PERK'S ~ FINE CUISINE 553 MANHATTAN AVENUE, NEW YORK 10027

Harlem's Most Exquisite Entertainment Mecca... Harlem's most intimate and elegant spot for dining

Perk's Fine Cuisine, located on a row of brownstones on Manhattan Avenue at 123rd Street now offers an extensive menu that encompasses a mixture of soul food and continental dining.

Live Shows Thursdays featuring • & Rythm & Blues Artists • Showcase Acts • Caribbean Bands Appearing Regularly • The Legendary Roy Ayers and his band • Ms. Sarah Dash (of La Belle fame) and band

(212) 666-8500 PUBLISHER/EDITOR'S NOTE wish to extend my heartfelt appreciation to the many advertisers who support us, and thus express their confidence in ROUTES. I We all benefit from their presence in these pages, and I Ul'ge ROUTES readers to be equally supportive of them-when you respond to an advertisement, please let it be known that you saw it in ROUTES. As they say, what goes around, comes around. Also, please give us a call if you are affiliated with a non-profit organization in need of a fund-raising vehicle. We have an effective program already in place, and would be happy to work with you on a campaign-big or small. Remember, our community's strength depends in good measure on our willingness to work with each other and help it become self-supporting. Ron Bunn LISTINGS RESTAURANTS Lunch and Dinner. La Famille Restaurant Sunday Brunch. Fine Southern cuisine Relaxed and informal. Harlem landmark Jazz Manhattan: (212) 1325 5th Ave. • Tel: and Su~per Club. BBQ 996-1212 • Fax: 996- spare ri s, fried, baked Daphne's Hibiscus 5844 and roast chicken; Restaurant fried and broiled pork Serving the utmost in Island Spice chof.s, short ribs of Jamaican cuisine for Restaurant bee , collard tfreens, hmch (Thurs. & Fri.), din- West Indian Cuisine in macaroni an cheese, ner and catering. Happy the Theater District candied yams, peas Hour 5-7 pm Tues.- Best oxtails and curry and rice, potato salad. Friday. Prices are very goat in town. Catering Complete dinner $7.95 moderate. Free delivery. available for w eddings to $13.95, includes 243 E. 14th St. • 505- and special occasions. soup or salad, entree, 1180 Mention Routes for a and choice of two ve~- 10% discount. etables. Caterin~ faci i- Dining At Rubi's 402 W. 44th St. • 765- ties available. LlVe Vegetarian cuisine 1737 entertainment nightly. Take out/Fast Food. Try 2017 Fifth Ave at the Rainbow Vegetarian Kwanzaa 125th St (# 2 or 3 Train Special (Raw vegetables International Soul to 125th St, walk one mixed with an African Food Restaurant block east.) • 289-6899 dressing, toJ}}ilid with On-ibbean, Brazillian, or 534-9909 vegetarian · · in Pita African and Southern cui- ., bread). Show a copy of sine. Specialties: Babian Perk's Routes for 10% discount. Coconut Shrimp, Fine cuisine MART 125 • 260 W. Louisiana gurnoo, Elegant & trendy 125th St • Mezzanine Guiness Stout ice cream. 553 Manhattan Ave. at • 666-RUBI Afri~e moderne decor. 123rd St • 666-8500 LWlc 12:00-4:00pm. Emily's Restaurant Dinner 5:30-midnight. Soul Fixins' Fine Southern cuisine Sky LoWlge open Fri. and Soul Food BBQ baby back ribs, Sat. until 4:00am. SWlday Try us for lunch or let oxtails, Blue Fish, ~ospel brunch. Available us cater your next lun- Baked Chicken with or special occasions. cheon. Selections from cornbread stuffifft, 19 Cleveland Pl. (Bet. our menu: spare ribs, Chicken and Wa es, Spring and Lafayette, honey dip win~s, fried Alaskan crab legs, #6 Train to Spring St.) whiting, collar Tuesday: Lobster • 941-6095 greens, macaroni & Special. Breakfast, .. ROUI'ES, The Biweekly Guide to African-American Culture, -October 11-24, 1994 3 LISTINGS RfsmURANIS from Montserrat); Tropix lards, okra, yams, and [Continued fu:!m Pa~ 3) Delight King Fish, jumbo cornbread. Daily hours shrimJ & saillops sim- 7:00am-10:00pm. Fri. & cheese. We serve vege- mere in a brown sauce. Sat.-midnight. Country tarian lunches too. All Buffet Night every Friday store across the street - entrees under $6.50. 6-12 midillght. $7.99 plus stocks fresh foods arriv- .J Open Mon-Fri tax. Live entertainment. ing, weekly, from North 11:00am-7:00pm. Free 354 W 125th St • Bet. St. Carolina. beverage when you Nicholas & Morningside 1993 Atlantic Ave. • mention Routes. Aves • 864-6192 or 663- 346-4400 371 W. 34th St. • off 5706 9th Ave. • 736-1345 Keur N' Deye Vernon's Jerk Paradise Senegalese cuisine Selam Ethiopian Authentic Jamaican Senegalese traditiona! Restaurant Food home cooking. Delicious tasting dish- Jerk chicken, jerk pork, 737 Fulton St. • 875- es of lamb, beef, and Vernon's famous jerk 4937 chicken, cooked in sauce also available. Ethiodian sauces sea- Live music Fridays Two Steps Down sane with berbere (a 7:00-11:00pm. Show a Restaurant & Seafood blend of natural herbs copl of Routes for a Bar and spices, hot or mild 10°o discount. Join us every Monday to suit your taste.) 252 W. 29th St. • Off for our famous Vegetarians dinners, 8th Ave. • 268-7020 too. All dishes Monday Ni~ht Open include: Injera, Mike; Carib ean Ethiopian bread. Brooklyn: (718) Tu esday Night . . . with Relaxed atmosphere. complete Caribbean Carolina Country menu and alw~~ with Moderate prices. Show live music!; Bu et a coph of Routes and Kitchen get a ee beverage. Southern Lunch: Weds, T urs. Excellent country Fri. - 11:30am to 3161 Broadwat #1 or 3:00pm Dinner Hours: 9 train to 125t St) • breakfast, daily, 7:00- 11:30am 4:00pm-midnight • 7 749-4449 days a week • Sat. & Chop B-B-Que ribs, chit- Sun. Brunch: 11:30am- Tropix terlings, smothered & 3:00pm Caribbean cuisine fried chicken, ox-tails, 240 De Kalb Ave • Antiguan Fungee (turned ham hock, fried & smothered pork chops , 399-2020 • Fax 636- corn meal or Coo, Coo 5125 with Conch or Codfish; side dishes include Goat Water (Goat stew macaroni & cheese, col-

