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ISSUE NO. 66 • APRIL 1986
u/'m not sure. but l'rn almost positive. that all music came from New Orleans ... Ernie K-Doe, 1979
Features Aaron Neville ...... 23 MADE THE Charles Connor ...... 25 Philip Glass ...... 28 AMERICAN WAY Departments April News ...... 4 Jazz Fest Update ...... 7 Boogie Beat Jive ...... 10 Cabaret ...... "12 Film...... 14 Caribbean ...... 16 Rock...... 18 U.S. Indies...... : ...... 20 April Listings ...... 30 Classifieds ...... 37 Last Page ...... 38
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Publisher. Nauman S. Sc::on . Editor, Connie Zcanah Atkinson. Associate Editor. Gene Scar.tmuuo. Of'tk« Manager. Diana Rrnoenberg. Art Director. Eric Gemhau\Cr. Typography. Devlin/Wen(!.cr As:-ociates. Advertising. Eli zabeth Fontame. Eileen Sc:mcntelh. Kate Riedl. Contributors. Ivan Bodley. St. Get'fg_t: Bryotn. Bob Catali()l!l, Rick Coleman. Caml Gniady. Gina Gucctone. Ntck Munncllo. Melody Minco. Rick Olivier. Diana Ro:.enberg. Gene Scar amuZL.o. Hammond Scon. Dorre Street. Dewey Webb. Wu•·•l•·t~~lh" publhhed monthly in New Orlean>. Telephone: (504) 89~-2342 .. Matl 'ub,cnptt A RecOrd Ron Oldie Goldie APRIL 1986WAVELENGTH 3 april (!) a: w U) zw U.K. Pianist Plays (J) ~ .. ~ TBA N.D. 5 Fri. 5 New Orleans is a popular destina Sat. 6 Luther Kent (midnight) tion for transient piano players. Fri. 11 Luther Kent (10:00 pm) Some great ones, like Professor Sat. 12 Jerry Jeff Walker Bigstuff, stay only a few months or (10:00 pm) weeks; others buy houses and end Fri. 18 Exuma (11:00 pm) their transiency altogether. The latest addition to these ranks (midnight) Sat. 19 Luther Kent is a 23-year-old Englishman Jon Fri. 25 * Original Cast of Cleary. lnspi"'d by an uncle who "One Mo' Time" sent him letters in the early Sevent * New Orleans Blue ies about "this weird pianist, Pro Serenaders fessor Longhair.·' Cleary started * Sippie Wallace w/ listening to and playing New James Dapagni Orleans music in his mid-teens. He * Chicago Jazz Band first came to town in 1980, plann * The Old Time Jazz Band of Helsinki. ing to stay for two weeks but last Finland ing two years. This initial sojourn yielded only occasional work - Sat. 26 Zachary Richard subbing, for instance, for James (10:00 pm) Booker when he didn't show at the Sun. 27 Big Twist & The Maple Leaf - but he crammed in Mellow Fellows some valuable listening. (9:00pm) Returning to England, Cleary 28. 29, Musicians Jam toured the English pub circuit with 30 (midnight) his own ensemble, King Kleary and the Savage Mooses. He also backed Dr. John on guitar (he's played the instrument professionally since age 15) whenever Mac made it to Brit 1104 DECATUR STREET ain, and eventually yearned .tore 525·8199 turn to New Orleans. "If you're playing American music you have to come over reg Queen" into "Big Chief'? Cleary intimation of his old-world roots. ularly to get a shot in the arm of guffawed at the thought of that. When he can find a portable key it,'' explains Cleary. ''There are As of mid-March, Cle~ry could board he also performs with blues some great musicians in England, be heard Tuesdays at the Maple man Mighty Sam McClain. He had but much of the music is imitative, Leaf, playing a mixture of Dr. initially planned to stay just through self conscious English people trying John, Professor Longhair, R&B Jazz Fest but ... you've heard this to play like Americans.'' Like standards and some originals while story before. sneaking a lick from ''God Save the singing in a heartfelt style with little - Tom McDermott NO-TV Is Good TV Tired of watching Phil Collins' bald head? Sick of cutesy-cute Martha Quinn? Weary of stagnant conversa tion and sterile plastic videos? Then move your television dial over to Cox Cable Channel 6 on Thursday nights at 6:30 and Saturday nights at 6:30 for a half hour of NO-TV The show features alternative videos and interviews with stars who 'IIIIORY & actually have something to say, as well as the best of the local bands. COMPOIniON Hosted by Ivan Bodley, NO-TV is guaranteed to shake you out of the PIUVA'II LESSONS video doldrums. I spoke with Ivan about NO-TV and he revealed the inner workings 12 years experience and the important concepts behind Bachelor of Music Degree the new TV show. NO-TV's inception began when in Classical Guitar Wavelength discovered the public access channels available on cable. Bunny Matthews, a contributor to Wavelength, had hosted a music in dustry talk show on cable and thus JOHN BARR the inspiration for filming an 866-5592 alternative music program struck. Wavelength editor Connie Atkinson DIANA ROSENBERG 4 WAVELENGTWAPRIL 1986 ...._.. -...... n_...... ~ called on Bodley because "she by Gumby, Pokey (his rubber shark knew of my work with WTUL and from this past Mardi Gras), a horse she thought I'd be a good host due head given to him by (who else?) to my interview and broadcast expe Tex and the Horseheads (her name rience." is Sugar, by the way), and always Bodley has been the music direct his b~ss guitar (his favorite toy). or of WTUL, Tulane University's Why this environment? alternative radio station. for three "That's the way I want to do it. years and has been nominated for We're not consciously offbeat. It's P.~~~~~ · alternative music director of 1986 fun and spontane;ous. IJ!on't mind by the Gavin Report, a radio trade doing quirky and offbeat things." sheet. He has also been a disc jock Certainly a far cry from the pre ~ $~ ey for four years on WTUL and dictable video shows on today. does a weekly radio show featuring Why should the video-watching au new music. He is a bass player of dience tune into NO-TV instead of RESTLESS VARI~TION local renown, currently involved MTV? A12 song sampler of America's freshest Rock 'n with the Rafael Cruz Quintet and im "NO-TV is better and more Roll, from Philadelphia to Boston, Cbicago to los King Nino and the Slave Girls, as aginative. We expose artists who well as playing with many other Angeles. Includes tracks from THE DEAD MILK are much more worthy of attention. and 9 others. notables like Bo Diddley: His only Bruce Springsteen doesn't need MEN, MOJO NIXON, FEAR, ALBUM 72101-1 CASSETTE 72101--4 other television experience has been your money. There are fresh new on Bob Brandy's show when he ideas that are coming out as well as was a mere boy in a Cub Scout uni the exposure of New Orleans artists form, back in Tennessee. who are deservir.g of publicity.'' So Bodley is J}erhaps the natural The exposure of New Orleans choice to speak to such luminaries artists is very important to NO-TV. as the Circle Jerks and Fishbone. They have interviewed such per THE NEIGHBORHOODS When asked what the criteria of formers as Mason Ruffner and The High Hard One ... selection was for interviews and Johnny Jay and the Hitmen. Bood One of Boston's most heralded bands, THE NEIGH videos, he responded, "All around ley spoke about the unfortunate BORHOODS, burn with an Americanized brand of good taste. Something that's good fallacy of New Orleans artists hav Mod/Punk Rock 'n Roll. From the impassioned and alternative.'' ing to•leave New Orleans to achieve lead vocals to the emblazoned guitars, The High The setting of NO-TV is certainly fame. Not true, he says. NO-TV Hard One is an impressive Restless Records debut. alternative. No sleekly varnished solicits local videos and interviews ALBUM 72112-1 CASSETIE 72112--4 sets and affected attempts at to help publicize worthy Ne.w sophistication. The show is filmed Orleans artists. New Orleans in Bodley's bedroom, with Ivan Television, get it? Or No TV, sitting upon his bed, accompanied whichever you prefer. GET SMART! Swimming with Sharks Kansas raised and Chicago honed, GET SMART! still treau Pop Music like it matters. Angled guitar lines and biting lyrics makes this album the choice of those who think while they dance. ALBUM 72111-1 CASSETTE 72111--4 MAKE SURE YOU TUNE IN WTUL 91.5 FM DURING THE MONTH OF APRIL TO HEAR RESTLESS ARTIST INTERVIEWS AND GIVEAWAYS. It Restless Records I APRIL 198&WAVELENGTH 5 NO-TV also shows "Classic Mo was tabled on February 20. Accord ments in Rock and Roll History,'' ing to Eric Granderson, Boissiere's which is a short feature about artists legislative assistant, the measure such as Fats Domino and Little will not be brought up before the Richard, written by Rick Coleman City Council until.an alternate of WWOZ and narrated by L.J. Ep source of revenue can be found to stein, a WTUL DJ. They also show replace monies collected from live concert listings at the end of each music clubs. program. Altogether informative, to Boissiere would like to establish be sure. cable television bingo as a per So if you want to check out a manent replacement for the amuse- show that's alternative, fun, and . ment tax. However, the enactment unique with an interesting host (no of cable television bingo games on vapidity here, ever) then turn off the scale envisioned by Boissiere that bland bleached blond on MTV, will require the assent of the and turn on NO-TV and, says Ivan, Louisiana State Legislature which "watch the show. See new and ex reconvenes on April 21. Given the citing things done musically and present siege mentality of the legisl visually as well as local people ature beset by record budget deficits who're doing productive things with and falling oil revenues, passage of fresh ideas. " the enabling act required for cable Besides, who can resist bingo faces delay and an uncertain Gumby? 0 future. _ -Alison Aquino · In the meantime, club owners dismayed by the City Council's in 'day, April 11 ability to directly address the issue of the amusement tax and its in JIMMY's equitable enforcement are planning F'riday, April 25 to meet with Councilman Boissiere and Early to find out what if any JAZZ common strategy can be agreed upon. Failure to reach a consensus FESTIVAL The five percent amusement tax with the councilmen will surely re (at the Fairgrounds). is still picking our pockets. A pr.o sult in a hard look at a con Saturday,·May 3 posal by Councilman Lambert Bois stitutional attack on the tax in the . siere and Mike Early to indefinitely courts . JIMMY's suspend the collection of the tax - Shepard H. Samuels SIMPLY THE BEST YAMAHA KEYBOARDS CROWN 9HS SON OR OBERHEIM TEACIT A SCAM ROTOSOUND TAMA ENSONIQ FOSTEX DEAN MARKLEY SABlAN ROLAND APHEX SYSTEMS ERNIE BALL PAISTE EMU ELECTROVOICE ROCKTRON WUHAN J.l. COOPER SENNHEISER ROCKMAN .REMO ADA BEYER PRO CO VIC FIRTH ALESIS SHURE ANVIL CASES PRO MARK 360 SYSTEMS ASHLY LATIN PERCUSSION BEATO YAMAHA PA SYSTEMS KEYBOARD SOFTWARE INVISIBLE STANDS AQUARIAN SOUNDCRAFT BOSS ULTIMATE SUPPORT SEYMOUR DUNCAN ... AND THE LIST GOES ON AND ON NOW ASK YOURSELF ... WHY SHOP ANYWHERE ELSE? SALES • SERVICE BEN CHARGE MON·FRI 1 OAM to 6PM SAT 11AM to 5PM CHECK OUT THE TIMES PICAYUNE 4417 Bienville Ave. I AMEFUCAN I ••I EXPRESS CLASSIFIEDS FOR OUR WEEKLY SPECIALS 488-2673 488-267 4 6 WAVELENGTWAPRIL 1986 t's that time again ... Christmas in framework. R&B and gospel and Action Singers: Gospel group from Goodman Stick Band: April, crawfish and sunburns and blues. Southern University jazz set with March Denham Springs, Louisian(:l. Little unusual striped tents and koindu and fried ing Band. instruments. Play Chapman I Cultural scion. If that lead Jeff Boutte. 17-year old accordion Stick chicken and Katrina's (strings w/keyboard). Jessie cookies. Oh er bends over backwards like he does player yes, from Opelousas. Zydeco, sup Mae Hemphill: Her return - hasn' t and the music. Especially the and touches his hat to the ground it posed to be really hot. Bumble Bee been at the Fest since 1981 . Delta music we discover for ourselves, on would mak..e my night. (It's a hard line Hunters: Mardi Gras Indian tribe. blues. Plays guitar, tambourine. the way to Stage One, the unheralded, - it's work to do having shows in a big unfamiliar Young, early 20s. Leonard is their Pretty far out. Svare Forsland: From name that makes Jazz Fest auditorium and not having straight out XIV chief. Jimmy BaUero: guitar player. here. Used to play around in some the one we'll remember. commercial artists; to try and keep Used to be with the Meters for a short folk clubs. Brilliant musician. This year, there are many special true to what the festival is-it's what Turns time, was with the Neville Bros. early up living across the Lake. Banjo gems hidden in the schedule, and just it ought to be.) Prout's Leaders. and on. Has his own group The Re fiddle player for Emmy Lou so we could be sure we wouldn't miss Never performed in U.S. All Harris. leaders negades. lfammond State: will do an One of the top traditional them, we asked Mr. Jazz Festival of their own groups. Lester players in Bowie· R&B set. From the music therapy the world (solo). himself, Quint Davis, the producer of (substitute for Country R&R. East Don Cherry) and Don dept. They sing - do cover material - Louisiana the festival , to sit down with us and Moye are Choir of Denham Springs: from Chicago Jazz Ensem top 40s. They have an album .out the schedule and point out to us on gospel. Percussion Inc: All local. what ble. Royal Shield Records he wouldn't want us to miss. call Taking It to Amon Sherriff is leader. All percus the Streets (RS-114). Alfred (used QUINT: "There will be seventy to April 29-Tuesday · to sion. AI "RockabiUy King" Fer be "Uganda") Roberts eighty more groups at the fair this "Steps Ahead: Better than Weather Afro/ rier: From Chestnut, Louisiana- near Calypso Band: congo player. year, with a major increase in gospel, Report. Bad Natchez. One of the first rockabilly Oyster Band: jug band Cajun and. zydeco groups." from New guys- in the Fifties used to record on May 2-Friday Orleans. Hazel & Delta Ramblers: Gold Band label. Has been on albums "Storyville shows: More .like con Country Western from uptown New with Dolly Parton. He's getting the certs than Orleans. Evening Concerts jam sessions - formal key to the City of Chestnut because of groups. The Copasetics, Masters of Saturday-April 26 his appearance at this year's Jazz Fest April 25-Friday Tap: Jazz dance has really been miss "New Grass Revival: Best - has been on French radio. Famous ·'Miles Davis has an expanded band ing from this festival. group Serious, world that I saw all last year Friendly Five: Gospel. Golden Stars the largest group he's ever had. class hoofers. all over the world that I had never Hunters: Indians. · "Miles Davis Circus," three key seen or heard before. One of the board players including himself, a May 3-Saturday best groups in Sunday-April 27 American music female · percussionist from "We worked with the auditorium, - blue grass type in "Frogman Henry: One of the great struments - sing Copenhagen. Ten pieces- an electric turned it. into a giant riverboat - you too! Staple Singers class R&B players from the Otis and Bob funk theatre - expanded theatrics. have artistic limitations with two Marley songs in blue grass Redding period. Doesn't have the style. Saxon Superstars Stuff he used to do. Stanley Clarke bands playing two times on the boat so of Baha visibility here of K-Doe, for example, mas: Junkanoo band will be doing something pretty let's have four bands and let .them - were here be but tours the world - New Zealand, fore in 1983. unique, did something similar this stretch, having only one show to do. Will be a parade, walk England, etc. He's like Fats Domino on glass. Wild, colorful summer. Will play a solo piece on the General admission with seating on the Caribbean on the piano- really fine. Sweet Hon music. Instruments acoustic bass. He got into real com floor - huge dance floor and room to and dancing. ey In the Rock: A capella folk singers Louisiana Purchase: ercial stuff w/Duke. This is going to move on the balcony, so you will be Louisiana from D.C. Do not miss. On the line of based group that's be Stanley Clarke by himself, solo able to walk around. It'd be imposs-, as good as Luther Odetta, just incredible. Ethnic folk and Teddy bass. The first time in years Stanley ible to keep people in their seats! Pendergrass. One of the singing. Six people. Take Out Don best black lead singers Clarke has played music. You will be I've ever heard Cherry. Substitute Lester Bowie. in my life. Tim able to hear his virtuosity. One More Fair Grounds Williams (and Con Trumpet player from New York, he traband): Country western Time is pretty self-explanatory. Used band from will play with Chico Freeman as part Friday-April 25 New Orleans. to being on the road. Long time since Tabby Thomas Blues of Leaders group at Prout's, Sat. 26. ''Gary Brown: Lead sax player - Revue: Baton they were together at all . . . Sippie Rouge blues; has a club The Revs. F.C. Barnes and Janice played with Allen Toussaint. Yetta: called The Blues Box Wallace - The original living that in Baton Rouge Brown: Do not miss. #I Gospel rec traditional jazz. Aaron Neville set -plays old time guitar. James Dapog she's embodying- It 's not often that ord on gospel stations in the country. with Bobby Cure is a definite pick. ny's Chicago Jazz Band: you get generations through history, Will be Very big nationally - have albums out. George "Slim' Heard: Country backing Sippie Wallace. Grandmas when what they are doing is what was. Adadaa! of Ghana: A drum and R&B, great harp player out of Baton ter Mic Conductors: Young May be a few surprises at that local rap dance troupe. The Ga People are a show. Rouge. The Humble Travelers: group. Phil People have been calling. Menard: (and the tribe in Ghana. From D.C:, have been Big names Gospel. Fred Kemp: Sax player; Loui from Chicago siana Travellers): Cajun group living in the states for five years. may be here for that been playing with Fats Domino show. for a from Lake Charles. 5th Division There are 13 of them in full regalia. long time; this is a jazz set. Faze: Rollers: Marching group from New Gooq pick -go see it. Johnny Cope Take out and substitute Total Con Orleans. Willis Prudhomme and the land: He's a black Texas blues guy April 25~Friday trol: Young R&B group from New Zydeco Express: from Oberlin , inspiration for Stevie Ray Vaughn. "WYLD. Carrying on the ideal of Orleans. Paul Daigle: Cajun group Louisiana. Original Buck Jumpers: Charlie Haden: Bass player with jazz and heritage in an auditorium from Branch, Louisiana. The Happy Marching club. Tim Green/Dave Henry Butler. who's making a return La C:re1e Nanou · o~q.