AI the 8u1krate news us Postage that's fH paid permit topHch "0.2.. 19 C PITCtI KCMO January 1987 Kansas City's free music and entertainment newspaper Issue 73 Anthony Davis and the power of music compositions of Varese, is drawn from a diverse by Art Mayo and rewarding well. Universally acknowledged My father always taught me to value tradi­ as one of America's best new composers, Davis tion, to value the richness of our heritage as seeks to create music that is at the same time black Americans. I was taught that the Afro­ a complex struggle with fresh issues and a solid American tradition placed no limitation on what tribute to the music that has gone before. was possible in art. The tradition was a means Born in 1951 in Patterson, New Jersey, Mr. to open doors to travel with Ellington to Nip­ Davis was an avid student of jazz and classical pon, with Sun Ra to Saturn, on a wobbly rail styles, combining an interest in both the im­ with Cecil Taylor or even to Canada with provisational and compositional aspects of Ishmael Reed. My father would have little music. After studying piano, theory and com­ tolerance for those who let some clouded no­ position at Yale and Wesleyan UniverSity, Davis tion of blackness interfere with the expansion began an extensive performing and touring of our tradition. career with the ensembles of Leo Smith, Leroy - Anthony Davis Jenkins and Anthony Braxton, three of the leaders in contemporary jazz. From 1981-82, From its formative years in the brothels of he taught piano and Afro-American studies at New Orleans to its refinement and innovation Yale. by Charlie Parker and all that followed, jazz has In the years since, Davis's accomplishments been America's premier art form. Jazz has also include performances with the San Francisco remained one of the greatest contributions by Symphony, the New York Philharmonic and the black America to the world's culture. The Next Wave Festival at the Brooklyn Academy heritage of this and other musical forms will be of Music. He has been commissioned by the celebrated at the Tenth Annual Festival of Music Brooklyn Philharmonic, the Houston Sym­ Anthony Davis and EplSteme perform Jan., 30 at UMKC's White RecitaJ HaJJ. of and About Black People, Jan. 25-30 at phony, Minneapolis's Walker Arts Center and UMKC. This year's festival promises to be the the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Davis has In addition to these successes and numerous positions that might be more at home in the jazz biggest and best yet, featuring musicians, been the recipient of grants from the NEA, the recording recording and performing projects, section. Having recorded 12 albums with per­ dancers, fihns, lecturers and Anthony ~vis with Massachusetts Council of the Arts and the Na­ Davis wrote ~X (The life and TImes of Malcolm formers that include Andul Wadud, James his ensemble Eplsteme. tional Institute for Music Theater and his piece X)," a three-act opera whkh had Its world Newton and George Lewis, Davis is also well The music of Anthony DaViS, which owes as ~Wayang No.5; a plano concerto, has been premiere in October with the New York City versed at more imprOVisationally-based music. much to the jazz of Ellington as it does to the nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Opera. When not performing solo, the usual outlet for "X" gives a hard, unflinching look at the Davis in this mode is his ensemble Episteme. realities of black life in America as experienced Derived from the Greek word for knowledge, an ensemble of faculty and professional by Malcohn X. The music of "X.~ whlkdefinleiy the name Episteme W an apt tag for Daviss. ijlY~ciaQ~,Will~JQrelb&~",,~':t:~:~ffl; ropte~ In the rn~ep1"tfadltl~n,.'d~,exactly group. The ~ are equally adept atstruc­ black mi.m¢. 'featUring It '~atan O~~cw4sU~cie~ lfs a· tural improvisation and exploration. concert starts at 1:30 at White Recital Hall. source of dramatic energy and it propells the The role of Episteme In Davis's musical pro­ The Conservatory of Music at UMKC TIckets are $4 and $2. Call 216-2100 for story line. Davis's score mirrors the social, gression is to provide an alternative to what he celebrates the tenth annual Festival of Music more information. political and spiritual growth of Malcolm X calls the cliche of free playing and to question of and About Black People, Jan. 25-30. Also at White, the Kansas City Jazz Alms without getting bogged down in sentiment and the roles of function and composition in what Combining the talents of musicians, dancers, Collection will spotlight both musicians and herOism. has been predominantly Improvised music. You dramatists and lecturers, along with concerts dancers from the '305, '4Os and '50s. This "X" is the first major opera by a black com- can call it third stream, classical or jazz, but and films, the 1981 festival promises to be free, event begins at 1:30, Wednesday the poser. It's fitting that Anthony Davis, a musician categorization aside, Anthony Davis always the best yet. 28th. with such a grasp of classical and jazz Idioms, strives to speak his own musical language. Opening the festivities is the' traditional The festivals highlight will be the two-day should be the composer to puR it off. The crea- Community Choral Fest, a free gospel residency of Anthony Davis and his ensem- tIon of "X" was a family affair. with Davis's cousin Anthony Davis/Episteme celebration. Led by Robert Taylor, the festival ble, Episteme, Jan. 29-30. Pianist/composer Thulani Davis, a writer, contributing the Ilbret- Grarnavision 8101, $9.98 list will be held at the Bethel A.M.E. Church, Davis and his septet will give a free to and Anthony's younger brother Christopher, "I've Known Rivers" 24th and Flora, Sunday the 25th at 3 p.m. demonstration/lecture at Rockhurst's Mabee a writer and actor, actually coming up with the Gramavision 8201, $9.98 list White Recital Hall will be the site of the Theater, Thursday the 29th at 11 a.m. Their idea and helping with the writing. Thulani "Hemispheres· free UMKC Showcase on Monday the 26th. main concert will be presented at 1:30 p.m. created the opera's words from a poetic form Gramavision 8303, $9.98 list featuring entertainers from the university at White Recital Hall on the 30th. Tickets are of speaking that wasn't confined to Malcolm's ~Middle Passage" and the community, the showcase is free $10 or $8 for students and senior adults. Call speeches. The resuh is what she calls a ~tory Gramavision 8401, $9.98 list and starts at 1:30 p.m. 216-2100 or 926-4121 for ticket without walls~ The resulting work has been hail­ ~Of Blues and Dreams" On Tuesday the 21th, the UMKC Jazztett, information. ed as one of the 'operatic triumphs of the Sackville 3020, $8.98 list season. ~ariations in Dream-Time" ...... Davis's other projects include musical com- India Navigation 1056, $8.98 list January is COMPACT DISC MONTH