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4 OCTOBER 11, 1887-A. MILES PATENTS THE ELEVATOR LISTINGS Sugar Hill Restaurant Richard's Place Lunch specials 12:00- Classic South Eastern Tantalizing Southern and 6:00pm $4.99. Dinner Country Cuisine Continenti]] cuisine 6:00-ll:OOpm. Live jazz Brooklyn's finest land- Specialties: Corn oyster eveiB Thursday, mark supper club, sports fritters, smothered pork Cari bean music Fri bar, dancin~ & entertain- ch~s , chicken & waflles, throu~ Sun. Parking ment comp ex. Open 7 bla ened salmon, grilled availa le. days 7:00am-midnight, steak, BBQ babh baCk 19 N. Franklin St. • Fri & Sat 24 hours. ribs. Breakfast, unch and Hempstead • 538-2032 609-615 De Kalb Ave. dinner. Tuesday-Sunday. • Corner of Nostrand Suncla~uffet Brunch. Chez Antoine Ave. • 797-1727 Comp · entary ice tea or French Cwibbean cuisine lemonade when you Join us for our colorful Queens: (718) mention Routes. Caribbean weekday spe- Moderate prices. cials; Buffet style daily DLM 200-05 Linden Blvd • lunch: 11:30am-3:00pm; Express West Indian St. Albans • 723-0041 Sundah Buffet Restaurant or 723-8806 "Carib ean" Brunch, For the finest West Indian 11:00am-3:00pm; Happy dishes: carrot juice, Irish Long Island: (516) "Caribbean" Hour, Tues.- Moss, ginJ.er beer, curry Fri., 5:00pm-8:00pm in goat, oxt · , jerk chicken, Cafe-Des-Arts our "Calypso" bar. Live curry shrimp and fish. French and Caribbean entertainment on week- Jamaican cuisine served cuisine ends! Wed. is lady's night, at its best. Open 9:30am- Catering for all occasions Friday's jazz nif!bt and 9:00pm. Mention Routes and open for rental. Saturday's Cari bean and get a free punch. Specialties: conch creole, night. 147-01 Guy R. Brewer fried goat, red snapper, 590 Sunrise Highway Blvd. • Springfield shrimp creole. The peas • Baldwin • 223-9426 Gdns. • 341-2458 and rice are quite popular. c..-

· .Oct. I7th: Little Buster GThe Soul Brother Band . Oct. Z4th: Paula Atherton GThe Inter-Play Band · Oct. 31St: jerome "City Smith" 6 The Stone jam Band

