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Smorgasbord Music Column with William Price King - Music Legends -Charles Mingus 1922 - 1979 #Jazz
Over the coming weeks William will be sharing the lives and music of some of the music legends from the last century.
Today the music of Charles Mingus and here is an extract from his official website where you can find out more about this versatile musician.
One of the most important figures in twentieth century American music, Charles Mingus was a virtuoso bass player, accomplished pianist,…
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Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – Music Column - The Big Band Era with William Price King and Sally Cronin 1930s - Benny Goodman, Teddy Wilson and The Charleston
Welcome to the new series of the music column where I am joined as always by Jazz singer and composer William Price King. We hope you will join us every Tuesday for some of the chart hits of the big band era from the 1930s through to the 1950s.
Some of the earlier videos are not of the best quality however where possible we have sourced remastered copies to share with you. Considering some are…
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Marriott's SOMETHING ROTTEN! Begins Performances Sept. 5
(Photo Credit: Liz Lauren) Take a trip back to the Renaissance with the regional premiere of SOMETHING ROTTEN! at Marriott Theatre, 10 Marriott Dr. in Lincolnshire, previewing Wednesday, August 28th, opening Thursday, September 5th at 7:30 p.m., and closing Sunday, October 20th. Nominated for ten Tony Awards including Best Musical, this hilarious smash hit tells the tale of two playwright brothers who are desperate to outshine Shakespeare and end up producing the first ever musical! Jeff Award winner Scott Weinstein (Murder for Two and Shrek at Marriott Theatre; National Tour, Las Vegas and Chicago productions of Million Dollar Quartet) returns to the Marriott Theatre to direct, along with musical direction by Jeff Award winner Ryan T. Nelson and choreography by Jeff Award nominee Alex Sanchez.
"I am thrilled to return to the Marriott Theatre to direct one of the funniest musicals ever written, said Scott Weinstein. “SOMETHING ROTTEN! is a brilliant send up of, and love letter to, musicals and Shakespeare - two of my favorite things. It is a show with a lot of heart that explores the extreme lengths people will go for art, and for family."
Set in 1595 where farthingales and codpieces are the latest fashion trends, and the biggest celebrity in England is a playwright named William Shakespeare, SOMETHING ROTTEN! tells the story of brothers Nick and Nigel Bottom who are desperate to write a hit play and keep their acting company afloat, but are stuck in the shadow of a Renaissance rock star known as “The Bard.” In a desperate attempt to outshine the Bard, Nick consults with a local soothsayer who foretells that the future of theatre involves singing, dancing and acting, which leads Nick and Nigel to set out and write the world’s very first MUSICAL! But amidst the scandalous excitement of opening night, the Bottom Brothers realize that reaching the top means being true to thine own self, and all that jazz. The Tony-nominated score includes “Welcome to the Renaissance,” “God, I Hate Shakespeare,” “Bottom’s Gonna Be on Top,” and “Right Hand Man.”
SOMETHING ROTTEN! stars KJ Hippensteel as “Nick Bottom” (Broadway/West End: Book of Mormon; National Tours: Wicked, The Wedding Singer, 9 to 5: The Musical); Alex Goodrich as “Nigel Bottom” (Marriott Theatre: Sweet Charity, Honeymoon in Vegas, She Loves Me); Rebecca Hurd as “Portia” (Drury Lane: Mamma Mia!; Goodman Theatre: An Enemy of the People; Writers Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnets); Cassie Slater as “Bea” (Marriott Theatre: Mamma Mia!, Man of La Mancha, City of Angels); Adam Jacobs as “Shakespeare” (Marriott Theatre: Sweet Charity, Hot Mikado; Broadway: Aladdin, The Lion King, Les Misérables); Ross Lehman as “Nostradamus” (Broadway: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; Marriott Theatre: The Producers, Hairspray); Jonathan Butler-Duplessis as “Minstrel” (Marriott Theatre: Seussical, Shrek, Ragtime, Sister Act); Terry Hamilton as “Lord Clapham” (Marriott Theatre: Sweet Charity, Oklahoma!, Ragtime); Steven Strafford as “Shylock” (Marriott Theatre: Shrek, Oklahoma!, The Emperor’s New Clothes, Newsies); and Gene Weygandt as “Brother Jerimiah” (Marriott Theatre: City of Angels, Anything Goes, Hairspray). SOMETHING ROTTEN! also features Brian Bandura, Taylor Broadard, Aaron Burr, Lexis Danca, Alejandro Fonseca, Lauren E.J. Hamilton, Ron King, Madison Piner, Liam Quealy, Daniel Reardon, Laura Savage, Sawyer Smith, Richard Strimer, and Jessica Wolfrum.