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It's time for a look back over the releases that I ~ust admit that I have been an ardent fan Elvis Costello reclaimed his real name, other fine releases which deserve your con­ came our way in 1986, a year distinguished not of Van Morrison for close to 20 years now. Declan McManus, for his first release of the year, sideration. If country (in the real, not the so much by new material as by extensive and That acknowledged prejudice notwithstanding, "King of America." But he returned to his old Nashville sense) appeals to you, then Steve generally outstanding repackaging of classic I still believe "No Guru, No Method, No persona and band, the wonderful Attractions, Earle's "Guitar Town" and T Bone Burnet's also older recordings. Actually, the year opened Teacher" (Mercury 830 0771 $8.98 list) easily seH titled albums are musts. I enjoyed Fine pretty strong and then petered out without any qualifies among the best of '86. Morrison's devo­ Young Cannibals, Cyndi Lauper's "True real blockbusters along the way. tion to his muse is intense. His work is imbued Colours," The Pertenders' "Get Close," David From my vantage point, there isn't one in­ with the qualities of transcendence and magic, &: David's "Boomtown," Tlmbuk 3, Robert dividual or company in the current record biz but it Is deeply rooted in the blues/soul music Cray's "Strong Persuader" and side two of that has any clear idea of where the public's taste of Ray Charles, his followers and predecessors. Dylan's "Knocked Out Loaded." is headed or which way they want to lead it. Morrison Is one of those rare artists whose every It's getting harder for new acts to get exposure utterance is an expression of pure' musicality. and while a few, like the Rave Ups and Bo­ "No Guru, No Method, No Teacher" captures CD corner Deans, did produce some quality LPs, the vast all of these aspects of Morrisons art and includes The proliferation of CD titles during '86 was majority of memorable recordings were the one of his best ever rockers, "Ivory Tower:' enough to put a strain on the most liberal music work of established artists. The follOwing is this I resisted including Bruce Springsteen's allowance. And on the whole, the quality of the reviewer's choice for the ten best of an above "Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band Live/ discs that I heard was an improvement over the average but not extraordinary year. 1975-85" {DBS 40558,$32.98 list) because of same material on record. Of the top ten listed Paul Simon's excursion Into South African the inferred obligation to do so. I have a cer­ above, only the Peter Case and Phil Alvin pop sounds, "Graceland" (WB 25447, $9:98 tain love/hate feeling about this concert in a releases were not available as CDs. The other list), was easily the best record of 1986. Simon's box. Arena glitz aside, beneath Springsteen's eight all sound appreciably better in disc form ecclecticlsm, strong sense of craft and poetic '80s superstar exterior beats the heart of one for his contribution to the year's top ten. The and the Paul Simon and Bruce Springsteen lyricism add up to a memorable and highly of history's great rock and rollers, both mUSically jagged, jarring, vital music 'of "Blood and CDs are among the best sounding recordings listenable release. His roots are more tin pay and philosophically. Because of the energy and Chocolate" (CBS 40518, $8.98 list) reaffirms fve been privilidged to hear. alley than rock and roll, but his stance draws community experienced at a Springsteen con­ Costello as punk's one enduring genius. As previously noted in this column, one of strongly on the outlaw tradition that has fueled cert, if it only ran three and a haH hours (the Costello is a man possessed of both poetic ver­ the many virtues of compact discs has been their the best of the last 30 years of popular music. playing time of this album) the audience would bal skills and marvelous vocal ability who con­ occasioning a number of reissues of classic By drawing upon the real source of so much feel grossly deprived. Reduced to recorded Sistently works. closer to his core truth than material. In many instances these remastered of America's best music and particularly upon reminiscence, I doubt that even the totally almost any other artist I can think of. For that oldies are made to sound brand new through the black music of the African nation that would devoted will listen from beginning to end more matter, "King of America" wasn't haH bad either. the technical wizardry available to the creative propagate yesterday's evils into today;s than once. Yet, this sonically superlative recor­ As is almost always the case, the toughest digital engineer. Outstanding among last year's enlightened world, Simon has closed the circle ding delivers more than a fair share of earth­ decision in any top ten listing is the last selec­ reissues were Buddy Holly's "From the and created a potent musical and political state~ shaking doses of a great bar band delivering tion. My vote this year goes to the Pogues's Original Master Tapes," the Abkco (original lon­ ment without obviously storming any joyous rock and roll to the adoring masses. It "Rum, Sodomy & the Lash" (MCA 5744, $8.98 don) Rolling Stones's first 15 albums and barricades. also frequently captures the bone marrow list). And I must admit that its title (best of the Original Sound Entertainment's Oldies But In terms of both popular and critial accep­ honesty that is at the core of Bruce's charisma. year) probably played some part In that deci­ Goodies Series, particularly Vol. 6. tance, Prince's second cinematic excursion, All in all, it's one hell of a musical postcard. sion. It's true that Ireland has recently produced -Bill Shapiro "Under the Cherry Moon," fell miles snort of the Peter Case delivered the outstanding debut s~me of the best:.of current roc~.music, notably ,success and pro'mise of 'r9S4'~ ~f,u~l~ lain:' recorcijngof the" year, although he had been U2. But the Pogues are something else again­ ,But the soundtrack recording, "l'ara'de" (WB heard 'previously as one of the founding the wild rebellious spirit at the heart of rock and Leroi® is taking January off to gather his 25395, $9.98 list), easily reaffirmed the fact that members of the LA-based Nerves as well as the roll, cloaked in the traditional music which has senses after a hectic Christmas season he is the most creative and innovative artist Plimsouls. According to the press info, Case is echoed from that sad country's pubs for genera­ and catch up on college basketball scores. making pop music today. Building upon the a street minstral from lotus land whose blue col­ tions. This album is a powerhouse recording After his much-deserved rest, he'll return cornerstones laid by Jimi, James and Sly, Prince lar wonderings have shaped his elipitcallyrical and it includes what may be the rnostcompel- for the Feb. issue with more words of throws away mor~ unique musical ideas than stance. Whatever the source, there is a anti-war fve ev~( heard, "And the musical wisdom. most artists possess in a career. While the specialness to this T Bone Burnett-produced' Matilda:' In I J II U ""."haveiloeked~JOParade" album that sustains. the way they did to some of his earlier suc­ cesses, you can be sure that other musicians paid attention. And its sound will be echoed by them for many years to come. 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Expanding their horl2x>ns a bit, Robin Guthrie, But the next two tracks are fairly lengthy in­ alone might have provided. Ing in her recounting of the tale, as Fripp con­ Elizabeth Fraser and Simon Raymonde of the strumentals, which indicate Budd at the helm~ As its echoing saxophone fades out, a new tributes his distinctive Frlppertronics, which ebb Cocteau Twins have joined forces with musi­ "Memory Gongs· has an undulating back­ tune, "The Ghost Has No Home" begins, subliminally in and out as the story progresses. cian composer Harold Budd for a new LP, ground, over which appear some atonal, dishar­ building an avant jazz mood, thanks to the sax Side two comprises "The Discourager of "The Moon and the Melodies" (UK 4 AD CAD monic piano chords mingled with assorted arrangement and bass line, but it remains­ Hesitancy," another of Stockton's stories and a 611, $9.98 list). At first glance, the album ap­ discordant synth noises. A subtle shift occurs generally subdued and orthodox. However, the continuation of the previous work. Toyah l'lgain pears to be comprised of two dissimilar musical in "Why Do You Love Me?" The song has more ultimate melding of the two compositional styles dazzles with her presentation, but this time the styles. Certainly, there is the obvious imprimatur melody, modulation and swells than its and influences congregates on the final track, music Is supplied by Fripp and his students, Le. of the Cocteau Twins, but there are also Budd's predecessor, and the romantic elements of "Ooze Out and Away, Onehow." The initial the League of Crafty Guitarists. The music is multidimensional, ambient pieces, similar to his Guthrie's playing furtively peek thorugh Budd's quiet, unwavering melody, lightly peppered with restrained and lovely, possessing classical in­ collaborations with Brian Eno. Rather than bat­ atmospheric swooshes. Fraser's vocals, erupts as bombastic, thumping fluences. In fact, it succeeds better than the elec­ tling each other for domination, the two styles Granted, -Elizabeth Fraser will occupy center drums and Fraser's impassioned singing com­ tronics in conveying the tone of the story. Fripp ultimately complement one l'lnother. stl'lge on any song she ~blesses with her incredi­ mandeer the song to the end. Overall, the mar­ and Toyah have done a remarkable job merg­ Opening the album, "Sea Swallow Me" is ble vocals. Still, Budd manages to color "Eyes riage between Harold Budd and the Cocteau ing literature and music. quintessential Cocteau Twins in structure and Are Mosaics" with his unusual, fragmentary Twins is successful and their offspring, "The The latest single from Kate Busb, "Experi­ content. Guthrie's guitar and Fraser's vocals are piano. Similarly, Budd gives "She Will Destroy Moon and the Melodies; is an absolute delight. ment IV" (UK EMI12KB5, $5.98 list), is the sovereign, making Budd's contribution invisible. You· a harsher bite than Guthrie and Ramonde Robert Fripp has released a pair of com­ one new selection from her compilation LP, panion albums. The first, "Robert Fripp and the Lel'lgue of Crafty Guitarists: Live!" (Editions EG EGED 43, $8.98 list), is a selection of guitar pieces performed by Fripp and the students he has tutored at Claymont Seminars in West Virginia. On a related tangent, Fripp has enlisted Toyah Willcox's assistance on "The Lady or the Tiger?" (Editions EG EGED 44, $8.98 list). Based on the classic short story by Frank R. Stockton (in whose mansion Claymont Seminars conducts Its·classes), the album is not a dramatization, but a recitation of the story by Toyah, accompanied by Fripp's music. Side one is "The Lady or the Tiger?" and it is a riveting rendition. Toyah is suitably hyponotic and allur-

"The Whole Story." ExplOring a theme she has wrestled with recently, Bush recounts a tale of idE1al~m being ground down by the jackboot forces qf an evil government: The tuneis quite arresting, with its doleful violin and bottom heavy beat, and it presents a somber approach rarely seen in her work. On the B side is a version of "Wuthering Heights" with the vocal fe-recorded, making the song different, not necessarily tinproved, and

