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Kirk Whalum to Join Jazz Legend Bob James At Public Records & Notices View a complete day’s public records and notices at memphisdailynews.com. www.chandlerreports.com Wednesday, October 30, 2019 MemphisDailyNews.com Vol. 134 | No. 173 Rack–50¢/Delivery–39¢ New Agape report highlights poverty reduction, workforce efforts ELLE PERRY on providing families with barri- In the summer months June according to U.S. Census Bureau national (13.4%) averages. Mem- Courtesy of The Daily Memphian ers to success the resources and through August, the organization poverty thresholds. A household phis poverty rate is 27.8%, ac- Agape Child and Family Ser- community support they need to reports that 7.5% of those families of four earning less than $25,554 cording to University of Memphis vices has a goal of reducing pover- improve their lives. are no longer living in poverty, annually would be considered in professor Elena Delavega’s 2019 ty for families it serves in Frayser, Services range from after- using federal income guidelines poverty. Memphis Poverty Fact Sheet. Hickory Hill and Whitehaven by school programs and tutoring to that defi ne poverty. Agape is trying to put a dent From that same June to Au- 1% annually for the next 10 years, workforce training programs and An individual under 65 earn- in the city of Memphis’ poverty gust report, Agape showed 33% and the early results are positive. GED courses, to nutrition classes, ing less than $13,064 in 2018 rate, which is considerably high- Agape is a nonprofi t focused among many others. would be considered in poverty, er than the state (16.25%) and AGAPE CONTINUED ON P2 concert series “Kafé Kirk.” “For him to do this is a really beautiful thing,” Kirk Whalum to join jazz legend Whalum said of the shepherd of his early career. Less than a month removed from the early Octo- ber release of his most recent album “Humanité,” a musical celebration of Whalum’s global impact, the artist says he owes a debt of gratitude to the man who Bob James at ‘Kafé Kirk’ helped broaden his musical horizons. “The fact that I’m doing an international proj- ect, where it’s just taken for granted that I’m gonna be jumping on a plane and go to Indonesia or South Africa, to go to all these places – the first time I was exposed to that world was really with Bob James,” Whalum said. The two met when Whalum’s band opened for James during a date in Houston. Whalum, who studied at Texas Southern University and in Paris, settled in Houston after graduation. The crowd, at that point well familiar with him as a local talent, was eating out of the palm of his hand. “I didn’t think I would ever be able to get them up to the same pitch that he got them,” James said via phone from his home in Traverse City, Michigan. “He impressed me so much that I just immediate- ly decided that I wanted to hire him to join my band.” At the recommendation of both James and Wyn- ton Marsalis, Whalum was given a recording con- tract at Columbia Records through James’ imprint Tappan Zee. His debut album “Floppy Disk” is an affair deeply emblematic of the mid-1980s. Flirting with the elec- tronic elements of the post-disco era, the project in some ways feels as stuck in its time as its title would suggest. “The process of making music with the help of digital audio and technology has influenced both Kirk’s and my music,” James said. “I, however, hear very strongly when I hear Kirk’s Kirk Whalum, seen here playing at a Grizzlies game, will be joined by Bob James (not pictured) on stage in the November “Kafe music that he never loses sight of the warmth and Kirk.” (Karen Pulfer Focht/Courtesy of The Daily Memphian) the human spirit that can only come from playing his music directly and speaking from the heart.” JARED BOYD written about a very real woman. But James would go on to produce Wh- It wasn’t James’ first time running the show for Courtesy of The Daily Memphian not Bob James’ love. Because it wasn’t alum’s first three albums. Now, more a saxophonist from Memphis. The second side of jazz great Bob written by him. than three decades later, James and Wh- A decade earlier, he’d manned the ship for Hank James’ 1984 LP “12” is kicked off by a pas- The title refers to the wife of Mem- alum are set to share the stage together, Crawford’s “We Got a Good Thing Going” and sionate groove called “Ruby, Ruby, Ruby.” phis-born saxophonist Kirk Whalum, in Whalum’s hometown, during the No- The ode is a very real love song, whose song served as a debut showcase. vember edition of Whalum’s monthly WHALUM CONTINUED ON P3 INSIDE Public Records ................ 