~R~ 'l1,asLiLte 's A FRENCH CAFE AND PASTRY SHOP Come dine In our BRUNCHES B~ING SERVED New All Weather ON WEEKENDS Patio WINES BY THE GLASS ESTATE WINES BY THE GLASS OR BOTILE Also Port • Sherries • Apertifs • Champagnes Open 7 da~s a l\eek 2808 Esplanade Ave. •- New Orleans. LA ------_ 1-110 Robert St. • 899·2670------ll,uk Mondac· • TUES ~RI II am 10 pm · SAT 10 am 10 pm · SUN 9 am ------'llh II·H,H-11 Frlll APRIL 1986JWAVELENGTH 7 Did you know ... to New Orleans. Butler has been liv gtvmg visitors a chance to do some mg m L.A .. an amating jaa ptanist. craft shoppmg and food buying before Louis Nelson's Bix Six. Louts Nel the music starts. SOUNd son is probably 70 years old. Tradi Food this ye<~r will strongly tional jaa band. Bois Sec & Canray: represent Louisiana cooking and will Old time zydeco. D.L. Menard and be available at many booths from var METAIRIE . CHeK the Louisiana Aces ::. Hasn't been on ious vendors. Some oft he 90 different LA . M U S C since 1979 Cajun band big on nation dishes will be three new piquantes - al ctrcuit- out of Erath. Brother John turtle. chicken and alligator. shrimp IUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII Sellers: Mahalia Jackson's godson. and crabmeat stew, cal as, sweet pota Grew up here, moved to Paris, lives in toe pone, and pecan praline cookies. is the only place you can buy. • • NY now. Guitar player, songwriter. Davis' advice to the fair visitors is: Doing material right now for Alvin "Don't plant to eat lunch or dinner Ailey dance troupe. Country blues before you go to the festival." The gospel. Did something recently with trick is to skip breakfast and plan to TRACE ELLIOT BASS AMPS Johnny Adams. D.L. Menard: Tour eat heartily while listening to your ROLAND JAZZ CHORUS AMPS ing as opening act for Ricky Skaggs. favorite music. DEAN MARKLEY AMPS Cajun who sings like Hank Williams. The events outside of the fair in PAS SOUND SYSTEMS Henry Butler: see Charlie Haden clude educational workshops with the above. Delton Broussard and the Tapdance Revue club shows at Story INTERSONICS, SOL Lawtell Playboys: Opelousas zyde ville Jazz Hall and Prout's Club KEAL CASES co.lmprovisational Arts Ensemble: Alhambra, performances at the Kent Jordan. Yellow Jackets: In Theatre of Performing Arts, River dians. Chief is Tom Sparks. Sady boat President concerts, and two Sat ST. BLUES GUITARS & BASSES Courville & Dennis McGee: three urday night concerts at the Municipal STEINBERGER fiddles. Classic Acadian music heri Auditorium. The first, April 26, fea JAMES LIGHTING tage thing in the festival. McGee is tures a gospel and rhythm and blues ALLEN & HEATH 93, Sadie is 75 or 80. They are gonna show with Natalie Cote-;-Andre do just old original fiddle stuff, no Crouch, B.B. King, and the Southern QSC AUDIO French Acadian, but old style University Marching Band. It is spon GERWIN VEGA! Louisiana Cajun fiddle- old tradition sored by WYLD AM and FM and al style - probably the two most im tickets will be sold in reserved seat portant people alive from that genera ing. tion." The second Satuday night, May 3, will We are also stocking . • • J~ be a roots of reggae and New The and Heritage Festival Orleans music party. The first section Warms up of seats in the auditorium will be General lnfonnation cleared away so people can dance. "It MARSHALL AMPS For basics: The Fair Grounds Race will be the ambiance of the riverboat KORG .KEYBOARDS & EFFECTS Track gates will open on April25, 26 in the auditorium," Davis com ROLAND DIGITAL PROCESSORS and 27 and May 3 and 4 at II a.m. for mented. Performers include The visitors ready for over 3,000 musi Neville Brothers, Burning Spear, and SHURE MICROPHONES cians on I 0 stages of simultaneous Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey TAKAMINE GUITARS music. Performers for the daytime and his Inter-Reformers Ju-Ju Orches PROCO SOUND PRODUCTS concerts include The Temptations, tra. Tickets will be general admission. BOSE PRO PRODUCTS Ward, Joan Baez, Odadaa!, Coco Tickets for the Fair Grounds are on Taylor, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Pete sale at Ticketmaster locations, $6 for GROOVE TUBES Fountain, Mamou, Little Jeff Boutte, adults, $1.50 for children. At the Jessie Mae, AI FerriP.r, Clarence Gar gate, tickets will be $8 for adults and low, D.L. Menard, Rockin' Sidney, $2 for children. dbx PRO PRODUCTS LittleJoe Blue, and many others. Eastern airlines will be offering PEAVEY PRO AUDIO Good news this year: The gates special fares for the Fest, call 800- RANE ELECTRONICS open at II a.m., but the music will not 468-7022 (code EZBP83). The In start until at least II: 15, giving us all ternational Hotel is the Festival SAMSON CORDLESS time to sprint across the infield in time headquarters and will offer a special ULTIMATE SUPPORT to make stage 3. rate for patrons of the fair. Call 800- TOUGH TRAVELER BAGS/CASES We still think it would be a good 535-7783, in Louisiana call 800-662- HILL AUDIO AMPS & CONSOLES idea to open the gates even earlier, 1930. -Mary Rees SOLID SUPPORT STANDS OPEN 24 HOURS. Now that you know, KINKO'S. why not come see us, or call for our weekly specials. kinko•s 3215 Edenborn, Metairie Open 24 hOc.rs. Great copies and complete services, day or night. 581 2541 ( 504) 454-6331 Only at Kinko's. Downtown only 8 WAVEl.ENGTWAPRil 1986 EVENING CONCERTS APRIL 25-FRIDAY State School Band, Alfred Roberts Afro/Calypso Saenger Theatre 9:00 p.m. Band, Bad Oyster Band, Shad ~athersbj( Hazel & Miles Davis/Stanley Clarke Delta Ramblers ... SATURDAY, APRIL 26 Storyv!lle Jazz Hall ij: 00 p.m. The Original Cast of "One Mo' Time" including joan Baez, Clifton Chenier, War, Betty Carter, Vemel Bagncris, Sylvia "Kuumba" Wilbams, Topsy Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Lee Dorsey, Ernie K Cbatrnan, and Tbais Clark With the New Orleans l>oe, Pfister Sisters. New Grass Rev1val. john Blue Serenaders !Caturing Orange Kellm and Hammond, Saxon Superstars of Bahamas, Bruce Lars Edegran. Daigrepont CaJun Band, Lou1siana Purchase. Dav1d Sippie Wallace w1th the James Dapogny Las tie, Jessie Hill, Deacon John. Sipp1e Wallace, Doc Chicago Jazz Band Paulin Brass Band, A-Tram, Red Tyler, Sheppard Old Time Jazz Band of Helsinki, Finland Band, Tm Willaams, 'labby Thomas BillE's Revue. James Dapogny's Chicago Jazz Band, Grandmaster APRIL 26-SATURDAY Mic Conductors, Kid Shiek, Phil Menard, John Municopal AudJtorium M:OO p. rn. WYLD AM & FM Presents Mooney, 5th Division Rollers, The Famous Mighty Imperials, Continental Drifters, Clarence Garlow, Natalie Cole N.O. Free School Village Kids, Wilhs Prudhomme, Andre Crouch Original Buck Jumpers, Walter 1-'ayton, Edu, Tim B.B. King Green/Dave Goodman Stick Band, Jazz Couriers, Southern University Marching Band Jessie Mae Hemphill, Svare R>rsland, White Eagles, Prout's Club Alhambra 12:00 Modnight East La. State Choir of Denham Springs, Percussion The Leaders-Famoudou Uon Moye', Ch1co Inc., Mars, Xavier U. Jazz Ensemble, Al "Rockabilly Freeman, Uon Cherry, Cecil McBee, Kirk Lightsey, King" Ferrier, Creole Rice Jazz Band, Second Line Arthur Blythe jammers, Famous Friendly Five, Tulane U. Jazz Henry Butler, Charlie Haden and Hennan Band, Gc~den Stars ... Jackson SUNDAY, APRIL 27 Kidd Jordan's Elektrik Band The Temptations, Allen Toussaint, B. B. King, APRIL 29, TUESDAY Clarence "Frogman" Henr)\ .lean Knight, The Theatre oll'erfonrunR Arts 8:00p.m. Radiators, Rockin' Dopsie, N.O. Ragtime Orchestra, diMeola Sweet Honey In the Rock, Ladies Zulu, Ellis AI Marsatis, The Revs. F C. Barnes and Janice Brown, Steps Ahead-M:chael Brecker, Peter Victor Bailey Odadaa! of Ghana, WYLD Talent Night Winners, Erskine, Michael Manieri, Mason Ruffner, johnny Adams, Don Cheny, Chico APRIL 30, WEDNESDAY Freeman, Cbarlie Haden, Cousin Joe. Wallace Theatre oll'erfomung Arts 1!:00 p.m. Davenport, johnny Copeland, Louis Nelson, Bois Sec Travel New Orleans, Inc. Presents & Canray, Desire Community Choir, Rormie Kole, Nina Simone Boogie Bill ~bb. Young Tuxedo Brass Band, Al Olatunji & Drums of Passion Belletto, Germaine Bazzle, Exuma, John Rankin, Mississippi South, UNO Big Band, D. L. Menard, MAY I , THliRSI)AY Brother John Sellers, Walter Washington, ,Johnny J & l April 4 Fred's, Baton Rouge 25 Maple Leaf 5 Maple Leaf 25 Jazz Feat (afternoon) 8-13 Cash's, Ft. Walton 26 South Seas Festival J7 Tipitlna'a (Recording Baton Rouge Live Album) 30 Jimmy's 18 Ruby's Roadhouse, Mandeville May 1 Brady's, Hammond 24 Storyville 2 Storyville APRIL 1986/WAVELENGlli 9 Open Daily. Grand Award Winner The Wine Spectator K COLEMAN The Louisiana Weekly - Spring The next week he got all the detatts: (April-June) 1952 ' "Lloyd Price, that newly discovered -usical giants walked the sodden blues-artists, tells us that he's got soil of New Orleans in the spring some numbers that are even better Mof 1952. The season began au than 'Lawdy Miss Clawdy' ... Smil spiciously when The Louisiana Week ing and happy, Price looks very much ly proclaimed two "blues battles" like he could be ' King' Cole's Big Joe Turner vs. Gatemouth Brown brother. .. so here's wishing New at the Rosenwald Gym on Easter Sun Orleans' newest recording star the day, April 13, and Charles Brown vs. best of everything ... say!. .. listen Amos Milburn at the Coliseum Arena out for those Earl Palmer drums ... on · April 27. Dew Drop Inn owner and that Fats Domino piano when you Frank Painia, who- promoted both listen to Sonny's wax hit! ... shows, was presented with an award Orchids! ... Roses! ... and Three for top promoter of the year and a Cheers to that Dave Bartholomew ''-.!._ax Gift" from Dr. Daddy-0 at the aggregation." former show while a truce was called: On May 24 he heaped even more ''Joe Turner and Gatemouth Brown praise: "The name of Lloyd Price is IIIII ~l stop their battle for awhile to par still great news!! Here's a youngster &bistro tiqpate." The two blues behemoths who shows the greatest promise since wrestled over the landscape in the Roy Brown first sang at Freeman next week-New Iberia, Poncha Riles old place on South Rampart Reservations 895-64 71 toula, Algiers, Biloxi, Donaldsonvil Street! He sings like a blues instru 3222 Magazine Street le, Port Allen, and back to New ment. . . and under the management 'orleans at the San Jacinto--<:ausing of Frank Painia, Lloyd oughta do minutes jrmn doumtnwn the ground to sink a little more. great things!!! ... (congratulations, romplimentary valet parking An April war was also raging on fella!!)" New Orleans radio as WJMR replaced The above mentioned future New the current "Poppa Stoppa" Duke Orleans Music Hall of Famers were Thiel, with Clarence Hamann, Jr. on joined by the living legends when the program "Jive, Jam and Gum Louis Armstrong & His Jazz Troupers bo." Thiel became "Poppa Duke" on took the Municipal Auditorium on WNOE. Although both sides claimed May 13 and Mahalia Jackson leveled victory, Hamann would keep the the Booker T. Washington Au- ' "Poppa Stoppa" moniker on radio for ditorium on June 29. over three decades. In a letter supposedly written by Dr. Daddy-O's column was filled Satchmo to the Weekly, he summed with references to New Orleans musi up his life: "What I really want to say cians in May-new records by Alon is- I am so happy, at the age of 52, zo Stewart and Professor Longhair still Blowing my little Satchmo Trum and a personal note: ''Thanks to the pet, still enjoying the fine things in Cha-Paka-Shaw-Wees for that lovely life, still love everybody, and every letter of complirpents: ''I'Jt qo my body still loves me, and from one end best to live up to everything you of the world to the other, to me, every say!!!" body's just I ike one happy The May 17 "Boogie-beat jive" family ... " N D shouted "Fats Don\ino will have an The Weekly's bio on Mahalia other new recording issued.in a very sounds like it was written in the Ernie COFFEE few days!!! (Do it, Fats!!!)." The K-Doe Charity-Hospital-Baby & TEA (Q good Doctor was a little late, as Fats' School of Journalism: "Early one ------=:=-- "Goin' Home" had already entered bright spring morning Mahalia Jack FROM EARLY MORNING the national R&B charts on May 2. son made her first appearance. This CROISSANTS TO LATE NIGHT "Goin' Home" became a massive EXPRESSO & DESSERTS was thirty-nine years ago, in the City 8 AM -11 PM and influential hit, which, ironically, of New Orleans. Despite the excite EVERY DAY lead to Fats staying away from his ment created in the immediate house beloved home much of the time. He hold by the arrival of Mahalia, no one 7713 Maple • 5432 Maga,Vne did, however, find time for one Blues at that time even dreamed that one day • New Orleans, Louisiana • Battle· for the Ages: "Fats" Domino this same baby girl would be vs. "Prof. Longhair"- Dave Barth acclaimed the World's Greatest Gos olomew vs. Joe Phillips (who??) at pel Singer." the San Jacinto on May 25 at 50¢ for OTHER GIGS: Spider Bocage at Ladies and 75¢ for Gent:;. the Tijuana (April-May); Dave Barth Even more massive and more in olomew at the Labor Union Hall (4/ fluential was a song by a singer that 12); Jessie Hill at the Corine Club in nobody had ever heard of. Mereaux (April); Jackie Brenston and For some reason Dr. Daddy-0 in Roscoe Gordon at the San Jacinto (51 his May 3 co.!_~mn confused the singer ll); Billy Wright with the Edgar with Sonny T~ompson, who was due Blanchard house band at the Dew in town: "Dave Bartholomew tells us Drop (May); Joe Turner at the Drop _that~~onny" is not the vocalist on (6/6); Lloyd Price at the Drop (6/13); 'Lawdy Miss Clawdy' ... (Who Roy Milton with Pee Wee Crayton at is?)." the Coliseum Arena O 0 WAYEI..ENGTWAPFL 19116 • ALU =~- ME100 !litt>!C ...... ~ = I ...,; -:::.--_. I ...... ~ ...... • c=l • • • • • • •t.. ·. .., .· .. • o ,;, .• .,:.,;,~. - - - ALU ~-::.'!;;. • ·-' 20A e - - •• ...... ,... I - ""'"' e I "00'1' &..,.C>o •••• ---···- ~ ...... ,, .. 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At its nether end it overlaps efforts are an ongoing success and his Hthe cocktail hour, more and more hotel reflects one of his philosophies, referred to as " happy hour." This in unusual fo r a major art buyer: " I toxicating institution may give us two wanted something fo.r everyone to fall to three drinks for the price of one, but in love with." the tools for attitude adjustment pretty" The Salon itself is graceful and much end with the bargain drinks. comfortable, arranged with an eye to With the renewed interest in the ever-' depth of pattern. resulting in an over day elegance ofthe thirties and fort all richness not muddled by overkill. ies, hi gh tea may be up for considera The various sized groupings of deep tion as a rich and complex alternative upholstered chairs. sofas, lamps and to the cocktail habit. tables, resemble many individual li v The perfect testing ground for the ing rooms. The linens are crisp and high tea revival is the eminently civil white, the tea service is silver and the ized but subtly seductive Windsor china German (Heinrich) in the Indian Court Hotel's High Tea served from 2 Summer pattern. Muted pink and Windsor Chamber Trio (L to R): Paul Martin, pianist; Patti Adams, to 6 pm daily in the Salon where the green prevail. The young ladies who flute; William Schultz, cello. atmosphere; like that throughout the serve wear demure lady-like silk dres hotel, is of the perfect English country ses that repeat those colors. They im illusion. Between the powers of the from Chicago come in at the end of manor house. press you as some Grand Dame's per tea (well -known through the ages) and one of our sets and were so dis In this great city of New Orleans fect niece who has agreed to ''pour" the excellent classical music, your appointed they couldn' t stay to hear there has always been the notion in the this afternoon. All services are be thoughts turn to the good, if not the more. They were apparently in a hun·y air that if it's worth doing, it's worth autifully carried out, and yet neither beautiful. to get somewhere. But they dis doing to music. (It's no secret that the formidable nor intimidating. Chamber music used to be played at appeared for a while and showed up hugely popular bawdy house_s of the A good idea is to have a glass of intimate "soirees" (that's a party) of again after having changed the day of 19th century kept full time jazz bands, imported champagne before you order the 17th and 18th century. (Be sure to their flight out so they could stay and etc.) Considering the rest of the bril your tea and wander around the first see the painting in the lobby of one of li sten to us." liantly conceived Windsor Court (the two floors. The artwork plays a lead Charles II's tea-time soirees. Aren't "We do get a lot of new work be work of owner and New Orleanian, ing role in the way you move through we festive?) But according to Alicia cause there is this swing back into James Coleman, Jr.) it is no surprise and see the hotel. It's a pleasant .and Schacter, former artistic director of chamber music. I get calls from brides that a full time c hamber trio distracting tour in itself. As you de the world famous Santa Fe Chamber who don't want us to play all that love accompanies this inspired daily offer scend the wide staircase back down to Music Festival, "we're riding the tide music from Broadw_ay shows at their ing. the lobby, the chamber music wafts of a chamber music renaissance. weddings. Instead they may say ' I Nothing about Windsor Court is softly, like good incense, across the Word· has gotten out that chamber want Baroque music only at my wedd typical, obvious or ordinary. The room. evidence of fine acoustics. music isn't dull, and isn't just for str ing.' Or, 'oh·, I have to have Vivaldi at choice of the grand English manor as a Tea is done right. Select your tea, ing quartets." my wedding.' And that would never theme in a city that special.izes in either a favorite or a surprise. They're The Windsor Chamber Trio, with have happened ten years ago. creolization is a daring one, not to all distinctive and delicious and pro Patti Adams, flute; Paul Martin, ·'The Windsor Court is a nice non mention putting the grand manor in perly brewed. The sandwiches- those piano; and Bill Schultz, cello, plays concert kind of setting," continued the Poydras corridor, among less dis little things without crusts- are actual "a little bi t of everything." Adams, who is also a part-time mem tinguished hostelries. And then, un ly very good and are just enough be ''For tea we play three sets," said ber of the New Orleans symphony. der the direction of Lord James fore you get into the scones with thick flutist, Patti Adams. "The first set we first flutist in the Ballet and first flutist Crathorne, formerly of Sotheby Parke cream, lemon curd and preserves, play Baroque music (Bach, Teleman with the Jefferson Chamber Orches Bernet of London, filling every nook · then pastry, chocolate and truffles. de, Handel) so we enter the scene in a tra. "Sometimes in a concert setting and corridor of the place with a You can easily make all this last for kind of subdued manner and don'tjust people feel that they need to do some serious collection of mostly English hours. A cognac or sherry is nice to start out blasting people with waltzes. thing or they need to know something, paintings, prints, sculptures, lithog finish. The whole ceremony is com Then the second se"t we usually move or have some kind of opinion once it's raphics, engravings, carvings and forting and fun by yourself or with a into Mozart, Hayden and the earlier over. In this kind of setting you aren't tapestries that reflect the Eng! ish group of friends. The feeling that classical music. For the last set we get required to do anything so. you can cultural heritage of the 17th, 18th and you're left with, spiritually uplifted into the heavier classics like Schubert, listen. · 19th centuries. and soothed at the ~ame tim~, is not~n Schumann, Brahms. We finish up "Sometimes people are just watch with Romantic stuff. We also do ing the bow of the cello or noticing Ravel and Debussy. We've gained" how beautiful the wood is. But after such an eclectic taste from all our they get past that point and get used to AN EXCLUSIVE 9-COLOR clients. People actually do ask for what we all look like, then they begin LIMITED EDITION pieces. It's amazing. Very rarely do to actually listen to the music. Or not, SERIGRAPH we have somebody come up and ask and just enjoy eating their scones. It's us to play New York, New York, but the intimacy of the affair. That's the HONORING that has happened." real pleasure. The music is like the PROF. LONGHAIR · ''Are you saying that you have reg icing on the tea cake." ular Chamber Music fans?'' I asked Weekday tea is recommended for . SiGNED ANQ NUMBERED Patti. the quiet get-away. At the Saturday (PRINTS) AVAILABLE AT " Absolutely," she said. "There's tea I attended the activity was brisk {504) 282-1336 a couple in town who always come in and high spirited. The bejeweled and BENEFITS and want us to play Haydn. Another nattily bedecked were in the majority. THE BYRD FAMILY regular always wants to hear Vivaldi. The .Windsor Chamber Trio plays A doctor in town named Bach always at High Tea in Le Salon, Windsor (WILL MAIL OUT OF STATE) wants to hear Bach. And a lawyer who Court Hotel, Wednesday through Sat comes in frequently listens to us play urday from 3 - 6 pm. Reservations for an hour becuase he 'wants to get recommended. Tea is served daily 2- his nerves soothed'. We had a couple 6. 