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Gerald Trimble is an example of what a lot musicians equally renowned in their own of musiciMs Me attempting to accomplish to­ musical traditions. John Cunningham is one of day: to redefine the boundaries of their own the most recognizable names in Scottish fiddle musical tradition. In the Celtic and British Isles playing Md has found new freedom in the sub­ musical heritage, this tendency has usually tle blendings on this album. And when Brian resulted In a rock influence such as the use of Torff,an accomplished jazz bassist, kicks into drums and electronic instruments and overdrive on "The Bugle Britches," he generates keyboMds. What sets Trimble Md his new the seduction energy Inherent in this ballad, af! album "Crosscurrerits~ (Green Linnet lO65, energy which has rarely been realized. $9.98 list) apart is that while he utilizes certain While Trimble may not be the first musician aspects of rock's Influence, it rMely changes his to expand the horizons of his music, there is original intentions. Instead, Trimble melds a something masterful in the way he chooses to variety of subtler Influences, any of which can do so. Being the foremost exponent of the cit­ stand on their own within the boundMies of tern as a solo instrument, Trimble is constantly music from the British Isles. striving to improve upon Its versatility. He is con­ Imagine a Scottish march performed within tinually searching for new ways to use the cit­ the loose improvisational framework of jazz. tern and "Crosscurrents" is the showcase for the "Trimble's Compliments to the City of musician and his instrument. Philadelphia" Is just that. Not content to pro­ -Colleen Low vide a jazz flavoring to his mix of Celtic music, Trimble titilates us with sampUngs of midwestern fiddle and even a Uttle Latin Md Eastern music The Classic Cup sprinkled in. Jim Hatlo of Frets Magazine says It's A Rock n' Roll Theatre Trimble ". . . blends all these in a multi­ dimensional swirl of techniques, moods Md in­ strumentation, directed around and through his lO-string cittern." Live Bands The cittern is an instrument that, while hav­ ing its roots in medieval times, Is only about 20 And There Ain't Nothing years old iI1 its present form. The instrument was developed to fill a gap between guitars and Like The Real Thing mandoUns In traditional music. While many players have been content to use the cittern for rhythmic support, 1'rlmble has paved the way for its use as a superb sOloing· instrument and THE DRUMWORKS has developed a finger-picking style that pro­ . 3544 Troost 931-6452 vides Insights Into its possibilities. This style is beautifully evidenced on "Blessed Be (The 4011 STATE LINE RD. At The Extreme Edge Of The Plaza Lady's Taken)." Trimble is joined on ·Crosscurrents" by two KAISASCITY, AS. '$103

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By Joe Bob Briggs, Drive-In Six hours later-after slingin sweat on pink Movie Critic of Grapevine, Texas ladies from Omaha and dry-icin the whole room and drop-kickin two backup singers into the Ever since I Donka-Shaned my way back eighth row as a special effect-he closed with from Vegas, where I went out last week to share "Dixie; "Battle Hymn of the Republic; and a couple of brews with Big Wayne, nobody "America the Beautiful; the soul version, and BEUEVES me. I go around sayin, "No, really, gave me that little crinkledy-eye grin at the end the whole deal, Wayne and me, sittin around and then collapsed backstage on his imitation in his SIMPLE UITLE DRESSING ROOM, just anaconda-skin Lazy Boy recliner and ordered the girlfriend, the manager, the p.r. guy, the out for some possum sushI. secretary, the director of personal security, a That's Wayne. The only Indian that ever sang 280-pound bodyguard named Otto, and me." a Mac Davis song and lived to tell about it. They Sammy wanted to be there, too-ka-ching, don't call him Mr. Huge for nothin. ka-ching-ching-but Wayne said, "No, not now, not when rm tryin to win my $15 billion libel "The Wraith" is the best science fiction car suit against NBC and gettin over the divorce crash revenge ghost comedy of the year, star­ and the Aladdin Hotel deal and, MOST IM­ ring a black Turbo Interceptor with a Chrysler PORTANT OF ALL, talking to Joe Bob. Tell 2.2-liter four-cylinder, tube frame, Cosworth Sammy it will JUST have to wait." 16-valve head and twin turbos. This vehicle can That's the kinda guy Wayne is. A big guy. The flat ACT. What we got here is Nick Cassavetes blggest guy In Vegas. But he can cover it up as the IocaI goon head gang leader, whose idea with a cumberbun. of true love is he'll kill anybody that looks at his Anyhow, once I got backstage with Wayne, girlfriend, and Charlie Sheen, who's a ghost what I wanted to know was, "Hey, Big Guy, are who comes back to earth in a spacesuit so he you in the Mafia or not?" can challenge Nick Cassavetes' gang to drag During filming of "Shadow Play." Dee Wallace walked directly into the camera Wayne understands that kind of question. races and blow their cars to smithereens and and shattered her left ear. I figured, hey, if Wayne was In the Mafia, he then laser guys like Griffin O'Neal into the would of given me a rack of free chips, right, ozone. Only they have to watch out, cause Ran­ and said, "Here, Joe Bob, enjoy. La pisa tutu!" dy Quaid is slinkin around tryin to act like a "I am enthralled to the Muses and they are, followed by De Lawd sayin "Let the Fish Fry But all Wayne did was gimme that little grin sheriff, and also tryin to act. None of this would by God, calling:' " proceed." De Lawd is constantly critlcizin the and start singin "MacArthur Park; the long ver­ of happened if it wasn't for the bimbo Sherilyn At this point were SURE Dee Wallace is gon­ angels, tellin em to stop dancin around the sion. We had to hose him down to make him Fenn, who went to the Valerie 8ertinelli School na die, but Cloris Leachman comes in the movie moon, and ever once in a while he goes down stop. Then he asked me if I liked the "Feelings! of the Performing Arts to learn how to apply as the dead lovers psychic bubble head mama, to earth to tell mankind to stop drinkin and Uonel Richie medley, and I told him yeah, how her stunt mascara. Both guys are goin for doing Tat:Ot card readings, and so pretty soon gamblin and drinkin mammy Wine and to tell great it was, and he said, "You loved it, dic;ln't Sherilyn's groceries, which is why one of em has we want HER to die first, and then when we Noah not to forget to label all the animals with you? Tell me you loved it; I KNOW you loved to DIE. think it's got as bad as it can get and you get cardboard signs so they won't forget which ones it, please say you loved it; and so Otto had to No breasts. (No great loss.) Six dead bodies. that feeling like you're trapped in a burning are which, and showin Moses how to tum a staff slap him around a little bit and strap him into Twelve dead cars, including a Corvette, two building, Dee Wallace brings in-nol stoploh my into a snake, so that Frank Wilson, as Moses, his American-eagle silver belt buckle for his own Trans-Ams, a Cuda and a Daytona. Eight motor God! don't do it!-a FREE-FORM POETRY says "15.1 going with the clrclts,Lawd?" And then protection. vehicle chases, ,with nine crashes, three explo­ READING, WITH GOLDEN-TINTED showin him how he has to teach Pharoah, who Anyhow, after we talked about how he's not sions, one cliff roll, one street roll, two fireball FLASHBACKS. says "How's the killin of the babies comin along?" in the Mafia and about the Big 0 and about the mushrooms, and one five-car crash with a car­ Kill em all! Please kill em all! And then fiocilly God gets SO mad about Carson deal where Johnny used to call Wayne carryin truck. Auto Body Shop Fu. Gratuitous No such luck. One breast (actually one nip­ wickedness that he won't even Iist~n ~to the a wimp on Tee Vee but Wayne was BIGGER Randy Quaid paper-doll construction. DrIve-In ple, and it's not a pretty sight). One dead body. delegations that come see him. "Even bein God than Johnny and about Waynes palomino, I Accademy Award nominations for Nick Gratuitous free verse. Seattle Fu. (They didn't ain't no bed of roses," he tells em, but in the end decided it was time to get tough with Waynfll, G~yet~. ,as~ e~~karq., t1!e~:swnetl~, qlisW~~ ~n sPow the Sp~ Nesd~or QQthin.) Drive­ be~ides:W aWitch'ovet ~;{I\Stqt~tBad''Of Told him I heard this rumor that he wasn't able boyfriend who carves up his hands with a In Academy Award nomination for Susan wrath and so the choir does another song and to GO THE DISTANCE anymore. Told him I switchblade to prove his love; and David Sher­ Shadburne, the so-called writer/director, for God has a big old cigar. Marc Connelly wrote heard about how the last 14-hour late show he ril, as Skank the razorhead, who chugs transmis­ writing the line "Can you boogie?" One-half star. and directed, and he knows more about the Bi­ did was in 1983, and that was only cause Frank sion fluid and does a gr:eat Sean Penn imitation. ble than Falwell ever will. Four stars. was in the audience. Told him how he was Three stars. ' "Blackenstein" (1972): A black woman with craterin in to the new "Wayne Newton clause" Video releases of a Ph.D. in physics lands at Burbank Airport and in the musicians union contract, which says they Dee Wallace stars in "Shadow Play" as a zom­ drives to the Beverly Hills mansion of plaid­ get an extra two bucks ever time the 280-piece bie playwright who goes to live on an island next the month jacketed pink-tied Nobel prize winner Dr. Stein. Wayne Newton orchestra has to play more 'than to Seattle so she can commune with the spirit "Shaft" (1971): The one, the only, the original Why? To see if he can do something about her six hours at once. And do you know what of her dead lover who plunged to his death off wipe-the-streets-with-the-wimp-honkies jive­ boyfriend, who came back from Vietnam Wayne said to me? Do you? a lighthouse seven years ago but maybe he talkin don-t-mess-with-me classic, starring ~ without any arms or legs. Sure, says Dr. Stein, "Yo Mama." That's what he said. "Yo Mama:' didnt mean to, cause his brother is actin REAL Richard Roundtree as the dude detective who we11 shoot him up with DNA and GROW I asked Wayne why he was speaking in Negro WEIRD and so she tries to figure out why hes takes on the Mafia, the Harlem heroin rings, a SOME NEW ONES. That's fine until he turns dialect, but by that time he was strappin hisself dead by writing a play called "Reflections on Malcom X revolutionary army, the New York into Blackenstein and starts roamin through into the laser-equipped platinum-plated Love and Death" that has the following line in it: Police Department, and the backup singers for Hollywood at night, stranglin girls in mini-skirts spacesuit he uses to ope~ the show. Then he "The taste of you is on my tongue again, and the Bar-Kays in the FIRST black exploitation and hanging around the Holiday Inn, listening slid on his black patent-leather Tom Jones-style I will graze till morning:' flick. Features the great Isaac Hayes title tune, to the famous Cardella De Milo do her lounge attack boots, stuffed his groceries into black Of course, once she writes this line, she the great shower scene with Linda the white girl, acts. Of course, the only things that MIGHT kill stretch-knit whoopee pants, whipped out the already deserves the death sentence, but then and the line "You're a very wise Caucasian, Vic~ him are . . . vicious attack dogs. A classic. rooster comb, oiled up the thatch, and told six she zombies around the old house for a while As Shaft's live-in girlfriend says, "Got problems, The rest of the teensy-weensy-screen video security guards he was ready to boogie. and SAYS the following line: baby?" And as Shaft says, right before he blows releases: up half of New York City, "Yeah, I got a couple "Hollywood Vice Squad· (1986): Frank Gor­ of em. I was born black, and I was born poor." shin .as a killer pimp. Geek Patrol. S&M. Six Four stars. breasts. Blood. Two stars. "Hollywood Boulevard" (1976): The only "Raw Deal" (1986): Arnold the Barbarian's drive-in-movie-within-a-drive-in movie, about best ever. Four stars. the behind-the-scenes dog-eat-dog battle to sur- . "No Retreat, No Surrender" (1986): Wimp vive in the world of exploitation movies, starr­ chopsocky. Retreat. Surrender. Zero stars. ing Candice Rialson as Candy Wednesday, the "Murphy's Law· (1986): Chuck Bronson naive starlet; Dick Miller, former agent for Bim­ hunts down Carrie Snodgress, survives those bo the Elephant, casting director for "Machete disgusting little lines around her mouth, and Maidens of Moloka\"; Paul Bartel, director of avenges his dead wife. Three stars. "Machete Maidens" and "Atomic War Brides"; "Demons· (1986): Best of the year. Prepare and Commander Cody and His Lost Planet to barf. Four stars. Airmen, doing a dirty song on Mulholland Drive Joe Bob says check em out. for nG apparent reason. The lowest budget movie ever made by Roger Corman, king of the drive-in producers, full of explosions, car Joe Bob's crashes and comedy. A masterpiece, on the. 76 drive-in top 10. Four stars. mailbag "The Green Pasture" (1936): This is the 50th Victory Over Communism! The roof caved anniversary of the best movie about God ever in on the Palace Theater in Downtown Bryan, made, and it came out just four years after the Texas, provin that God is SICK AND TIRED of invention of the drive-in. All-black cast, starr­ you people shuttin down perfectly good kung­ Ing Rex Ingram as De Lawd, the Hall Johnson fu moviehouses to do bad Broadway musicals Choir as angels with cardboard wings. Oscar from the 19505. Nick Cassavetes carrying out a co~mon fantasy whenever Griffin O'Neal is Polk as Gabriel, who says "Gangway for de More Victory Over Communism! My buddies around in "The Wraith." Lawd God Jehovah" as the movie begins, at Tehachapi State Prison in California finally January 1987 kC PITCH Page 7