The production will feature set design by Scott Davis, costume design by Theresa Ham, lighting design by Jesse Klug, sound design by Bob Gilmartin, wig design by Miguel Armstrong, and property design by Sally Zack; with dialect coach Eva Breneman, stage manager Jackie Bautista and musical supervision by Patti Garwood.
The performance is scheduled to run most Wednesdays at 1 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Thursdays at 7:30 p.m., Fridays at 8 p.m., Saturdays at 4 p.m. and 8 p.m., and Sundays at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. Ticket prices range from $50 to $60, excluding tax and handling fees. Call for student, senior, and military discounts. On Wednesday and Thursday evenings there are a limited number of dinner-theatre packages available for purchase through the Marriott Theatre Box Office. To make a restaurant reservation, please call 847.634.0100. Reservations strongly recommended. Free parking is available at all performances. To reserve tickets, please call The Marriott Theatre Box Office at 847.634.0200 or go to www.ticketmaster.com. Visit MarriottTheatre.com for more information.
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Fleet Foxes - Crack-Up - Chamber Folk Progressive Folk
Mount Eerie - A Crow Looked at Me - Singer/Songwriter Indie Folk Contemporary Folk
Richard Dawson - Peasant - Avant-Folk Progressive Folk
Perfume Genius - No Shape - Art Pop
Max Richter - Three Worlds: Music From Woolf Works - Modern Classical
Le Ton Mité - Passé Composé Futur Conditionnel - Roots Rock Jazz-Rock Indie Rock
Trio Mediaeval & Arve Henriksen - Rímur
1982 - Chromola - Free Improvisation
Le fruit vert - Paon perdu
Bing & Ruth - No Home of the Mind - Ambient
坂本龍一 [Ryuichi Sakamoto] - async - Ambient
Spoon - Hot Thoughts - Indie Rock Alternative Dance
Slowdive - Slowdive - Dream Pop Shoegaze
The Magnetic Fields - 50 Song Memoir - Indie Pop
Father John Misty - Pure Comedy - Piano Rock Singer/Songwriter Chamber Pop
Thurston Moore - Rock n Roll Consciousness - Alternative Rock Noise Rock
Memories Are Now - Indie Folk Singer/Songwriter
Raoul Vignal - The Silver Veil - Contemporary Folk
Lætitia Sadier Source Ensemble - Find Me Finding You - Art Pop
The Flaming Lips - Oczy Mlody - Neo-Psychedelia
Kid Koala featuring Emilíana Torrini - Music to Draw to: Satellite - Ambient Pop Ambient
Sun Kil Moon - Common As Light and Love Are Red Valleys of Blood - Singer/Songwriter Progressive Folk
Mark Eitzel - Hey Mr Ferryman - Singer/Songwriter
Rosalía - Los Ángeles - Flamenco nuevo
The Caretaker - Everywhere at the End of Time - Stage 2 - Turntable Music Ambient
Sodastream - Little by Little - Indie Folk
The Feelies - In Between - Jangle Pop Indie Pop
Jesu & Sun Kil Moon - 30 Seconds to the Decline of Planet Earth - Singer/Songwriter
Mac DeMarco - This Old Dog - Singer/Songwriter Indie Pop Folk Pop
Laura Marling - Semper femina - Singer/Songwriter Chamber Folk
Joep Beving - Prehension - Modern Classical
Spinvis - Trein vuur dageraad - Chamber Pop Singer/Songwriter Nederpop
La Féline - Triomphe - Synthpop French Pop
Saagara - 2 - Jazz Fusion
Juana Molina - Halo - Folktronica
Roger Waters - Is This the Life We Really Want? - Art Rock
Peter Silberman - Impermanence - Slowcore Dream Pop
Arto Lindsay - Cuidado madame - Art Pop
Daniel Pemberton - Gold - Film Score