ROUTES, The Biweekly Guide to Aftican-American Culture, October 11-24, 1994 5 L 1ST IN G S lltsmURANIS The Keepers A Modest Proposal !Continued from Page 51 Through Nov 11 Through Oct. 23 In the tower of a remote In Brittany a retired G.B.J. Restaurant Maine lighthouse, a fami- toliceman's daughter, Come taste the best ly climbs to safety during 1ving in the Ivory down-home cooking in a terrible storm. In these coast, comes to visit New York cramped quarters, a light- her parents and rebel- Try our new baked house keeper, his wife lious teenage dau~hter , chicken. Special plat- and their African- and brin~s along er ters of Salmon and American foster daughter serious, ignified and Ham Steak. Dinners I, encounter powerful tern- reliable African II & III: Chicken, tork- pests of the spirit as the manservant. chops, meatloaf, ish, secrets of their shared UBU Repertory chitterlings, shrimp, past are revealed. Theater • 15 W. 28th ribs, steak, favorite Bouwerie Lane Theatre St. • 6 79-7 562 ve~etables & starches. • 330 Bowery • 677- De ivery and catering 0060 Jelly Roll! service available. Man- Open Run Fri 6:00am-11:30pm, Red Channels Verne! Bagneris por- Sat. 5:00am-12:00mid- Through Oct. 23 night, Sun. 4:00- trays Jelly Roll Morton 9:00pm. This drama deals with in this narrative oflife the persecution of around his music, cap- 216 Henry St. • African American turing the essence of Hempstead Shopping leaders W.E.B . DuBois the comrcoser, lyricist Ctr • 292-2164/2165 and Paul Robeson dur- and per ormer. ing the McCarthy era. Nakisaki International 47th St. Theatre • 304 Restaurant Castillo Cultural W. 47th St. • 239-4331 Center • 500 Jamaican and Chinese (718) cuisine Greenwich St. • 941- Queens: 1234 Takeout service too Tambourines to Glory 276 Fulton Ave. • Faith Journey Opens Oct. 21 Hempstead • (516) Open Run A musical-comedy 292-9200 A love story musical set about the classic con- in the tumult of the civil frontation between rights movement under good and evil, God the leadership of Dr. verses the Devil. THEATRE Martin Luther King, Jr. Written by Langston Though Dr. King never Hughes. Manhattan: (212) tlf£ears in Faith foumey, Black Lctrum Theatre • ugh traditional and Roy W · Park of Looking For Love in new music, the main Southern Queens • 119th Darkness characters integrate the Ave. &Merrick blvd. • Through Oct. teachings of Dr. King into 723-1800 The women of the their personal lives. Noble family struggle Lamb's Theatre • 130 to come together and W. 44th St. • 997-1780 suptort each other in TELEVISION the ace of a family Class member contracting Through Oct. 15 Aretha Franklin In the AIDS virus. While A new entertaining come- Performance at The the Johnson's race dy/ dran!a about women White House: against time and raging and men from different Oct. 12 , 8:00pm hormones to ~revent classes and the often Aretha, showcases her their only chi d from untold story between musical s;rle - from Eettiny too close to her them in this unlikely love go~e l an soul to R&B atest ove interest, story. an pop. who is believed to be Tribeca Performing PBS-TV • Channel13 HIV positive. Arts Center At BMCC American Theater of • 199 Chambers St. • Actors • 314 W. 54th 346-8510 St. • 581-3044

6 LISTINGS La Vie Est Belle Feeling The Spirit FILM Oct. 16 Oct. 12, 6:30pm A documentary about the Chester Higgins, pho­ Manhattan: (212) life and artistry of tographer Guinean drum master International Center of 1994 Margaret Mead Mamady Keita. A tradi­ Film & Video Festival Photography • 1133 tional Senegalese Sabar Avenue of the •Our Way of Loving (street dance) will foUow. Americas • 860-1776 Oct. 13, 9:10pm Fareta School of Dance & Candid discussions Drum • 622 Broadway with a young Hamar (downstairs) • 677-6708 couple in Ethiopia GALLERIES about their relation­ Brooklyn: (718) ship and the roles of husband and wife in Double Take Manhattan: (212) a Hamar marriage. Film shorts. and discus­ •Owu: Chidi Joins the sions with filmmakers .. Wimberley Okoroshi Secret Oct. 20, 7:30-9:30pm Through Oct . 22 Society •Two Years Later Latest works by artist Oct. 13, 8:10pm George G. Alexander Frank Wimberley. A young boy is initiated •The Slowest Car in Cinque Gallery • 560 into a secret men's soci­ Town Broadway, Ste. 504 • ety that plays a sigrilli­ Lewis Payton, Jr. 966-3464 cant role in the sugsis­ tence and culture of his • Land Where My Charles "M'wasi" community. Fathers Died Berkley" DareshaKyi •The Sultan's Burden Through Oct. 31 Oct. 14, 6:45pm O ct. 21, 7:30-9:30 pm An exhibition of art A portrait of a traditional •A ViewFromHere work in diverse and ruler in Nigeria whose Adisa imaginative mediums. efforts to bring tradition­ • Miss Ruby's House Countee Cullen Branch al Africa into the 21st Lisa collins Library • 104 W. 136th century is met with •Temptation St. • 491-2070 opposition. Darryl S. McCane •Act of Love • Haircuts Hurt • A Return To Beauty Oct. 15, 3:30pm Randy Redroad New works by Allen This film explores how The Majestic Theater • Stringfellow. western political, legal, 651 Fulton St. • (bet. •"Maestro" ofthe and medical institutions Rockwell Pl. & Harlem Renaissance are entering "The Act of Ashland Pl.) • 361- Works by painter, Love" debate and affect­ 3216 sculptor and teacher ing African women liv­ Charles Alston. ing in Europe. Essie Green Galleries • •Our Way of Loving 419A Convent Ave • Oct. 18, 7:50pm LECTURE/ 368-9635 American Museum of DISCUSSION Natural History • Central Arias in Silence Park W. at 79th St. • 769- Through Oct. 22 5800 Manhattan: (21.2) Works by Gordon Parks. Mel Watkins Howard Greenberg Oct. 16, 2:00pm Gallery • 120 Wooster St. • 334-0010 Katherine Dunham Project A Sunday afternoon Donations salon discussion with Perceivable Realities Balance 9/27/94 $ 1,175 Mel Watkins, theatre Through Nov. 12 Carla Williams ~ historian/journalist. Total 1,200$ Major works by Henry Hatch-Billops Ossawa Tanner & Send contributions to: Collection • 491 other artists. Katherine Dunham Project Broadway (at Broome) C/0 Routes • PO BOX • 966-3231 Michael Rosenfeld 20103 • NY, NY 10011. Gallery • 50 W. 57th St. • 247-0082 <_,.