~ouR LITTLE OWt.) LI~E IN HeL..L. loosened· up the warden enough to allow "California Correctional Drive-In Movies" ever L 0 " E

DEAR JOE BOB: The next time someone tries to tell you Arkan~ is behind the times, just tell them about Siloam Springs, where the old Spot Theater has been chopped up into cubicles for dentists and insurance salesmen, and the twin screen Springs Cinema has become a VIDEO RENTAL STORE!! The town's only remaining cinematic showcase is the Movie Park Drive-In, where "Eat My Dust" and "Ten­ tacles· still play to lots of station wagons and old ford LIDs and those real tall pick up trucks that come over from Oklahoma. Arkansas: always a step ahead.-ART MAYO, KANSAS CITY, MO. DEAR ART: rve been to Siloam Springs many times, cause it's where you use to have to drive from the University of Arkansas to get three-two Oklahoma beer, also known as cranberry juice th~t's been filtered th,rough a polyester 'pants suit.· Andj .of.course, I go to the possum races during season.

JOE BOB: I'm writing on, as they say in Japan, "Erection Day." Could you print up the cultur~ly biased Monkey-IQ test from the movie "Link"? I think .8ILCQ6~#iPijIl~t,jldJ~~ wlwwQn'trl,ll}'.your col­ umn should have to pass it in order to keep their MoaE. WN~ 1,,)& Of= SILv€RwA~E cushy, Commie jobs. I have to drive all the way '1\I~/)Cl'OA" 1tJTE,l,l,lGUJiI7lS(KARSH & HAGAN ADVERTISING, DENVER the iact that we live in a world of finite resources. (1) you are even more out of touch with reali­ truths. DEAR MIKE; Yes, early In her career she was Thl~se resources cannot be renewed. Someday ty than she is. When Ann is gone, someone, perhaps you, in the underground cult film "Meal· of Fortune," all our clean water and air will be gone, (2) Most of her letters contain questions about will have to take her place, Joe Bob, to titillate, in which she was devoured by rabid goats. destroyed by pollution. Someday all the drug abuse and promiscuity. And you have a to castigate, to remonstrate, to speak with a cer­ precious minerals will have been mined from LOr of first-hand experience in these areas. titude that has no basis in fact. So I think you YO JOE BOB: How are you doing my man. beneath our lands. And someday, Joe Bob, (3) Her successor should avoid overly com­ should begin now to write Joe Bob's Advice to My main man. Just thought rd write you to pass someday Ann Landers will have to retire. plex words, and should write in plain, simple the Lovelorn, the AnXiety-Ridden, the the time (You have a lot of that in prison). Just And what then? Who will the guy in Oregon language that everyone can understand. Ann Bewildered, the Just Plain Weird. Think of the want to ask you if you can send me some of turn to when he suspects that his wife is having Landers'does this to communicate with her BIG BUCKS Ann Landers rakes in.­ the free junk you've got stored up in your trailer. an affair with the milkman? Who can the Kan­ readers. You do it because you can't spell the PLAINTIVE YUPPIE, DALLAS. Now with the formalities out of the way, rve sas housewife complain to about the terrible big words. DEAR YUPMAN: If nominated I will not run. got a question about the meaning of life. Do manners of that family just down the street? (4) And you share with Ann the trait that I If elected, fil advise the bimbo to pack her h1ney men getting hot while watching a "breasf movie Who will take the'social, moral and psycho­ feel is most important or any columnist: the off to Miami beach and let me dish out the baby effect the Reagen Administration and if so what sexual problems off the entire nation, reduce unerring ability to express commonly held food for a while. does this mean to the pygmie spice trade?­ them to a set of well-worn cliches, and express misconceptions as though they are absolute LOCKJAW (JOE BOB'S WITHHOLDING Calvinistic anger on behalf of her outraged THE NAME FOR WARDEN REASONS), readers? Who can replace Ann Landers? FOLSOM PRISON, SAN DIEGO Let's examine the necessary qualifications. DEAR LOCKJAW: If rve told you guys once, First, and most important, the person must be The Star of "The Young & The Restless" rve told you a hundred times: Keep your hands a font of moral wisdom, able to instruct the OFF those pygmie spices while you're watchin masses in the mode of behavior that is proper the movies. and correct. Such a person should be a veritable oracle, in direct communication with the Dei­ MICHAEL DAMIAN DEAR JOE BOB BRIGGS: rm writing you ty. ObViously, almost any American politician on the day after Halloween (Did you ever see will do nicely, although Jimmy Carter and as that film "The Day After Halloween"? It was Ronald Reagan seem especially well-qualified. originally titled "Snapshots.") Wasn't "Slumber Also we need someone who can toss out Party Massacre" written by feminist Rita Mae snappy one-liners a la Ann Landers ("Get off Brown who did "Rubyfruit Jungle"? "The the booze and dump the jerk.lj. Ideal candidates DANNY AOMAlATTI Depraved" movie poster was used on a record would be Don Rickles, Johnny Carson, and In Concert by some friends of mine the band "The Angry again, Ronald Reagan. Samoans." Recently saw part of the RAT hor­ And of course we must have a person in this Superbowl Sunday, Janu~ry 25 ror flick "Deadly Eyes.~,rd' like to see "Trick or job who is in touch with the American public, 1 PM ., Treat" with Ozzy Osbourne.-DAVID L who knows and cares about our deepest fears BLEVINS, CALIFORNIA MEN'S COLONY and desires: improper table settings, teen-age Liberty Hall EAST, SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIF. sex, how to write a will, what to do about the DEAR DAVID: Now that rve totally cap­ awful things the new minister said in his sermon, Lawrence, Kansas tivated the prison market, I wanna warn you the care and feeding of exotic pets, per­ guys about your movie habits. You keep watchin missiveness in the media, and eccentric ;,,;: .... 3~30 PM~~...... •.• ~. that TRASH and you're gonna end up on the relatives. 1:he obvious choice. here: Phil 'Ottawa Municipal Au"":"lit·',. '\:ri&;1IJor\"'" outside like me. Doriatwe. So who is to succeed Ann Landers? My Ottawa, Kansas DEAR JOE BOB: P~ople refuse to confront choice is you, Joe Bob. Consider: . For ticket and other info, call (913) 242-8810 Page 8 I(C PRC" January 1987 PennyLane and friends' top 5 of '86

