EXORCIST II. "NO DOUBT ABOUT IT" THEY WOULD SAY, "IT'S GOING TOBETHESECOND COMING." WELL I! WAS THAT EVER AN AWFUL MOVIE. FORTUNES CAN BE LOST OVER THAT. ALL THE EXHIBITORS ARE ASKING IS TO MAKE THEIR OWN JUDGEMENT. CRUISING WAS ANOTHER GOOD EXAMPLE. THEY HAD IT BOOKED AT NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSES. THE FILM COMPANY AT THE TIME DIDN'T WANT TO LET THEM(EXHIBITORS) OUT OF THE CONTRACT. THE EXHIBITORS TOOK APOLOGY ADS OUT IN THE KC STAR. LET'S SEE IT BEFORE WE BID ON IT ..• HEAVEN'S GATE .. ~HE PLAY TIME IS LOCKED IN •.. WHEN IT CAME CLOSETOTHEACTUAL OPEN ING, AFTER THEY(EXHIBITORS) HAD BID IT AGES BEFORE, THE FILM CO. SAYS, "OOPS GUYS. SORRY THE FILM AIN'T GONNA BE READY." AND HERE ALL THE OTHER MAJOR FILMS HAVE ALREADY BEEN BID & SOLD & THE GUY WHAT DO YOU THINK OF CABLE? IS IT A THREAT TO HARD TOP THEATRES? NO .. 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'S 832 S Harrison 764-9861 by mai l, phone, or person. GARFUNKLE'S 535 Westport KC PITCH, 4128 Broadway, 561-6868 K.C., MO., 64111 il0 • The spiritually positive Gene Ramey, Jay McShann' s phe i Jackie and Step-Buddy Anderson nomenal bass player, persuaded • (declared once and for all THE Step-Buddy to join McShann' s NO JIVE BAND) will present Step band a t the time when the band • • Buddy's Primitive Rhythm leader was augmenting his unit. Pictures at the Bijou Theatre, Soon, Charlie "The Bird" Parker • • 601 Wes tpart Rd, June 5, 12, 19 would replace Earl "Bang Bang" !11-12 E~8,4ee,4~~EN" Johnson on alto sax to join • and 26. The 2: OOpm Saturday ma tinees will be a multi-media Step-Buddy in the reed section • experience with music provided line-up. The band also included by the NO JIVE BAND and special Orville "Piggy" Minor on trumpet i guests, including Ernie Wil and Gus Johnson on drums. Iiams, the last of the Blue "McShann's band was a brother • Devils. hood," Step-Buddy explains. "The "It's not Hollywoodian. Things cats dug each other. But as a 18-19 • are just as they are," explains companion, Bird was a loner, • Step-Buddy about his Bijou gig. man. He had to be. When all the The show includes music, narra cats would be at home in bed, • tion and slide projections. Per Bird would be out someplace i sonali ties in the slide show looking around. But he had con include the contemporary K.C. trol of wha t he was doing." jazz personalities Jay McShann, Jackie Anderson, singer and • Steve Harvey, Rich Hill and Ida bass player, has been working 25-26 David and the • McBeth along with historic professionally since she was photos from the 18th Street three years old. She has played • Hotel, a landmark for traveling wi th top local talent such as musicians in the '30' sand Mike Ning, Frank Smith and Bill • Happenings • '40's. Pictures of Jo Jones with Drybread. Step-Buddy and Jackie Baby Lovitt, and Joe Turner will met two and a half years ago •i • also be part of the program. when he was producing a play en ,,,'4 .; i Step-Buddy Anderson is a ti tIed "Mr. Al to Saxophone." figure in the of They have been performing to especially gether ever since and have been ~~ THE BEAT CAFE i the Kansas married for two years. night, after Christian in CALL fAJt~fe~'f ! Step-Buddy would listen STEP-BUDDY's PRIMITIVE-RHYTHM PIC static to radio broadcasts of TURES and music is the first of a 7539414 Count Basie and his band from of Reno Street in K .C. He came to lIt,elf~"f ~ i the K.C. area to attend school. 31. I...... ~~ ...... I've heard the Velvet Under ground was. an influence for your music ••• Yes, I met them years ago. They were partly responsible for me realizing that I could do music. They influenced me and a group called the Stooges (with Iggy Pop). The first album which sounds nothing like what he's doing nowadays, at least in my mind. What they had was the hyp notic sound. It wasn't a heavy rock sound. Groups that try to imitate them misunderstand it. They were a much different sound live. any of your reaords produced way yoy wanted them to be? Yes, & Roll with the Modern Lovers. my way. some the ones on Back In Your Life. But records aren't my thing any way, live is my bag, studios have changed so much since the music I love came out 25 years ago, that Albert Einstein can't get the sound you want. What I like is not made anymore, like a '54 Buick Roadmaster. You just can't find parts for them now. Do you have a favorite artist from 25 years ago? Noland Strong & the Diablos from Detroi t. They were around back in 1956 and they did the origi nal "The Wind." I like Sam Cooke & the Soul Stirrers, Little Ri chard and Chuck Berry, You go off on such strange things. Some of your humor is ~~~~.~~~~~.I!1I!1"II~I!III.III••••••••••••••••••••••••••• outright, some of it is subtle. HER E I TIS A N I N T E R V lEW WIT H THE Do you reaUy like Europe then? ~~~~/:h;~e y;:l~r~~/~~e;~ink Not only that, yeah, but I see songs? NATURE BOY OF ROCK & ROLL ...... myself more as a pop singer than Some of them are just supposed a rock singer. I use rhythm and to be funny, take "Abominable JONATHAN RICHMAN blues music. That's how I see Snowman in the Ma,r)l:et," and "Hey myself. There Little Insect." I was by Violet Jackson afraid of insects. When I sing Member 0 f the Staff When you go to Europe, wi ZZ you that song it makes me less You have a following here in take your band? afraid of them. ~I got more in YOUI' style of guitar is very Kansas City already. But, most No, I can't afford to take my touch with the insect world on distinative, where did you de of the people that know about band (The Modern Lovers) with "I'm Nature's Mosquito." A lot velop that from? It almost you are in the record business. me? of my songs have to do with sounds as if you are pluaking Have you ever toured around here nature. it? The Chinese traditional song, before? I've been listening to your al where did you get that from? No, I never have. bums for about a month now and I Do you like city life or ooun1;ry I go to the public library and noticed on your album covers, life? get different kinds of music. Have you toured in California? visual ly, you change with each country life isn't "country" It's the same place where I got Yeah, California happened be one. Is there a aertain side of enough for me. I would like the South American tune. I was cause there were record compan yourself that you prefer? country life if it were like the playing the lead guitar on both ies interested in us years ago Yeah, there is and it's just Indians. I 'm a nature boy. those instrumentals, in fact, and I developed a following. My happening now. A little bit of all the instrumentals. So my record company was in Berkeley, it just started on the Modern Do you have a favorite style is distinctive because I CA. Lovers live album. instrument? taught myself a lot. I play lead To me, the ultimate instrument You have a ahild in a rhythm style when I play up with the is my voice. The key to what I'm lead a lot of the time. It's not qua lity and when doing is nakedness. The way I am no longer wi th. I your songs felt talk directly to the audience is really like a folk guitar, it's you before I met you. more like the older rock gui tar them because they heard naked. That's what I strive for. Tha t' s one of the best things ist style. a tape and were interested years I'm more of an entertainer. I ago when no one else when you could say. That's the whole tell stories. I dance and sing. all the big labels think point of my records. I've just begun to have a sing any I was their type. ing career. I've just begun to musia also your recrea- get good. The past is the past. Do you have goals? It's taken me a long time to Well, I'm Yeah, and I like playing sports, unlearn a lot of things. In fact when you start- ther few too. ~A lot of people stay in I'm still unlearning. And until play allover Europe more. their houses and watch TV. That's I get really close to nature, I want to be ... bad for me. I got to get out. I won't be totally alive. read about the American Indians Do you wan t to be famous? and nature, so I want to live in Did you fee l closed in when you It's different from famous. You a rural area. I don't think it's were younger? 