0 12 WAVELENGTH/APRIL 1986 16 mg. "tar". 1.1 mg. nicotine av. per cigarette, FTC Report Feb. '85. SU R G0 E N G E N El' R S AWAR NI NG: S mking o (CI1985B&WTCo. By Pregnant Women May Result in Fetal Injury, Premature Birth, And low Birth Weight. LBOX MENTHOL •. \ ------· ·------·----- Hannah No Surprises _ More from the upper middle class white neurotic Upper East Side professional New York we've come to know. oody Allen delights, but does families are capable of, and Lee expo not surprise, with his new film ses her guilt about sleeping with Han WHannahandHerSisters. A look nah's husband without exposing the at two years in the lives of a New York fact. Dianne Wiest does jealousy to a theatrical family, Hannah is a charm tee in a scene where she and her un ing, caring and usuaJJy upbeat story trustworthy friend (Carrie Fisher) vie about that most resilient of all muscles for the attention of an opera-loving -the heart. Taken in the context of architect (Sam Waterston). The in Woody Allen's long career in film, terchange is pricelessly accurate. The however, it is yet another slice of life irritating thing about these characters, in his very small corner of the world though, is that they are not only acute - upper middle class white neurotic ly aware of thejr own little aches and Woody Allen as hypochondriac Mickey Sachs and Mia Farrow as Upper East Side professional New pains and mood shifts, but are con rock of Gibraltar Hannah in Hannah and Her Sisters. York. tinually asking each other- What's Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, and wrong.? Are you okay? Are you de He is getting redundant to say the acter Dorrie -a woman Woody Barbara Hershey play the sisters - pressed? You seem so distant - at the least. It is true the character of Mickey Allen described as delightful two days Hannah, the successful actress/happy drop of a yawn or blink from the ac in Hannah provides some great one of the month and unbearable the other mother-nurturer; Holly, the coke cused. They are not OJ1IY problem liners because of this obsession (like 28. In 1981, I was one of 112 people fiend who dabbles with various busi seekers, they are unnaturally the time he thought he was dying of a interviewed for a book by a Man ness endeavors between unsuccessful hypersensitive to the emotional melanoma because a black spot hattan psychologist about people who acting auditions; and Lee, the reco squirmings, however casual, in those appeared on his back, when the spot dream about Woody Allen (I Dream vered alcoholic who takes courses at around them. was only his shirt). But this repeat of Woody, by Dee Burton, ©1984, Columbia, but only randomly, and Mia Farrow, Tony Roberts, and Di obsession just underscores Allen's in William Morrow and Company, NY, lives with a surly, misanthropic artist anne Wiest are veterans of other ability to ever write characters that go NY). I Dream of Woody's a,uthor (Max Von Sydow) who cares for her Woody Allen movies, as it seems are very far beyond the Allen mold - speculates in her introduction why so like a child and pupil. Michael Caine many of Hannah's characters and cir they are all like personified little cogs many people would bother to respond is Hannah's husband who falls in love cumstances. His females are often de of his personality. to a newspaper ad, go through an ex with Lee and lures her into an affair scendants of Annie Hall, stuttering tensive screening process, and partici that reeks the usual havoc. Lloyd and strutting their. insecurities about The limitations Allen places on his pate in interviews sometimes lasting Nolan and Maureen O'Sullivan play town. The structure of the three sister stories, though, are liberating as well up to five hours (mine lasted three), the bickering show biz parents who, family in Hannah repeats the Interiors as restricting. For although the tiny "without any tangible compensation with only limited screen time, make a precedent (where the husband of one context of his Manhattan becomes re for their trouble.'' She concludes it is powerful impression of what growing sister also makes a pass at his wife's petitive and insular, he does New for the same reason they dreamed up might have been like for the girls. youngest sister); as in Manhattan, York well. He flatters New York. He about Allen - "Because Woody ''They were interested in having us,'' Woody Allen's character at ftrSt hates can make a dumpster of garbage on a Allen is important to them, and shar reflects Lee, "but not so much in rais the woman he eventually falls in love New York street look appetizing. And ing their feelings about him with an ing us." Woody Allen's appearances with, as well as quitting his unsatisfy he knows the life and the characters so interested investigator was apparently as Mickey, Hannah's hypochondriac ing TV writing job where he com well that he tells their stories well, reward in itself." That such a book al ex-husband, bring lightness and plains about being surrounded by with style and insight and an intimacy was ever published perhaps also comic relief between the more serious dope addicts and excessive silliness; that comes from personal experience. testifies to the quirkiness and the and less funny neuroses of the other Tony Roberts plays the same role as He is a spokesman for a particular scope of an audience so ready to iden characters. The film is divided into he did in Annie Hall- Allen's part brand of New Yorker, making him an tify with the troubled psyche of short vignettes by provocative titles, ner who goes on to commercial suc anthropological dramatist of sorts. It Woody Allen. like chapter headings iri a novel, cess in Hollywood; and of course, would just be nice to see more variety Dream symbol; filmmaker, which works well. Woody Allen experiences yet another within that New York territory that is obsessive-neurotic, Woody Allen de The outstanding moments in Han existential crisis covering his fear of Allen's signature. scribes himself best, through the nah include the only scene where the death, the meaninglessness oflife, the I never thought I'd say anything voice of his character's ex-wife in sisters are together alone. Flawlessly absence of God, etc., as he dealt with negative about the man. I'm one of Manhattan, who publishes a frank written and performed, the camera more than adequately in many films to few fans who admired Stardust and embarrassing portrayal of their circles the restaurant table while the date. It is surprising to think he still Memories, perhaps in part because of doomed marriage: "He was given to women argue and bitch, in a way only finds this death obsession interesting. an affinity felt for my namesake char- fits of rage, Jewish liberal paranoia, "~;;;;g;;R" c~ r. --~ - S. 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In his most private " I still feel this can't be a major mot moments, he spoke of his fear of ion picture- my name's on it." The death, which he elevated to tragic storyline, involving a movie special heights, when, in fact, it was mere effects wizard, employs many in narcissism." tricate tricks of the trade. Reporters Orion Pictures Corporation. Writ continually ask the writers how many ten and directed by WoodyA/Ien; pro special effects people they in duced by Robert Gree11hut. Executive terviewed, where they got their tech producers - Jack Rollins and nical information, etc. "We talked to Charles H. Joffe; cinematography by NO special effects men," says Flee Carlo DiPalma; edited bv Susan E. man. "We just made it up." . .. Morse. Starring Mia Farrow, Dianne ~ The Society for Cinema Stud Michael Keaton Wiest, Barbara Hershey, Michael (right) pulls his new Japanese boss Gedde ies will hold their 26th annual meeting Caine, Woody Allen, Lloyd Nolan, Watanabe back to shore after he has freaked out over the problems in New Orleans, April3-6 at the Hotel Maureen 0' Sul/il'{m, Max Von at the local auto plant in Paramount Pictures' Gung Ho. InterContinental (described in more Sydow, Daniel Stem, Sam Waterston, detail in last month's column). For Carrie Fisher, Julie Kavnor, Tony Wendt (Norm on Cheers), Mimi Rog Starring Geraldine Page, John information and registration, contact Roberts. Belle Promenade, Lakeside ers, and especially Gedde Watanabe Heard, Carlin Glynn. Oakwood Cine Andy Horton at UNO - 286-7097. Cinema. -:t~·~~ as the chief Japanese exec. Director of ma. 'Cl'Cl'Cl Two seminars will be free and open to photography Don Peterman makes the public: American Independent Fe Gung Ho even an automobile factory look beau Local Notes ature Filmmaking, April 3, 8:30- One can always expect the best tiful. Altogether, an intelligent. The big news is that New Orleans 10:30 p.m.; and Spotlight on from director Ron Howard and actor entertaining comedy. Studio will be a reality. The federal Louisiana Filmmakers, which will in Michael Keaton, and Gung Ho deliv Paramount Pictures. Directed by government has approved the movie clude special screenings of recent ers just that. Howard's fine comedic Ron Howard; produced by Tony Ganz studio's HUD application, which wi11 film/video works, April 5, 8:30- track record - Night Shift (starring and Deborah Blum. Executive pro provide a loan guaranteed with the 10:30 ... Keaton). Splash. and Cocoon - is ducer-Ron Howard; story by Edwin city. Although not a11 the conditions ~ Those visiting NOLA for Jazz continued with this upbeat comedy Blum; written by Lowell Ganz and have been revealed at the time of this Fest should consider taking a taste of about a Japanese automobile com Babloo Mandell; cinematography by writing, it is a major step for the studio New Orleans music and history home pany that opens a factory in the spi Don Petermann. Starring Michael project, which VP Rex Sparger ex - Stevenson Palfi's award-winning rited, financially troubled Hadleyvil Keaton, Gedde Watanabe, George pects to be clarified by April 21 ... video Piano Players Rarely Ever Play le, Pennsylvania. Wendt, Mimi Rogers, Soh Yama ~ As of my April deadline, Alan Together, is on sale at Metronome The group of conservative, often mura. Lakeside/, Belle Promenade, Parker's feature Angel Heart is sti11 Music, in both 60 and 76 minute ver humorless Japanese businessmen who Plaza Cinema, Aurora. 'Cl'Cl'CIY2 scheduled to begin shooting in New sions (VHS and Beta). The doco, come face to face with the crass, Orleans May I st, and definite casting made in '84, includes interviews with desperate-for-work American labor The Trip to Bountiful at this time is sti11 limited to leading and performances by keyboard ers, sets the stage for gags based on Based on the play by Horton Foote, man Mickey Rourke (Diner, Body geniuses Professor Longhair, Allen culture-clashing, but the situation is the translation of Trip to Bountiful Heat). The crew is currently shooting Toussaint, and Tots Washington. not as unrealistic as it sometimes from stage to screen suffers only mini in New York City ... The three rehearsed together, in prep seems exaggerated to be. ·The story, many from the staginess of static loca ~ Gregory Fleeman, co aration for a performance, marking by Edwin Blum, was based on a sim tions. But the performances by Geral screenwriter of the current hit movie the first and last time these piano ilar situation that occurred when dine Page. John Heard, Carlin Glynn FIX (reviewed in March Wavelength), greats ever did play together, as Fess Japanese opened a Nissan plant in and Rebecca De Mornay keep one fo visited New Orleans in March and has died before the scheduled perform Smyrna, Tennessee. The most cused on the story of an older woman best intentions for returning in April ance. Scenes from his wake and jazz pointed discrepancy between the two who longs to see her home, the small for Jazz Fest. Fleeman is a musician funeral are included in this respectful countries' approaches to work - the town of Bountiful, Texas, before she and songwriter whose band- Greg tribute ... Stevenson Productions Japanese working too hard at the ex dies. ory Fleeman and the Fleewomen took their cameras to Tipitina 's March pense of their families and personal Page deserves an Oscar for which is known to patrons of the Bottom 21 to shoot the performance by De lives. the Americans working below she was nominated for her bri11iant Line, Kenny's Castaways and Folk lbert McClinton. This performance, expected productivity but painted as portrayal of the absent-minded, City for its "comedically oriented as well as an interview with McClin caring family men - is handled del flirtatious, sentimental mother who music." Fleeman describes his ton, will be included in a documentary icately, with the problems and maintains her optimism in the grimm musical persona as "a cross between on Allen Toussaint currently in the strengths of both cultures given equal est of circumstances- life in a two Randy Newman and Monty Hall." works. The production will focus not time. Both sides get to play the fool, room apartment with her son and his His five-piece band plays sporadically only on Toussaint, but on the diverse both sides have something positive to wife, the most unrelenting of ce11uloid in New York and has a loyal fo11ow range of artists who have performed offer the other. bitches to come around in a long time. ing, but Fleeman claims he hasn't and recorded his songs, including Michael Keaton is perfect as the The transference of the parent into the been as lucky in the recording side of Bonnie Raitt ("What is Success"), local hero Hunt Stevenson, every child is the structure of this family. the industry, because record compan Devo ("Working in a Coalmine"), body's friend who first persuades the The wife bullies and orders, treating ies don't know what to do with songs and Glen Campbell ("Southern Japanese to come to Hadleyville, and the mother-in-law like one would a like "A11 Dressed in Rubber and No Nights"). Country-rocker McClinton then liases between employees and selfish child. Her husband is caught in Place to Go," and aren't really sure represents the honky tonk extreme of executives at the plant. Keaton is one between, like a toy they fight over. whether those Fleepersons are making this spectrum of artists who have of those people who was just born The unbearable situation. shown for a music or comedy. admired Toussaint over the years. funny. Like Billy Crystal or Martin mere night and morning, has been Fleeman's other career as a McClinton has recorded Toussaint's Short, he is funny at everything he reality for Page's character for 15 videotape editor has been left behind "Lipstick Traces" on Capitol Rec does. Even his eyebrows are funny. years. She runs away energetically since the success of FIX has cata ords, and performed "Holy Cow" on He maintains a manic energy through and successfu11y, faulty heart and all, pulted him and his partner into pro the nationally televised Farm Aid con out Gung Ho, being particularly clev and makes it to Bountiful, though the fessional screenwriting careers. The cert ... er when delivering his funniest lines journey is frought with disappoint only movie Fleeman was involved ~ Belizaire the Cajun, filmed last to the Japanese, who may or may not ments and barriers. with previous to FIX was Pelvis, a year in Lafayette, makes its debut in understand the fast talking slang of his Though not an ordinary day in the small cult status movie made about I 0 New Orleans theatres April II. It will running commentary. life, Bountiful gives the impression years ago, in which he had the starring also open this month in some ten other The screenplay for Lowell Ganz throughout that we are dealing with role and wrote the music. Intended to cities, and in New York, Los Angeles and Babloo Mandell (Night Shift, real people. be a kooky, wacky satire on Elvis, the and Chicago in May. It will be re SpTash) is witty throughout, and fine Island Pictures, Directed by Peter premise lost its humor when Presley viewed in Wavelength's May is performances are given by George Masterson; written by Horton Foote. died three weeks before the film's op- sue. 0 APRI.. 1986/WAVEl.ENGTli 15 La. Heart - Jamaican Pulse Discovering the Caribbean sound in Louisiana Cajun and New Orleans rhythm and blues music. remember, years ago, standing near actual Caribbean music. Check one of the gazebos at the New "Mama Rosin" by Yvon LeBlanc IOrleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, and Nathan Abshire, to be found on checking out Sady Courville and the Arhoolie 's Nathan Abshire and Other Mamou Hour Band, a very traditional Cajun Gems, for the best recorded Cajun band from Mamou, Louisiana. example of this style. · I was standing with the great Trinida Apparently the fledgling recording dian songwriter/arranger/steel drum industry in Southwest Louisiana back mer, Irving McLean, as Sady Cour in the Twenties and Thirties dido 't ville went into an old Cajun waltz. acknowledge this "Caribbean style" Fresh from a weeklong rehearsal with as worthy of recording, and in the McLean, during which he was build Fifties country western music over ing several of his songs around a one shadowed Cajun music, carrying the drop rhythm, I suddenly heard a very Cajun music to the country, further slow skank and 3/4 time one drop away from the Caribbean. coming from the Mamou Hour Band. But there's something strangely It was at this moment, with McLean to Caribbean sounding in some of the check the newest album by Southwest The rest of the album is a collection affirm it, that I heard my first connec traditional white Cajun music, and Louisiana zydeco star, Stanley of zydeco arrangements of New tion between Louisiana roots music when it comes to the black Cajun mus Durall, better known as Buckwheat Orleans sounds, from the marching and Jamaican music. Subsequent ex ic called zydeco, there is no doubt but Zydeco. The title song, "Waitin' For bands to classic R&B. The remark ploration uncovered a number of in that a connection exists. Zydeco is an My YaYa," is done in a reggae fash able thing is how the reggae and ska teresting discoveries. Similar to Trini ~&B-based music, and therefore is ion, but it's another song, "Warm and cuts fit in with the Louisiana roots dad's tradition of unrecorded music rooted in the same ground as Jamaican Tender Love," that is a real ear op tainly adds credence to the rumour, emanating from the calypso tents, ska and rock steady, which was ener. Described so well by CC Smith documented in Reggae International, Southwest Louisiana, Cajun country, mightily influenced by New Orleans in the Reggae & African Beat (Vol. V, that the godfather of the Jamaican has a largely unrecorded tradition of R&B, jazz and boogie. It's easy to No. I) as having a melody suitable for music scene, Coxsone Dodd, spent roots music with a strong calypso/ hear the similarities as you dance and "the -soundtrack of a spaghetti west some years in the Fifties as a migrant Caribbean feel, reflecting the multi sweat to a live zydeco band, but it's em,'' the song has such a natural ska cane cutter in the sugar cane fields of ethnic background of the Cajun peo subtle; it doesn't jump out at you. feel to it that it should convince even Southwest Louisiana. Dodd couldn't ple, that one could easily mistake fQr In case there are any doubters, the most diehar~ skeptic. ·music without missing a step. It cer- i -~or--· .