ROUTES, The Biweekly Guide to African-American Cultwe, October 11-24, 1994 7 LISTINGS African American sonal side of Dr. King. others. Masters Then and Skylight Gallery • • Interweavings: The Art Now III 1368 Fulton St. 3rd fl & Culture of Kenya Through Oct. • 6636-6948 Through Oct. 29 Featuring stilllifes, Artist Marlisa Anderson abstract, figurative, Queens: (718) exhibits African textiles: landscapes and col­ • African Jazz baskets, tools and arti­ lages by artists: facts. William H. Johnson, Through Nov. 27 Charles Ethan Porter, Jazz quilts of Michael Jamaica Arts Center • A. Cummings. 161-04 Jamaica Ave. • Romare Bearden, Hale 658-7400 Woodruff, Ernest •Artifacts Crichlow, William Permanent Installation Bronx: (718) Tolliver and others. In memory of Louis Sacks Fine Art Inc. • Armstrong, personal Paintings by Adam 50 W.57th St. • 333- memorabilia donated Otokiti 7755 by Vicky Joseph. Through Oct. 30 Nigerian artist Adam Convergences: A Flushing Town Hall • 13735 Northern Blvd. combines aspects of Trans-Atlantic • 463-7700 African cultural prac­ Engagement tices andlictoriallan­ Thiough Nov. 6 guage an his associa­ Featuring works by tion with New York's artists AI Loving and African-American Akpukpu. community. Skoto Gallery • 2 5 Bronx Council on the Prince St. • 226-8519 Arts • 1738 Hone Ave. • 931-9500 Brooklyn: (718) bnages ofThings to Corne Woodcuts Through Nov. 3 Through Oct. 23 Featuring artists Fine art works by artist Veronica Saddler, Otto Neals. Amir Bey, Lynn Clinton Hill Simply Seeney and others. Art Gallery • 583 Bronx River Art Center Myrtle Ave. • 624- and Gallery • 1087 E. 5041 Tremont Ave. • 589- 6379 Kinfolk & Common fenny Burton Spirits See Clubs & Cabarets Through Oct. 21 Exhibition by artist • Cafe el Maroc WALKING ToUR Binah Kaywood, of Through Oct. 29 more than 40 wall A collage depicting Manhattan: (212) sculptures represent­ Louis Armstrong, ing Africans in the Charlie Parker, James Villa Lewaro in diaspora. Brown and other musi­ Irvington-on the-Hudson 4W Circle Parlor cians performing as Oct. 15, 11:00am Gallery • 704 Fulton Josephine Baker works A tour of the mansion of St. • (near S. Oxford) • out a new movement Mme. C.J. Walker, 875-6500 with Isadora Duncan. renown maker of hair and Exhibit presented by skin products and the first I Countdown To artists Steven Harvey black American million­ Eternity and Stephen G. White. Opens Oct. 24 aire, and a visit to her • Reflections in African graveside at Woodlawn 64 rarely seen pho­ American Art m Cemetery is planned. tographs of Dr. Martin Through Oct. 29 Luther King , Jr. by Departs from The Leroy Campbell, Schomburg Center • 515 Benedict J. Fernandez, Sana Musasana, they give us a rare Malcolm X Blvd. • 942- Lucian D. Pinckney, 3505 glimpse of a more per- Hilton Plummer and LISTINGS MUSEUMS & Every Picture Tells A •Forum: Critical per- Story: Word and Image spectives Forum- CULTURAL in American Folk Art Cultural Wars CENTERS ThroughJan.15 Oct. 20, 7:00pm Paintings by Sam Doyle, Moderator: Cornel Nellie Mae Rowe, West. Panelists: Manhattan: (212) Gertrude Mo~ and Edward Said, J.B. Muny are "ghlight- Adelaide Sanford Revivals! Diverse ed as is the FREEDOM and Sylvia Wynter. Traditions: 1920-1945 quilt~ Jessie Telfair. •Teachers' Forum: Opens Oct. 20 Seve early works docu- The Divine Word: Documenting the impor- menting slave life such as Foundations of tant yet sparsely and a plantation book from African Religion and erratically recorded con- South Carolina and Lewis Philosophy tributions of African Miller's watercolors. Oct. 22, 2:00pm Americans: African Museum of American Conducted b y Sylvia American quilts, basketry, Folk Art • Columbus Ave. Wynter. and ironwork. (bet 55th 66th Sts.) • 977- American Craft 7298 •Theater: Staged Reading Museum • 40 W. 5 3rd Oct. 19, 7:00pm St. • 965-3535 • Invoking the Spirit: Worship Traditions Th e Star Child by •The Worldview of in The African World Danny Johnson. Katherine Dunham Through Jan . 16 The Schomburg Center Opens Oct. 20 Photographs by • 515 Malcolm X Blvd. • Katherine Dunham Chester Higgins Jr. • 491-2265 in Cuba, 1947 • Art in the Service of Opens Oct. 20 • Hale Woodruff the Lord: Sacred Art Memorial Exhibition of the Black Church Photographs by Through Dec. 31 Carmen Schiavone. Through Jan. 16 This memorial exhibit, • Conference: Defining An exhibition of in honor of the late artist works by 15 artists. an Aesthetic for New andteacherlllghlights World Africans: A Concert: Take the the work of 8 emerging Salute to the Pioneers Coltrane artists: painter Yolanda Oct. 21 & 22, 10:00am Oct. 16, 3:00pm Sharpe, sculptor Examining the work Larry Ridley and the Thennan Statom, instal- of Dunham, Wilfredo Jazz Le~acy lation artists Marie T Lam, Duke Ellington, Ensemb e ~ay tribute Chochran, Sandra Nicolas Guillen, Zora to John Co trane. Rowe, Radcliffu Bailey; Neale Hurston and •Forum: Diasporan photographers Willie W.E.B. Dubois and African Religious Robert Middlebrook, other cultural pio- Traditions Othello Anderson; neers who helped Oct. 12, 7:00pm printmaker Thorn Shaw. redefine the aesthetic vision of Africans in Panelists: Sulayman Studio Museum in Harlem • 144 W. 125th the New world. Ntang, Professor, Dept o African Studies, St. • 864-4500 Caribbean Cultural Howard Universi!Y, K Center • 408 W. 58th Kai Bunseki Fu-Kiau, •Golden Element St. • 307-7420 Author, Joseph Murphy, Inside Gold Through Dec. 30. Exhibition-ism: Museum Associate Professor, and African Art Dept of Theology, ~epaintingsby Sarn Georgetown University. G · am. Characterized Opens Oct. 14 by expressive spontane- Examining specific areas •Forum: Common Ground Forum: The ity and saturated color, in which Western muse- are large unstretched urn practice contradicts Struggle For Identity Oct. 15, 4:00pm canvases gathered and art as understood and hung like curtains from experienced in Africa. Moderator: Howard walls and ceilings. Museum for African Art • Dodson. Panelists: Pearl Oeage, Kelvin Whitney Museum • 120 593 Broadway • 965- Park Ave. • 570-3533 1313 ChriStophe~ames and Julianne M veaux. c.-. ROUTES, The Biweekly Guide to African-American Culture, October 11-24, 1994 9 LISTINGS