'Ve been doing music for know when you go into a record the ultimate, but it's closer to Yeah, it was the generation I time? store, there are different sec nature. was brought up in. I always had years, I started out tions--the one I expect you' 11 energy but there was no place to alone and I put my first band find me in will be international Would you like goaUacoust- put it but in school. A school together when I was nineteen. --male vocalist. ic in your is no place for an alive young I've played all acoustic live person. At least there are other before; but when you mike it, kids there but other than that I ______... qualityyou lose of a lotthe ofinstrument. the acoustic To have nothing good to say about it. I remember being in line in get the sweetness you have to sixth grade and was told, "Wipe have a hall built for ~it. that smile off your face." for SOU_.WRACK doing nothing. They wanted me to loca l be a little IBM executive right SPEC.,ACULAR' ( except from the start. To hell with them. LARGE SELECTI ON OF SOUNDTRACKS That's because 've had more in terviews published about me in said about un AND SHOWTUNE COLLECTABLES ALL national magazines. Most of them of 29 are lies anyway. to un learn a 20% OFF, ALL OF JUNE. OPEN The Egyptian song . .. "My Love Is A It was a big over Europe. to Bloom," 7 DAYS, PHONE 753-0078 That's my best known song. women, most of my friends are women between the Do you prefer reggae music? ages of 28 and 32, most of them Yes, I like reggae. That's a . are just beginning to bloom. side of myself. But really, the That song can be easily misun kind of record that I want to do derstood. It's a very simple hasn't been done by me yet, no song. My friends are flowers thing of the past is indicative just beginning to bloom. This is the morning of our lives--we're beginning to live right now. "J: 'm ... of it. ~~------Do you have anything going with more alive than I ever was. I a record company? love nature. That's where it's No, my manager is looking, and at for me. That's what is right so far there seems to be more fbr us now. If we don't get that interest in Europe right now. right, we've had it. PAGE 15 VAN HALEN/Diver Down (WB 3677) Three years ago Van Ha1en' s first two albums were the sound track for hot summer nights' adventure--cruising the hamburger stand, throwing back Miller beer faster than you could pull up to the four chics in the Camaro ahead of you. VH' s first two tapes were standard equiptment in every car with' a KY sticker, and that was anybody who mattered. The high school days were geared for the extremes--breakneck speed, fast cars, loud rock 'n'rol1, all-night partying, more!, faster! and Van Halen was leading the way. Blasting out of a hopped up Nova at a 100+ decibels, "Running With The Devil" or "Somebody Give Me A Doc tor" just about says it all. Unfortunately, over the course of three .years and three albums, VH has dropped down into low gear and only occasionally have they stood on it and smoked the big meats. Diver Down is their weakest album yet--a disap pointment after last year's Fair Warning showed great promise of VH on a rebound. The best tunes here are the cover tunes, which I figured these guys had outgrown by now. "Where Have All the Good Times Gone," "Dancing In the Street," and "Oh Pretty Woman" are nifty, with Eddie's usual dynamite guitar work and Roth's wise ass vocals taken in the originals like lighter fluid and spitting them out in an exploding ball of fire. Now I can accept VH taking a different direction, but this is no direction at all. VH are in serious danger of eat ing the dust of up-and-coming bands Iron Maiden, Krokus and Def Leppard, who are gaining fans as fast as VH is losing them. think Motorhead is the greatest heavy B- metal band around, others can't stand them. It seems there is RAINBOW/Straight Between the Eyes (Mercury 4041) no middle ground when it comes to Motorhead and I'm sure they Finally a decent album from Rainbow, the last two were real wouldn't have it any other way. This is a band that plays ly a drag. Ritchie Blackmore is still hunting for the groove solely for their die-hard fans, and the rest of the world had he once enjoyed with Deep Purple, so it's not surprising this better just stay out of the way. For three guys to generate album sounds very much like DP. "Death Alley Driver," the best this much energy 'and make this much noise they have got to tune on the album, reminds me a lot of "Highway Star." "Stone work up a sweat. Ian "Lemmy" Ki1mister' s vocals sound like an Cold" is a cross between Deep Purple and Foreigner which escaped lunatic running through the asy1um,going hoarse rant translates into a radio hit. A good song, it does have a sense ing, screaming and genera1\ly terrorizing the other patients. of urgency to it. Lemmy's bass is busy driving ~he ::hyth~ of this z:ightma::e so B that every bone in your body ~s v~brat~ng, creat~ng an ~nner earthquake. "Phi1thy Animal" Phil Taylor attacks the dr,;,m set VIVA/What The Hell Is Going On! (CBS import $10.98 list) determined to level it in a matter of seconds. Fast Edd~e Desperate, raspy vocals, sizzling rhythm & lead guitars Clarke on lead guitar is constantly battling the other two quick and to the point, very much like the Scorpions. I'm crazies to be faster and louder, competing in the heavyweight guessing this band is from Germany and that keyboardist Bar bout of decibels. Play this record at a party at high volume bara Schenker is related to Michael & Rudolf. Not the least and one of two things will happen: 1) Everybody will run out bit subtle, Viva hits you over the head with their tasty but of the place like it was a bust or 2) Everyoz:e will dr<;,p to powerful blend of guitar rock, influenced mainly by the the floor and begin shaking uncontrol1i3.b1y l~ke Be1ush~ and Scorpions. his Delta buddies in Animal House. A B+ OUTLAWS/Los Hombres Malo (Arista 9584) BLUE OYSTER CULT/Extraterrestrial Live (CBS 37946 $9.98 list) As southern hard rockin' goes, these guys are about as good A killer album from one of everybody's favorite HM bands. as anybody. Good tunes, slick production, the usual guitar in . These guys are hip, let's face it. Spooky, ominous, evil lyr terplay in the classic "Freebird" tradition. Side one is flat ics precise and powerful guitar work combine for an overall out rock 'n 'roll but Side two is too laid back and subdued to eff~ct which makes you want.,to go sacrifice the neighboor' s be anything but sleep inducing. cat in some satanic ritual. Sides one and two contain some pretty average materia1--"Dr. Music" and "Burning For You," c but "Dominance & Submission," "Joan Crawford," and "Roadhouse FIST/Thunder/Rock (A&M 4893) Blues" are redeeming standouts. Sides three and four are ab- Overbearing, stifling, sounds like a bad KISS imitation, I?erfect, "Black Blade," "Veteran of Psychic Wars," lboom, boom, boom, growl!! Rails to Hell" --the Utopian existence of HM today. T-STREET WARM-UP bash 4719 TROOST' SATURDAY 753·9368 out side--,--M_a y_2_9 _No_on_l~:~=- Live Non Stop Back Of The Music No Cover POWNLINEe