4 memphisdailynews.com chandlerreports.com Public Notices ............... 11 ©2019 The Daily News Publishing Company A division of The Daily News Publishing Company Memphis, Tennessee The standard for premium real estate Established 1886 • 134th year information since 1968 Call 901.523.1561 to subscribe Call 901.458.6419 for more information Page 2 MemphisDailyNews.com Wednesday, October 30, 2019 Arrow plans $10M facility in Broad Arts District TOM BAILEY with North Carolina-based developer Courtesy of The Daily Memphian Grubb Properties on plans to build 350 Arrow, which supports artists and apartment units at 2542 Broad, in the creatives with studio, co-working and re- heart of the arts district. tail spaces, will locate its “forever home” Arrow’s mission is to provide support in the Broad Avenue Arts District with a to creative entrepreneurs and “makers” of $10 million redevelopment of an existing all kinds. The organization provides stu- property, the organization’s leaders an- dio space, retail space for artists, special- nounced Monday night. ized, art-making equipment, art-making The nonprofit is dropping out of the classes for anyone and gallery space. group of seven organizations vying to For more than a year, the City of Mem- take over Rust Hall in Overton Park after phis has been carrying out a process of Memphis College of Art closes in May, Ar- public engagement — branded “Create row co-founder Abby Phillips told a crowd Your Space” — to identify a tenant for Rust of about 60 people. Hall as well as the Memphis Brooks Mu- The new space on Broad Avenue will seum of Art, both in Overton Park. be 80,000 to 100,000 square feet. However, The art college will vacate the Phillips said she could not yet reveal the 75,000-square-foot Rust Hall after the exact address of the future home. last class graduates in May, and the art She and Arrow co-founder Dorothy Arrow has just opened its temporary space at 2535 Broad, but announced Monday that it museum next door is to move to a new Collier made the announcement at Ar- will build a permanent, $10 million facility nearby in the same Broad Avenue Arts District. building in Downtown by 2024. row’s temporary and smaller “concept” (Tom Bailey/Courtesy of The Daily Memphian) As of Monday, the finalists seeking to space which just opened at 2535 Broad. take over the buildings were still await- Phillips anticipates Arrow remaining Other organizations around the coun- been established and is a thriving arts ing a request for proposals from the city. in the temporary space for more than a try offer up to 150 artist studios, “and we’re district.” A selection committee is to make its rec- year as the property transaction is com- looking at the prospect of growing it and Also, developers are either building or ommendation to Mayor Jim Strickland pleted and construction gets underway. having even more artists,” Phillips said. plan to build more than 400 apartment by early next year, and Strickland will The organization has raised $2 million Arrow chose to make the Broad Av- units within five blocks of Arrow’s loca- submit his choice to the City Council for to purchase the property, and will work enue Arts District its permanent home tion, she said. final approval. to raise another $10 million in phases to because of its central location and poten- Developer Makowsky Ringel Green- The art college owns Rust Hall but has establish the permanent home. tial for substantial foot traffic that is im- berg is building 176 apartment units im- a ground lease for the park land owned by Phillips indicated that the future, per- portant to artists. mediately west of the arts district, at the the city. If the college does not sell – with manent building will eventually house “We are 20 minutes or less of a drive intersection of Sam Cooper and East the city’s approval – the 74,678-square- even more than the 40 “affordable” artist from anywhere in the city,” Phillips told Parkway. foot building before it closes, the city takes studios that had been the original goal. the gathering. “The street has already And Loeb Properties is partnering ownership of Rust Hall. Agape serves more than 3,000 people Jordan said. Christian Church. AGAPE CONTINUED FROM P1 annually; 200 of those families are in Hicko- Agape measures its performance out- The church’s senior pastor, Stacy Spen- ry Hill, representing about 800 individuals. comes in health and well-being, including cer, is president of the Power Center CDC of those served by its workforce initiative In Hickory Hill, the organization is safety, education, economic support and board of directors.
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