Mt:JiBJM> Er ClmiRAL D:Nrm3 (Continued fivm Page 9} CLUBS AND CABARETS Bronx: (718) Manhattan: (212) Audio Lecture: African Music's Influence on Ty Stephens & Latin America Rornantasy Oct. 22, 1:00pm Sundays at 1:30pm Guests are joined by Dr. R & B jazz brunch. Abdul-Hakim Muhammad for a slide Arizona Cafe • 206 E. presentation and "join-in" 60th St. • 838-0440 musical performance, FreidaMims tracing traditional and Every Friday night contemporary Latin Performing music by American music to its A scene from "Owu: Chidi African roots. Join s the Okoroshi Secret Sarah Vaughan. Bronx Museum • 1040 Society, " See Film Casablanca • 308 Grand Concourse • lessons. Lenox Ave. • 534-9837 681-6000 Queens Museum of Art • Great Divas of Gospel Flushing Meadows Wednesdays Queens: (718) Corona Park • 592c9700 Gospel music revue pay­ • Louis Armstrong: A New Jersey: (201) ing tribute to: The Davis Cultural Legacy Sisters, The Clara Ward Through Jan. 8 Folk Art and Artifacts Singers, Mahalia This exhibit traces On view are a selection of Jackson, Albertina Annstrong's life from his research materials includ­ Walker. childhood in New ing programs, bibles and Cotton Club • 656 W. Orleans to his later years photos collected from 125th St. • 663-7980 in Corona, Queens. black churches and a Numerous photographic 1827 edition of Freedom's Zane Massey and The portraits, the original, Journal, the first black Foundation handwritten and unedit­ newspaper in the U.S. Mondays ed manuscripts of Dakota Bar & Grill • Armstrong's autobiogra­ Afro-American Historical and Cultural Society 1576 3rd Ave. • 427- phy and audio tapes of 8889 broadcasts, rehearsals Museum • 2nd fl. of the and private music Greenville Public Library • 547-5262