Dancing Exotic Food Alcohol Available & Drink Tatooing New Wave Liberated Kissing Keith Moon Stylists Booth Memorial Booth Proceeds Go To Renovate T-Street Ballroom press ions " and "Futuristic." All four are fairly short but give ample space to both sons and fa ther. Wynton' s technical abil ity is something awesome to hear. The final track, Billy Strayhorn's beautiful song, "Lush Life," has the two sons laying out so that "Dad" and bassist Fambrough can do their thing. Side two features tenor saxo phonists Von and Chico Freeman. Von has been one of the stal warts on the Chicago scene for over 20 years. Since he seldom ventured out of that city, he has been one of jazz's best kept play in front of. Pisano plays from start to finish. As often secrets. Son Chico, who plays with great taste and restraint as these great standards are re NEW YORK JAZZ QUARTET/Oasis corded, Joe has come up with in saxophones, flute, bass clarinet behind Joe--Shelly once again Enja 3083 $9.98 list proves that he is one of the teresting arrangements to give Here's another excellent re and various percussion instru ments (he plays only tenor. on .most sensitive drummers ever-- all of them a fresh sound. lease from the Kansas City based Hughart shows why he is one of Again, the rhythm section is New York Jazz Quartet. I say the album) has, in just a few years, already eclipsed his the most in-demand bassists on really superb and gives Pass a Kansas City based because we are million dollar cushion to ride father's fame. Father and son the West Coast. fortunate, in this area, to have The material is a winner even on. John Pisano, an excellent the quartet appear each summer are joined on three tracks by Kenny Barron, piano; Cecil . before you hear note-one, with jazz soloist in his own right, at Crown Center. There is always does an outstanding job of back McBee, bass; Jack DeJohnette, such Gershwin classics as: a tremendous crowd on hand and "Bidin' My Time," "How Long Has ing Joe (listen in particular to drums. They perform "Jug Ain't we almost come to think of them his solo backing for Joe on "But Gone," "Time Marches On" and This Been Going On," "Soon," as our own resident jazz group. Not For Me"). "Tribute to Our Fathers"--the "Lady Be Good," "But Not For As in the case of most NYJQ As I said in the beginning, first two are by Von and the Me," "Foggy Day," "It Ain't Ne releases, this new album con how can you go wrong with a com third by Chico. Rounding out cessarily So," "Love Is Here TO tains all origi,nal material by J:>ination like Gershwin and Pass? the side and closing the album, Stay," '" S Wonderful," "Nice the group themselves. There are You can't ••• so, pick this one up Von is heard with the rhythm Work If You Can Get It" and, two works by Frank Wess, three as a reminder of just how nice section in a quartet setting of "Embraceable You"--the cream of by Sir Roland Hanna and, one it is to hear a world class jazz that is a collaboration between the grea t standard, "I Can't Get the crop. Joe's playing throughout the artist play the compositions of Hanna and George Mraz. The quar Started. " album is very tasty and swings a world class composer. tet personnel is: Frank Wess, This is a fine album with ex tenor sax & flute; Sir Roland cellent playing from all con Hanna, piano; George Mraz, bass; cerned. It is especially reward Ben Riley, drums. ing to hear the two fathers, Most albums open with a Ellis Marsalis and Von Freeman. flashy, fast number with much THELONIOUS MONK/Thelonious Monk high energy, in order to grab Memorial Album Milestone M-47064 the listener--not so much the (two-record set) $9.98 list NYJQ! The opening track is a Here's a chance, at a fantas very beautiful Frank Wess ballad tic price, to pick up some of called "Don't Come, Don't Call." Monk's greatest sides made dur It features Frank's very lovely ing his Prestige and Riverside tenor sax. Next comes Hanna's years, 1952-1961. There are f irst composition, "It's Ju.st a tracks with such giants as Sonny Social Gathering," with Frank Rollins, Miles Davis, Gerry Mul switching to flute and Roland ligan, Clark Terry, Joe Gordon, playing some phrases that sound Johnny Griffin and Charlie very much like Chick Corea's Rouse. There is also a sampling "Spain"--it has a nice bossa of Monk's .solo piano work (on nova feeling. The third track his great classic, '" Round Mid side one is blues, .• a Hanna- night"), a track from the famous George Mraz line called "Funk Town Hall concert of 1959 and, House," containing fine solos perhaps most noteworthy of all, all around. Closing the first one of the sides Monk made with side is a catchy Hanna line cal John Coltrane in 1957, while led "Cram It Damn It." It has a Trane was a member of Monk's strong back beat from Ben Riley, quartet. nice flute from Wess and, an in The very warm and informative, fectious line that gets into liner notes are by Orrin Keep your head and won't let go. news, who, along with Bill Side two starts with an ambi Grauer, founded Riverside Re tious extended composition (over cords. He gives an interesting ROSCOE MITCHELL/Snurdy MCGurdy 13 minutes long) by Frank Wess account of his association with and Her Dancin' Shoes titled "The Patient Prince." It Monk as well as a very detailed Nessa N-20 $7.98 list has a Spanish flavor about it description of each track on For this project, reedman Ros and is in three sections; The this two-record set. VARIOUS/Amarcord Nino Rota coe Mitchell uses four obscure Patient Prince/First Sight/Perra There are many of Monk's clas Hannibal HNBL 9301 $11.98 list but talented musicians from the Capricciosa. The composer is sic compositions on the album, A fine tribute to Nino Rota, Chicago area. In case you were heard to good advantage on both incl uding: '" Round Midnight," this LP was four years in the not aware, Mi tchell is one of tenor and flute ..• a very lovely "Bemsha Swing," "I Mean You," making, and encompasses talents the most creative reed players 'and exciting work, ·The album "Jackie-ing," "Epistrophy," from throughout the jazz world. in the new black or avant-garde closer is the title piece, "Ruby, My Dear," (another ballad It also chronicles the lasting musical form, achieving noto "Oasis," written by Hanna and in the class of'" Round Mid artistic bond between Rota and riety with the famed Art Ensem presenting a very subdued and night), "Nutty," "Let's Cool filmmaker Federico Fellini. It ble of Chicago. All but one of impressionistic mood. It fea One" and, two versions of "Lit was Rota's musical fire and im the pieces contained in this al tures Frank's beautiful flute agination that graced all of bum were penned by r.1itchell and sound. . tle Rootie Tootie"--one, a trio date from 1952 and, the other, Fellini's films between 1951 and recorded by the AEC at one time I look at the NYJQ as a sort taken from the historic Town 1979. The collection contains or another. of modern day Modern Jazz Quar Hall concert in 1959 (Monk's solo performances from pianist The piece "Stomp and the Far tet utilizing, as .the MJQ did, Orchestra on this track in- Jaki Byard and Steve Lacy on East Blues" begins as a dance exceptional individual musi cl uedes: Don Byrd, Eddie Bert, soprano sax, and brilliant ar tune alternating with slow, cians, interesting original ma Phil Woods, Charlie Rouse and rangements from Carla Bley and funky interludes. Midway through terial and superb ensemble Pepper Adams, among 'others) • Muhal Richard Abrams. Bley' s ar this piece, moods change and so sound. Thelonious Monk died in Feb rangement of "8!:>" Is an impres does the flavor. Tani Tabbal' s MARSALIS-FREEMAN/Fathers & Sons ruary of this year, leaving the sive one because in a little tabla work and Mitchell's flute Columbia FC-37927 jazz world with a terrible void. over eleven minutes she manages will take you straight to Thai Here's a unique idea ••• pre He was one of a kind: eccentric, to neatly compress most of land. It's an accessible and senting some famous jazz sons unpredictable, uncompromising Rota's themes from this score, pleasant piece of music. working in the same group with and .