Lane'liuner companies aren't utilizing the CD medium to its 1. Cyndi Lauper 2: Bobby Mcferrin The baad man of Lawrence fullest extent. "True Colours" "Spontaneous Inventions" 1.. Peter Gabriel 2. Anita Baker 3., Richard Thompson "So" Walter Stanford "Rapture" "Daring Adventures" 2. Georgia Satellites Pennyf,.ane's other classical guy 3. "The O'Kanes" 4. Randy Travis 3. Steve Winwood 1. Taverner Consort and Players, Andrew Par­ 4. Paul Simon "Storms of Life" "Back In the Hlghlife" rott conductor "Graceland" 5. Frank Zappa 4. Iggy Pop Bach: B Minor Mass 5. Ray Charles "Jazz From HeIr "Blah Blah Blah" 2. Choir of Westminster Abbey, Simon Preston "From the Pages of My Mind" Biggest disappointment: Rosie Vela's "Zazu" 5. Robert Palmer conductor Biggest disappointment: Culture Club's "Wak­ "Riptide" Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli; AIlegri: Ing up with the House on Are" Bill Rusch Miserere With PolyGraru and loves it Scott O'KeIley 3. Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Allan Powell 1. "The Rainmakers" Funkiest hillbilly in KC Hogwood conductor King d Cassettes 2. John Scofield 1. World Saxophone Quartet Beethoven: Symphony #3 "Eroica" 1. David and David "Electric Outlet" "Plays Duke Ellington" 4. SaPPOJ:O Symphony Orch., Hlroyuki Iwaki "Boomtown" 3. Rodney Crowell 2. Jonathan Richman conductor 2. "Crowded House" "Street Language" "It's Time for Jonathan Richman" Takemitsu: Music for the film "Ran" 3. Anita Baker 4. Robert Cray 3. James Brown 5. Regensburger Domspatzen, Georg Ratz- . "Rapture" "Strong Persuader" "In the Jungle Groove" inger conductor 4. The O'Kanes 5. Paul Simon 4. John Crater Rhelnberger: "Ave Maris Stella" Mass and 5. Tlmbuk 3 "Graceland" "Castles of Ghana" Motets "Greetings from Timbuk 3" Biggest disappolnment: Bruce Springsteen 5. Phil Alvin Biggest disappointment: Bruce Springsteen "Live" "Un'Sung Stories" BUI Marks "LIve" Biggest disappOintment The '86 World Series Professional beatnik Michael Undsey Rev. DwIght frizzeD 1. Out of the Blue Hipster from the Music Exchange The best dressed man In greater Kansas City Robert C. Trussell "Inside Track" 1. Dead Can Dance 1. "I.e Mysteres des Volx Bulgares" Word slinger by day; troubadour by night 2. Freddie HubbardlWoody Shaw "Spleen and Idear 2. John Zorn 1. "Peter Case" "Double Take" 2. The Church "The Big Gundown" 2. Phil Alvin 3. L. Subramanium "Heyday" 3. Frank Zappa "Un'Sung Stories· "Manni and Co." 3. This Mortal Coil "Jazz From Heir 3. Red Clay Ramblers 4. Bennie Wallace "Filigree and Shadow" 4. Gyorgy Ligetl "It Ain't Right" "Twilight Time" 4. David Sylvain "Trio fur Violine, Horn und Klavier" 4. Dirty Dozen Brass Band 5. Ida McBeth "Gone to Earth" 5. Ornette Coleman/Pat Metheny "Mardi Gras in Montreux" "Now, Here It Is" 5. Harold Budd/Cocteau Twins "Song X" 5. Priscilla Bowman Biggest disaPPOintment: Latest AI Jarreau "The Man and the Melodies" Biggest disappointment: BCR's "Which Earth "An Original Rock and Roll Mama" album Biggest disappointment: The so-called parallel Are We On?" was not released Biggest disapPointment: John Prine's, "German import ban fostered by major labels that severely Afternoons" Bob Worrell limits the availablity of import titles not other­ The most exciting man in Westport Larry Ferris wise obtainable in the USA. Willi Loth 1. "Suburbs' The Nipper man The man from M.C.A. 2. "Mel Torme/Rob McConnell and the Boss 1. "Venetians" Chris Owens 1. The Bible Brass 2. Benjamin Orr PennyLane's Austin connection, favorite songs "Walking the Ghost Back Home" 3. "Crowded House" "The Lace" of '86 2. Isabelle Antena 4. Smithereens 3. Journey "En Cavale" "Especially for You" "Raised on Radio" 3. "Trouble in Mind" 5. James Brown 4. WIlliam Ackerman original soundtrack "Gravity' "Conferring with the Moon" "Rockin' at the T-Dance" 4. Cocteau Twins Biggest disappointment: My lifeling passion for 5. "Mondo Rock" 3. Smithereens "Victorialand' Hayley Mills remains unrequited. Biggest disappointment: Rolling Stones "Behind the Wall of Sleep" 5. Martin Stephenson and the Daintees 4. Talking Heads "Boat to Bolivia" Mike Webber Dan Conn "Love for Sale" Biggest Disappointment: Only getting two Knows more stars than you can shake a stick at Of the'infamous Conn Brothers 5. Paul Simon weeks of vacation a year 1. "True Believers" '1. Stan Ridgway "Call Me Ar 2. Neville Brothers "The Big Heat" Jerry Harrington "Treacherous" 2. Kate Wolf Steve Paul Tivoli slave driver 3. Elvis Costello "Poet's Heart" The Kansas City Star's Iiterato 1. PergolesilPorpora/Durante "King of America" 3. John Martyn 1. Gary Burton/Ralph Towner "I Solsti Veneti" 4. Guadalcanal Diary "Piece By Piece" "Slideshow" 2. Paul Simon "Jamboree" 4. Etta James/Cleanhead Vinson 2. Ornette Coleman/Pat Metheny "Graceland" 5. Smithereens "Blues in the Night" "Song X" 3. New York Opera "Especially for You' 5. Silly Wizard 3. Robert Trussell "Candide" Biggest disapPointment: Reagan remains in "A Glint of Silver" "Broke to Ride" 4. "South African Trade Union Worker Choirs" office 4. Miles Davis 5. "Something Wild" Larry Stroud original soundtrack Greg Hack "Tutu" The big daddy Bruce Cockburn Biggest disapPointment: Van Morrison "No Kansas City Times's bastion of taste 5. 1. Paul McCartney "World of Wonders" Guru, No Method, No Teacher" 1. "The Rainmakers" "Press to Play" 2. James Brown 2. "Riverside History of Classic Jazz" Fred George "Gravity" Brian McTavish 3. Roy Buchanan Uppity reporter PennyLane's classical guy 3. Pretenders "Dancing on the Edge" 1. Teresa Stratas "Get Close" 1. REM 4; Gerald Trimble "LUes Rich Pageant" "Stratas Sings Weilr 4. Timbuk 3 "Crosscurrents" 2. Andre Previn/Royal Philharmonic Orchestra "Greetings from Timbuk 3" 2. Elvis Costello 5. Eric Clapton "Blood and Chocolate" Holst; "The Planets" 5. Bruce Cockburn "August" 3. Melos Quartet "World of Wonders" 3. "Georgia Satellites" Biggest disappointment: Bruce Springsteen 4. Peter Gabriel Beethoven: Late String Quartets Biggest disappointment: No Beatles CDs! "Live" 4. Haitink/London Philharmonic Orchestra "So" Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antartica Stephen Simpson 5. The Bangles Saul Tucker Video rascal "Different Light" 5. Annemarie PennyLane's King d Kuntry 1. "Le mystere des Voix Bulgares" Biggest disappointment: John Lennon "20 German Folksongs" 1. Randy Travis Biggest disappointment: 2. Cocteau Twins "Men love Ave." You can tell why it wasn't It's a shame the record "Storms of Life" "Victorialand" released before now. 2. Nancy Griffith 3. The Cure "The Last of the True Believers" "Standing on the Beach" Robert Butler 3. "T Bone Burnett" 4. Miles Davis Father of a Lauper-ette 4. "The O'Kanes" "Tutu" 1. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band 5. Dwight Yoakam 5. John Zorn "Live/197S - '85" "GUitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc:' "The Big Gundown" 2. "Round Midnight" Biggest disapPOintment: Willie Nelson "Partners" Biggest disappointment: The failure of KC pro­ original soundtrack :noters to bring to town several of the bands that 3. Richard Thompson Penny Norman toured in '86 and that Andy Taylor quit the band "Daring Adventures" Sunflower $eed connoisseur 4. REM Bryan Martinovich 1. George Russell "Life,s Rich Pageant" fhe :omic "So What" January 1987 kCPlTCH Page 9