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1994 AT SUGAR HILL RESTAURANT & SUPPER CLUB 615 DE KALBAVENUE (Comer of Nostrand Avenue) BROOKLYN, NY (718) 797-1727 ADVANCE TICKETS- $20.00 COMING NOVEMBER 19th Ray, Goodman & Brown MORE AT THE DOOR The Moments

DEATH: OCTOBER 17, 1984-ALBERTA HUNTER, SINGER L 1ST lNG S The Jenny Burton Williams, bass. Featuring Patti Austin, Experience Louisiana Community Tramaine Hawkins, Through Dec. Bar/Grill • 622 Broadway Vanessa Bell Jenny performs origi- • (S. of Houston St.) • Armstrong, Rev. nal material of com- 460-9633 Bernice A. King and poser and lyricist Peter Hezekiah Walker & Link. She's accompa- ·Geo~eGee The Love Fellowship nied by a choir of 10 Thes ay's Crusade Choir. backup singers, all of 17-p~ece bif·bandfor Abyssinian Ba&tist whom are accom- evernngs o Jazz. Church • 132 . 138th plished entertainers, • Jimmy Smith, pianist St. • 862-7474 and Jenny stir yaup!. Oct. 13-16 Dinner Concert Don't Tell Mama • 343 Women In Jazz & Blues W. 46th St. • 757-0788 Oct. 15, 8:00pm 8:00 & 9:30pm Voices Saintpaulia. • The • Melissa Walker Aaron Flagg and Straight Ahead Oct.17 Wayne DuMaine, Quartet featuring • Vea Williams trumpets, Esther Cyrus Chesnut Oct. 24 Hinds, soprano and Oct. 11-15 Metropolis • 31 Union Joseph Joubert, piano. • Nnenna Freelon Sq. W. at 16th St. • 675- Calvary Baptist Church Oct. 18-22 2300 • 123 W. 57th st. • Iridium Restaurant & 699-3788 Jazz Club • 44 W. 63rd Sarah McLawler, St. • 956-4676 Vocalist & keyboards Wed-Sat, 7:00pm- , piano 10:00pm BEAUTY SHOW Mickey Bass, bass Novotel Hotel in Cafe Oct. 13-16 Nicole Lounge • 226 Manhattan: (212) Knickerbocker Bar & W. 52nd St. • 315-1000 Grill • 3 3 University Big Show Expo Pl. • 228-8490 The Mingus Big Band Through Oct. 11 Workshop Every Thursday Black and Hispanic The Benny Powell beauty show. Ensemble Time Cafe • 380 Oct. 15, 9:00, 10&30 & Lafayette St. • 533- Jacob Javits Center • 1200midnight 7000 36th St. & 10th Ave. • 800-736-0886 Talib Kibwe, alto sax & flute, Donald Smith, • The Victor Lewis biano, Eric Lemon, Quintet ass and Jesse Oct. 12-15 CONCERTS "Cheese" Hameen II, •Tanareid drums. Oct. 19-22 La Cave on First at Akira Tana and Manhattan: (212) Pancho Villa's Rufus Reid. Blues and Roots: The Restaurant • 1125 1st Visiones • 125 Music of Ave. • 759-4011 Macdougal St. • 831- Oct.15 2326 The Revival of Swing Jimmy Kne~per, tram- Tuesdays, 9:00pm bone, Char es McPherson, sax, Featuring Doc Wheeler Hamiel Bluiett, bari- and his 17 piece big GOSPEL tone sax, Don Pullen, band. pianist, Ryan Kisor, La Famille Jazz Club • New York: (212) trumpet, Bobby 2017 5th Ave. • 534- Watson, alto sax, Joe 9909 Choose Life Annuill Lovano, tenor sax, and Gospel Benefit Concert Lewis Nash, drummer. Harlem All-Star Band Oct. 14 Saturdays, 8-11:00pm Alice Tully Hall at AIDS benefit held in Lincoln Center • 70 Haywood Henry, and for communities Lincoln Center Plz. • reeds, Laurel Watson of African descent. 721 -6500 vocals and Johnny c.- ROUTES, The Biweekly Guide to African-American Culture, October 11-24, 1994 11 LIST lNG S OJ\CERIS Smith, sax. Lehman Center for the [Continued fmm Page 11/ • Music Deeply rooted Performing Arts • 250 in the Culture Bedford Park Blvd. W. Grover Washington, Jr. Oct. 22, 9:00pm • 960-8232 Oct. 22, 8:00pm Featurin~ the voices Brooklyn: (718) ~ Special guest, Chuck of Cynthta Bostic, ,.• r Mangione. Koree Furnari, Susan Ben Harper and Ted Beacon Theatre •2124 Kaplan-Lee, Arnold Hawkins Broadway • 307-7171 Tone Kaplan Lee, Oct. 21, 8:00pm tenor & alto sax, Bill Guitarist Ben Harper Count Basie Revisited: Lee, baritone & bass 1936-1994 and bass violin. combines hit-hop Oct. 13, 8:00pm with deep b ues soul •Ted Muzio with vocalist Ted Jon Faddis conduct- Oct. 23, 5:00pm Hawkins, formerly an ing. Ted, vocalist, ~us LA street musician. Carnegie Hall • 7th students from is St. Ann's • Clinton & Ave. & 57th St. • 247- Vocal Technique Montague Sts. • 858- 7800 Workshop. 2424 University of The Heavenly Jazz Streets • 13 0 E. 7th St. Yonkers: (914) Oct. 23, 6:00pm • 254-9300 Joe Temperley, saxo- McCoy Tyner Trio & phone, John Bunch, Phil Woods piano, and Dennis Oct. 22, 8:00pm Mackrel, drums, with The Music Hall • 13 the bassist Bob Main St. • Tarrytown • Haggart. 