Gu's Musics - Happening - Chanson
Babils - Ji Ameeto
Jacaszek - KWIATY - Ambient Electroacoustic
Timber Timbre - Sincerely Future Pollution - Art Rock
Kendrick Lamar - DAMN. - West Coast Hip Hop Conscious Hip Hop
Tinariwen - Elwan - Tishoumaren
Shannon Wright - Division - Art Rock
Shackleton & Vengeance Tenfold - Sferic Ghost Transmits - Progressive Electronic Tribal Ambient
Gas - Narkopop - Ambient Ambient Techno
Homeshake - Fresh Air - Hypnagogic Pop
sonder - Within Essences - Electro-Industrial
Stormzy - Gang Signs & Prayer - Grime UK Hip Hop
The Mountain Goats - Goths - Singer/Songwriter Indie Pop
Saint Etienne - Home Counties - Synthpop Indie Pop
Imelda May - Life Love Flesh Blood - Singer/Songwriter Blue-Eyed Soul
(Sandy) Alex G - Rocket - Indie Folk Singer/Songwriter
Do Make Say Think - Stubborn Persistent Illusions - Post-Rock
Orchestra Baobab - Tribute to Ndiouga Dieng - Wolof Music
Tzusing - 東方不敗 - Industrial Techno
Julie Byrne - Not Even Happiness - Contemporary Folk Singer/Songwriter
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Flying Microtonal Banana - Psychedelic Rock Garage Rock
Grandaddy - Last Place - Indie Rock
Quercus - Nightfall
sonder - About a Blinded Corridor - Dark Ambient Ambient
Alexandra Savior - Belladonna of Sadness - Indie Pop Singer/Songwriter
The Radiophonic Workshop - Burials in Several Earths - EAI Electronic
Forest Swords - Compassion - Ambient Dub Downtempo Neo-Psychedelia
Spectres - Condition - Noise Rock
Austin Wintory - DeFormers - Video Game Music
Barock Project - Detachment - Progressive Rock
Chris Bathgate - Dizzy Seas - Singer/Songwriter
Renaldo & Clara - Els afores - Indie Pop
Emel - Ensen - Arabic Pop Art Pop
Orchestre National de Jazz - Europa Oslo - Progressive Big Band
Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Feed the Rats - Stoner Rock
Edda - Graziosa utopia - Indie Rock
The Moonlandingz - Interplanetary Class Classics - Neo-Psychedelia Noise Pop
Jr. Adelberg - It Happens Too Briefly to Know - Midwest Emo
Joan Shelley - Joan Shelley - Singer/Songwriter Contemporary Folk
James Murray - Killing Ghosts - Drone Ambient
Guillaume Stankiewicz - Les Années
Albin de La Simone - L'un de nous - French Pop
Carsten Jost - Perishable Tactics - Tech House Microhouse
RAYS - RAYS - Post-Punk
Heroin in Tahiti - Remoria - Neo-Psychedelia Tribal Ambient
Tigran Mansurian - Requiem
Swordfish - Rodia - Midwest Emo
Jarvis Cocker & Chilly Gonzales - Room 29 - Chamber Pop Piano Rock
Little Hurricane - Same Sun Same Moon - Americana
Japan Blues - Sells His Record Collection - Sound Collage Tribal Ambient
David Arnold & Michael Price - Sherlock Series 4: The Final Problem - Television Music
David Arnold & Michael Price - Sherlock: Music from Series Four - Television Music
David Arnold and Michael Price - Sherlock: The Abominable Bride - Television Music
Dominic Miller - Silent Light
Boliden - Surfaces - Ambient
Pshycotic Beats - The Black Sea
Carter Burwell - The Founder - Film Score Film Soundtrack
Ramin Djawadi - The Great Wall - Film Score Film Soundtrack
This Winter Machine - The Man Who Never Was - Progressive Rock
Harry Gregson-Williams - The Zookeeper's Wife - Film Score
Danny Elfman - Tulip Fever - Film Score Film Soundtrack
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February 10 in Music History