•. there will never be an leading her band on organ with And then there's the Anthony their equally talented, but less other like him. He left us a that marching band sound of Braxton composition entitled known, fathers. On one side we legacy of jazz compositions that hers. Muhal Richard Abrams' ar "March" which is just what it have the new young trumpet sen have become great standards and, rangements of "Notturno" from is--a march tune that "frees" sation, Wynton Marsalis, and his as I remarked earlier, many of "La Dolce Vita Suite" is melan itself in the middle of its very talented brother, Branford, them are in this album. So, as choly and flowing, making room performance, giving the impres teaming up with their pianist you go about gathering up Monk for passages from Claudio Rodi ti sion of an organized chaos with father, Ellis. Side two brings recordings, make sure this one on trumpet, pianist Amina Clau a march beat. The group regains together the marvelous father is near the top of your "want dine Myers, and Henry Threadgill its "structure" and the piece and son tenor saxophone playing list. " on flute. The David Amram Quin ends abruptly. You just may find team of Von and Chico Freeman. THELONIOUS MONK* 1 0/1 0/1 7 -2/17/82 tet's performance of "Satyricon" yourself dancing around the cof Ellis Marsalis has been a key features Jerry Dodgion on flute, fee table on this one. force on the New Orleans jazz JOE PASS/Ira, George and Joe Steve Berrios & Ray Mantilla on The title piece is (for lack scene for over 20 years yet, his Pablo 2312-133 $9.98 list percussion, and this combination of a better phrase) "traditional sons Branford and Wynton (22 & Like motherhood, apple pie and gives "Satyricon" an intriguing jazz" with flashy solos from 21 years of age respectively) baseball, how can you go wrong eastern flavor at different Mitchell on alto, Hugh Ragin on are already better known than. he with an album of George & Ira points. trumpet and Tabbal on traps. is. In fact, young Wynton is Gershwin songs as-interpreted by I was sitting one afternoon On the whole, this collection being hailed as the "new Clif guitarist Joe Pass? listening to Carla Bley' s per may be a bit "out there" for the ford Brown." Father and sons are Joe, who has been working and formance and someone I knew straight-laced buttoned-down joined on side one by Charles recording in either a solo or dropped by, and after "hear:ing" Concord Jazz lovers, but it's Fambrough, bass and James Black, all-star setting over the past fifteen seconds of this, said, good food for those with adven drums. There are five tracks on few years, goes with a quartet "Rodney, what is that weird turous audio appetites and open the side, the first four are all format on this outing: John march music shit that you're minds. Roscoe himself dedicates by Ellis Marsalis and feature Pisano, rhythm guitar; Jim Hug playing?" I say nothing to him, this album to his children. And the full quintet. The four hart, bass; Shelly Manne, drums and he si t!!l down and begins to this reviewer recommends this tracks are titled, "Twelves It," -a rhythm section that any art "listen." And I smile as if to music to everyone in the younger "A Jo Forever," "Nostalgia Im- ist would give ,up a paycheck to "It's music·•••••• fool." INNER CI7YSOUNDS Gato' Barbieri Obsession Wes Montgomery John Cobrane Don Cherry Mu First Part Art Ensemble of Chicago Sun Ra & His Solar Myth Arkestr. All 12 Impressions Aft 13 Coltranology Vol. 1 Aft 14 Aft 8 A Jackson In Your House Aft 9 JohnCokrane, Eric Dolphy, McCoy !~~~e~~:fcelaBi:!:p~~~Io' The Solar Myth Approach Gllo Barbieri, J.F. (Jenny) Clark. Wes Montgomery, Harold Mabern, Finn, Dave Bu",", Malachi Don Sherry, EdBlackweH. Lester Bowie, RoscoeMMchetl, Arthur Harper, Jommy Lovelace Tyner, ReggleWorkman,Elvin Joseph Jarman, Malachi FavOts All lD AldoRomano. Favers,PllillyJoeJOl1es, Lester Bri/liantActlon, Ametelo, Total ObsesslOnPts t and 2. MIchelle 40n6. 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La," For Announcement Blues, Tea For Two. 1'1/ Never Be Moon, The Theme. Godchild Three For Two Sale LongasYou'reLlvmg. The Same Kardouba, Stop Mallon £Ric-- lJcxPHy ~r.i~7 Dolphy Music Matador Ruby Braff Count Basie I Got Rhythm Dave Burrell Echo An 36 Gato Barbieri & ~~~~e Lacy Plays Monk The Count Basla Band. B3J.ry CUlford Thornton, Grachan Moncur ~:U~~,~:~~a~:T~:~s~~~ Dollar Brand Hamba Khale ~~sB;~~i1t.'t~:~~ne.., e Cherokee, Night In Tumsla. Boone III, Arthur Jones, Archie Shepp, Attsehul An 39 SIeve Lacy, Michel GrailUer, Jean- Talk, Stormy Monday Blues. The DaveBurreH,AlanSllva,Sunny Both. Albert's Love Theme, Ida Francola,J.F.(Janny)Clark. ~H~O~~rda~~~:~:i, Wain,BarneyKessel, LarryNIdIeY, Gila Barblarl, Dollar Brand. WoodySh.w, Bobby Hutcherson, MagiC Flea. All 01 Me. Hlttm' LupmG, Ramolm', Touching, The Aloe and the Wild Rose. ThelomGus. Ruby My Oear, Light Don Lamond. 1"1111'" EddIaKahn,RlchardO.vis,J.C.'I Cornet Chop Suey, Falling In Love Twelve, All Heart, Oh Wee Baby Blue. Eplstrophy. MysterlDso, ~'4~'''E'cfoIi:Peace Maza/alon HambaKhale, ToE/sa, 8t Street Blues. InA Mell%ne, 160t F"day The Thmeenth Moses. With You, /I'sWonder/ul, I've Got JllterbugWaltz, MusIC Matador, A Feelmg I'm Fallmg. Sleepy Time Rhythm, Whlfley Blfd Alone Together, Love Me Gown South, Swmg That MUSIC, Someday You'll Be Sorry, Rose floom, SPlder'S Webb. Con/essm I-~-I ~-;?1 ~ ~-~~ ~ ~ ~ I Junior Cook George Colemanl Art Blakey, 1~lllliJLIiJFrank Strozier Gene Ammons, George• Coleman Octet ~JliIlliil Pressure Cooker Aft 53 Wynton Kelly In Concert Buddy DeFranco Blues Bag WalrzOf The Oemons All 49 Benny Green Big George Aft 52 Oanny Moore. George Coleman Junior Cook, Mickey Tucker, Aft 54 Aft 55 Booker Little, Frank Slroll8r. Junior Booth, Cecil Mc8een. Leroy Lee Morgan. Freddie Hill, Curtis WyntonKelly, Paul Chambers. 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The Rob'" Yesterday' What EVil Have I Done? Ganna Lawrenee8rown, Chuck Connors. Gardenias, Serglcaf What"r:; New? Play Wdh Your Woman Inform Me Moer, Paul Chambers. Mel Lewis Norris Turney. Johnny Hodges. Walk.mq Up Summertime 34 rhlsMyBeloved The Leprechaun Philly J08 Jones. Skidoo Et ryfhmq' love Show Semt/lta!!1 RhetOriC ScmtlllalV JR Body and Sou! Klpf)"me') Bdby l ym Woman Blues RlackPower rake TheA Tram Melody Unison Supressm The Blues HelJoAna MoM My Buddy. Neat Foot. rOe Let'sJump Black Butlerlly Type Tune Song Is Ended Mul/lganesque Goodbye You Cmdy/ou You ThmgsAm', What They Used To Befter leave My Gal Alone Canon Bal/. Mood There Will Be, EI Galo Satin Doll D,mmt:endo Never Be Another You and Crescendo In Blue Andrew Cyrille What About Aft 75 '1llrllllli >.... :;:;:;:::::;:;:1111111: ;';:;:;lilll:5::':;:;:':;:::':':::':':':::'::::::::: who remember Julia, but a big reorder has been placed and by the time you read this in ear ly June there will be plenty in stock. T-BONE WALKER/T-Bone Jumps Again In the last issue of the PITCH Charly R&B 1019 $9.98 list OUB told how the so called rich When the "sleeve" or "liner" society widow, Phyllis Haddix, notes tell the story better than had welshed on a chit for $26.50 anybody, why not let it stand? covering his expenses at the< an This is what Danny Adler says nual New Year's Eve party at the says about T-Bone Walker: "For stuffy Breakers Hotel in Palm nearly 50 years Walker reigned Beach. OUB' s first inclination JuUa supreme as a blues master. One was to go to her penthouse collected cards and motioned he of the very first electric gui- ~artment, ring the door: bell to the main gallery. Usually at heard first on 78' s when he was tarists, he was an innovative and when she answered, "paste parties like this the people are an "org" man in Pittsburgh from stylist who influenced countless her in the mouth," or as OUB shy, quiet and subdued until 1944 thru 1952. She had only one rock, blues and jazz performers said, "give her a fat lip." But they have a few drinks and the LP on Capitol, cut in the late to such an extent that there are OUB being a gentleman quit hit place gets crowded and noisy. It 40' s when Dave Dexter Jr. coaxed many who've never heard his name ting women when he picked on was the moment I was wai ting her to Casifornia to record with or music who nevertheless play "Chicago Mollie" years ago in for. Phyllis was talking to some Bobby Sherwood, Vic Dickinson, his licks. So vast is his influ the Seven Seas Saloon on the friends and I took off and did Benny Carter, Dave Cavanaugh, ence that even today one can Delaware River water front in not see her again until the Jack Marshall, Red Callender and hear the echoes of his phrases Chester, Pa. and ended up with a lights were dimmed signifying her long-time drummer Sam "Baby" in almost any guitar solo on any black eye and a twisted right the end of the party. I scanned Lovett, who I saw and talked rock record. And see the shadow arm. When OUB calmed down, he the crowd and spotted this cute with a month ago at Harling's of his performing style on any figured the best way to get blond in a red dress talking during a fund-raising event for stage. Theatrical embellishments square with Phyllis was to wait wi th two gals and I overheard the Musician's Foundation. Julia like Chuck Berry's duck-walking until she phoned again, go to her say something about Fair Lee in my book is the greatest, splits and Jimi Hendrix's behind the party, ignore her and find mont, West Virginia, and I moved and I'm predicting here and now -the-head or teeth-gnashing so another rich widow which was ex right in because I knew her neck this new album produced in Lon los were exaggerations of show actly what he did. of the woods on the Monongahela don from the original maters un stopping flourishes that T-Bone In another week Phyllis called river south of my hometown of der an arrangement with Capitol developed 50 years ago." It's and said there was a cocktail Pittsburgh. I kept those three will make Julia Lee more popular like OUB has said many times, party at so-and-so' s (I've for gals spellbound with yarns about 24 years after her death than there is nothing new under the gotten the name of the art gal the Braddock campaign in Western she was in real life. Radio sta sun only that which has been lery) on Wednesday beginning at Pennsylvania, the Delaware Indi tions banned her songs labeling forgotten. And in this new re six, and could I escort her? I ans who were banished into the them "suggestive" or "risque," lease from the English record said yes and was ather apt. in upper Monongahela valley by the but compared to the stuff beamed company who also produced the time to get to the party early. Five Nations because the Dela a t teenyboppers today Julia's new Julia Lee record, jazz fans She said nothing more about the wares signed a treaty with a songs could be sung in most Sun can savor an excellent collec chit I'd sent to her for $26.50 white man, i-lilliam Penn, (which day schools and nobody would bat tion of Walker's vocals and gui and I didn't mention it. The incidentally was the only treaty an eye. Julia was a featured vo tar, backed by the early greats gallery was on the second floor the whi te man ever kept wi th the calist wit Finally, SUn Ra and his Arkestra may be getting more of the notoriety they enjoy abroad, here at home. ORNETTE COLEMAN/Of Human Feelings Also very worthwhile YELLOWMAN/DUPPY or Gunman*** stands out with X-rated wit and Jab Gu~dance Echo's unique DJ deliyery. Of ten Seems like when it crains it imitated but never dublicated, pours and lately there has been 12" of Pleasure paved the way a whole heap of Yellowman re for the ribald rappers. Not for cords cropping up. This is a the puritanical. stronger set than "Mad Over Me," RANKING JOE/Saturday Night Jam his first LP, but I can't really down Style Greensleeves 16 figure out why all the hoopla. I chose this as 81' s best DJ Yellowman is one of the latest album. Ranking Joe pulls out all in a long lineof JA toast mas the stops and comes up with an ters and his raps are amusing array of rhythmic jive propelled but not particularly innovative. by well-char~d rydims from who This is the same LP as Green else? The Radics of course. sleeves "Mr. Yellowman" but wi th MICHAEL PROPHET/Righteous Are a different cover. The Conqueror Greensleeves 18 Heady rhythms courtesy of Rad Prophet's first LP on the la ics and Chinna' s new band High bel showcases original material Times make for enjoyable listen and his distinct vocals. Solid ing but there is nothing so out playing and message--oriented standing as to keep drawing I lyrics dominate this enjoyable back. There is better DJ sounds style set a real winner. Smooth, bums you may have missed or set. around. self assured vocals along with not familiar with. They all crucial rhythms from Roots Rad Urate .. If The 12" disco singles are too EDI FITZROY/Check For You Once ics will not only nice-up-the- DR:lU:IMANTADO/Best Dressed numerous to extol upon but what **** Musical Ambassador dance but also turn you on to Chicken in Town Greensleeves 1 follows is a list of those I Having heard and liked the one of JA's finest artists. DR. ALIMANTADO/Sons of Thunder found to be well crucial: title track and "Youthman Peni Greensleeves 22 All on the Greensleeves label. tentiary" as singles earlier VARIOUS/Uni ty Is Strength Vol. I Let the good Dr. fill your AL CAMPBELL-- this year I was eager to check VARIOUS/Uni ty Is Strength Vol. II prescription with a wild blend *****Really Really Love You/Rub out an entire set by newcomer ***lO! of DJ madness from one of Jam -A-Dub Dub 1I4 7 Fitzroy. As a debut it's not a Here are two good samplers. do1t{ns original toast *****Natural High/Dub Style #53 disappointment eit:her. Fact of Vol. I features recent tracks specialists. *****Your Love Means So Much To the matter is, between Fitzroy's from the Morwells, DJ Ranking JAH THOMAS/Stop Yu Loafin Me/Got To Love You #63 unique vocals and inspired ryd Dread, a couple of cuts by fe Greensleeves 3 RANKING DREAD-- ims from the Radics "Check For male newcomers and two Roots Nothing to-date by Jah Thomas ***J;Love A Dub #57 You Once" should cull more \than Radics dub selections. Vol.II tops this mind blowing dance- *****Shut Me Mouth #82 a few new fans. Neil Sedaka' s has the Heptones, Lone Ranger hall style DJ set. Vital rhythms LONE RANGER-- "Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen" and Delroy Wilson, among others. from Sly n' Robbie make dis ya ****Johnny Make You Bad So #85 is transformed into a catchy By far the strongest compila one essential. MICHIGAN & SMILEY- "African Queen" replete with tions to recently emerge, both BARRINGTON LEVY/Englishman *****Diseases #72 chorus. records use the Radics to bring Greensleeves 9 *****Ghetto Man #78 