454-3388 Church of the Heavenly Rest • 5th Ave at 90th St. Long Island: (516) • 752-1428 Cool Jazz Clayton "Peg Leg" Oct. 16, 7:00pm Bates Benefit Concert Featuring Grover Oct. 16 Washington, Jr. and An evening of spoken Bobby Caldwell. tributes, performances Westbury Music Fair • and screenings of rare 960 BrushHollow Rd. video footage of Mr. • 334-0800 Bates' dance routines. F.I.T.'s Haft Auditorium • 227 W. 27th St. • 279-4200 Clayton "Peg leg" Bates, See DANCE Concerts • Jazz Music & Manhattan: (212) Performance Queens: (718) Oct. 16, 5:00pm Son~s & Dances of Mary Lovelace and Jazz Mentality Zim abwe Naimah Muhammad, Oct. 13, 8:00 & Oct. 15, 8:00pm vocalists with 10:00pm Black Umfolosi, an 8 Richard Clements, Hard-driving quartet man group ~erforms tiano, Ernie Barnes, featuring Chris Potter. dazzling Zu u war ass, Kalil Madi, Flushing Town Hall • dance, accompanied drums. 137-35 Northern Blvd. by dynamic drumming •The Smitty Smith • Flushing • 463-7700 and chanting, as well Quartet as, haunting a c'Jipella Oct. 21, 9:00pm Bronx: (718) township songs om southern Africa. Featuring Gussy The Newport Jazz Celestin, piano, Duke Festival on Tour Symphony Space • Cleammons, bass, Oct. 23, 2:00pm 2537 Broadway • 864- David Gilmore, 5400 drums, and Smitty LISTINGS YOUTH free and fusion jazz. New Performance in The Brooklyn Found Spaces: Children's Museum • Documentary Queens: (718} 145 Brooklyn Ave. • Photographs Through Jan. 28 •Workshops 735-4400 (ages 8-13) This exhibit displays im~ges oflerformance Tap/Jazz Combo art1sts an groups Saturdays, 11 :OOam FASHION SHOW includin~ Merce Beginner level Cunning am and rhythm tap and jazz Manhattan: (212} Dancers in Grand dance is taught to the Central Station, Bill T. sounds of traditiona! 3oth Annual Gala Jones/Arnie Zane and jazz music. Salute Urban Bush Women. •Children's Afrikan Oct. 16, 4:00pm NY Public Library for Dance Designers Ahneva the Performing Arts • Wednesdays, 4:30pm Ahneva, Beau McCall, Amsterdam Gallery • A beginners course Moshood, Howard 40 Lincoln Center Plz. introducing children Davis, Jo Jo Harding • 206-5400 to the basic steps of Twain's Twines, Omar African dance and Sama'ey and others Thelma Ruffin Thomas, giving them an present their fashions Reader and Storyteller understanding of the in a salute to black •Oct. 20, 2:30pm basic rhythms used in designers. Penn South Senior this art. Altschul Auditorium • Center • 290 9th Ave. Jamaica Arts Center • International Affairs • 243-3670 161-04 Jamaica Ave. • Bldg at Columbia •Oct. 23, 11:00am 658-7400 University • 420 W. Also Pamela 118th St. • 666-1320 Warrick-Smith, con- Brooklyn: (718} tralto, and The Middle Collegiate Open run exhibits Church Choir •Crown Heights: The Goon DEALS & Middle Collegiate Inside Scoop Church • 2n Ave. at FREE FoR ALL This exhibition looks E. 7th St. • 477-0666 at the diverse cul- tures of Crown Manhattan: (212) Griots in Concert Heights from a child's Oct. 22, 2:00pm point of view. Poetry Reading Storytelling with • Music Studio Oct. 15, 2:30pm music, song and per- Rediscoverin~lack cussion, featurin~ Welcomes young vir- Linda Humes an Ron tuosos and kids to poetry and ac owl- edging some of our McBee with stories explore the world of from Africa, the music with electronic aspiring poets. Countee Cullen Branch Caribbean, and synthesizers, the America. walking piano and • 104 W. 136th St. • much more. 491-2070 Saint Agnes Branch • 444 Amsterdam Ave. • Performance Seeing Stories 877-4380 •Ooh Bop Sh' Bam Oct. 15, 2:00pm Autographing Party Jazz Journey Marcia Lane [hesents Sept. 16, 1:30 & a program wi and Oct. 14, 7:00pm 3:00pm about sign language in An autographing and Children meet and folktales and interac- reading reception to greet musicians from tive songs or fhoems celebrate the release of a live jazz rhythm from around e the audio book version section and try out world. of In The Spirit, writ- their instruments, as Hamilton Grange ten and read by Susan this musical journey Branch • 503 W. 145th L. Taylor. takes them throu~h St. •926-2147 Trinity School • 139 the world of trad1- W. 91st St. • 749-9632 tional, swing, bop, .... ROUTES, The Biweekly Guide to African-American Culture, October 11-24, 1994 13 LISTINGS