1696 Birth of German composer Johann Melchior Molter in Tiefenort.
1702 Birth of Italian composer, violinist, Jean-Pierre Guignon.
1702 Handel begins law studies at Halle University.
1744 FP of Handel's Semele featuring 'Where're You Walk', Covent Garden London. Runs four performances.
1749 FP of Handel's oratorio Susanna at the Covent Garden Theater in London.
1760 Birth of singer Stanislao Abbat Mattei in Bologna.
1778 Birth of German composer and pianist Johann Pixis in Mannheim.
1794 FP of Haydn's Symphony No. 99. Haydn conducting at the King's Theatre in London.
1819 Birth of American composer Richard Storrs Willis.
1820 Birth of German composer Cornelius Gurlitt in Altona.
1838 Birth of soprano Marie-Julie Baretti in Bordeaux.
1841 Birth of English composer, organist Walter Parratt in Huddersfield.
1843 Birth of soprano Adelina Patti in Madrid.
1860 FP of Brahms' Serenade No. 2 in A, Op. 16, with Brahms conducting in Hamburg.
1984 Birth of conductor Karl Pohlig.
1870 Birth of Italian operatic tenor Alessandro Bonci in Bologna.
1876 Death of Swedish composer and choral conductor Johan August Söderman in Stockholm.
1879 Birth of composer Franz Carl Bornschein.
1881 FP of Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann, posthumously, at the Opera Comique for 101 performances in Paris.