As usual Flabba and the Radics these tunes home. Each has its If you missed this one first JOHNNY OSBOURNE/PAPA TULLO- gang provide top-flite backup to highlights and there are no real time around, now's your chance *****Trying To Turn Me On #60 Fi tzroy' s tunes. Dig the espe clunkers tossed in. Featuring to catch a young Barrington per MICHAEL PROPHET-- cially spacey drum mix on promising new talent as well as forming some of his strongest ****Here Comes The Bride #73 "People Dem A Suffer"--a step the more established these sets material ever. Heavy rydims DON McCARLOS & CAPT SINBAD- pers sound for sure. This first seem to have something for Radics sty lee. ****1 'm Not Crazy #69 effort shows a lot of potential everyone. JOHNNY OSBOURNE/Folly Lover FREDDIE McGREGOR & TOYAN and shouldn't be over looked. Greensleeves 12 *****Roots Man Skanking #84 As I mentioned in last months One of the ~ hottest tal WAILING SOULS- LINVAL THOMPSON/Look How Me Sexy PITCH, the Greensleeves catalog ents in JA displays on this re ****Diamond's Pearls #81 **** Greensleeves is now being released domesti lease exactly why he's in such ****Up Front #67 Yeah mon, pass the kouchie and cally and PennyLane has just re demand. Dynamic singing on above get ready to rock and groove ceived a huge shipment of LP' s & average material puts "Folly" up I hope these suggestions prove with one of Jamdowns longstand 12" disco singles. Al though some front. Check the explosive worthwhile, naturally there are ing virtuoso elite: Linval of the newer LP' shaven' t shown "You're Too Sexy" and "Mushroom" others that might have been in Thompson. Having consistently up yet, alot of the backlog --wicked rydims by the Radics. cluded, but with so many, those proved himself a proficient pro (which has had limited availa GENERAL ECHO/12" of Pleasure mentioned should at least whet ducer, writer, arranger and vo bility previously) is now in Greensleeves 15 your appetite and help introduce calist, Thompson puts it all to stock. So I want to bring to The General is no longer with you to the grea t sounds on gether in making this lovers-- your attention some of those al- us but this original "slack" LP Greensleeves. REVEREND GARY DAVIS/1935-1949 roduction. Yazoo L-I023 - Living Chicago Blues vdl. III When I Die I'll Live Again Alligator 7703 Fantasy 24704 Alligator Records has released A few years ago a six volume series documenting PLAYER MAGAZINE, ~nl.""~.,, + Chicago's best working bands. Stephan Volume three contains cuts by artiale Lonnie Brooks, Pinetop Perkins fluenaes. and the S.O.B. band. Lonnie Brooks now has two albums out. His guitar work features fast searing runs. "Move Over, Little Dog" will become a shuffle rock classic. Pinetop's songs recall his former employers Robert Nighthawk and Muddy Waters. His they band includes former Waters' arrangemen ts guitarists Sonny Lawhorn and would be the mark of genius. Guitar Johnson. The S.O.B. band Gary Davis was a blind street are the Sons of the Blues, -singer. His music was nearly _ second generation Chicago blues always gospel. The guitar work or t-rumpet solo. My favorite men. Guitarist Larry Bell is was strongly blues. The style cuts feature guitarist Ronnie harmonica player Cary Bell's was 1 ight primary chords, Horvath. His emulation of T-Bone son. Bassist Freddie Dixon is finger-picked East Coast style. Walker and Guitar Slim guitar Willie Dixon's son. Bill Branch Davis played with Blind Boy Ful styles is a fresh breath blowing is a young black harmonica man. ler, Blind Blake, and Sonny & on a scene stagnate with B. B. This album and the series tell Brownie. All clearly learned King imitations. He also had the many new chapters in the Chicago from him. He made his first re knack of building his solos on blues. cordings in 1935. Yazoo Records' top of each other, each chorus SONNY RHODES/I Don't Want My Gary Davis 1935-1949 preserve dri ving the emotion deeper, Blues Colored Bright Advent 2808 these first sides. By that time leaving you limp before resolu This young California blues he had left the Carolinas for a tion. I dare you to be able to guitarist's album was co life as a New York City street play "Nervous Mind" only once. produced by the Swedish blues singer. His instrument was a organization Jefferson. Popular steel-bodied National guitar. WYNONIE HARRIS/Good Rockin in Europe, Rhodes employs a This guitar's booming treble Tonight Gusto 5040X rather sparse guitar style. He strings gave his music the pene While Roomful of Blues is a draws his back-up men, including tration required to attract the revi val R & B band, Wynonie harp-man Gary Smith, from the street's attention. Al though the Harris was a period artist. This San Francisco Blues Festival all instrument lost much of the bass ,specially priced two-record set stars. They all work together to tones in recording, these early is taken from King Records' produce a wonderfully rock in ' songs show that Davis' picking present '40's and '50's releases. A "One More Drink." Well produced technique was already well Reverend curring theme in black music album. loped. The Yazoo collection Reverend Hocum. In the thirties it was includes a couple of Davis' unknown KANSAS CITY BLUES BAND/Too Manx sexual allusions. Bootsie's Rub- Drivers Moon Pie $7.98 lis.t blues performances. Band continues the tradition disdained them as the ~Kansas City has the eighties with cadet self-produced a music." He is said to have productions. During avoided recording because that shows off their period the thing to get comic rhythm & blues producers' insistence record- about drinking songs. Most ing blues. rite is a Freddy allows of the band cuts celebrate "Same Old Song." By the booze or partying. are revival reduplicate Ed Yokley New Orleans-Texas-East Coast light, happy blues di- shimmering jump blues sound. In addition to rected towards an established cut is "Some lending heavyweight backing, urban black population enjoying Mike O'Neal, each virtuoso provides much some post war prosperity. It is piece allows needed variety to the tracks. blues enthusiasts some good slide It more the big One song contains a piano solo, Let's hope this album opens more a good gigs for the group. worked: another will have a baritone sax PAGE 20 "I create my own death on stage by being in touch with t.he \Va~' it feels when I have died ... 1 have died many times in my 0l'1n lHE life. That's just the way it is. I'm not speaking in terms of a Kubler-Ross way of experiencing death. 1, in a sense, purge my self when doing this kind of work." "We have the right to be able to reach our limi ts, huge limits. And necessarily that has some sort of political implications. Okeh Records was first introduced to the world in 1918. It's isms that I absolutely ab The last Okeh record appeared in 1969, but in the hor and have always been fight intervening 50 years, Okeh was responsible for more than ing tooth and nail in my own its share of innovative recordings. In 1920 Okeh issued ~SOtJL work and against their domina "Crazy Blues" by Mamie Smith, the first blues recording JAZZ tion of myself as well as other CHICAGO BLUES people. I try to shatter the be by a black artist. A few years later Louis Armstrong made lief systems of the people who his first recordings as a leader for Okeh. The Okeh Race WESTERN SWING are in the audience. In a way 1 Series which debuted in 1921 was perhaps the single most RBYTRM U BLUES try to break the barriers important purveyor of black music for the next half they've already created within themselves. " ce;70keh was always a little bit of everything - primitive or sophisticated; rural or urban; traditional or "Incandescent beauty and unfath modem. The five volumes in this series represent blues, omable ghastliness: I find I'm country, jazz, rhythm & blues and soul. And the really addicted to those two performances have one additional distinguishing char terms at this point. 