GcaJ DEllis &FRFE-Frn-AIL • Modern!J azz Dance Louines Louinis [Continued fjgm Page 13) Saturdays, 1:00pm Haitian Dance Theater This workshop intra- Oct. 22, 2:00pm Queens: (718) duces various modem Haitian music and

and jazz techniques in a entertainment. l Films For Pre-school- fun and noncompetitive Queens Village Branch ers: Anansi the Spider, setting. • 94-11 217th St. • "' Anatole, Anatole and • Afrikan Dance 776-6800 the Piano Wednesdays, 6:30pm Oct. 19, 10:00am This course features Bronx: (718) Arverne Branch • 312 strengthening exercis- West Indian Music Beach 54th St. • 634- es and live drumming 4784 as it focuses on tradi- A program of music, tional and modern song and dance with A Tribute to Louis techniques of West audience participation. Armstrong Afrikan dance. •Oct. 14, 4:00pm Oct. 19, 7:00pm Jamaica Arts Center • Fordham Library The life and music of one- 161-04 Jamaica Ave. • Center • 2556 time Queens resident 658-7400 Bainbridge Ave. • Louis Armstro~resent- 220-6573 ed by The Met Stars, Uptown Meets •Oct. 18, 4:00pm with Bill Johnson, bass Downtown Sedgwick Branch • and Charles McGee, Oct. 15, 2:00pm 170 1 Dr. Martin trumpet. The Met All Stars pre- Luther King Jr. Blvd. East Elmhurst Branch sent a blend of music • 731-2074 • 95-06 Astoria blvd. • from Harlem with the •Oct. 19, 4:00pm 424-2619 tunes of cafes and Edenwald Branch • clubs in Greenwich 1255 E. 233rd St. • Stop Worrtng - Start Village. The group per- 798-3355 Livint 01 er adults forms songs made learn ow to overcome famous by Billie Great Black Women of anxieties and enhance Holiday, Ella the 20th Century the 1uality of their life. Fitzgerald and Sarah A salute to Josephine War -shops conducted Vaughan. by Shirley Kaden. Baker and Zora Neale Laurelton Branch • Hurston. •Oct. 13, 3:00pm 134-26 225th St. • 528- •Oct. 22, 2:00pm Hillcrest Branch • 2822 187-05 Union Baychester Branch Turnpike • Flushing Library • 2049 Asch • Early American Loop N. • 379-6700 • 454-2786 Culture: Black •Oct. 20, 2:00pm American Art •Oct. 29, 2:00pm Rego Park Branch • Oct. 11, 1:30pm Kingsbridge Branch • 91-41 63rd Dr. • 459- 280 W. 231st St. • Film and Discussion. 548-5656 5140 Examining two cen- turies of African Long Island: (516) •Workshop American art includ- Openhouse ing Scott Joplin, com- Job Club Meetings Oct. 15, 9:00am pose_r of Ragtime 6:30pm 1'1 Sample the series of mUSlC. Presenting topics art-related workshops •Three More Gone which are relevant to for adults, senior citi- Oct. 15, 2:00pm job seekers' needs. zens, children and I I teenagers for fall. A drama about two • DeveloJ?ing a Personal Also a special perfor- slaves esca~nt to the Marketing Strategy mance by Thomas North and t e ard- Oct. 13 Osha Pinnock. ships they endure • Putting Together a during their flight. Winning Resume Pt I Peninsula Branch • Oct. 20 92 -25 Rockaway Beach Hempstead Public Blvd. • 634-0101 Library • 115 Nichols Ct. • 481-6990 [or Kwanzaa and Christmas

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