5. Cyndl Lauper 4. Dwight Yoakam 1. Bobby Watson Jennifer D. Loney "True Colours" "GUitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc." "Appointment In Milano" Westport's sweetheart Biggest disappointment: Rolling Stones 5. "Crowded House" 2. Phil Woods • 1. Joe Higgs BIggest disappointment: Those Boston Red Sox "Heaven" "Triumph" Tony Procaccini 3. 29th Street Saxophone Quartet 2. "Crowded House" Rock and roll animal Thomas Probasco "Watch Your Step" 3. "Sid & Nancy" 1. Lou Reed Favorite video releases of '86 4. Dave Brubeck original soundtrack "Mistrlar 1. "After Hours" "Reflections" 4. Hoodoo Gurus 2. Elvis Costello 2. "Bliss" 5. Jimmy Johnson "Mars Needs Guitars" "Blood and Chocolate" 3. Monty Python's flying Circus collection "Bar Room Preacher" 5. Jimmy McGriff/Hank Crawford 3. Smithereens 4. "Orpheus" (reissue) Biggest" disappointment: Bill Watrous "Soul Survivors" "Especially for You" 5. "That Obscure Object of Desire" (reissue) "Someplace Else" Biggest disaPPOintment: Higher education and 4. Timbuk 3 the executive environment "Greetings from Timbuk 3" Art Mayo Dan McMasters 5. Lyres The aesthetics monster meets the lowbrow from Voted Most Popular in the PennyLane yearbook Bill Blast "Lyres, Lyres" hell. 1. Miles Davis A man's man and his favorite tunes of '86 Biggest disappOintment: Two Elvis Costello 1. John Zorn "Tutu" 1. Olivia Newton John albums in '86 and no show in KC. No KC Lou "The Big Gundown" 2. Bobby Watson "Sou[ Kiss", Reed concert since the "Growing Up In Public" 2. Polkacide "AppOintment in Milano" 2. Marvin Gaye show at One Block West. At least we have "AIr 3, Brian Brain 3. Eduardo Fernandez "The World is Rated X" on network TV. "Fun With Music" "Spanish Music" 3. Samantha Fox 4. George Clinton 4. Collegium Vocale "Touch Me (I Want Your Body)" Leo GeIger "R&B Skeletons in the Closet" "MonteverdI' 4. Freddie Jackson ~histic Pirates fan 5. "1-70 Showdown: The 1985 World Series" 5. The Pogues "Tasty Love" 1. Smithereens videocassette "Rum, Sodomy and tile Lash" 5. Marie Osmond "Especially for You" Biggest disappointment: Too numerous to "Read My Lips" 2. "Fine Young Cannibals" BIU Wade mention Biggest disappointment: That Connie Chung 3. Duran Duran The most exciting man in south KC didn't record this year "Notorious" Jazz update

Let your imagination run wild for a moment. Live at Fulham Town Hair (CBS 40570, $8.98 will be largely unfamiliar on this side of the the Jazz Messengers never fails to overwhelm, Imagine Buddy Rich subbing for drummer list). Atlantic. However, one standout musician in the and this band is no exception. Charlie Watts in the Rolling Stones. Sound Watts leading a jazz orchestra is not as strange group is accomplished bassist and cellist Jack Sqmething quite different is offered by a bit farfetched? H~w about the r~verse- Watts as it may seem. The Stones's drummer has held Bruce, who hit the American charts in the '60s Omette Coleman on a live date, "Opening leading his own jazz big band. This idea is no a keen interest in jazz since the early '50s. He with the group Cream. the Caravan of Dreams" (Caravan of Dreams pipe dream. Watts has leaped into the jazz arena recalls, "I fell in love with saxophonist Ear+ In recent years there have been several British $10.98 list). This concert was staged as a in a big way with "The Charlie Watts Orchestra Bostic's 1951 recording of "Flaming07 which was roCk artists who have fused roCk and jazz, most homecoming for the Fort Worth-born musician. a giant hit in England. But is was a less popular notably Jeff Beck and John Mayall. None, It's a strange homecoming indeed, but an record that inspired me to take up the drums. however, have made the jump on such a grand outstanqing one nonetheless. Ornette Col­ When 1heard Chico Hamilton play the brushes scale as the Charlie Watts Orchestra. His eman, featured on alto sax, violin and trumpet o~'~01tv GmyMmDgam' te'cOfd(ng ~of'''Wa1ldng maiden jazz voyage is an indesputab[e success. and his band Prime Time, come up with some Shoes; 1just had to get my hands on a trap set." Another new release led by a drummer is Art brand new tonal hues. The full spectrum of free For the past 20 years, this frustrated jazz Blakey's "Live at Kimball's" (Concord 307, jazz is covered here and the numbers range from drummer has rolled toward fame and riches $8.98 list). Blakey, a drummers drummer, has the mysterious wails of "To Know What to with the world's foremost rock and roll institu­ always had the knack for turning up brilliant Know" and "Sex Spy" to the frenetic energy of tion. Now Watts has finally realized his dream, newcomers in the jazz world. On his new LP, "Harmolodic Bebop" and the violin repetition to direct his own big band. Blakey adds two more mimes to his list of il­ of "Compute." This outstanding recording sho.uld be of in­ lustrious ~lumni. This sextet features Terence For those fortunate enough to have been in terest to jazz and Stones fans alike. Material B[anchard on trumpet and Donald Harrison 011 attendance for this concert, which was the grand presented on the album includes swing and bop alto sax, two of Blakey's more recent discoveries. opening, of the Fort Worth Performing Arts classics such as Benny Goodman's "Stomping From the opening bar of "Second Thoughts" Center, some new unrecorded material was also at the Savoy" and Lionel Hampton's "Flying to the closing measures of Jackie Mclean's "Dr. featured. The performance included the world Home" and "Scrapple from the Apple." Two Jekyl," this album bears testimony to the veteran premier of Coleman's symphony "Skies of other sparkling compositions, "Moonglow" and drummer's leadership ability. That's why the list America" and his string quartet composition "Robbins Nest; are also included. of name players from his previous bands (I.2e "Prime Time/Time Design; written in honor of A gifted assemblage of England's finest jazz Morgan, Freddie Hubbard and the Marsallis futurist thinker Buckminster Fuller. men were gathered by Watts for this regal event. brothers to name but a few) reads like a dean's -Bill Marks Though giants in their homeland, their names list of jazz greats. The artistry of Art B[akey and Look good, smell good