~ \:. ~ ' . 16 WAVELENGTH/APRIL 1986 . ~ ------....__. - -- - -· -. - .. - --- possibly have escaped being in bine talents and put together a reggae musical standpoint, this may be dis- · It would seem like the most natural fluenced by the Cajun/zydeco sounds band, to record and perform when the appointing to some, especially those thing in the world ... a New Orleans around him, and he obviously didn't. Nevilles are off the road. They en who are awaiting the first real fusion band that plays a blend of New listed the rhythm machine of the of New Orleans and Jamaican Orleans and Jamaican rhythms. After The Mighty 13th Ward Neville Brothers, drummer Willie rhythms. However, this musical all, New Orleans' jazz and R&B did As most New Orleanians or long Green, along with guitarists Charles evolution could always occur later, play a special role in the development time Jazz Fest visitors could tell you, Moore and George Sartin (both of considering the funky 13th Ward tal of the Jamaican ska and rock steady. one of the most likely natural sources whom can be found playing around ent of the band members. Since the transition from New Orleans for a New Orleans reggae band is the town in a number of different popular Presently, Cyril has hopes that the to Jamaica was so smooth and natural, section of town called the mighty 13th New Orleans bands), and singer J.D. band will make a lyrical impact. why shouldn't the same thing have Ward . . . uptown New Orleans ... Hill (who fronts his own band, JD & Highly influenced by the music of happened in reverse? home of the late Chief Jolly, Carib the Jammers), to form what could Bob Marley and by a period of time Many of us still hold onto the un bean seaman and Big Chief of the someday be one of the most powerful spent in Nashville with Aashid Him fulfilled dream of a Louisiana band Wild Tchoupitoulas Mardi Indian Jamaican-influenced bands in Amer mons of Afrikan Dreamland, Cyril exploring the natural tie between the gang, uncle of the Nevilles who used ica, the Uptown Allstars. hopes to go beyond dance music. "I Jamaican pulse and the New Orleans to have a band called the funky Met At this stage, approximately one got a lot of things I want to say that second line. Without denying the ers and who are now all together in year down the road, the band is still you can't say while people are funky dance fever one gets from the their own band, The Neville Broth evolving. With so much material at jumpin' up and down and dancing. Uptown Allstars, the group admitted ers. The musicians from this part of their disposal (most of these musi That's why we use the one drop a lot, ly is not attempting to bridge this gap. town have carried the New Orleans cians have been playing together for at 'cause people tend to listen more. For now, at least, the Uptown Allstars second line rhythm worldwide with least five years) the band began play With reggae I found a music that I are learning how to play rockers. If their tours and recordings like " Hey ing four hour gigs almost im could express everything that I feel they stick with it, the day is sure to Pocky Way" and "Fire on the mediately. Their main gig for the past inside. The music opens up things in come when the dawn breaks and they Bayou.'' They've also always ac year has been regular Tuesday night side of me that were asleep for a long realize that they always knew how to knowledged a love for reggae and in dances at Benny's Bar, a 13th Ward time . . . Africanisms is what I call play with a Jamaican feel. New cluded a few reggae covers in their neighborhood bar tnat has been acting 'em ... my roots. I can express Orleans musicians, just like their sets. as a living workshop for a number of things lyrically with reggae music that Jamaican counterparts, have always Perhaps the New Orleans musician different local bands putting their acts I couldn't say with any other type." valued sparseness in the music. It's who has the best feel for reggae of together. The All stars' sets have Can't argue with that. Music with a wha\ you don't play that counts. This, anyone in the city is bassist ex slowly shifted from mostly blues and message is what reggae music was adde\1 to the fact that the New Orleans traordinaire, Darryl Johnson, pres 13th Ward funk to a nearly full show once all about, and to a lesser degree second line will fit perfectly into a ently with the Neville Brothers. Dar of rockers style reggae originals and still is. But the most killer combina Jamaican one drop or dance hall ryl used to provide a mean reggae and covers. tion of all is great music and a mes rhythm by merely adding just a tiny bit junkanoo bass to the music of Baha Ironically, Cyril and the band, at sage. So while Cyril continues his of accent, makes me confident that mian singer/songwriter, Exuma, this point, seem less interested m foray into meaningful lyrics, let's someday the band will feel it. Once back in the early Eighties. 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Wednesday, Aprol 30th APRl. 198&WAVELENGlM 17 on W.A.S.P. On the Edge His lyrics were read to the Senate committee on rock censorship, but Lawless knows how to walk the edge. embers of the Parent Music Re was prepared and midway through the source Center use the band's instrumental and audience participa Msongs to demonstrate explicit tion portion of the show, pulled out lyrics in rock music. They're banned . the Stanley poster, crumpled it and in San Antonio, Texas, and were fea went on with what had to be one of the tured in the last hard rock show in most innovative uses of the usual one Corpus Christi, Texas, last month be side of the arena screaming against the fore coming to New Orleans. other. The winning side, and even the Yet, off-stage, lead singer Blackie back of the arena, were targets for the Lawless of W.A.S.P. is mild poster-throwing frontman. mannered, intelligent, and, more im Since Kiss drew "first blood," portantly in his business, knows how W.A.S.P. was forced to retaliate to walk the edge without falling off. pitching uncooked whole and quarters Onstage is another story. Lawless of chickens onto the stage during and the band's three other members Kiss' encore. -guitarist Chris St. Holmes, bassist But, it wasn't as though the guys in Tony Richards and drumrner Randy Kiss weren't expecting a carefully Piper - prance from one side of the orchestrated "good-bye" from their stage to the other the entire 50-minute tourmates. In fact, Kiss crew had show, stopping only to point to large strict orders not to let anyone vaguely "Just a regular guy." Blackie Lawless of W.A.S.P. at U.N.O. replicas of their own decapitated connected with the W.A.S.P. camp heads, which sit on poles high above . near the stage during Kiss' perform types of vitamins, including Flint Lawless may be laughing now, but the arena floor. ance. Their caution wasn't without stone chewables, backstage before the if his plans for the future hold true he For their final night on the Kiss reason. show. may be in those same shoes a couple tour, W.A.S.P. was prepared for any Last year when W.A.S.P. joined · The note, ·according to Lawless, of decades down the line. surprises that may have come their Kiss for the first time on their Animal read: "Rumor has it that there are ' 'I'm going to be the Jabba the Hut way, including a poster of Kiss guitar ize tour, the California-based rock some individuals over there in that of rock 'n' roll," Lawless said after ist Paul Stanley buried with the dozen band greeted the headliner with a camp who may not be as young as his March 2 performance at the Uni or so Lawless posters he throws into wheelchair and a care package filled they used to be. Here are a few little versity of New Orleans Lakefront the audience nightly. But Lawless with geratol, a couple of different things that may come in handy. '' Arena. " Twenty years from now, I'm SNUG HARBOR April 626 Frenchmen St. . Music Schedule ••• ••• 949.. 0696 .... 9:oo-s:oo r.o 9:oo-sroe · W•• •:oo-s:oe Thur 9100·S:OO Jl"rl so:oo-:a:oo .Sat so:oo-:a:oo .Sun 9100•S:09 welcome home Ut ~rei 4th §th •th the Eil Queenie JORGE ~--t ·HARRY Ud BETWEEN THE WELCOME HOME Victor and EARL BR(JfHERS MABARAK ED is & CONNICK, TUR8/NTON EDU Goines Amasa AND THE 10NY Group Miller WILLI£ TEE SOUNDS OF BRAZIL T~~C> Mars4Jis DAGRADI 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th Uth WIW:E WNY RED HECTOR DAGRADI ILltriiL/11 RAPHAEL TYLER GALLARDO METCALF TRZC> jay Griggs CRUZ JIM and on bass UrflfHJIU GEORGE FRENCH flu411e1 SINGLETON Chris Severin Ste.e Mosok.owski llVARDtt' ,.,.,.., john Vidocovich JAMES BLACK STEVE Reginald Veal .. PHIL PARNELL MASAKOWSKI 14th 1§th 1•th 1 iath 19th 2.0th the 7th JORGE with PATRICE ]IMCAirD EARL RADJAI()RS SPENCER MABARAK TURBINTON'S FISCHER& WISANDIISON PRESENT .ACOUSTic QUARTE.T BITCH'S BREW JORGE U61NALD VEAL BOHREN FEATURING VOCALS BY HSHHEAD MARK SANDERS BEINIE MOID.AMD Gemuaine MABARAK 2.18t uad :Urcl Uth Arnasa Fran ~th dat~id 2.•thBauJe 2.7th Miller Comiskey TORKANOWSKY New Orleans Own RED TYLER Jimmy stet~e THE PFISTER .. Robinson MASAKOWSKI IHggie JIM SINGLEWN SISTERS JOHN VIDACOVICH Angelle tony 'WO~EN Featuring ouston Trosclair DAGRADI IN ~A.ZZ SHOW :18th Tony 1&9th LATIN ~hSTEVE SOPRANO SAX 2.ad ~rd 4th 18t SHOOT "Indoor Parading" VICTOR GOINES Ramsey Dagradi JAZZ Hasakowski OUT &... Dirty McLean's &ASTRAL CALlE Earl TUrbtnton REGINALD VEAL SURVIVORS Nr NARJ Tony Dagradt Dozen featuring PROJECT 1 JAZZ FUSION VIctor Gotnes BRASS BAND NOEL KENDRICK CHARMAINE NEVILLE •••••••• II •••••• • •. • •••••••••••••••••••••• • ••••• I •••••••• Extended Hours on Performances During Jazz. Festival 18 WAVELENGTH/APRIL 1986 .J going to be fat and sit around yelling, issue.'' The censorship issue now be To meet Lawless after the show, and they didn't have a clue as to how 'More booze, more chicks.'" fore them is whether they'll be you'd wonder if it was the same guy. they got there, why they couldn't Lawless, 29, spoke from in front of allowed to complete the upcoming leg No gray streaks in his long black tr'air. stay. I'm not going to be like that." a large mirror where he patiently ap of the Sabbath tour. Their final date is Crystal clear blue eyes without a sign Not being like that is Lawless' key plied his aftershow makeup. His girl San Antonio. of abuse in any form. He recognizes to the future. So is discipline. friend, who can be seen in both of the "We were [banned] but now we're rock 'n' roll as "a dangerous life for Lawless said the length of his band's latest videos, sat quietly out going in," Lawless said, calmly add some folks if you don't know how to career will depend on how long he side the dressing room door as band ing, "it's not over yet." respect it." wants to discipline himself. "To do members cruised up l'nd down the He sums up the entire hard rock "I'm not going to go out and get that kind of show that we are doing hallways and gathered chicken parts controversy in the Texas border town blasted out of my head 365 days out of takes an incredible amount of con for the big finale of this tour. to a man "hell-bent" on being mayor. a year and there are various ways of ditioning. And not just conditioning Now, ·~1 think they decided that [the doing that ... various substances and to· go out there and do it. It's a disci Lawless' girlfriend, by the way, ban] is what they wanted until they chemicals - liquid things that you pline you have to do year round. You views her new beau as an entertainer realized the revenue the were going to can put in your body to do it. I really can't just let yourself go." and had never even heard of the band lose." enjoy what I'm doing. I enjoy per At least one member of the band until a video producer approached her The politicians may be pleased and forming and to do the kind of show has been known to let himself go in in an Arizona restaurant, where she the spectators disappointed, but that I do I need a clear head. You can't New Orleans. Last year, two days af was a waitress, to star in the band's W.A.S.P. has put away the blood, run around on that stage like I do and ter Mardi Gras, Chris St. Holmes and video. The communications student and, in New Orleans, the blades, too. be loaded. Maybe there are some peo the other members ofW.A.S.P. were now meets Lawless on weekends The blades they still do from time to ple who can, but I can't. in town for a show with Iron Maiden. whenever and wherever possible. The time, according to Lawless. (There "I'm not a choirboy by lUIY means The rest is history. St. Holmes was band leaves for Japan during final ex was a problem with the one he wears but I think I know where the edge is arrested after a long night and early ams, so that's one weekend she'll the night of the New Orleans perform and I want to push it just far enough morning at the Dungeon. have to miss. ance.) The bloqd was last year's without going off. The secret is being But, immediately, after the most W.A.S.P. was scheduled to go to show. around long enough to know where recent New Orleans gig St. Holmes Nashville from New Orleans, join "We do a tour, we do a new the edge is and not walking along in could be found tromping up and down Black Sabbath in mid-March and show,'' the lead singer explained. the night and walk into a hole because the backstage corridor inquiring about headline their own tour of Japan. And what a show for a band that never you didn't know it was there." the location and business hours of the The four-piece hard rock band planned to perform live. Lawless knows where the holes are same establishment. gained national notoriety last year "We were going to be a recording in rock 'n' roll. He began young as a Lawless, by the way, remembers when the PMRC chose the lyrics to band," Lawless said. "We went out member of the New York Dolls in how to get there, just not how to get their song, "Animal, f'**K Like a and started playing and we started get their final days. Of his former band home. Beast,'' to read in front of the Senate ting bored with outselves. That's the mates, he says: "Here were all these P.S. We all know that was a photo Commerce Committee meeting on reason the show came about." guys trying to be like Jim Morrison of Paul Stanley last month and not rock censorship. Their show, too, is amazingly tight and succeeding. They didn't have a Gene Simmons as the cutline implied. That was six months ago at the time and the audience of about 5,000 on clue what it was all about and where We were just testing your rock trivia of the interview and Lawless claims this Sunday night were there as much are they now and where am I. skills to see how many Stanley fans the PMRC to be "pretty much a dead for W.A.S.P. as the headliner. 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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, the Long Ryd From Suburban Goof Rock to Speed Metal (not to be confused ers and the Bangles arc slandered by with Thrash), the name game goes on. this generic term for their use of Sixt ies pop music innuences. t's almost religious the way Amer is led by Tex and the Horseheads, II. ROOTS ROCK: these "re· ICans take to labeling things. We Blood on the Saddle, Hickoids, and visionists" go back to the early R&B Ifollow Gertrude Felicia Homsbath most recently, Cowboy Bob and the foundations of rock music to play this into a convenience store where, rather Blood Farmers. distinctly American form of mus1c . than buying cigarettes, she purchases 04 4 .. THRASH: this is an acceler The Fabulous Thunderb1rds (whose a soft pack of Benson and Hedges ated form of hardcore that sears into new album. Tuff Enuf is produced b) Deluxe Ultra Light Filter IOO's. To the cars leaving its listeners numb and Dave Edmunds), the Del Lords, quench her thirst. she picks out a exhilcratcd. The Dead Kennedys and Nighthawks and Los Lobos are the top Sugar Free Diet Pepsi Light. Washington. D.C.'s Corrosion of roots-rod.. practitioners today . With m1sswnary zeal, the Holy Conformity arc the nation's top thrash 12. GARAGE REVIVAL: bringing Acronym has most recently spread bands. ing in Los Angeles. Like the gloom back the 1966 sound as well as Yo\ like wildfire throughout America's 5. SP.EED METAL: not to be con bands. these groups dwell on ghoul amps. Rickcnbackcr guitars. fua. multiple music fields. Anyone with a fused with · thrash. this is an un ish. unhealthy thoughts that attract boxes and psych-howling, this scene sense of pcrspect1ve regarding rock derground, blitzing form of heavy ghouli sh. unhealthy teenagers on is best documented by ROIR 's music needs a glossary to keep up metal indebted to the UK band, "loads." Christian Death's De cassette-only release Garage Sale' with those of us label-makers. I mean, Motorhead. Speed Metal is rapidly composition of Violets is the quintes The Fuzztones (who recently re let's face it. It's not just "rock 'n' becoming a major scene. attracting sential sample of this cancer. It is a corded with Scrcamin' Jay Hawkins), roll" anymore. metal fans turned off by pretentious cassette-only release from ROIR. the Vipers, Pandoras and Gravedigger I . HARDCORE: this over-used show-biz metal bands like Kiss and 8. INDUSTRIAL ROCK: not to be V lead this genres, over many bands. term has pretty much lost its meaning Twisted Sister. Leading bands in confused with corporate rock. Imag 13 . NEW SINCERITY: pre and today can only be used as a mega clude Metallica, Anthrax, Venom and ine a band whose members blend the dominately co-ed bands that wear torn type of category for that fast and loud Slayer, who recently signed with CBS influences of a Pittsburgh Steel Fac blue jeans and sing songs about love type of sneering guitar rock that Records. tory with a Detroit Auto Plant to the on rainy days. This scene is centered everyone over :30 hates. Originating 6. RAPE ROCK: this wasn't a beat of a New Orleans piledriver. in Austin, Texas and includes Doc in the bored suburbs of California, scene until the senators' wives Attending li ve performances may re tor's Mob, the Wild Seeds. Go Dog hardcore is mos1 easily considered as brought national attention to Los An sult in having shrapnel lodged into Go and Zeitgeist whose Tram/ate an American response to British punk geles' Mentors for their lyrics " Bend your arm - or eye. This droning Slowly is the most sincere. music. Today, a great varietyofhard up and smell my anal vapor." Led by scene is just beginning in America. 