1882 FP of Rimsky-Korsakov's opera The Snow Maiden, Napravnik conducting in St. Petersburg.
1884 Birth of tenor Ettore Bergamaschi in Bologna.
1885 Birth of baritone George Baker in Birkenhead.
1888 Birth in Australia of British pianist William Murdoch.
1896 FP of Walter Damrosch's opera The Scarlet Letter in Boston.
1897 Death of Italian composer Antonio Bazzini in Milan.
1897 Death of bass Armand de Casta Castelmary.
1900 Birth of mezzo-soprano Gianna Pederzini in Vo di Avio.
1903 FP of S. Rachmaninoff's Piano Preludes Op. 23
1905 Birth of Spanish composer Jose Munoz Molleda.
1908 Birth of Canadian pianist and composer Jean Coulthard in Vancouver.
1910 Birth of English actress and singer Joyce Grenfell.
1910 Birth of Moldavian soprano Maria Cebotari, in Kishinev, Bessarabia.
1914 Birth of American Harmonica player and composer Larry Adler.
1919 Birth of New Zealand composer and music historian Dorothy Whitson Freed.
1920 Birth of bass Cesare Siepi in Milan.
1927 Birth of American soprano Leontyne Mary Violet Price in Laurel, MS.
1927 FP of Krenek's jazz opera Jonny spielt auf 'Johnny leads the Band' at the Stadttheater in Leipzig.
1929 Birth of American film score composer Jerry Goldsmith in Pasadena, CA.
1930 Birth of baritone Cornelius Opthof in Rotterdam.
1932 Birth of British composer Sir Roland Hanna.
1932 Birth of tenor Georges Liccioni in Marseille.
1933 Birth of mezzo-soprano Aleksandra Imalska in Kalisz Poland.
1935 Birth of American composer Theodore Antoniou.
1939 Birth of American composer and clarinetist Barbara Kolb in Hartford CT.
1942 Death of baritone Bohumil Benoni.
1945 Birth of composer Constance Cooper.
1948 Birth of composer Conrad Cummings.
1949 FP of G. Antheil's Symphony No. 6. San Francisco Symphony, Pierre Monteux conducting.
1950 FP of William Schuman's Violin Concerto. Isaac Stern with the Boston Symphony, Charles Munch conducting in Boston.
1953 Birth of computer music composer Carl Stone.
1953 Death of soprano Maria Labia.
1957 Death of tenor Angelo Minghetti.
1961 Birth of French composer Marc-Andre Dalbavie in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
1961 FP of W. Piston's Symphony No. 7. Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting. Won Pulitzer Prize for Music [1961].
1966 FP of Richard Rodney Bennett's Symphony No. 1, in London.
1966 Birth of German composer Thorsten Wollman in Laupheim.
1971 Birth of American computer music composer Seongah Shin.
1976 FP of Ulysses Kay's Southern Harmony by the North Carolina Symphony.
1977 Death of Welsh composer and broadcaster Grace Mary Williams.
1981 Death of soprano Mary McCormick.
1995 FP of Daniel Asia's Piano Concerto. Grand Rapids Symphony, conducted by Carl St. Clair, with pianist André-Michel Schub in Grand Rapids, MI.
2001 FP of Pierre's 'Infinite Love'. Albany Symphony, David Alan Miller conducting in Albany, NY.
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The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
I want you to understand that your first duty is to humanity. I want others to look at us and see that we care not just about ourselves but about others.
~ Madam C. J. Walker
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
~ Frederick Douglass
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
~ Muhammad Ali
Real men laugh at opposition; real men smile when enemies appear.
~ Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr.
With confidence, you have won before you have started
~ Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr.
The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press.
~ Ida B. Wells
Good communication is the bridge between confusion and clarity.
~ Nathaniel “Nat” Turner
I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.
~ Harriet Tubman
If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.
~ Malcolm X
The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.
~ Barack Hussein Obama
You may not always have a comfortable life and you will not always be able to solve all of the world’s problems at once but don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.
~ Michelle Obama
I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.
~ Maya Angelou
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
~ Martin Luther King Jr.
The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.
~ Rosa Parks
In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.
~ Thurgood Marshall
What is a soul? It’s like electricity - we don’t really know what it is, but it’s a force that can light a room.
~ Ray Charles
Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.
~ Billie Holiday
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, and editor
Sarah Breedlove, known as Madam C. J. Walker, was an African American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and a political and social activist.
Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.
Muhammad Ali was an American professional boxer and activist. He is widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century.
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr.
was a Jamaican political leader, publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a proponent of the Pan-Africanism movement, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League
Ida Bell Wells-Barnett, more commonly known as Ida B. Wells, was an African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, sociologist, feminist, Georgist, and an early leader in the Civil Rights Movement.
Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist, humanitarian, and an armed scout and spy for the United States Army during the American Civil War.
Nathaniel “Nat” Turner was an enslaved African American who led a rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831
Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little and later also known as el-Hajj Malik el-Shabazz, was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist.
Barack Hussein Obama II is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from 2009 to 2017. He was the first African American to serve as president, as well as the first born outside the contiguous United States
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is an American lawyer and writer who was First Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. She is married to the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, and was the first African-American First Lady.
Maya Angelou was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs.
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American civil rights activist, whom the United States Congress called “the first lady of civil rights” and “the mother of the freedom movement”.
Thurgood Marshall was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving from October 1967 until October 1991. Marshall was the Court’s 96th justice and its first African-American justice.
Raymond Charles Robinson, known professionally as Ray Charles, was an American singer, songwriter, musician, and composer. Among friends and fellow musicians he preferred being called “Brother Ray.” He was often referred to as “The Genius.”
