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Wavelength (February 1984) University of New Orleans ScholarWorks@UNO Wavelength Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies 2-1984 Wavelength (February 1984) Connie Atkinson University of New Orleans Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.uno.edu/wavelength Recommended Citation Wavelength (February 1984) 40 https://scholarworks.uno.edu/wavelength/40 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies at ScholarWorks@UNO. It has been accepted for inclusion in Wavelength by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@UNO. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Ee.r~ K. LOng LibrarY Acquisitions Dept• UniversitY ot Ne~ or~eanf Ne~ or~eans, La· 70148 I THE NEW ORLEANS JAZZ & HERITAGE ...............-...._ FOUNDATION PRESENTS: AN EVENING WITH: Wynton Marsalis FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24 at 8 PM McAlister Auditorium Tulane university TICKETS: $10 & $12 per person Available at an Ticketmaster outlets ' \ I I For ISSUE NO. 40 • FEBRUARY 1984 ISSN 0741 • 2460 New ''I'm not sure, but I'm almost Orleanians positive, that all music came from New Orleans. · · - Ernie K-Doe, 1979 who love table of contents • Cover photo by Rico. muszc Features Women In Music by Almost Slim ... ........... 15 Subscribe Family Tree by Jon Newlin & Bunny Mattl;lews16 In time for Marcia Ball by Bunny Matthews ...... .. .. 18 Carnival, Seven Women by Bunny Matthews . ..21 Jazz Fest Wynton Marsalis by Kalamu ya Salaam . .... 22 and Dear Jazz Fest by rico ...... ... .... ... 25 the World's Fair Band Guide Hizzoner pulling strings. compiled by Allison Brandin .. 27 Departments February News . .. .. ... .. 4 For only one dollar a month, Letters .. .. .. .. ... .. .. .. ..... 7 WAVELENGTH brings you the best of Golden Moments New Orleans music plus art, ftlm and the by Almost Slim . .. ...... 8 theatre-delivered your door. 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U.S. cuscomers muse incl ude zip rode. • ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• Wavelength I February 1984 3 c State Museum, Amistad Research The Power, Center and the New Orleans Urban The Glory, Folk Society are hosting a series of Saturday morning discussions at the The Scene-Boosting Presbytere. On February 11 , local photographer and folklife fan ex­ Those of you who presume folk­ traordinaire Michael P. Smith will culture is exclusively provincial moderate a conversation on might do well to take a look over "Culture Power in the Inner City" your urbane shoulder. Graffitti art­ with Howard Becker of North­ ists and break dancers have made western, Johnnie "Kool" Stevenson national news with their inner city of the Scene Boosters Marching folk expression. In New Orleans, Club and other New Orleanians. Mardi Gras Indians and the paint­ The series will conclude March 10 ings of Sister Gertrude Morgan ex­ with a symposium on ''The Power emplify folklife within city limits. of New Orleans Music.'' Now To focus public attention on the there's a subject dear to all our cultural riches lurking in the dense hearts. fabric of city life, the Louisiana -Virginia Levie Sculptor Coco Robichaux, standing; Prof. Longhair, memorialized visit friends and, with the help of Prof. Longhair fellow countryman Colin Strick­ land, to make a recording. While Busted At Tip's in New Orleans, the London-born clarinetist had the opportunity to The scene was vaguely reminis­ perform with some of his favorite cent of those old newsreels (the musicians by substituting for the champagne bottle that refused to ailing Raymond Burke in Kid break time after time as Bess Thomas Valentine's band at Preser­ Truman hurled it at the to-be­ vation Hall. christened vessel, etc.) as a variety Since his first trip to New of local notables beheld the Orleans more than twenty years dedication and unveiling of the ago, the 41 -year-old musicians has bust of Professor Longhair at noticed some changes. While the Tipit.ina's on December 18. The general appearance of the French occasion was also an excuse for Quarter is the same, there are dif­ Professor Longhair's Memonal ferences in the music scene. Many Mambo, and the air was filled of the older musicians whom he ftrst met back then like Kid with the sweet smell of burning Howard, George Lewis and Sammy leather. Pictured here are, from Penn, are gone. In addition, accor­ left to right, Darrell Walker, ding to Rimington, there was more sculptor Coco Robichaux, Ricky Stephen Urquhart and John Barr: "Cum on feel the classical noize!" of the older style jazz at different Castrillo, Deacon John Moore, places. Sammy also notices a Sam Henry and Longhair's grand­ and Urquhart play at house parties, change in the traditional jazz au­ son. Also on the premises but not Good Readin' weddings, art openings, and other diences: ''Now there are more in the picture were Earl King, big­ quiet, civilized social functions. tourists than when I ftrSt came in Tonight drink-of-water John Rankin, J.D. Recently they added the perfect '61. The music wasn't as well Hill, Ed Volker, Ziggy Modeliste, Watching a guitarist read music musical accent to the opening of a known then ... well, it was to certain Art Neville, the always incendiary can be a fascinating experience for new Medi-Action Clinic downtown people. Now everybody knows Ernie K-Doe, John Mooney, the non-reader. Gradually it sinks on Baronne Street. Many of the about Preservation Hall." George Porter, Gary Vosbein and in, though, that reading music is grand openers were as amazed with On the subject of New Orleans ). Monque'D. Unaccountably ab­ an acquired ability just like reading the duo's playing as with the fact jazz Sammy has some interesting sent: Governor and Mrs. Treen, prose with the hands taking the that they were standing in a doc­ observations: " [New Orleans jazz] Betty Guillaud, Diana Bajoie, place of the mouth. "I could tor's office that stayed open seven always hits me in an emotional Walker Percy, Philippe Entremont, learn to do that," you say to your­ days week. way. It has a lot of feeling in it. a Sonny Francis, Muriel Francis and self, ''given twenty or thirty you've picked up the caviar That's what drew me to it in the So Lindy Boggs. years. '' and ordered the Dom Perignon for ftrSt place. It's not too pushy. It's Stephen Urquhart and John Barr your big white-tie get down in the very relaxed, quite melodic, yet has both read on classical guitar and Garden District, but you just can't a great deal of freedom." As for their refined renderings of 18th decide on the music. Slick Leo's Sammy Rimington: the survival of traditional jazz, the and 19th Century duets can soothe already booked for a hot break spin Limey Son Ot veteran of early Ken Colyer and the most .frazzled nervous systems. at the Famous; Bengt Weinie and Chris Barber bands is not worried: Both teach classical guitar locally the Awesome Rods have headed George Lewis ''The musicians I know like [Kid] and Barr hosts a popular show on back to Sweden to cut a hardcore Thomas and [Kid] Sheik will never WWNO FM that features the in­ album of Roy Brown tunes; and Internationally renowned British change.
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