14. SUBURBAN GOOF ROCK: core scenes exist. guitar hero Sickie Wifebeater, whose Germany's Einsturzende Neubauten initiated by the Modern Lovers' 2. SKATE PUNK: bands like phallic solos on songs like "My Erec and New York's Swans will be "Roadrunner." this humorous form Agent Orange and the Big Boys pro tion is Over" have overwhelmed rock responsible for America's second in of pop-rock is best exemplified and vide the soundtrack to the sidewalk/ critics; their You Axed For It (Enigma/ dustrial revolution. amplified on ·'Teenage Dogs in Trou empty pool surfers. It's not un Death) is the premiere rape-rock 9. CORPORATE ROCK: not to be ble·' and ·'The Power Mowers common for these party bands to per album to date. confused with music, this Orwellian Theme" by the Young Fresh Fellows. form at skateboard championships. 7. DEATH ROCK: an American nightmare can be found on com "Kiss Me on the Bus" by the Re 3. COW PUNK: hardcore with a response to the British Gloom Move mercial FM stations. Night Ranger placements and, it could be argued, shot of tequila. Also known as coun ment (over which Joy Division and and Starship join Journey as leaders of "Jefferson Avenue" by New try punk, this western-styled anarchy Bauhaus reigned), this scene is grow- this pack. Orleans' own Hamburger Party. 15. PAISLEY UNDERGROUND. recreating the Summer of Love, this EMINENTLY CIV I L I Z E 0 psychedelic Los Angeles scene is led by Rain Parade, the Dream Syndicate and the Three O'Clock. When mem bers from these and other L.A. bands got together to make Rainy Day (Llama/Enigma) they saluted the H1glt tea in tl1e And, of course, the bands that started it all by covering Salon to the touches of service that Buffalo Springfield's "Flying On the accompaniment make this America's Ground is Wrong." 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The ten minute long " Lament of Joe This absurd art-rock/comedy band Apples" is a haunting monologue from Washington, D.C. plays a very featuring the very quotable " When I mutated form of halloweed pop, de shit, I shit shit and it stinks/when your rivative of Perc Ubu, Wall of Voodoo mother shits, it's Chanel No. 5." and Saturday morning television. Sin ger Bruce Merkle seems to be taking Various. Cow Me, Rhino Records LP. turns growling and breathing helium While the world waits for Bruce as he sings "Evil Teenage Facility" Springsteen to record his next twelve and "Viva La Sleaze." Purists note: a pack of great misunderstood pro cover of Stcppenwolf's "Born to be clamations, Rhino Records once Wild" that is more terrifying than a again has taken the initiative. Cover gross of motocyclc hoodlums. This Me is a collection of Boss songs as version sounds like a duet between performed with deference by rock fi. Bugs Bunny and the Tasmanian De gures from this great btg blue marble vil. 1\nd you thought the Wrestlers' v-.c will soon be calling "New album was scary! Jersey.·· Of course, there's Pattt Smtth's " Because the Night" and Copernicus, Victim of the Sky. Nevermore, Robert Gordon's version of "Fire" Inc . LP. (although Robin Williams' Porky Pig On the cover photo of his second docs Bruce Springsteen version is album, Copernicus (a.k.a. Joe Smal probably more in line with the typical kowski) is engulfing a microphone Rhino releases). Boss buddies South SORRY SAM, during a performance at the 8 B.C. side Johnny and Gary U.S. Bonds Club in New York City. This long make up five of the remaining cuts. TONIGHT IT'S haired, middle-aged schizo-poet from The most interesting renditions are all the Bronx sings, mumbles and shouts covers of songs that originally FANDANGO. stream-of-consciousness lyrics, flip appeared on the Nebraska album, The Break through the black and nopping between heavy theatrical Beat Farmers take their roots-rock white,add color and excitement brow-beating to abject moaning. On approach to "Reason to Believe" to your nightlife. "From Bacteria," evidently an IS while Johnny Cash does a Big Bad piece orchestral celebration of this "Johnny 99," a countrified account under-acknowledged life form, of the murder spree that obsessed Copernicus declares "Bruce Spring Springsteen during the Nebraska rec steen is descended lrom bacteria." ording. The highlight is the atmo While the title cut reminded me of spheric "Atlantic City" as recorded 601 TCHOUPITOULAS Talking Heads' "Swamp" it is the by the sincere Austin band, Zeitgeist. 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ELECTRIC GUITARS • DRUMS • KEYBOARDS • MIXERS • ~ 0.., J> z (i) rn ~m J> • ::a • "'z-< -t m :z: • z "'N -m 0 ::a "'• ::a m n 0 ::a c -z Q m 0-c ' ' Aaron Neville's new solo album on Passport Records 1s just one of the many Neville projects in the works. rm sun on my back from a pleasant Febru ry afternoon lessens a part of the nervous ess I feel from actually walking toward he Uptown basement office of Neville Brothers road manager Steve Eggerton. I'm not just going for an interview. I'm going to interview the Aaron Neville. This is the man whose music has brought joy and tears and love and pain to thousands of people. His voice floats like a dove through the air. His vibrato sends chills up the spine of your sweetheart when you're slow dancing. He has graciously borne the pain of a slipped disk and "a little flu that s<_>meone left on me" to venture out of his house for the first time in three weeks of hospitalization, traction, and bed rest for this in terview. His powerful and muscular six foot two frame adorned with taunt camouflage is assisted into a comfortable rocking chair by George "Big Chief Jolly" Landry's hand jeweled Wild Tchoupitoulas Indian staff. His physical discomfort is stoically ignored and he is in good spirits. A positive attitude in the face of adversity like this one has typified his frustration plagued singing career from the beginning. In the presence of Eggerton, who "has the mind for specifics" to compliment the emotions of the new solo album out on Passport Records, approp In obligation to his family, Aaron opted for steady artist, we chat. riately entitled Orchid in the Storm (Passport PB work, frustrated and bitter at his involuntary res Much is happening for the Neville Brothers band 3605). The title "was an idea of [producer] Joel traint. "At one time my favorite song was that [Don now. In November 1985 they signed on for several Dorns 'cause at the time we did the album there was a McLean] thing about Vincent [Van Gogh]["Starry years of exclusive management by Bill Graham Pre hurricane on the way. And we were trying to get the Starry Night"] cause I could dig where he was com sents, Inc. The contract means serious clout for the thing done in record time." It also connotes the ing from. This cat here was the baddest painter, but Brothers as BGP is one of the biggest concert and beauty and tenderness of this man's voice to ''still be he didn't sell nary a painting 'til he died. And I could music promoters in the wort~. This makes gigs hap here and still [be] singing through·alt the bullshit of a see how frustrated. he was. That song helped me pen for them automatically like their recent two dates lifetime ... you know that was a storm." 'cause at the time I was frustrated, and just by me opening for the Grateful Dead in San Francisco on Recorded in I 983 with Fiyo on the Biyo (A&M being able to sing that song it put something there New Year's Eve and Mardi Gras Day. Top notch Records) producer Dorn, Orchid is a five-song act of [motions to his chest]. It put some strength there." professional photo sessions have instantly material passion and powerful but strangely fragile vocaliza Aaron learned to yodel from the old cowboy stars ized literally thousands of new promotional shots. It tions of music originally done in the Fifties in the like Gene Autry and the Sons of the Pioneers and is the • 'big time.'' Aaron feels it and expounds that do-wop tradition. It is a document of a man whose learned to sing from Nat ''King'' Cole, Pookie Hud ·'the Neville Brothers band right now is at this mom natural talent is surpassed only by his sincerity and son, Jackie Wilson and others. He is now influenc- · ent the baddest fuckin' band in the world, and they truthfulness. It will not be a number one smash hit ing a new generation of singers such as Elvis Costel are finally getting the recognition." like "Tell It Like It Is" was in 1966 because it is a lo, who cites Aaron as the major influence for his They are productively moving toward a major small project on a financial and promotional budget recent song "Only Flame in Town." Mick Jagger record deal with demo tapes already recorded in scale, and Aaron knows this. He merely considers it and Bob Dylan have also paid public tribute to his Nashville and Studio in the Country in Bogalusa, "another iron on the fire. It can't do nothing but voice. He concurs, "The big stars have been hip to Louisiana, over the past year, and a wealth of critical help.'~ us, and now that's helping to bring the audience. and popular acclaim. Their main stumbling block A renewed solo career he adamantly refutes. "It They say, hey, you're checking us out, now check presently is choice of a producer. Eggerton and BGP wouldn't be a tour unless the Neville Brothers were these dudes out.'' share anxieties for presenting a complete package along with it anyway, you dig it? [The album] has Oft beaten but never broken, Aaron is justifiably with material and producer to a major record com just given me a chance to work off some steam optimistic. ''The word is: Neville-ization. We're out pany. Eggerton emphasizes that' 'the time is now for because I don't get a chance to do too much of that on to Neville-ize the world." He feels he has paid this band. A record deal, any record deal is no stage." enough dues for himself, his children, and then problem. What we're looking for is the record deal. The dream to be heard is one that Aaron has been some. ''Something in my voice, in my heart, told me We want to be assured success." chasing all of his life. Before "Tell It'' he was doing that it ain't for nothing. And that's why I took every On stage the Neville Brothers opened for the com odd jobs, was on probation, and was dying for a thing that my life brought me as just like, you know? plete North American tour of Huey Lewis and the chance to make it big. When "Tell It" hit he found ... I've felt everything a human motherfucker can News. All of July and August were spent io front of himelf with a sudden overnight nationwide smash, feel, you dig it? From backache to getting my lights ten to twenty thousand people each night. They've on tour with Otis Redding, and playing the Apollo and gas turned off to being out in the streets drinking been on the road headlining steadily since November Theatre in Harlem. But there was no gold record and that wine to drugs or whatever." throughout the country, and have done the two Dead no instant wealth. "Somebody got a gold record. I He wants to do some spiritual albums. He wants to dates. They've filmed a new show for a PBS' Austin didn't get it. I got a record on my wall a friend of record a capeUa with a do-wop group like the Per City Limits, shown in March, shot a song from a mine painted it gold and put in on a plaque. suasions. He is even dreaming of performing in Thanksgiving concert for Canadian National Televi "I didn't know about the business coming up. I Carnegie Hall with the symphony in recital. And all sion, and appeared on NBC's Saturday Night Live. got beat. But really they beat themselves." He was of these things are not far out of reach for him. But They have recording time optimistically set aside for paralyzed contracturally for two different periods most ofall he wants to be heard by the people, a lot of late March and April of this year, and possibilities and found himself back in New Orleans driving a people, and soon. He knows that people will see the for one of at least four major tours for the summer of truck. It was at this time his mother "turned me on to honesty in what"he sings about. "I want to see the '86. St. Jude, the helper of the impossible," whom he world through God's eyes, and I wan~ people to see Jtnd if that weren't enough excitement and frenzy thanks in the credits on his album along with cowboy God in my eyes." We hear you, Aaron. We hear for New Orleans' first family of funk, Aaron has a hero Gene Autry. you. 0 APRIL 198&WAVELENGTlf 23 The famous people. listed below. are: D A .. Among the greats of Jazz. D B. Among the many fine artists who license their music through BMI. ~ C. All of the above. Muhal Richard Abrams Bill Evans Rahsaan Roland Kirk Pharoah Sanders Nat Adderley Gil Evans LeeKonitz Mongo Santamaria MannyAlbam Jon Faddis Yusef Lateef Shirley X. Scott Mose Allison Art Farmer Hubert Laws George Shearing Gene Ammons Wilton Felder John Lewis Archie Shepp Kenny Barron Rodney Franklin Ramsey Lewis Wayne Shorter Alvin Batiste StanGetz Dave Liebman JabboSmith George Benson Jimmy Guiffre Chuck Mangione Lonnie Liston Smith CarlaBley Dexter Gordon Adam Makowicz Sonny Stitt PaulBley DaveGrusin Lyle Mays Ira Sullivan Jane Ira Bloom Charlie Haden Jackie McLean Cecil Taylor Joanne Brackeen Chico Hamilton Pat Metheny · Clark Terry Anthony Braxton Lionel Hampton Charles Mingus Jean "Toots" Thielemans Bob Brookmeyer Herbie Hancock Thelonious Monk Charles Tolliver Ray Brown Barry Harris James Moody Brian Torff Dave Brubeck Eddie Harris SyOliver Stanley Turrentine Ron Carter Jimmy Heath Jimmy Owens McCoy Tyner Leon Ndugu Chancier Percy Heath Eddie Palmieri Miroslav Vitous Don Cherry Joe Henderson Charlie Parker Cedar Walton Arnett Cobb Wayne Henderson Art Pepper FrankWess Billy Cobham StixHooper Oscar Peterson Ernie Wilkins John Coltrane Freddie Hubbard SunRa George Winston Larry Coryell Milt Jackson Max Roach Phil Woods TedCurson illinois Jacquet Red Rodney Lester Young Miles Davis Keith Jarrett Sonny Rollins JoeZawinul Jack De Johnette Budd Johnson Roswell Rudd Paul Desmond J.J. Johnson George Russell Paquito D'Rivera Ryo Kawasaki Joe Sample Wherever there's music, there's BMI. ,... ~ his article continues one from November 1984 "My first professional job was at the Hi Hat with In the early Fifties Connor played with a slew of [WL 49} that stressed the pervasive influence Professor Longhair in 1950. When I was playing New Orleans-connected performers - Papa Light New Orleans has had on Little Richard's mus behind Fess, Fess used to smoke pot a lot. I'd look at foot, Christine Kittrell. Joe Jones, Guitar Slim, ic and career. Two New Orleans musicians Fess and he'd wink at me. And if he'd wink at you Champion Jack Dupree, Blazer Boy, etc.- whom played asfounding members ofLittle Richard's band that'd mean you're doing something he liked. He he plans to cover in a book he is writing on his career. The Upsetters from /953 to Richard's first retire kept winking and I said, 'Well, this eat's winking He toured and recorded (behind Kittrell and Light melll in late 1957. To my knowledge, Wilbert Smith, and 1 know he's not gay.' foot) with a band consisting of Milton Batiste (bass), better known as ·'Lee Diamond,'' was never inter "Fess picked me up one Saturday evening. And Edwin "Guitar Red" Mayer, Nat Perilla! (tenor), viewed and, sadly, died in February 1985 in Atlanta. he was talkin' to my mother. 'Okay, Mrs. Connor, and sometimes Eddie Bo (piano) and Wilbert Smith Drummer Charles Connor was the only New I'm gonna take care of your boy and everything. I'm (tenor). Orleans musician interviewed for Charles White's not gonna let him smoke no "mootees" [marijuana]. "I was playing with Smiley Lewis and Shirley and biography of Little Richard, The Life and Times of I' II just let him drink one beer.' And my mother said, Lee (in late 1953) when Richard picked us up out of Little Richard. But White barely touched Connor's 'Okay, Professor' - he used to like to be called Nashville, Tennessee. surface. 'Professor.' And we'd get in the car and Fess said, "Lewis was sort of a grouchy type of guy. He Charles Connor was born on January 14, 1935, at 'You be a good boy and I'll let you drink two.· didn't allow any smoking in his van. He didn't want Charity Hospital in New Orleans. He grew up in the "You had to be a spe<.ial kind of drummer to play you to drink too much when you go on the band French Quarter with his Creole-Indian mother and behind Fess. because Fess was so tricky you'd lose stand. his father, a sailor from Santa Domingo. the tempo. You had to do all those little fills and ''He was a sorta comical guy. He had a potgut and "My father bought me my first set of drums when stuff. very little hair on his head and big eyes. so he sorta I was five years old. 1 played in the high school band ''I remember seeing Little Richard at the Tiajuana looked like a little frog. And we used to ·go in at JosephS. Clark on Dumaine. I didn't go farther IClub in New Orleans in 1953] with a group called restaurants and stuff when the song 'The Bells Are than the tenth grade because I started traveling with the Tempo Toppers, but Little Richard wasn't no Ringing" was real popular. The people said. 'Here Shirley and Lee. solo singer, he wa~ just one of the group. He was comes Smiley Lewis - "The Bells Are Ringing."· ·'The way I got my style of playing, I would mix almost invisible. The only thing that made Richard 'Yeah. and his potgut looks like a big bell!' dixieland jazz and progrcssi ve jazz together, 'cause I visible was the way he wore his long hair and that "Smiley liked a young woman and he bought dug those type of drummers. I always wanted to be pancake makeup. He got the idea from Billy Wright some false teeth for her. The woman got mad and the Charlie Parker on drums, you know, tricky and out of Atlanta, Georgia. They sang blues, something said, 'I'd rather be bare-mouthed than to put up with clever. like a more modem Mills Brothers.·· your stuff.' And she took the false teeth out and gave APRL 198&'WAVEL..ENG11i 25 'em back to Smiley! Can you imagine that! He was playing at the Club New Era and Thomas "He had some peculiar ways, but he was a hell of Hardwell came up there and told us, 'Richard want£. an entertainer. Smiley was a good guy to work for, to see you and you! I almost fell off my chair. He was especially if he liked the way you played behind him. pointing at Wilbert, who was playing piano and "I was in love with Shirley when I was a young switching over to tenor, and to me! kid. I used to try to show off while I was playing my •'So we went to the hotel the next day- it was the drums to try to impress Shirley. YMCA, rather. And Richard said, 'How would you "In one incident up in Nashville the hotel caught guys like to travel?' Man, we didn't know what to on fire on the second floor, and I wen• up in Shirley'.s say. We looked at each other like two damn fools. room. I saved her footlocker. She must have had And I said, 'Yeah!' He said, 'I guarantee you $15 a about five or six hundred dollars in the footlocker, night.' Now $15 was a whole lot of money in those and they were calling me a hero for saving Shirley's days, 'cause you could get a hotel room for $12 a money. I took a chance, though. week. "You know how the hotel caught on fire? Milton "Richard was doing Roy Brown and Fats Domino Batiste was in the hotel room on the second floor, Uttle I...J,,.,,,,,... numbers, a lot of Fa~s numbers - 'Goin' Home and he hung his shorts over a gas heater and4 is Richard's birthday party December 6, 1984, Tomorrow' and' Ain't That a Shame.' And then Roy shorts caught on fire. The whole second floor West Los Angeles. Brown - 'Well, I heard the news, there's good burned. Milton Batiste-we used to call him 'Half rockin' tonight!' And a number by Ruth Brown a-head.' one time would travel with no drums or whatever, 'Mama, She Treats Your Poor Boy Mean.' But "We were playing at the Club Ravelot. Richard at just a guitar player by the name of Thomas Hard well. Richard would always put those numbers up in more of a cut-time tempo. He would speed the thing up, and that's when rock 'n' roll really began. "But Richard he also wanted that New Orleans WE'RE HERE! sound behind him. That's why he got me and Wil bert. OUR FIRST RELEASES "When we played live before 'Tutti Frutti' was cut, it was 'Tutti Fruitti, good booty-'. 