Eleanora Fagan, professionally known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz musician and singer-songwriter with a career spanning nearly thirty years.
The Million Man March was a gathering en masse of African-American men in Washington, D.C., on October 16, 1995. It was held on and around the National Mall
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Ed. Note: I’m proud to bring you this extensive V-Day guide from Memphis writer and new ILM contributor, Katie Schnack. Be on the lookout for more fresh faces and new voices on the I Love Memphis Blog in the coming weeks. – Holly
Valentine’s Day is just about here and Memphis is already starting to feel the love. If you are gearing up to celebrate with a date or a group of friends, we’ve got you covered. Also, if you are feeling like swearing off love forever, hiding under a pile of blankets and binge watching a dark Netflix series, we have some ideas for you too.
For more inexpensive, classic Memphis date ideas, click here. If you’re looking for some local sweet treats, click here. Also, it’s time to dust off our made-in-Memphis V-Day Mixtape because – why not?
As for my Valentine’s Day, I will be daydreaming of attending all of these events while sipping champagne with my husband at home, listening to the lovely sounds of our baby monitor. Because you know, parenthood and stuff. Maybe next year we will get out on the town!
We’ll update this post as we learn more – you can add ideas in the comments or submit to the calendar, too.
1. Go To Dinner
For most of these places you will need reservations. Prices do not include tax, gratuity, or drinks.
– Amerigo Italian Restaurant will have a special pasta dinner for two, as well as their regular menu and chef specials.
– Babalu will serve a featured cocktail and specialty tapas made with “aphrodisiacs”, available Feb. 9 – Feb. 14. They don’t take reservations, so you may want to call ahead and see if there is a wait.
– B.B. King’s will be doing a three course meal for $50 which will include an appetizer, choice of two entrees, two desserts and, of course, there will be live music.
– Bleu will have a four-course prix fixe dinner, including a complimentary champagne toast, dessert and a rose for your Valentine. The cost is $70 per person, Feb. 11 – 14.
– Capriccio Grill at The Peabody will have a Valentine’s day dinner Feb. 10 – Feb. 14 from 4 – 10 p.m. The three-course meal costs $70 per person.
– Celtic Crossing is offering a special three course dinner starting at 5 p.m., including a gift of Irish Butler’s Heart Chocolates. The cost is $35 per person. Their regular menu will also be available, plus live music to keep you entertained if your date is a dud.
– Catherine and Mary’s will serve a four course prix fixe meal for $75 per person. Each course will have three options to choose from, and will be made up of specialty items not normally on the menu. Seating starts at 5 p.m.
– Char will have a few Valentine’s Day specials running in addition to their regular menu, with live music from 6 – 9 p.m.
– Chez Philippe at The Peabody is offering Valentine’s day dinners Feb.10, 11 and 14 from 5 – 10 p.m. The four-course prix fixe meal costs $95 per person, or $130 with wine pairing.
– Eighty3 at The Madison has a three-course menu with a glass of champagne for $55 per person.
– The Farmer will be having a three-course sweetheart menu from 5:30 – 9 p.m. $45 per person.
– Felicia Suzanne’s will have a three-course prix fixe menu with three choices per course, at $65 per person. Wine packages and special Valentine’s Day cocktails will be available, and early and late seating options.
– Hammer and Ale will offer a two-for-one deal on Bell’s Two Hearted Ale on Feb. 14 from 5 – 9 p.m. They will also have their regular menu available. (Ed. Note: Their pimento grilled cheese is so underrated. – HW)
– Lafayette’s will be open to regular reservations this year, and have a special Valentine’s Day menu. Live music will be on stage as always.
– Stone Soup Cafe will have candlelight and a local guitarist as a backdrop to their four-course dinner. Seating is at 5 and 7 p.m., $50 per person. And, you can BYOB for a corkage fee.