1 feel like acteristic: music o£ lastin quality. the music has to be able to re flect that." from Fragmented, frantic near-demonic "I used to think that certain monologues in which violence, vocal sounds or vocal gestures strangled ye1.1.ings, gaggings, a would represent specific types and occasional intelligibZe words of emotions, but I no longer do are aZl relayed through a series' now. I find the context for the CBS of microphones: This is DIAMANDA sound really governs whatever it GALAS performing her own composi represents. I don't care about mail order offer tion "Eyes Without Blood: Wild being a vocal virtuoso although Women W~th Steaknives." I am. What really concerns me is DIAMANDA GALAS began performing just being able to express the her work in mental institutions emotional conflicts in my own abJrn (with her back to the audience) soul. " number in 1975. Later, she was chosen by composer Iannis Xenakis to "I've seen scores where the com ab.m perform with the Brooklyn Phil. posers have this sort of attach harmonia, where she glided up ment where they define the emo number and down in a flamenco - like tion and def ine the sound and voice, landing precisely on you keep seeing certain sounds album specified micro tones, in his associated with certain emo performance Of "Nshima." tions. And that's really number ridiculous. I deal with a com GREGORY SANDOW, in his review plexity of communication with my arum of her Manhattan performance at voice. Most people I've worked number THE KITCHEN, which appeared in wi th in voice are really inter the VILLAGE VOICE, claims he ested in communicating. A lot of was so shaken, he hardly knew composers in Europe are inter what to write. He did, however, ested in using the voice as a go on to write an exultant and kind of raw 'material 1.n very, perceptive review praising her highly structured compositions. "pure, wild, unbroken focus on I ~"iie5.rororders. lor)~'~~;'M" Mb r-i';tai' They want from a singer a very ••• emo tion and art." wide range -of vocal production. DIAMANDA • GALAS has been getting !lOTAlDUE $ They're not interested in the LlCharge a lot of attention, lately, in vocal leVel of a piece, like why, magazines like MELODY MAKER and you're using a certain dramatic'.!' DOWNBEAT. Her current record, intent or very subtle re1.ation MasterCard No Exp.date THE LITANIES OF SATAN (Y-Records ships between or wi thin sounds. Visa No Exp.date Y-18) is on the charts in EngZand. They haven't explored that. You have to explore that intimately. The following interview was con It's a whole cosmos unto itself. ducted by producer Ed Herrmann name during her recent stay in Co.lum ED: BUT I TAKE IT THAT YOU DO bia, Missouri where she partici NOT APPROACH USING YOUR OWN pated in a live IONIZATIONS ra VOICE AS AN INSTRUMENT? dio broadcast on KOPN-FM. Ms. "No. That's an interesting ques address Galas is, at press time, in France. When she's not touring tion because most vocalists who she lives in San Diego with her are trying to be hip today would city state zip say, 'Yes, I'm using my voice as parents. Her visit to Columbia an instrument'... I don't use my and performance on KOPN-FM was voice as an instrument at all. I Make checks or money orders payable to: funded by an NEA grant and the just use my voice as an instru Missouri Arts Counci z.. ment for the soul. In that sense, yes. I am a virtuoso but "People often say I look like I 'm not trying to be one." tPEttnUNEt I'm suffering during my perform 4128 Broadway ances; to some degree I am. I c ED: YOU MENTIONED THE DYNAMICS Kansas City, Missouri 64111 could say it's very painful to BETWEEN YOU AND THE AUDIENCE do the kind of performances I'm WHILE PERFORMING IN THE MENTAL doing because I 'm constantl¥ , Or phone (816) 561·2744 (MO Residents). INSTITUTIONS. DO YOU STILL FEEL working on a kind of evolut~on THAT THE AUDIENCE IS AN ESSEN Outside Missouri call toll free: of my self. 'When you try to get TIAL PART OF YOUR PERFORMANCES 1·800·821·3324. beyond yourself, it's a very dif NOW? ficult process. I not only try "Yes. In a sense what happens to extend my own limits, but ex when I perform is I become one tend everyone else's. It's just wi th the audience by being com SpecialIY_~2'Rec()(dSei the way I feel when I perform." Spae~SOtJL2'RecordSei pletely detached. I become, in a I stand in front of the audience sense, a microcosm for the whole until I am ready ... Until the performance space itself. If WESTERN SWING feeling is like something passing Featuring: Featuring: people say things to me at a Major Lane. S-OfTheBob WIlls ___& His Texas PfaybopCooIey through me and then the sound BlUy_AndThe Enchanten performance, 1 always respond to w.tter.lackson/Artlstics/Vibrafions Light Crust Doughboys comes out. People respond to the audience, but maybe not in _Penny a HioRadioCowboys .thi!t. They s~tar~t screami_~g or an obvious way. I use the voice laughing. I prefer to perform as a medium for my own interests close to the audience." in performance, which is at its very root an intense desire to "I explore many states of con communicate. " sciousness. My mind has always been aware of going through emo tional changes Very, very fast. I can exper ience several of them the individual soul at the same time. It's like my is the sacrifice brain is going to explode •.. which the absolute offers Just as people who take hallucin UP to itself ogens can look in the mirror and in order to ful f ill its see their face fade away.or dis masochistic nature solve, I can look through the with special charm mirror and see my face go through and careful error incredible changes just on a phy sical level. My music has to be able to change as quickly as my Vrotnak mind does •• " , and lots 0 THE KLEZMORIM/Metropolis sounds--really high, and hard: LEFTY FRIZZELL/Lefty Frizzell (Columbia FC 37466) FlYl.ng Fl.sh 258 piccolo, soprano sax, Bb clari- Every style of music produces its genuine originals from time to The Klezmorim is a band of net, plus a t,rumpet--and a tuba time, their greatness measg!"§!d D9t in number of hit records, but ~n', musicians from the Bay area that and trombone, plus percussion. terms of their profound influence on singers, songwriters and musl.