'Wopbob baloobopawopbamboom' came from the way I play ed my drum. 'Wopbobba' was on my snare drum. 'Loo bop' was on my tom tom and my snare drum. The 'wopbamboom' was on my bass drum. In other words, that's the way Richard would explain to me to play it- '1 wanna hear that 'wopbopaloobopda bopbamboom!' Earl Palmer [who played drums on the record] is not playing that. He's just playing a straight backbeat. But every time Richard sings that 'Awopbop-,' I'm accenting that with him on my drums. "Little Richard and I, we invented or composed that beat to rock 'n' roll, not just a backbeat. I'm talking about a choo-choo train-like, 16 notes or whatever. And Richard wanted me to play that way behind him. I had never heard drummers playing like that before. And I didn't know how long I could last doing that. But I finally developed what he wanted to hear." I cannot do justice, in the short space allotted to me, to Charles Connor's career with Little Richard and dozens of other rock 'n' roll greats- Lloyd Price, Larry Williams, Dee Clark, Sam Cooke, the ~...... J Coasters, etc.- which is a good reason for you to buy his book when it comes out. But it should be - noted that Charles' great "choo choo train" drum style was immortalized in a couple of records Richard cut with the Upsetters, "Ooh My Soul" and "Keep a-Knockin'," both recorded in a Washing ton, D.C., radio station while on tour. Connor re calls, "Richard wanted to be so revolutionary and everything. That's the first rock 'n' roll or rhythm & blues four bar intro with drums [on "Keep a Knockin"']. Now I created that. Richard gave me $500 for creating that idea." Connor's pounding four bar intro has been stolen many times, notably by rock's richest plagiarists, Led Zeppelin, in their pre sumptively titled tune "Rock and Roll." Connor lived in New Orleans until 1970 when he moved to Los Angeles and became a security guard, currently at radio station KRTH, where he greets the has and never-beens of rock 'n' roll. About six years ago he met musician Robert Leslie, who got Charles back into music, first with Bryan MacLean (ex Love) and Bryan's little sister Maria McKee (pre Lone Justice), and currently with a new group of Upsetters, who, judging from their 45's, seem to be LISA RHODES SKANK dedicated to bringing back that good ol' New SHIVERS I NEVER SAID THAT Orleans/Macon rock 'n' roll, with an L.A. accent. Charles also was Little Richard's brother-in-law for nine years while he was married to Richard's sister. He visited Richard in the hospital shortly after INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION Richard's car wreck last October: "I was telling him ONE WORLD OF MUSIC 17208 BRAXTON STREET about cornbread, mustard greens, gumbo and all that GRANADA HILLS. 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And members of ivory-tower Tyour way to avoid the deadbeats slumped in front of a and over, treating it to occasional tiny changes (such organizations like the American Society of Univer diseased soup kitchen. Once you've made it safety to as the addition of one note). The result is what some sity Composers strive snobbishly to discount Glass's the right door, the free-floating Manhattan anxiety call the aural equivalent of Op Art. Just as M. C. influence on '·'legit'.' music. Some distrust his suc magically disappears. Philip Glass feels good here, Escher's school of fish metamorphoses across the cess, some really hate his work, and some are just creates his cosmic carousel music here, and you can canvas into a flock of birds, so do Glass's slowly plain jealous. relax in the gentle energy of his home and work changing tonal bits create new waves and patterns in Perhaps this envy stems from the fact that Glass space. his musical fabrics. Thus, traditional musical paid his dues to academia and escaped the safety of Seated in a cool gray library that is filled with "themes" and complex, late-19th-century harmon the tenured twelve-toners. Born in 1937, be received books, records, and sound system, Glass talks about ies are as far from the minimalist's compositional a master's degree in composition from JuiUiard, contemporary music over the street noise - neigh menu as steroid-injected beef is from a macrobiotic where he wrote "something like 70 pieces... But h~ borhood "musique concrete" - that bounces up diet. felt that he didn't yet have a firm foundation in from the sidewalks through the open windows. It's not surprising, then, that Glass's composi harmony and counterpoint, and went to Paris to 'There is a generation of people who hated new tions have been called "hypnotic." "I find that study with the great pedagogue Nadia Boulanger, music," he says softly, "and they may not be aware word pejorative," he says, "I think hypnotic things who had taught just about every major American that they don't have to hate it anymore." make you sleepy. I always thought the purpose of composer from Aaron Copland to Elliot Carter. Glass is one of a handful of''crossover'' compos music was to make you awake. · "It was through that study that I began to un ers whose music of the past decade has attracted both ''On the other hand, when I was a kid, I remember derstand the difference between technique and classical concert audiences and fans of more popular going to hear a Beethoven symphony and seeing style," he says. "And I also understood that attain musics like jazz and rock. Along with Steve Reich, some very large, bald gentleman in front of me ing a personal style wasn't possible unless you had a Terry Riley, and others, Glass is also labeled a falling fast asleep. And I thought, well, I guess you solid technique." After two years of exercises with "minimalist" - an inadequate catch-all term ap can sleep through anything." works of Bac~. Mozart, and Beethoven, he had plied to composers who work subtle, usually African Although Glass is enjoying the most com mastered the rules enough to be able to break them or Eastern-influenced transformational techniques mercially successful career of his generation (he is with sav~y and intelligence. ''At that point, the rules only the third composer in history to have signed an became independent,'' he says. "Some of the things Clarinetist/writer Ann McCutchan is Classical Mu exclusive contract with CBS Records - Stravinsky I do technically speaking are not in the hannony sic Critic for the Austin (TX) American-Statesman and Coplane were his predecessors), his name in books." and a contributor to Musical America magazine. variably stirs up conflict in academic circles. During At the same time that.he was polishing his West - She frequently performs avant-garde music, and was the first session of a music critic's conference at the em composing skills, Glass took a job notating sitar associated with Loyola University from 1976 to Aspen Music Festival last August, a moratorium was ist Ravi Shankar's Indian music for French musi 1980. set on discussion of Glass because his name pro- cians to play on orchestral instruments. Working APRL 198&WAVEI.SG1H Z1 with Allah Rakha, Shankar's tabla player, Glass was exposed to a cyclic, repetitive tradition based on the addition of time value to notes, which is foreign to the Western tradition of dividing large units of time (say, a whole note that is held for four beats) into smaller ones (eight notes worth half a beat each). Glass began to assimilate the Indian aesthetic, and later hitchhiked around North Africa and India, listening to local radio stations to further absorb Indian practices. By the late 1960s, he had returned to New York and disowned all of his previous compositions in favor of a new style based on additive, repetitive principles. His 1976 opera Einstein on the Beach placed him squarely in the forefront of American art music and clinched his reputation in Europe, as well. Since then, his music has grown both in complexity (hence the weakness of the "minimalist" label), maturity, and popularity, and Glass has become the closest thing to a cult hero the "serious" music world has seen since John Cage. His frequent asso ciations with other primary avant-gardists, such as playwright Robert Wilson and performance artist Laurie Anderson, and his willingness to embrace elements of the pop music world not only make his work more marketable, they have a major impact on his methods. For instance, in his new opera, The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 (based on a book by Doris Lessing, who wrote the libretto), he has scored the voice parts much lower than in tradi : Rellections In Glass tional operas. "You tend to understand sung words better when small child sits in a pool of light, playing jacks soloist or group is featured singing or playing. The they're closer to the speaking ·voice," he says. among the ghost voices of other children. A performers' music is previously composed by Hin ''That's why pop singing is always done much lower AFrenchwoman sings of her past lives. The derlie and put on paper, but he encourages his than' operatic singing. And generally speaking, you words of Emily Dickinson accompany a cello solo colleagues to deviate, to improvise within the open can understand the words in pop music much better that is brittle with despair, soft with hope. sound structure the tape provides. Behind all of this than in operatic music." Amen. These are some of the sonic images New Orleans is the composer (assisted by soundman Stuart Be Does Philip Glass think he is revolutionary? "It's composer Sanford Hinderlie has woven into a con cnel) who adds to and manipulates the live voice hard to know," he says. "I Think there was a time tinuous 90-minute concert of his electro-acoustic and instrument sounds with a bank of keyboards, when the music appeared that way. It's so hard to tell music, to be performed at the Loyola Performance electronic equipment and synthesizers reminiscent in your own lifetime. It's the next generation that Hall Apri_l 4. of a Star Wars set. Using digital delay, Hinderlie decides. Hinderlie, who hopes to attract an eclectic audi might create a Seurat-Iike tone fabric from "The history of music moves so slowly. Not ence like Philip Glass's, is defmitely one-of-a-kind Vachon's voice. Or he might twirl a dial and tum much happens. In the visual arts, you see tremen on the New Orleans music scene, and has lately Ray's cello into a jet plane. In this music, the dous changes. Within a 20-year period you'll have a been going national with his improvisational listener won't be assaulted with sterotypic bleeps Jackson Pollock, and a Frank Stella, and an Andy dreamscapes. His performance ensemble is called and blips. One should expect sonorous, nearly-pop Warhol. And each one seems to have changed the Synthesis 2000- An Electronic Dream Odyssey. lyricism that always takes flight, never bogs down. parameters of the language. It doesn't happen very And it includes some of the city's most vibrant One piece segues smoothly to another, enhanced much in music, because it's a literary language, a artists: vocalist Lise Vachon; cellist Karen Ray; by subtle lighting by Dan Zimmer. And in this written down lan~uage, for the most part. Therefore, woodwinds man Tony Dagradi; and percussionist production, Hinderlie will introduce the.sculptures it becomes susceptible to academizing in a way that Mike Brothers. of Houston artist Frank Williams to his perform painting is less so. Also, I think the way we hear All of these people have both classical and pop/ ance environment. Compelling and weirdly dis-:: changes very slowly.'' jazz backgrounds. Vachon once lived in Africa to turbing, one of Williams' figures .starts as an Still, Glass recognizes that American art music is learn native rhythms and language, still sings embryo at the feet and grows up to senility at the undergoing a flowering of styles unequalled in this Schubert, and has cut several jazz and rock albums. skull. It is a dream figure, a life and death symbol country's music history. "The idea that there is so Ray played in the pit for musicals while she that is as organic to Hinderlie's concept as his much range ii1 new music simply wasn't around finished a master's thesis on Alban Berg, and has players' improvisations are to his compositions. befor~," he says. "It's just in the nick of time, too. I played in two German orchestras. Dagradi has re think new music almost died." corded R&B with Professor Longhair, progressive Hinderlie has been developing this show since For his New Orleans engagement with the Ensem jazz with Astral Project, and plays with the New 1981 , when he came to New Orleans to join the ble, Glass will program excerpts from the operas Orleans Saxophone Ensemble. Brothers can be composition faculty at Loyola University. Synthe Einstein on the Beach and Akhnaten, as well as other found in the middle of his jazz trio or the New sis 2000 ("We're striving to be fifteen years ahead pieces from the recent past. Although he's confident Orleans Symphony. of our time") has been showcased in the CAC and that New Orleans music aficionados of all breeds Hinderlie was a protege of the late electronic at new music concerts around the country, most know his music, he agrees to pass on some pre music pioneer Merrill Ellis, so it's not surprising notably at the annual Electronic Plus festivals. concert advice to the uninitiated on how to listen to that the 34-year-old composer adopted Ellis's Now, says Hinderlie, Synthesis 2000 is planning to Philip Glass. accessible approach to music-making. "My music acquire new. electronic instruments and schedule a "I think I would suggest," he says thoughtfully, isn't popcorn music, but it's not atonal, either," tour. This expansion will cost $35,000, a challenge " that they DO listen!" 0 says Hinderlie, whose favorite composers (besides for the composer, who admits that, "Like any Ellis) include former West Coast rebel Larry Au musician, my credit cards are always to the limit. '' stin, Igor Stravinsky, Chick Corea, George Still, Hinderlie is busy refining his work, filing Crumb. He's also been inspired by Laurie An away ideas for new pieces that he says will employ -New Music Weekend derson and the Dallas-based improvisational more live percussion instruments and complex ensemble BL Lacerta, which played at Loyola four electronic rhythm effects. "So many composers April 4, 5, 1986 years ago. "I don't target my music for any par today destroy their own music by writing pieces Friday 4: ticular group of people," Hinderlie explains, "so that are too long, or by carrying an idea too far," he Sandy Hinderlie, 8 pm Loyola it's well-received by all types: the rock culture, the declares. '~You need a sense of form and variety. Performance Hall academics, the general music lover." "With electronic music, it's easy to just bore the A typical Synthesis 2000 concert is set up like hell out of your audience. I won't do that. I want to Saturday 5: this: Hinderlie selects several of his original pieces spark people's imaginations so they can carry my Philip Glass, 2 pm - Lecture in Courtyard, that share a common theme (such as dreams). Each music one step beyond the live performance and 7 pm ·& 10:30- Concert Loyola piece has its own electronic tape score, or con create their own sound pictures, their own Performance Hall certmaster, as Hinderlie calls it, with which a live dreams." - A. Me. 28 WAVELENGTWAPRIL 1986 . . nROFESSIONAL rAuo10 SYSTEMS ••• THE MRS-1 - and · . -TIME -OFFSET CORRECTION TM - . ••• Experience .· · · them••• · hear and feel the difference·••• · only at _. SOUNd METAIRIE , CHeK L A. M U S I C 3215 Edenborn ( 504) 454-6331 LISTEN AND LOOK FOR THESE FINE PRODUCTS IN USE AT THE 1986 NEW O·RLEANS JAZZ AND HERITAGE FESTIVAL ~1.\0'1 bKPS ROOI.r~ Feelings, 2600 Chartres. 945-2222 . Piano bar nightly; call for personnel. 544 Club, 544 Bourbon. 523-8611. Gary Brown and Feelings, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday ~~ from 9 until 3, and Fridays and Saturdays from 10 until 4. Southern Cooking. Mondays and MONDAYS Tuesdays from 9 to 3, and Saturday and Sunday Domestic Beer $1 from 3:15 to 9:15. 5 pm- 'til ' Fortin House, 624 Bourbon . Brazilian music nightly from 7 to 11 p.m. TUESDAYS Pete Fountain's, in the Hilton, 523-4374. Pete Draft Beer Night Fountain and his band nightly at 1O; one show 50¢ Glass/$2.50 Pitcher only. reservations. Starts at 8 pm Gazebo, 1018 Decatur. 522·0862. Alfresco per WEDNESDAYS formances according to the weather. Ladies Night Hilton Hotel, Poydras at the river In Le Cafe Bromeliad: the Cajun Three. Fridays from 6 to 10 lst Drink Free, 1/2 Price p.m.; the Hilton Opera Singers, Saturdays from 6 Mixed Drinks to 10 p.m.; Placide Adams' Jazz Band , Sundays 8 pm- 12 am irom 9:30 in the morning until 2:30 in the after THURSDAYS noon. In Kabby's: Vic Tooker and the Riverboat Busch Night Ramblers Review. nightly save for Sundays and 75~ Busch Longnecks Mondays from 8 until midnight and Sundays from 9 pm- 'til 10:30 a.m. until 2:30p.m. In Winston's: Arnold Radel, violinist, from 7 until 10 nightly save for FRIDAYS Sundays and Mondays. In the French Garden: Free Oysters Beausoleil, Ia musique Acadienne de Ia Louisianne, Sat.22 at the Maple Leaf Sandy Hancock Cash, from 9 until1 a.m. Sunday 6 pm- 9 pm through Thursday evenings and for an hour later than that on Fridays and Saturdays. 50¢ Draft bloodstream, the concert would probably be Hotel Meridien, 614 Canal, 525-6500. Jazz Meri 5 pm- 8 pm about twenty minutes long. CONCERTS dien Room: Mon.-Sat. 5:30-8:30· Steve Pistori SATURDAYS us. Nightly 9 to 12: Tues: La. Repertory Jazz Note Real Bene: See article elsewhere in this Rotating Import Beer Ensemble. Wed .: N.O. Classic Orchestra. Thurs. : issue tor Specials Tuesday, 1 Jazz Fest Concert information of the N.O. Home Grown. Fri. : Razzberrie Ragtimers. most exact and scintillating sort. SUNDAYS The Long Ryders, Tipitina's. Sat.: Cr~ole Rice Jazz Band . Sun.: jazz brunch $1 .. 50 Bloody Marys Friday & Saturday, 11 & 12 with Hot 4 + in La Gauloise. 11 am- 5 pm Wednesday, 2 Superpops Concert, with Joel Levine conducting Hyan Hotel, 561-1234. Sundays. 10 a.m.-2 10,000 Maniacs, Tipitina's. and Jim Henderson narrating; selections by p.m .. Chuck Credo and the Basin Street Six in POOL TABLES ' DARTS Gershwin. Aaron Copland and Proto's musical the Courtyard Restaurant. Fridays, 4-8 p.m. in Friday, 4 setting of Casey at the Bat. the Mint Julep Lounge. Bobby Cure and the PATIO NOW OPEN Summertime Blues. Simple Minds, UNO Lakefront Arena. Jonathan's, 714 N. Rampart, 586-1930. Harry SANDWICH SHOP Synthesis 2000, Tuesday & Wednesday, 29 & 30 an " electric dream odyssey," Mayronne. Fridays and Saturdays 8 to 1 a.m. featuring Sandy Burgers. Fries. Po-Boys Hinderlie, 8 p.m., Loyola. Classical Concert, with Philippe Entremont con Landmark Hotel, 541 Bourbon. 