– Sweet Grass will be running their regular menu with a few drink and food specials.
– Sweet Potato Baby Cafe is offering modern European cuisine by award-winning celebrity chef Aryen Moore-Alston on Feb. 14 from 7 – 10 p.m. $150 a person, at ages 21+ only.
–The Kitchen at Shelby Farms will have a four course prix fixe menu for $75 per person. Seating starts at 5:00 p.m.
Here are some more options for dinner. We will update with more details as we have them. Make sure to call ahead for reservations.
Acre
Andrew Michael Italian Kitchen
Alchemy
Bari
Bounty on Broad
Cafe 1912
Erling Jensen
Flight
Flying Saucer downtown
Folks Folly
Hog & Hominy
Itta Bena
Mesquite Chop House
Napa Cafe
Paulette’s
Porcellino’s
River Oaks
Schweinehaus
Texas de Brazil
Terrace at the River Inn
2. See a show or concert
It Takes Two performed by the Collage Dance Collective, Feb. 11, 7:00 p.m., downtown loft of Elliot & Kimberly Perry, $75.
An intimate dance performance put on by the recently viral Collage Dance Collective, including live music, cocktails and cuisine.
Rock of Ages, Playhouse on the Square, Jan. 20 – Feb. 12, $40
If your ideal Valentine’s Day date is full of Aqua Net and heavy metal, then this show is for you. Set in 1980’s Hollywood on the Sunset Strip, the Rock of Ages features music from hit bands like Styx, Poison, Guns N’ Roses, Whitesnake and more.
Haint, Germantown Community Theater, Jan. 27 – Feb. 12, $12 – $24
Written by Germantown Community Theater’s own artistic director, this new work passionately explores trying to let go of the past even when those ghosts won’t let you move on.
Circuit Playhouse, Hand to God, Jan. 27 – Feb. 19, $25
Described by The New York Times as “disturbing as it is uproarious,” Hand to God follows a foul-mouthed puppet in a Christian ministry that takes on a mind of its own. Because nothing says Valentine’s Day more than a demonic puppet, of course.
Blueprints to Freedom: An Ode to Bayard Rustin, Hattiloo Theatre, Jan. 20 – Feb. 12
Set in the political and racial heart of 1963, the play follows Bayard Rustin, an openly gay, Black member of the non-violent civil disobedience movement.
The Illusionists – Live from Broadway, Feb. 10 – Feb. 12, $30 and up.
Put some magic back into your relationship with The Illusionists – Live from Broadway. Called “the world’s best selling magic show,” it features the live talents of seven of the most incredible illusionists on earth.
Love and All That Jazz, Church of the River, Feb. 12, 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., Free, all ages.
Enjoy live jazz from saxophonist Jim Speake and friends, as well as inspirational readings about love, all while taking in a beautiful view of the Mississippi River.
Atilla – Let’s Get Abducted Tour, Minglewood Hall, Feb. 14, doors open at 6 p.m., $18 – $20, all ages.
Rock out for love with this heavy metal band from Atlanta. Also featuring New Year’s Day, Bad Omens and Cane Hill.
Kathy Mattea, The Halloren Centre, Feb. 17, 7:30 p.m., $35, all ages
Acoustic croonings by grammy award winning singer Kathy Mattea and her longtime collaborator, guitarist Bill Cooley.
The Laugh-A-Thon tour, The Cannon Center for the Performing Arts, 6:00 p.m., $40 – 100.
A comedy show featuring Earthquake, Don “Dc” Curry, Bill Bellamy, Huggy Lowdown from the Tom Joyner show, and Damon Williams.
Sock It To Me Burlesque’s HEARTBREAKERS, RockHouse Live Memphis Feb. 11 , 9 – 11 p.m., $15 – 25.
A Valentine’s Day themed show with live music, a lineup of burlesque performers and lots of fun!
The Sounds of Love and Laughter, Tunica Resort Casino, Feb, 11, 8 p.m., $35 or VIP seating for $45.