- specializes in the music of the Sometimes, not often, this band cians, as well as by the startlingly powerful I unmistakeable origi- klezme:t', a Yiddish word that uses a piano. This tune has a nality of their sound and style. Bob Wills fits this bill and so meanS a wandering musician. The definite anti-military flavor, does Lefty Frizzell, who had his share of hit records--he is the original klezmer were active be- and it puts one in mind of ven- only performer to place four songs in Billboard's Top Ten simulta- tween 1870 and 1930 in the old erable vaudeville jokes about neously--but his influence is far more profound than can be meas- Austro-Hungarian and O:ttoman Em- trying to escape the C>z:ar' s ured on a chart. He was a pervasive influence on a generation of pires, and in the Ukraine, Rus- draft. singers who followed him: Buck Owens, George Jones and two of to- sia and the United States. Other times Klezmorim goes for day's foremost performers, (who both have honored his memory with This band has apparently made the Little-Egypt sound. Some- tribute albums), Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard. These artists some serious attempt to faith- times they remind you of circus have in turn influenced another group of entertainers who now per- fully recreate the performing bands. Elsewhere, folk melodies form in what is, in essence, the "Lefty Frizzell" vocal style. This traditions of the old klezmer, and folk dances are arranged for album shows why Lefty's style has been so enduring. Songs like "I and to follow, in general, the these instruments. Sometimes Love You a Thousand Ways" (1950), and "King Without a Queen" (1952), traditional approach to the klezmer music sounds like Gypsy depict Lefty's early period--that time when he burst so brightly on music. Lev Liberman, one of the music. Make no mistake--these the world of country music. His voice had not yet developed into band's reed players, describes guys can definitely play! Each the moving instrument it was to become, but nevertheless communi- the music as "full of unorthod9x of these six men is a virtuoso cated powerful emotion in his unique, distinct and original way. tonalities and crazily-' and as a group they exploit this His songwriting remained powerful even after his recording career interlocking rhythms--the rol'- situation by passing the melo- began to trail off, and up until his untimely death of a stroke at licking, vodka-soaked sound of a dies they play around a lot. the age of 47 in 1975, he was still writing popular country songs steam calliope gone mad." Apart from what they do, that for himself and others. Recorded between July, 1950 and May 1957, Side One opens with "Constan- they do it well is refreshing. the early cuts on this album include the previously unreleased tinople," a piece that will set "Moldovanke" is a tune named novel ty tune, "Cold Feet" (1950), this and the other collector's the general tone of this album. for the old thieves quarter in items hereon are well worth waiting for. Yeah! "Constantinople" evokes images Odessa. If you remember Kenny GENE AUTRY/Gene Autry (Columbia FC 37465) of the late 19th century Ottoman Ball's 1962 hit "Midnight In Gene was the first successful singing cowboy on film, a genre he Empire: torpid, decayed, MOscow," it'll give you the invented single-handed in 1934. This disc is a treasury of those corrupt. idea, except that his stuff is early recordings, which skyrocketed Gene's success. Such winners as The "Tuba Doina" is a major- much more ..• sanitary ... than "Tumbling Tumbleweeds" (1935 recording), and "It Makes No Difference. minor piece with a tuba melody, theirs. On this one, the band ~~:~i~~~i~) ;e~!~:~~; ~ ~R~~~n~o~~w~v~~e M~a~~~~;d~~;3g~4;D:~~ ~~t the E ~~~~ ~~~ scl~i~;~~e~a~~e~r~~~tokl ~!:~u:~al~~~~;~s~~n~~e y;~m~~~e Heart of Texas" (1942), and many of the other greats here have : himself arranged two sets of already gotten some idea of how never before been available on album, and two were never commercial-I Rumanian folk dances for violin fast they're .able to play, it's ly released at all. Gene Autry's voice on record, and his image on • and piano that follow closely a very effective "moment; the screen, were warm and comforting, unassuming and unpretentious. = this same general pattern. In "Shryer' s Doina" is another He had a magic quality that transcended technique and pierced : fact, the two-part, slow-fast slow-fast Middle Eastern- straight to the heart. This album shows why Gene Autry was the num- • dance arrangement has been a sounding number featuring some ber one cowboy singer-star for years, so don't miss out on some fond: common one in European music, nice trumpet work. The band does memories. : dating at least to two 15th cen- the speed-up trick once again as BOB ~>(eo':rctmbia FC 37468) : tury French court dances, the they swing into "A Wild Night In s! Western swing music we all thought was lost, • basse danse and tordion. All Odessa. " except maybe running across a 78rpm collection. Even then the qua- : this is to say that no matter The last cut on this record is lity was lacking~ NoW, however, Columbia has released a serie~rof : how disrespectable klezmer music "Shephercl's,,Oream." Thj.s one ,has historical editions--cleaned up the recordings and put them on ' m'a~ sound,Ut spr~s:from the 'a'xylophclne''Tead, the only piece rpm long playing albums. This is like a prayer answered. A few very heart of Western music. on this album to do so. Part of have not ever been released before. Detailed liner notes Klezmer music is hard and per- this lead gets mashed by the give you great artists and their music. Bob cussive. By way of percussion horns on the record. But they Wills' album covers a cross section of historic recordings from his instruments, this band confines mixed seven or eight micro- touring years. From Tulsa, Oklahoma's Cain's Academy throughout itself to a very simple trap phones, I should think, right Texas (where he started in his early career) and on to New, Mexico, set--a cymbal, snare drum and into a left and a right. I ad- Arizona, Colorado, Utah and California (where he was in films with woodblock, and, alternately, a mire the engineer, Peter Sut- Tex Ritter, Glenn Ford, Russell Hayden and others), he drew huge xylophone. There are also lots heim, because this arrangement crowds at dance establishments, and his popularity from the mid-- of scooped notes, minor keys, works fine almolllt all",the time. 1930 's until the late 1940 's simply knew no boundaries. and sarcastic reed puns in klez- I found this a veryirtterest- The songs, like "Cotton Eyed Joe," a 1946 Bob Wills and Tommy mer music. It's almost as though ing record, and give it 3;' Duncan version, will tempt you to kick up your 'heels. Merle Haggard the whole idea is to provide a stars. Anyone wanting more in- took "Cherokee Maiden" (one of Bob Wills finest!) to the top of the kind of distaff look at the of- formation about klezmer bands country charts in 1976. Now on this album you can hear the reissued ficial music of, the late 19th can contact me through this original recording of this fantabulous song! Other outstanding century. paper. recordings are "Right Or Wrong," "Lyla Lou" (released for the first Parodies abound! My favorite One last thing: the band is time), "Dusty Skies," "I Ain't Got Nobody," "Away Out There" (also example of one is a tune called looking for information on klez- first time release), and other truely memorable hits with yodels "Kramtweiss Steps Out," a kind mer music performance from 1870 and comments like "Tell it!" and "Aaaah Haaaa!" of extended horsel"mgh at poor to 1930, in the way of 78's, The other members of Bob Wills' group were the fantabulous Tommy Kramtweiss. Whoever' Kramtweiss band posters, memorabilia, etc. Duncan, who helped write some songs, and sang many of the lead may be, he isdetinitely ready If you'V€ got anything you think vocals along with Leon McAuliffe, (who also played the greatest for action this time, and don't they'd be interested in, or if steel guitar ever.) "Tiny" Moore played electric mandolin, and many the guys in the band know it! you want more information about other great stars, too many to mention, added their touches to Poor Kramtweiss! the music or how the record was Wills' sound. So don't miss out on this truly excellent historic Sometimes the band parodies produced, you may reach the band' album. You won't be sorry! If you are a Bob Wills fan, you probably what might be an Austro-- by writing c/o Richard Foster, didn't even finish reading this before you ran down tO,buy the Hungarian military march. An 'Corporate Manager, Klezmorim, album. 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