524-7611 An Evening On Broadway, with the Jefferson ducting, soprano Vicki Fisk and narrator Eugene 4801 Magazine • 899-9228 Mondays-Thursdays, 5 to 9, and Saturdays and Singers, Munholland Methodist Church, 1201 Hartzell; works by Mozart and Respighi, as well Sundays from noon to 4. Bob Sloane. Monday Metairie Road (834-5727). as the world premiere of Staar' s Just An Acct Wednesdays, 9 until 2 a.m. and Fridays dent?-A Requiem for Anton Webern and Other Saturday Sundays, 4 until9 p.m., Mike Bunis. Thursdays , 5 Victims of the Absurd- Webern , possibly the Sundays, 9 p.m. to 2 a.m .. the Bobby Ellis Van Halen, Mississippi Gulf Coast Coliseum. greatest of the atonal New Vienna School com Quartet. posers, was, you Philip Glass, probably the most heatedly dis 'll surely recall. shot by an over Maison Bourbon, 641 Bourbon. 522-8818. zealous American Occupation in waltz-city cussed and (to our cobwebbed mind) overrated for be Tues.-Thurs., ing out after curfew. 2:20-7:15, Sat., 4-8 :45: Lloyd of living composers-although his Akhnaten Lambert. Wed .-Sun ., 7:30-12:15 a.m.. Sat.. opera is pretty heady madness; 7 p.m., Louis J. 9-1 :45 a.m.: Lou Sino. Mon., Tues., 7:30-12:15 Roussel Performance Hall, Loyola. a.m., Wed., 2:30-7:15, Sat.. 11 a.m.-3 :45: LIVE MUSIC Johnny Horn. APRIL Sunday, 6 Mahogany Hall, 309 Bourbon. 525-5595 . The Thurs. 3 The Rayzen Harpsichord and Organ Recital, 4 p.m., Christ Oukes of Dixieland every night save for Tuesdays Church Cathedral, 2919 St. Charles. ...,. FRENCH QUARTER, when Banu Gibson occupies the spot. Fri. 4 Johnny J and the Maxwell's, 400 Burgundy, 522-0879. Call for Hitmen w/Moto-X Wednesday, 9 MARIGNY & CBD March music. from Austin Lords of the New Church, Tipitina's. Old Absinthe House, 400 Bourbon. Wednesdays Artist Cafe, 608 lberville, 523-9358. Open stage Mondays: Bryan Lee and the Jumpstreet Five. Sat. 5 Multiple Places Friday, 11 daily from 3 p.m. to 4 a.m., but look for jazz, 9:30 to 2:30. Tuesdays: Mason Ruffner and the Blues Rockers, beginning at the blues, C&W, bluegrass, Japanese koto music. same time but Fri. 11 The Petries Luther (No, I do not have AIDS) Vandross, UNO ending thirty minutes earlier. Laketront Arena. Viennese waltzes, clog dancing and what have Sat. 12 Guadalcanal Diary you; the French Ticklers appear here often. Old Opera House, 601 Bourbon, 522-3265. Tues day and Wednesday and Saturday: Chocolate Fri. 18 Woodentiead • Saturday, 12 Bayard's Jazz Alley, 101 Bourbon, 524-9200. Jazz Unlimited every night, Milk. Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays: the Guadlcanal Diary; Dash-Rip-Rock, Jimmy's. from 8. Blue Room, in the Fairmont Hotel, 529-7111 . Opera House Band with the BT Connection . Sat. 19 Dash-Rip-Rock Pasta Passions, 95 French Market Place. and Shot Down in Wednesday, 16 Dancing, dining, chic and eclat. Through Tues.1: John Gary. Wed.2 through Tues.15: Andy Gibb. 524-8106. Sunday afternoons, Rafael Cruz. Equador, Jr. Spyro Gyra, Grant Street Dance Hall, 113 W. Wed.16 through Tues. 29: Jerry Butler. From Preservation Hall, 726 St. Peter. 523-8939. Fri. 25 Radiators. Grant, Lafayette. (318-237-8513). Wed .30: the interesting duo of velvet-fog Mel Sun.: Harold Dejan and the Olympia Brass Band. Torme and George Shearing. Reservations. Mon. and Thurs: Kid Thomas Valentine. Tues Sat. 26 Wishbone Ash and Thursday, 17 Bert's Ramada Inn, 1732 Canal , 525-5525. Call and Fri.: Kid Sheik Colar. Wed. and Sat. : The The Knee Java recording a, live album at Tipitina's. tor April listings. Humphrey Brothers. Bonaparte's Retreat, 1007 Decatur, 561-9473. Royal Sonesta Hotel, 300 Bourbon, 586-0300. In Tremblers Saturday, 19 Fred McDowell daily 4-7 and 10:30-12:30 p.m. the Mystick Den, Tues.-Sat. : Bobby Lonero, 10 (formerly Foghat). Jefferson Chamber Orchestra and Jefferson Brew House, Jackson Brewery, Decatur St .• til. Wed. 30 Java ChHdren's Chorus in a program of works by Boc 525-9843. Call for April listings. Ryan's 500 Club, 441 Bourbon , 566-1507 . From cherini, Faure and Ernest Bloch; Metairie Ridge Cafe Brazil, Chartres at Frenchmen, 947-9386. 9, Sun.-Sat., the Celtic Folk Singers. May Presbyterian Church, 103 Codifer. (834-5727). Call tor this month· s diversion, musical and Seaport Cafe and Bar, Thurs.-Fri. , 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Thurs. 1 Exuma otherwise. and Saturdays from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m., Sally Sunday, 20 Cosimo's, 1201 Burgundy, 561-9018. Call for Townes. Sat.. 3-6 p.m. and Sun .. 4 to 7 p.m . Fri. 2 Asleep at the APril events. Sally Townes with Diane and Zelda. Organ Recital, 4 p.m., Christ Church Cathedral, Creole Queen, Poydras Street Wharf, 524-0814. 711 Club, 711 Bourbon, 525-8379. Tues.-Sat .. Wheel 2919 St. Charles. Nightly, with boarding at 7:30, Andrew Hall 's from 9:30, Randy Hebert. in the Showbar. Sat. 3 Killer Bees Society Jazz Band. · Wed.-Sun., 9 p.m.-2 a.m., AI Broussard in the Saturday, 26 Dream Palace, 534 Frenchmen, 943-6860. Call Main Bar. Sun. 4 The John Rankin Worldwide Concert with the Beach Boys, Madon the club for information. Snug Harbor, 626 Frenchmen, 949-0696. Band na, Princess Di and many other well-known acts Fairmont Court, in the Fairmont Hotel, 529-7111. Tues.1: Victor Goines . Wed.2 : Li'l Queenie and to be beamed all around the world where rock-n Mon.-Sat. , from 9, Ginny Chehardy. Amasa M111er. Thurs.3: Earl Turbinton and Willie 8200 Willow roll is all they play; originally your First Lady (not Famous Door, 339 Bourbon, 522-7626. Music Tee. Fri.4 : Edu and the Sounds of Brazil. Sat.5: mine, I didn't vote for her) was to appear but every day: Oliver and the Rockets from noon. Ellis Marsalis and Germaine Bazzle. Sun.6: Jorge 24 Hour Hotline: raised some sand about all the dope fiends on the Thomas Jefferson and His Creole Jazz Band from Mabarak and Tony Dagradi. Mon.7: Willie Met 861 -8200 program and how they had to be bumped but in 7 p.m. AMFM from midnight until almost light. calf. Chris Severins and Reginald Veal. Tues.S: stead got bumped herself as the promoters wise Fandango's. 601 Tchoupitoulas, 524-7907. Call the Tony Oagradi Trio. Wed.9: Electrolife with Jay ly realized that if they tested tor drug traces in the tor precise information on the Cruelest month. Griggs, Steve Masaskowski and Johnny Vidaco- 30 WAVELENGTWAPRIL 1986 us-· vic h. Thurs.1 0: the Rafael Cruz Quartet. Fri.1 1: Pontchartrain Hotel, 2031 St. Charles Ave., Red Tyler, James Black , George French and Phil 524-0581 . Piano bar in the Bayou Lounge nightly Parnell. Sat.12: Ellis Marsalis and Germaine Baz - from 5: Tom McDermott, Mondays-Fridays until 8, zle. Sun .13: Hector Gallardo, Jim Singleton and and Mondays-Wednesdays 9 to midnight. Carl Steve Masa,kowski. Mon.14: Jim Carter, Wes Franklin , Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 to midnight. Anderson and Reginald Veal. Tues.15: Radia Tipitina's, 501 Napoleon, 897-3943. See ad this tors. Wed.16: Spencer Bohren. Thurs.17: Jorge issue for calendar: Marbarak Quartet. Fri.18: Earl Turbinton 's Bitch's Brew. Sat.19: Ellis Marsalis and Ger Presenting the Evening Concert unc-up maine Bazzle. Sun.20: Patrice Fisher and Jorge ...,. LAK~FRONT APRIL 25-FRIDAY Marbarak. Mon .21 : Amasa Miller and Reggie 5aenger Theatre 9:00 p.m. Huston . Tues.22 : Red Tyler, Jim Singleton and Johnny Vidacovich . Wed . 23: Fran Comiskey, Nexus, 6200 Elysian Fields, 288-3440. Fridays: Miles Davis/Stanley Clarke Jimmy Robinson , Angelle Trosclair. Thurs.24 : Torkanowsky, Severn , Manuel Garcia and George French, 6:30p.m. to 2:30a.m. Saturdays: same Storyville Jazz Hall 8:00 p.m. David Torkanowsky, Steve Masakowski and The Original cast of "OneMo' Time"; Hew Orleans Blue Scrcneders; Tony Dagradi. Fri.25: Women band from 11 to 3 a.m. In Jazz. Sat.26: Sipple W•llece with the Jwna Dapogny Chlc.-go Jau Bend; Ellis Marsalis and Germaine Bazzle. Sun.27: The Privateers, 6207 Franklin Ave., 288-5550. Call for Pfister Sisters. Mon .28: Astral Project. Tues.29: April's lineup. Old nmc Juz Bend of Helsinki, Finland Caliente. Wed.30: Steve Masakowski and Mars. Stan's Hard Rock Cafe, 1928 West End Park, 288-0044. Call for April listings. APRIL 26-SATURDAY Storyvllle, 1100 Decatur, 525-8199 . Live jazz. Municipal Auditorium 8:00 p.m. David Lastie and Wanda Rouzan, Saturdays at WYlD AM & FM Presents midnight and Sundays at 2 p.m. Mimi Guste, ...,. METAIRIE Sundays at 6 p.m. Banu Gibson, Sundays at 9 Natalie Cole; And~ Crouch; B. B. King; p.m. Teddy Riley, Mondays, Thursdays and Southcm_Unlftrslty Marching ..nd Saturdays at 8 p .m. Chris Burke, Tuesdays, Copeland's Cafe, 701 Veterans Blvd. Sunday: the Wednesdays and Fr1days at 8 p.m. Specials: Jimmy Maxwell Trio, featuring Rene Netto and Bob Prout's Club Alhambra 12:00 Midnight Fri.11 : Jerry Jeff Walker at midnight. Fri.18: Ex Tassin, from noon to 3. The Ludcrs-Famoudou Don Mtayc, Chico Frccm~~n, Lester Bowie ••• uma at 11 p.m. Fri.25: the cast of OneMo' Time Docks, 3624 Florida Ave., Kenner, 468-9964. Hcmy Butler, Charlie tMdcn •nd Herman Jeckson; at 8 p.m. Sat.26 : Zachary Richard at 10 p.m. Country music nightly; Wednesdays: male strip ICidd Jordan's Eldttrlk ..nd Sun.27: Big Twist and the Mellow Fellows at 9 pers, for ladies only, 8 to 10. p.m. Tues. 29 and Wed .30: Musicians' Jam at Godfather Lounge, 3012 N. Arnoult. Call for April APRIL 29-TUESDAY midnight. dates. Theatre of Performing Arts 8:00 p.m. Tropical Isle, 738 Toulouse. 523-9492. Fridays Landmark Hotel, 2601 Severn Ave., 888-9500. AI diMcola; Steps Ahcad-MichHI Brecker, Peter Erskine, Saturdays, 10-2 a.m.: Peter Williams. Tuesdays through Thursdays at 9, and Fridays MlchHI Manlcrt and VIctor ..,Icy Windsor Court Grill Room, 300 Gravier. and Saturdays at 10, the Creole Gookin ' Jazz Tuesdays-Saturdays, 7:30-11 :30 : Joel Simpson Band . APRIL30-WEDNESDAY with Richard Payne. Theatre of Performing Arts 8:00 p.m. Winnie's, 2034 A.P. Tureaud . Sundays from 6 • MID-CITY Travel New Orleans, Inc. Presents until 10 p.m., Ernie K-Doe. the man who made Nina Simone; Olatunji & Drums of Pasion the stork stop at Charity. Capp's, 111 N. Carrollton, 484-6554. Tues.1: MAY 1 -THURSDAY Glass Eye. 'Other dates are tentative and Riverboat President 9:00p.m. • UPTOWN tenterhooks: Fri.11 : Wild Bush Beat. Fri.18: 209. "La Gran Hochc de Muslca"- Fri .25: Up Front. Jose Felldano/Miami Sound Machine Chinatown, 1717 Canal St., 525-7937. Fridays: Bayou Blue, 3625 Prytania, 897-6100. Com Vietnamese music from 9. Other nights: Vol nhung MAY 2 -FRIDAY poser/ pianist Tim Davis, Wednesday through chuong dac sac do cac nghe si thoi danh tu San Saturday 7 to 10 . Riverboat President 9:00 p .m. Francisco, Los Angeles, Houston ... ve trinh dien, "Louisiana Rock & Roll Gumbo"- Benny's Bar, 938 Valence, 895-9405 . Tues.11 : Voi cac loai thus pham kho dac sac. Co ban va cho Paula and the Pontiacs. Most Mondays: J. Mon muon bang nhac, video tape, cassette. Jerry Lee Lewis; Rockin' Sidney; The ,Radiators que'd. Most Wednesdays: JD and the Jammers. Dorothy's Medallion, 3232 Orleans Ave, Storyville Jazz Hall 8:00p.m. Most Thursdays: Blue Lunch. Schedule flexible , 482-9239. R&B. Sundays: Johnny Adams with The Copasctlcs, Masters of Tap featiJring Bunny Briggs; C.rrle Smith so you might look for Cyril Neville's Reggae All Walter Washington and the House Band, 11 p.m. Stars here as well . to 3 a.m. in a 'Mbuk to Bessie Smith; Ex Wascda Jazz ..nd of Tokyo, Jlipan Carrollton Station, 8140 Willow, 865-9190. Most Parkview Tavern, 910 N. Carrollton , 482-2680 . ly blues or blues-related . Sat. 5: Fran Comiskey, Prout's Club AIN!mbra 12:00 Midnight Fri.4: Li'l Queenie and the R&B Death Squad in a The David Murray Octet; Alvin Batlsk; The Hew Orleans Sax Quartet Angelle Trosclair and the ever-lovely Jimmy tribute to the late Liu Shao-Chi. Sat. 5: The Robinson . Sat.19: Rafael Cruz. Call for the Renegades. Fri.11 : Johnny J and the Hitmen . MAY 3-SATURDAY balance (of trade? of power?) . Sat.12: Dino Kruse. Fri. 18: Ray Bonneville Blues Municipal Auditorium 8:00 p .m. Glass House, 2519 South Saratoga, 895-9279 . Band . Fri.25 : Ninth Ward Millionaires. Mondays: The Chosen Few with Tuba Fats or The Neville Brothers; Burning Spear; perhaps the Dirty Dozen . Call for certain . Chief Commander Ebenezer Obey and his Inter-Reformers Ju-Ju Orchestra Jed's University Inn, 8301 Oak, 866-1051 . Fri.4: • N.O. EAST A Spcdal Group of Festival Friends High Rollers. Sat.5: Tea Bags (singing their smash 'So Long Oolong! '). Fri.11 : Gulf Stream Beau Geste, 7011 Read Blvd ., 242-9710. The Louisiana Hcttt.age Fair portion of the Jazz Festival takes place on the infield (from the Winslow Homer painting of the same Fri. -Sat. , 10-3, Rocking Jerry. of the Fair Grounds Race Track Friday through Sunday, April 2~27, and Saturday name- you loved it in the Metropolitan, think how The Club, 1701 St. Bernard, 947.. 9 334 _ Jazz and Sunday, Mlly 3 and 4. T'-e will be ten stages of simultaneous music it'll look on Oak Street!) Fri.18: 30x90. Sat.19: workshops every Sunday from 7 to 11 . performances, O¥er 90 d ifferent local rulinary delights, and crafts by hundreds Steve Stiletto and the_ Switchblade (but without Faces, 8833 West Judge Perez, Chalmette, of artisans. their girl backup group, the Shivs) . Sat.26: Gulf 279-3223. Call for music details for February. 11CICET IHFORMA110H Tickets for all Jazz Festival events may be purchased at Stream. Tuesdays: Resonance. Thursdays: Con all Ticketmaster outlets in the following cities: New Orleans, Hammond, Houma, tinental .Drifters. Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Biloxi, Gautier, Mobile, Pensacola, Ft. Walton. Jimmy's, 8200 Willow, 866-9549. Thurs.3: The • WEST BANK To order tickets by telephone and charge them to either MasterCard or Vtsa, Rayzen. Fri.4: Johnny J and the Hitmen. Sat.5: you may call 504/ 888-8181 in New Orleans, in Louisiana 800/228-3944 Bronco's, 1409 Romain, Gretna, 368-1000. Mon . Multiple Places . Fri.11 : The Petries. Sat.12 : The number for Mississippi, Alabama and Florida is 800/535-5151 . Guadlcanal Diary. Fri.18: WOOdenhead . Sat.19 : days, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays: Missis Dash-Rip-Rock and (a name to cherish, this one) sippi South . There is a per ticket convenience charge. Shot Down In Ecuador, Jr. Fri.25: Radiators (not Copeland's, 1700 Lapalco, 364-1575. Jazz Tickets may also be purchased by mail order directly from the Jazz Festival so true that Melvin Belli once headed a group called prunch Sundays from noon to 3. there is no per ticket cN!rge, only a per order Nlndling fee. the Radiatorts, says Ed Volker and you can believe 1801 Club, 1801 Stumpf Blvd., 367-9670 . Wed For o complete schedule of Jozz Festival events, with a ticket mail order form, him) . Sat.26 : ~shbone Ash and the Knee nesdays through Saturdays: Janet Lynn and Ya send o self-addressed, stllmped envelope to New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Tremblers (formerly Foghat). Wed .30: Java. Ya. Festival, P. 0 . Box 2530, New Orleans, LA 70176. Thurs. Mayday: Exuma. Fri. Mayday plus one: Fat Cats, 505 Gretna Blvd., 362-0598. Call for Asleep At The Wheel. February listings. Madigan's, 800 S. Carrollton , 866-9455. John Froggies, 403 West Bank Expressway, 367-0227 . Rankin on alternating Sundays but call first to The Dino Kruse Band every Thursday. Q make sure. TACO 'BELL ~·y Maple Leaf, 8316 Oak , 866-9359. Wed.2: 9th I JOE CONTE TO'tOTA I Ward Millionaires. Fri.4: Exuma. Sat.5: Java. RANDOM - MAlE ' - Wed .9: J Monque'd. Fri. 11 : Angela Straylie. = '111EAMERICANWAY = Sat.1 2: File Cajun Band . Wed .16: J Monque'd. DIVERSIONS . ·· · ~ Fri.18: Radiators . Sat.19: Leroi Brothers. ~·"'-!<'4 Mon.21: comedy-variety for which random, not Maple Leaf Poetry Readings ""6;aJI randy either, diversions. Wed .23: J Monque'd. Sundays at 3 p.m. Apr.6: Sam Maisel and Sam Fri.25: Java . Sat.26: Beausoleil. Tues.29: King North. Apr.13: Raeburn Miller, an autograph MCI • Cleary with J Monque'd. Wed.30: Rarliators. party. Apr.20: Bill Maddox and Don Brady. WE SOUND BETTER TO BUSINESS tbin P"P~ Nex111.Uptown, 1700 Louisiana Ave., 897-1717 . Apr.27: Austin poets. IF' Iiff1 §Lte? Call the club for April lineup. hl~ Penny Post, 5110 Danneel. Sundays: Always open Fair Grounds Race Track w -- mike. Check the board as you go in. 1751 Gentilly Blvd ., Clubhouse reservations APRI.. 1986tWAVELENGTH 31 the inimitable ••• Meters: Trick Bag ...... Test Pressing, A+ Sound Doctor John: Desitively Bonnaroo ...... Toussaint at the Board The Monkees: Headquarters ...... Television Darlings The Monkees: Pisces, Aquarius, Caoricorn & Jones Ltd ...... Ameriea's Fab Four. Yusef Lateef: This Is ...... Early Riverside Rarity Ramsey Lewis: Dancing in the Streets ...... Sorry Mick, Sorry David ••• the novel Electric Prunes: Mass in F Minor ...... Psyche me Amadeus Lemon Pipers/191 0 Fruitgum Co.: Checkmate ..... Battle of the Bubblegum Bands Styx 11 ...... , ...... American Art Rock Orson Welles: War of the Worlds ...... Panic in the Streets Pat Boone: I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman ...... Pat Flips Out the sublime • • • Lee Morgan: Search For a New Land ...... Mr. Sidewinder Blows Sonny Rollins: Worktime ...... '62 Workout w/Ray Bryant Charles Mingus: Blues & Roots ...... Atlantic Chestnut Kinks: Kinkdom ...... Early Invasion Delight Beach Boys: Surfin' USA ...... Catch the Wave J and ths Hltmsn, Fri.4 at Jimmy's with Mot()-X, Fri.11 at ths Parkvisw Tavsrn and Sun.27 at ths Jazz and Hsritags Festival. Gerry & the Pacemakers: Ferry Across the Mersey ..... More Fun Than the GNO ••• and thousands more treasures at incredibly low prices! 943-2200. Post time daily at 1, Wednesdays you think I'm going to make, forget it; a Scentsa through Sundays, save for Fridays at 3 p.m. tional Sniffing Challenge In the 800 block of Bourbon (often pretty aromatic or odorous any All through April how) at 1 p.m., and Can Can Dancers at Bourbon Poster Contest for the 7th Annual Louisiana and Bienville at 2 p.m. Sunday: more sniffing, Renaissance Festival, to be submitted to the Jef same time, same place, the Gospel Soul Children ferson Performing Arts Society, PO Box 704, at 2 at the Wildlife and Fisheries Building, and an Metairie LA 70004, and I was sitting around the all-Mozart program at St. Louis Cathedral at 3 other night with Correggio, and Rosso Fiorentino p.m. and a fireworks finale at 8:30 p.m. These and il Sodorna and Gentile and Giovanni Bellini, are only a few grains of sand on this particular over at Albrecht Durer's house, and they all beachhead, too. Call the French Market Corpora thought they had a few ideas about what it might lion at 522-2633. 