Hello, I'm Bill B[ast. Each month I review an tive but prudish and over-educated waitress is right down to it (and getting dQwn is what it's stay. The price and the smell are why, It's cheap, adult film along with an aftershave/cologne for appalled by the idea, until she learns that it all about, right?) that's what counts. 1 give to be sure, but that scent-man oh man, it's the kind of man whds willing to say, "Hey, I'm would make her an extra hundred a night in "Rears" three stars and a little pat. almost too much. And don't dare water it down. a Contra too!" Before we get down to cases, I tips. This leaves her wondering one thing: when Before we smell good, let me mention Seka. Let the women chase you and attack. It's good hope everyone had a great hoUday season and do the broads get here? Ginger Lynn is the present queen of porn and for up to a block and damn near killed my cat. spent as much time hanging around the While "Rears" certainly isn't a great film, it Marilyn Chambers is a legend to be sure, but Hai Karate-it's for me, it's for Wank and if mistletoe waiting for your best friend's Wife to does have some hot moments. Tracy Adams is the goddess herself is back. In early January, you're well rested it's for you too. Until next come by as 1 did, Guess that's why they call it definitely an up-and-coming star and this film Seka's long-awaited return to the screen will ar­ month this is Bill Blast saying let's all take time Xmas. shows why, but only in two scenes. The rest of rive with "Careful, He May Be Watching." If it's to stop and [uv one another. And remember, As we head into the New Year, it's resolution the action features the wet panty contestants, as hot as I'm hearing, you'll certainly be reading it's one thing to look good, it's another to smell time. So here are mine: I resolve not to hook with Cari Fox, Britany Striker and Keisha as more about it here. good. up with any woman while I've been drinking Bambi. Bambi's best line is "I've been entering Now it's time to smell good. It's a special that I wouldn't sober, to be more understanding contests based on parts of the body since I was month indeed. Recently my good buddy Wank of the assholes who disagree with me, to over­ 15." Dank of the Daily Plank and I were discussing come my obsession with Connie Chung and to The wet panty contests turn business around aftershaves and he wanted to know how 1 SON~S of stop and think before I cross a state line. (so to speak) and before it's all over, even little could've overlooked his favorite, Hai Karate, an INNOCENCE Ctl'lc{ It's time to look good. This month's film, miss frigid (Tracy Adams) joins in. As if you aftershave as powerful and masculine as karate EXt='EF-IENCE available frora PennyLane Video, is ·Rears~ It's couldn't have guessed, Edwards and Adams, itself. "Hell, Wank, that's been off the shelves about Ned (Eric Roberts), an ex-baseball player despite their different lifestyles and values, for years," I told him. But wait a minute-Wank turned bar owner who, in an efort to improve decide they love e"fh other and prove it right set me straight. Hai Karate is back and while business at Ned's Bar & Grill, changes the name there on ·the bar. no longer available in the karate himd dispenser, to Rears and starts wet panty contests. Ned's The bottom line is, the plot's pretty damn sap­ it's as good as ever. best friend and bartender, Chief (Joey Silva) py and there's not a lot of outstanding humor. Hai Karate is not just for the man that never agrees wholeheartedly Tracy Adams, the attrac- But the sex is definitely nasty and when you get made it out of the '70s. It's back and here to ~Y~m APROI)UCTO' ~ coMMUNicatiONS Page 10 KC PlTcn January 1987 Classical notes

Allegri: "Miserere." Tallis: "Spem in Alium:' the Allegri, the sound on this record is fine. quality is maintained as well. The DMM press­ ZRG-781 PSI, $10.98 list. Palestrina: "Magnificat." "Stabat Mater." Blow: Notes are included, but ho tex,tsand that's a ing from EMI-Electrola (the same plant press­ I couldn't resist including this classic perfor­ "Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened." "Behold, 0 shame -- it would be nice to have them for the ing'ail new Angel LPs) is good, but has some mance in bght of the Rheinberger release. Com­ God, Our Defender." Croft: "The Burial Ser­ unfamiliar Latin works. ticks. A superb collection, strongly recom­ parison as regards to the style of the two com­ vice." The Choir of King's College, Camb~idge, An extremely good collection for the price: mended. posers should be particularly interesting to fans directed by Sir David Willcocks. Argo 417160, of this type of music. $8.98 list. Rheinberger: "Mass and Motets." Reg­ Dvorak: Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, op. Dvorak composed this mass for the dedica­ Just three months agp I reviewed a new ensburger Domspatzen directed by Georg Rat­ 104, "Silent Woods; op. 68, no. 5, rondo for tion of a small church in Czechoslovakia in release on Archiv featuring the famous Allegri zinger. Eberhard Kraus, organ. Deutsche Har­ Cello and Orchestra, op. 94. Yo-Yo Ma, cello. 1887. It appears here in its original modest scor­ "Miserere; along with a Palestrina mass, per­ monia Mundi 1C 067 1695201 (digital). The Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Lorin ing for choir and organ, a later arrangement of formed by the choir of Westminste~ Abbey. Now Josef Rheinberger (1839-1901), a native of . Maaze!. CBS Masterworks 1M 42206, digital, it for choir and orchestra having been forced on Argo has reissued the classic recording of this liechtenstein, is known mostly through his $12.98 list. Dvorak by his publishers who refused to print masterpiece from 1964 featuring the Choir of church music, especially his works for organ. Surprisingly for such a popular young musi­ the original. King's College, Cambridge. Both of these He is also remembered as one of Wilhelm Furt­ cian, this is Yo-Yo Ma's first shot at this work on Dvorak's mass is an intense and powerful one, albums are outstanding versions of the piece, wangler's teachers in Munich, This album, with LP. After all, how many times·clid Rostropovich full of vivid and descriptive music. It is given a but the verdict must lie finally with the new a date of 1983 on the back but apparently ju~ do this piece? I count five recordings by him supero performance here. The, Kyrie opens with Westminster. The King's version is great, but it reaching this side of the Atlantic, presents a available in the latest complete Schwann. And the boys singing sweetly and innocently, then is at least equalled in every way by the generous sampling of Rheinberger's choral that's important to knoW, ~ince you would be the lower-register men's voices and organ rise Westminster. In fact, the King's boys are sur­ music, masterfully written and excellentry better off with any of th~s~~ over this one. and practically tear into the melody, turning it passed by Westminster's for warmth and emo­ performed. Not that Ma does a bad job. like the Berlin into an emphatic, impassioned plea for mercy. tion. The sound also is definitely a factor here, Side one starts out with Rheinberger's 1884 Philharmonic; he'd have to try to really do The Gloria, in contrast, is celebratory and uplift­ as the older recording shows its age in a hissy "Stabat Mater" for choir, organ and instrumen­ something badly. But unfortunately Ma's vir­ ing. The Credo is certainly one of the most fashion. But if you're a fan of the piece, you cer­ tal ensemble. This is a lamenting but delicious tuosity is defeated by Maazel's conducting. The dramatic ever composed with its terrifying cries tainly need this record, which deserves its piece of music, rich and delicate at the same first two movements wander aimlessly about like of "Crucifixusr and the soaring organ and choir reputation as a great performance of the work. time. It is given an affecting performance here. lost children. Maazel never seems to get a grip of the climactic "et vitam venturi saecub, Amen~ And the sound, despite the hiss, is surprisingly The sound is expansive, clear and forceful, onwhat he's doing (that is, if he's doing anytRing The Sanctus contains dizzying choral writing clear. The text, usually in Latin, is here sung another one of the best choral albums of the . at all). The music becomes completely u~ocus­ and the effect is intense and beautiful, follow­ in English and the words are easily discern able. digital era. The rest of the side is filled up with ed, as it does 1n Maazefs Mahler Symph6'rty cy- . ed by the meditative and longing Benedictus. This is a careful, reverent performance, perhaps five motets from the "Six Marianische Hymnen" cleo The last movement of the concerto does The Agnus Dei ends the mass with plaintive just a bit mannered as the King's choir is wont for choir and organ. Delightful in their simplici­ have more spark and direction, but it certainly cries of "miserere, miserere nobis; the "dona to be, but'still very affecting. ty, they are also given remarkable performances isn't the greatest performance of it ever done, nobis pacem... pacem ... pacem" drifting off into The balance of this record is superb. The two by the Regensburg boys. nor does it redeem the first two movements. an uncertain eternity. sacred pieces by Palestrina are beautifully and Side two is all a capella. It starts out with the The two filler pieces are attractive and well This performance of the mass is skillful and marvelously sung. The two Coronation An­ "Missa St. Crucis," op. lSI, a quiet and respect­ done, a strong point for the album. Of course, emotional, directed masterfully by Preston. The thems by John Blow were written for James II ful work. The record is completed by three of the competition here isn't nearly as stiff as with sound of the 1974 recording is spacious and in 1685. They are very lively and spirited works. the five motets, op, 163, The selections are well­ the concerto. beautiful. The balance of the choir and organ Williams Croft's "Burial Service" is an ap­ chosen: "Benedictus Dominus" is lively and The surfaces and sound of the LP are okay. is right on touch, and the organ itself is enough propriately mysterious work, haunting and love­ bright and "Confitebor Tibi" is, like the "Missa;' Ma's fans will probably want it, but on its own to shake the daylights out of your neighbors if ly in its own way. But the best part of this record quiet and reverent. The final motet, "Benedic­ it's disappointing. Let's hope Ma soon has the you bve in an apartment. The famibar text is not is the 40-part motet ·Spem in AliHm; for eight tus Es Tu," has the unusual quality of being both chance to do it again under another maestro included, but an interesting note on the peice five-voice choirs, by Thomas Tallis. A huge and mysterious and sweet at the same time, con­ with a less lethargiC outlook on life, and on the fate of music in the Cathobc church beautiful work, it is given a remarkable perfor­ cluding the album in a rapturous fashion. is. Absolutely unbeatable and urgently mance here by the King's choir, their forces ex­ The singing of the Regensburger Domspatzen Dvorak: Mass in D, op. 86. Choir of Christ recommended. panded for it by the Cambridge University (cathedral sparrows) is wonderful throughout, Church Cathedral, Oxford directed by Simon -Walter Stanford Musical Society Chorus. Except for the hiss on with an expert level of artistry. The great sound Preston, Nicholas Cleobury, organ. Argo

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Kansas City first on Jan. 9 and 10. Jimmy "Fast ing the country and cutting a few sides for Sun and Shove 'Em" (Rooster 7606, $8.98 list), was Fingers" Dawkins, long considered one of the Records. called "The crudest blues album anybody's premier guitarists on the blues scene, will bring Upon his return to Chicago, Reed met up made on purpose since Hound Dog Taylor died his electrifying Chicago style to KC for the first with Earl Hooker and recorded a series of .. :' by Robert Christgau of the Village Voice. time. Dawkin's sporadic recording and perform­ singles, including "This Little Voice" in '62 and AC. Reed and his band the Spark Plugs blow ing output have contributed to his mystique the excellent "Talkin"Bout My Friends" a few into KC Jan. 16 and 17 at the Grand among blues afficionados. His two domestic years later. In the years since, Reed has become Emporium. releases, "Jimmy 'Fast Fingers' Dawkins" a solid sideman, spending time with the bands (Delmark 623, $8.98 list) and "Blisterstring" of Buddy Guy, Son Seals and most recently, (Delmark 641, $8.98 list), have fueled the Albert Collins, with whom he recorded five Fish Fry moves to flames of belief that Dawkins is the most in­ albums. AC:s own debut LP, "Take These Blues novative blues gUitarist in many years. Though prime time rarely seen outside a handful of blues clubs, he Those of you whdve been popping NoDoz has a large following in Europe, where he has to enjoy KCUR-FM's "Saturday Night Fish Fry" recorded and played to wildly receptive crowds will be pleased to learn it's been moved up to at the top festivals. In France, his "Fast Fingers" 7 p.m. For those of you not familiar with the LP won the Grand Prix du Disque award for show, host Chuck Haddock serves up the finest best album of 1971. A 20-year veteran of in blues, r&b and jumpin' jazz, such as the music Chicagds blues scene, Dawkins's tight backing of Louis Jordan, Slim Harpo, Howlin' Wolf and band and understated stage presence serve to Bullmoose Jackson. The rescheduling of "Satur­ heighten his guitar work. Don't miss this KC day Night Fish Fry" complete's KCUR's monolith premier. of outstanding Saturday programming, begin­ ning at 2 p.m. with "Folkwaves" (folk, bluegrass) and continuing with "Ballads, Bards and Blowln' the blues Bagpipes" (celtic music) at 3, "The Many Phases He was born Aaron Corthen in Wardell, of the Blues" at 4, "King's Highway" (reggae, ska) Missouri, but became AC. Reed when he hit at 5, "Cyprus Avenue" (rock) at 6 and "Satur­ Chicago in 1941. After two years at the Chicago day Night Fish Fry" at 7. Do your housework Conservatory, Reed became a fan of hom man between 2 and 8 p.m., and you'll feel no pain. If you tune your FM dial to 89. Jiinmy Dawkins Gene Ammons and developed his interest in the fine points of blues saxophone. It was J.T. For jazz fans, KCUR features "Big Band Jazz" Brown, the hom player for Elmore James, who from 10 a.m. to 12 noon, "Just Jazz" from 12 Fast Fingers In KC hipped AC. to the rudiments of honking the to 1 and "Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz" from The Grand Emporium will be the site of a f)lues and Reed was on his way, eventually tour- AG. Reed 1 to 2 on Saturdays.

Kansas City Friday, Jan. 16 at 8 p.m. Engelbert Humperdinck's "Hansel & Greter Lawrence Diane Ray and the Rich Van Sant Band per­ VioliniSt Glenn Dicterow and the Kansas Ci­ (in English) can be enjoyed at the Little Theater The Rainmakers appear at the KU Ballroom form every Friday and Saturday at Harling's, ty Symphony (William McGlaughlin conduc­ in Penn Valley Community College on Satur­ on Friday, Jan. 16, at 8 p.m. and they lead the Saturday afternoon jam ses­ ting) perform Handel, Beethoven, Rouse and day, Jan. 3. at 8 p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 4, at Opera Workshop features rring" at sion as well. Every Tuesday night, It's the Hindemith on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 9-10, 2. Performances are open to the public, but a KU's Inge Theatre Qn Jan. 15 and 17 at .Rl. Primary Blues Band. at 8 p.m. at the Lyric. Also at the Lyric, Russell donation is requested. and Jan. 18 at 2:30. Greg Allman pl~s the Dickey Betts Band at Patterson conducts when the the Syrnpbony l!di UMKC it's a guest hom recital by Tim .11~~ l:ilgh. Scbool/I:1DiwCIIll. Sh:ioo the Regency on Sunday, Jan. 25. Also at the playS Mozart, StraVinsky and Beethoven on Fri­ Thompson on the 16th, the 12 O'Clock Jazz Festival at KU's Murphy HaIl and Kansas Union Regency, Donovan on the 30th. Call Dial-A­ day and Saturday, Jan. 23-24, at 8 p.m. Band, Jazz Workshop I and the UMKC Jazztet on Saturday, Jan. 31, for free. Tick for ticket info. "The World of Aaron Copland; a Sunday on the 17th, the Percussion Quartet on the 18th At the Jazzhaus you can .~~in~ ~e City Light Orchestra on Friday-Saturday, Jan. Sampler program led by William McGlaughlin, at 3:30, tenor Vinson Cole, a Kansas City & the RocktoRes on Jan: 2-3, Lonnie Ray's 2-3, and Tuesday-Saturday the last two weeks takes place Jan. 11 at 2 p.m. at the Lyric. vocalist who makes his debut at the Metro­ Blues Jam on the 7th and the 21st, the of the month at City Light; Sunny Kenner Trio "Theme and Variation; another McGlaughlin politan Opera in January, on the 24th. All are Mackender-Hunt Band on Jan. 9-10, the Red every Sunday and Ida McBeth on the first two program, features Brahms, Dvorak, Beethoven, at White Recital Hall at 7:30 (except where in­ Zone on the 15th, Altered Media on Jan. 16-17, weeks of January. Elgar and Britten on Sunday, Jan. 25, at 2 p.m. dicated). See page one for the tenth annual Electric Stone on the 22nd. Lonnie Brook's Pearl Bailey and the Kansas City Symphony af the Lyric. Festival of Music of and About Black People Blues Band on Jan. 23-24, Broken Inglish on light up the Midland on Tuesday, Jan. 20, at William Jewell presents pianist Philippe En­ schedule. the 28th and the Tony Brown Band (reggae) 8 p.m. tremont at the Music Hall on Saturday, Jan. 10, Hank Thompson graces the stage at KC Opry on Jan. 29-31. The Meliora Quartet performs at the Folly on at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 31. .

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