3129 Gentilly Blvd. look like. Deadline is May 14; more information at 3627 S. Carrollton Saturday, 19 482-6431 282-3322 504-834-5727. Friends of Lafreniere Plrk •Membership Thrive Day,' 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on the Park's Pavilion Thursday, 3 Island; all who join get free hotdog and cold What Do Men Want? , 4 to 5 p.m., Women's drink, 32 oz. refillable souvenir cup, free boat Center Lounge, Tulane, 865-5238. Hey, if they ride and entertainment as well. Information at can answer that question In an hour, I'll be there 885-3421. like a duck on a junebug. Sunday, 20 Sunday, 6 6th Annual WalkAmeriCI Event for the March of Ice Cream Sunday, atthe Audubon Zoo; "visitors Dimes; a 20 K route, commencing at 8 a.m. at will be able to create and enjoy their ultimate ice City Park 's Old Driving Range. Register at all cream fantasy as they combine all their favorite 7-11 stores or the March of Dimes office; Infor ingredients" ... what's that? eye of newt and mation at 522-0765. tongue of bat? the thumb of a drowned sailor? Man those Uptown people! Monday, 21 Bum's Rush, a comedy-variety show at the Friday, 11-Sunday, 13 Maple Leaf on Oak Street, with Montie the Mime, 1986 French Quarter Festival, all over the damn RK Barklay, Mike Smith, Ronnie Rejeck, Ken place; 9 stages, among the highlights: Friday: a Ferguson (related to that other famous comedian, steamboat race between the Delta Queen and the Charles Ferguson of the TP-SI?), Peter Gabb. Natchez at 2:30 ending up at (hopefully not in) Jackson Square. Saturday: tug-of-wars at the Wildlife and Fisheries Building, from 9:30a.m., including the Police v. the Firemen, the Council VIDEO TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 9:30p.m. v. the Firemen (how'd that get in there? just kid NO-TV, Cox Cable Channel 06, Thursdays and SPECIAL GUEST ding ... ), radio v. TV, the chefs v. the maitre d's, Saturdays at 6:30; sponsored by Wavelength and and if you think I'm going to make the wisecrack following, despite the nebulosity required to ...... DASH RIP ROCK THE LORDS OF THE NEW CHURCH RIVERBEND WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 9:30p.m. SPECIAL GUEST A Jewel returns to Riverbend AMERICAN ·GIRLS Gem Stone Beads and Jewelry ...... Opening TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE DOOR THE NIGHT OF THE SHOW 7 40 Dante Street Soon PRODUCED BY 866-4433 WHITEOAK I N C 32 WAVELENGlWAPRIL 1986 -..r.... .---~----~~~~~z .. za-.a .. _._. preserve on·the·a1r spontaneity, the basic format Bayou Dinner Theatre, Bayou Plaza, 4040 Tulane of th1s very magaz10e . Ivan Bodley acts as the Avenue .• 244·1444. Through Sun. 6: Chapter 11. Elvira of the musical world; interviews. local a Neil Simon play about Startmg Over. From v1deos . etc. Fri.11 : Janus , a sophisticated comedy but the NOVAC, continuing programs and classes 10 author and details (other than that I seem to recall video prOduction and editing; informatiOn at Claudette Colbert was in 1t) escape me. 524·8626. Le Petit Theatre, 616 St. Peter Fri.4 through St. Bernard Report, with Mary Serpas and Bill Sun.13: Tintypes, a celebration in song and . Estives, Channel T·33, Group W: interv1ews w1th nostalgia of the allegedly less innocent America of local and national acts, 6 p.m. Monday-Friday. 1890·1917 (when our innocence supposedly WYES, Channel 12. PBS . Wed.2: Placido Dom ended when we started sendmg the doughboys ingo sings Zarzuela, which is the Spanish over the top), which idea-a more innocent equivalent of Gilbert and Sullivan, 7 p.m. America-is just plain muleshlt: we were in· Thurs.3: Nothing Sacred, the 1937 Ben Hecht· terfering in Nicaragua (though with probably a bit William Wellman black comedy about the stupidl· more public support than tOday). there was the ty of the American public-as timely as tOday's ghastly spectacle of our "splendid little war" headlines. as they used to say-w1th Carole Lom· with Spain which resulted 10 wholesale genocide bard as the girl who becomes a national heroine by Our Troops in the Philippines (which raised a through a mistaken diagnosis, Frednc March as cry of pessimistic despair from Mark Twain), the reporter who loves her and socks her; Charles there was a hideous disparity-polarity in the Winninger, the sublime Walter Connolly, S1g distribution of wealth as can be seen from a Aumann, Hattie McDaniel. Margaret Hamilton. 11 casual perusal of the fiction of the period whether p,m , sat.5: Happy End, the 1928 Brecht-Weill Edith Wharton or Dreiser. there were continuing musical, a disastrous flop in its day, has a better labOr problems in the wake of the Haymarket score than Dre1goschenoper and is about the Riots of 1886, and in 1892 Henry Clay Frick stop· salvation Army and gangsters (and makes the ped labor w1th a bit of brutality during the famous similar Guys and Dolls look anemic by compari· Homestead Strike. anarchists and socialists ran son). 1 p.m. Tales of Beatrix Potter, the riot as did the Ku Klux Klan which began organiz· children's books brought to rapturous life 10 th1s ing nationally m 1915-a more innocent age? undeservedly neglected 1971 film with the Royal Well, they did write some great old songs, I Ballet: they're all here-Apply Dapply, the little guess. brown moose, Peter Rabbit, Mr. Jeremy Fisher Loyola, M1rquette Theltre. 865·3824. Wed.23 and Frederick Ashton camping it up as Mrs. through Sat.26: Arthur Miller's All My Sons, Tiggy·Winkle, 3 p.m. Austin City Limits Song which is Emmylou Harris. Rosanne Society, with instead of the rotten-hulled coffin cash, Lacy J. Dalton, Gail Davies and others, 7 ships of Councillor Bernick, we have instead the p.m. Mon.21 (and thereafter for three more defective cylinder-mounts or something on the nights): Brides/lead Revisited, the much-lauded fighter-bombers manufactured by Joe Keller; the adaptation of the peculiarly hateful 1945 Evelyn rest of it is equally modernized after a fashion, if Waugh novel which is, as a friend of mine not improved. Performances at 7 p.m. remarked, like watching a very long evening of Rose Dinner Theltrl, 201 Robert Street, Gretna, male impersonation. 11 p.m. Tues.22: UnmasA· 367·5400. Gall for April performances. mg New Orleans with S. Frederick Starr who Theltrl Martgny, 616 Frenchmen, 944·2653. discusses his book of fewltetons abOut the city. 9 Thurs.3 through Sat.26: Sam Shepard's True p.m. Wed.23: Live from the Met: Le Nozze di West. Performances at 8:30 Thursdays through Figaro, the Mozart opera with the same plot as saturdays. the Beaumarchais play; Napoleon remarked of the TDUioun Theltrl, 615 Toulouse, 888·8181 or play that he could hear, behind the jokes and 866-7974 . Wednesdays through Sundays: poetry, the tumbrils of the Revolution carrying the Vernel Bagneris' Stagger Lee, with music by privileged classes to their doom. 7 p.m. sat.26: Allen Toussaint; there are two performances on The Cradle Will Rock, a rare chance to see Marc Friday and saturday evenings. Reservations Blitz stein· s left wing populist opera set during a available. strike and showing, musically, the dynamics of decadent capitalism and struggling labOr; with Patti LuPone and directed by John Houseman, 1 p.m. Sun.27: Elektra, the 1909 Strauss-Von Hoi· CINEMA revenge, conducted by mansthal classic of Atrean Hotel lntercontlnentll, 444 St. Charles Ave. The the late, great Karl Bohm, with the sublime Leonie for Cinema Studies • national conference and Astrid Varnay. Society Rysanek in the title role convenes here April 3 through 6 and covers Dietrich Fischer·Dieskau, 1 p.m. Mon.28: and the from Jerry Lewis to sexuality in gay for domesticated everything Elephant Games, a rOdeo films through 50 different panels; information you thought elephants in northeast Thailand-and from Andrew Horton 286·7097. The American In· Philip Glass on it!. Wide World of Sports had some wild stuff Feature Filmmaking panel will be open (and for the next dependent 9:30p.m. Bndeshead Revisited, to the public, Thurs.3 from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m. three nights follow10g), in Its concluding Pitre, David Rosen and Robert Ensemble Live from Lincoln The panel-Glen episOdes. 11 p.m. Tues.29: Young-will address trends and problems of in· Center: lubin Mehta and the New York Phllhar Philip Glass filmmakers committed to regional which also includes dependent Jon Gibson momc. in a gala performance cinema. Information on this particular panel from such luminaries as Montserrat Caballe, Isaac Martin Go/dray Gregoric at 523·1216 or 566·0233. ltzhak Perlman, 7 p.m. Linda Stern, Allred Brendel and Loyola Film Buffs Institute, 895·3196. Wed.2: Jack Kriple Rashomon, Kurosawa's unfortunately-not-end· Kurt Munkacsi lessly·fascinatlng tale of the rape in the woOds; Dora Orenstein THEATRE Toshiro Mifune shows a goOd deal of tigerish Richard Peck Michael Riesman ·s:;;'·r~,~---~~--~-~·f· ·~~-.,",~.. APRIL Saturday, AprilS, 1986 ~ ·· \~1, llJl :., ·I,JIQ\ •·· 9J~ Wed. 2 Ninth Ward Millionaires Free Lecture, 2 p.m. -~ , 00\ .Ub cJ . .·-o>· _ / : Wili~i Fri. 4 Exuma, The Obeah Man Communications/Music Building ~~ £.,;:;. l--- · ·"-JJ( ·-·i Sat. 5 Java Courtyard ... ~~:~ w · '"1-.P- Wed . 9 J. Monque'd Blues Band Concert, 7 p.m. Louis J. Roussel Vf Fri. 11 Angela Straylie Performance Hall 8316 Oak Street Sat. 12 File Cajun Band $15. Information 865-2n3 866-9359 Wed. 16 J . Monque'd Blues Band Fri. 18 Radiators REGULAR FEATURES Sat. 19 Leroi Brothers Mon. 21 Comedy. Variety Show Tuesdays, Jon "King" Wed. 23 J. Monque'd Blues Band Cleary Fri. 25 Java Thursdays, Laissez-Faire Sat. 26 Beausoleil Sundays, TBA Tues. 28 King Cleary w/ J. Monque'd Blues Band Tickets on sale at all Ticketmaster outlets. Wed. 30 Radiators Student tickets available at Tulane University Center. APRIL 198&WAVELENGTH 33 charm as the bandit-rapist and Machiko Kyo is off hiS-baCk; with Diana Scarwid, Mickey Rourke, lovely as always as the brutalized damsel-but Dennis Hopper and, watch out!, Queen Ida and this 1950 is not as great as its reputation. her band in a cameo. Films are at 7 and 9 (usual Tues.8: Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari, the ly) in Bobet Hall on the Loyola Campus. Admis 1919 film justly seen as the prototypical Expres sion is either by season subscription or $1 .50 at sionist horror film, with its painted sets and the door. heavily madeup actors and its story of a somnam Prytania, 5339 Prytania, 895-4513. Through the bulist under a madman's command; if you don't end of AP.ril: Ran, Akira Kurosawa's hieratic ver get creeps of some sort when the Doctor at the sion of King Lear, much praised for its scope and !unfair answers the young man's jocular query as design, for the battle scenes and for lhe to how long he will live wilh the two words "Until lransposition of the plot into Japanese terms; a Dawn" or when Cesare in his black tights c;arries transvestite :Japanese pop star plays one of the the heroine over roofs and down insanely twisting roles. We're in a decided minority in thinking that JAZZ FEST SHUTTLE alleys and lanes, then I don't want to know you King Lear is an insufferable play about insuf and that's that. Directed by Robert Wiene. script ferable people, so maybe Kurosawa has made it a by Carl Mayer; with such fixtures of the period as bit more interesting. Okay, bring in the hate mail Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt as Cesare, Lil from the English professors. Dagover (who continued acting into her eighties), Frederick Feher (who later directed the mightily peculiar The Robber's Symphony in Britain). Grayline sightseeing Wed.9: Se Permuta, a Cuban comedy made in ART 1984 by Juan Carlos Tabio described as being A Gallery for Fine Photography, 5432 Magazine, ·will take you to the about " the machinations of a middle-aged matron 891-1002. Through the end of April: French who spends her time trying to upgrade her hous photographers. no doubt including such classics heart and soul ing accommodations." Tues.15: Le Bonheur, as Lartigue, Cartier-Bresson, Doisneau, Brassai, of New Orleans one of the worst duds of the New Wave, this 1965 etc. stinker by Agnes Varda is about a postman, his Academy Gallery, 5256 Magazine, 899-8111 . wife and kid and his adulterous romance which Through Wed .16: oils and sculptures by Dell Shuttle service from ends in a suicide (but not his) ; at one point, we Weller and Robert Giordano. see and hear a TV ~laying Renoir's Dejeuner sur Arthur Roger Gallery, 3005 Magazine, 895-5287 . the Louisiana I'herbe and one of its characters says that " Hap Through Thurs.17: paintings by Dan Rezzie. piness may be submitting to the natural order," Bienville Gallery, 1800 Hastings Place, Superdome presumably the point here. but nature is brazen 525-5889. From Sat.5: paintings by Gwen Roulet and grotesque in the most mannered Post and Simon Gunning. (LaSalle Street side) Impressionist style and the impunity of the pro C.A.C. , 900 Camp. Through Sun .27: State of the ceedings arouses a puritanical distaste; with Arts: Texas and Dream-Makers. an exhibit of art to the Fairgroun hairy little Jean-Claude Drouot as the busy letter by Orleans Parish schoolchildren. carrier. Tues.29: RumbJe ·Fish, this unintentional Carol Robinson Gallery, 4537 Magazine, ly hilarious, bizarrely arty (black and white-shot 895-6130. Through Thurs.17: Life Imprints, in a manner combining Caravaggio and the old sculptures by Juanita Moody. Also from the Tobis-Kiangfilm of the German 20's) 1984 Matt Delgado Communlty College Art Gallery, 615 City Dillon vehicle was directed in folie-de-grandeur Park Avenue, 483-4116. Student shows; through International manner by Francis Ford Coppola from one of Thurs.3: Interior Design. Thurs.1 0 through those S.E. Hinton novels that, as John Simon Thurs.24 : Photography. Hotel. said of the Zeflirelli Romeo. appeals "to Duplantiar Gallery, 818 Baronne, 524-1071. pederasts and young girls." 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Dates of service are: ..Dr John runs through blues. boogte WOOfJ18, New Orleans rhythm & blues. gospel and pop. mcludmg h1s own compo&ttons. Ap.ril 26 and 27, anecdotes. snatches of smgmg and playmg. and acute ooserva· t1ons about cructal develop· ments ot style ~ May 3 and 4, 1986 - Muslc•Sound Output ..A serious, though easy-gomg. mstruct1onal package on the New Orleans solo piano blues style by one of 1ts acknowledged masters. One feels l1stemng to these tapes that Dr. John really Cares that the listener Activity planning for gets the whole story and gets tl oght" conventions big or small -Downbeat BONUS Th•s.package also con· call (504) 581-7222 tams a casselte o' Or John's cr•t•cally accla•med solo album. Dr. John Plays Mac Rebenneck! 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Through Wed .16: work by Earl Staley. trans outerwear and wraps from the Presby1ere •s planted-to-Texas Englishman Derek Boshier, Ron costume collection ; paintmgs and photos, decor Hoover. Patrick Cronm. ative arts and furniture and a generous amount of Historic New Orluns Collection, 533 Royal, Newcomb pottery and Woodward work. At the 523-4662. Through April: items from the collec Mint: Mardi Gras m New Orleans and New tion of General and Mrs. Williams. the founders of Orleans Jazz. two large and self-explanatory ex the HNOC. mcluding maps and manuscripts, hibits. theatre and opera programs. sheet music. paint Marlo VUia Glllery, 3908 Magazine. 895-8731 . ings and drawings and items relative to the career Through April : sculpture by Robert Weeks. of Louis Moreau Gottschalk. New Orleans Museum of Art, C1ty Park, Le Mleux Glllerles, 508 Pelican Ave.. Alg1ers 488-2631 . Through the month. the continuation Pernt, 361-1735 . Through the month of April: Cat of the Diamond Jubilee: Part I, The Volunteer Icons by Steven C. Wood Directors, 1910-1948. From Sun .6: Dream Leullll111 Stl1l Museum, on Jackson Square and Makers, art by local elerrentary school children. elsewhere. FacJng the Elements with Elegance: 0b}8Cts of Adronment.· 5,000 Years of Jewelry Jim Russell Records ETIREMENT SAL 50°/0oFF ALL OPEN ALBUMS, CASSETTES & 8 TRACKS ALL OLDIE "45" & "78's" 30°/o OFF SEALED OLD CASSETTES AND LP 's ALL NEW OLDIES "45's" ALL ACCESSORIES 25°/o OFF ALL USED COMPONENTS BUY EARLY AND GET FIRST PICK! 10 AM TIL 7 PM - MON-SAT 1 PM TIL 5 PM -SUNDAY Mastercharge, Visa, Checks, Travelers Checks, Money - Accepted NO LAYAWAYS UANTITY BUYERS WELCOME- SPECIAL PRICES CALL 522-2602 1837 MAGAZINE ST. NEW ORLEANS 70130 APRIL 198&WAVELENGTH 35 \. ; from the Walters Art Gallery, Balttmore. an exhibit of over seven hundred 1tems covering a span of six thousand years. 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He followed his big Eu Guatemala City for a few concerts ropean tour last summer with his first merging Ensamble Acustico of tour of California in over twenty years Guatemala and Jasmine of New last August with the late Rick Nelson. Orleans. (By the way, avoid the Fats Domino Also globe-trotting has been Live! videotape advertised on TV. If Spencer Bohren (thanks for all the you can catch the Fats/Rick Nelson neat postcards, Spencer. We save the TV show you can see the exact same stamps). "Mr. Utah Moon" took a (great) fifteen minutes of Fats, Dave detour on his East Coast tour to come Bartholomew, Herb Hardesty, et home to family and Bill Pitre's birth al. for $24 less. day party at the Bon Temps Roule in December 12, as we all know , was late March, then on to Florida. proclaimed by the Mayor and the City Java wtll be recording a live album Council as " Fats Domino Day" in at Tipitina' s April 17. Everybody's New Orleans. On January 23 in New invited to supply background hoo York, Billy Joel, the Rich Little of pla ... Jimmy Ballero, former rock 'n' roll, admitted he started his guitarist with the Neville Brothers, impressions with one of Fats' "Ain't Irma Thomas, Wayne Cochran and It a Shame" as he inducted Fats into the C.C. Riders, just to mention a the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. In Gosh A' Mighty," (sounds like Scheduled air time is Mondays from few, has his own band now, the Re February and March Fats played a GGMM!) so you can boogie to it with 10:30- II :00 p.m. So far the response negade Band. Check 'em out. .. week in Atlanta and three more weeks out fearing damnation of your im has been marginal, but that's before Congratulations to Ed White of in Europe. He's been getting rave re mortal soul at the same time. (We we all let you know about it ... White Oak Productions on the birth of views everywhere. To quote Fats' last heard Richard was coming out of the Also, Important Records, 432 his son. album, the Jazz Fest people were studio in a huff over being given secu Moreland Ave. N.E., Atlanta, Geor The Radiators, back from an ex "sleeping on the job." Fats, come lar songs when he wrecked his car last gia, is looking for submissions of re tended East Coast tour, will play a home and play for us! October.) Richard 111ay not like it, gional bands. Send cassettes or vinyl. rare acoustic set at Snug Harbor April Who's that howling in the last five totally, but you know he likes it a lot. Rumor (and what else is there to 15. Not to be missed. minutes of Down and Out in Beverly Especially, now that his tongue's life?) has it that the Grateful Dead For the third year in a row Music Hills? "Good Golly Miss Molly!" sewn back in (literally!), he can take will be at the Saenger Theatre in Sep City was selected by the National Little Richard Is back, with a movie, over all the talk shows again. tember. For information, don't call us Association of Cable Programming a video, and a new record "picked to Wanna get on the radio? WTIX cause we just tol' ya all we know. Try and the National Cable TV Associa click'' by Billboard. Thankfully, Dan radio, 690 AM , is accepting new re the Saenger. tion as the best music series from Hartman, Richard's co-producer leases (within the last six months) As part of a Cultural exchange pro American Cable. Also, to be an (with Bi!!r_Preston), edited much_of from local recording artists. Must be gram set up by the Louisiana Jazz nounced April 2 - Music City is one Richard's "message" out of "Great pressed on discs, available for sale. network, Patrice Fisher, Mark of the finalists for a Peabody award. 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