A Valentine’s weekend party featuring the PC Band, comedian D. Elli$! Aka Mr. Entertainment, and celebrity guest and powerful vocalist James Wright Chanel, who will be co-hosting with Sheronica Ray.
3. Do Something Different
Champagne Sunday, The Metal Museum, Feb. 12, Free, all ages.
Browse the exhibits, enjoy some bubbly and treats and let your Valentine browse their gift shop full of one-of-a-kind jewelry, art and home decor.
Valentine’s Day Dance Class, Blue Suede Ballroom, Feb. 14, 6 – 6:45 p.m., $35 per couple, RSVP in advance.
Couples will learn a seductive rumba or tango in this class, and still have time to make it to dinner afterward. All participants will receive one complimentary group class as a special gift.
Pinot’s Palette (Sanderlin) Valentine’s Paintings for Couples, Feb 11 -. 14, various times, $45.
They will be hosting a variety of couple’s painting events the weekend before Valentine’s Day through the 14th. Chocolate and roses will be provided!
Victorian Valentine at the Woodruff-Fontaine House Museum, Feb. 3, 5 – 8 p.m., $15.
Learn the history behind the Valentine day traditions practiced today. Gowns, lace and a romantic atmosphere take you back to a time when courting rituals were strictly followed. No Tinder here! Light refreshments will be served.
All Things Chocolate IV, National Civil Rights Museum, Feb. 12, 6 – 11 p.m., $150 per couple, $85 for a single ticket.
A romantic evening at the National Civil Rights Museum. There will be a three-course plated meal, live band, open bar and more.
25th Annual Works of Heart, Memphis College of Art, Saturday, Feb. 4, 7 – 10 p.m., $75.
Bid on 120 gallery-quality heart-themed pieces. Beer, wine and appetizers will be available. All proceeds benefit the Memphis Child Advocacy Center.
Whiskey, Wine and Chocolates, Memphis Botanic Garden, Feb. 10, 7 – 10 p.m., $60.
Memphis chocolatier Philip Ashley presents an array of designer chocolates paired with select whiskey, wines and cocktails. Music by Objeckt12.
Wine Bottle Glasses class, Five in One Social Club, Feb. 14, 6 – 9 p.m., $20
Grab a drink and a date for this Valentine’s Day edition of one of their most popular classes! Learn how to turn an empty wine bottle into a drinking glass, and consider yourself a Pinterest pro.
3rd Annual Titled Hearts Pinball Tournament, Memphis Made Brewing, Feb. 18, 2 – 6 p.m., $10 entry fee.
Another Valentine’s Day weekend tourney hosted by Memphis Pinball. $10 to enter but games are free for competitors. A cash prize will be awarded for the top four players.
4. Embrace your Valentine’s Day angst.
Not a fan of hearts, love and fuzzy feelings? We hear ya! Check out these ways to celebrate or, I guess not celebrate:
We Need to Talk: A Open Call Exhibition of Breakup Items, Crosstown Arts, Feb. 10. 5 – 8 p.m.
This exhibition is an opportunity for anyone who has suffered heartbreak to share their tale of love gone wrong in a very public way. Submit a memento of your breakup and the object’s story, and it will be displayed. Online submissions end Friday, Jan. 27 and art drop off is Feb. 2 and Feb. 3 from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Or, just head out to the opening of the exhibit on Feb.10 to gawk at the pain of others.
The Break Up Show 6, New Daisy Theatre, Feb. 11, 8 – 11 p.m., $20 up to $300 for a VIP lounge.
True stories of heartbreak, rejection and insanity women into a comedic show. Dramatic recreations of text-message breakups, online dating fails and bad date re-enactments are all on the table. and more. The stories are anonymous 100% real and local – they were all submitted by Memphians.
Love on the Rocks: A Walking Tour of the Romantically Challenged, Elmwood Cemetery, Feb. 11, 10:30 a.m., $20, adults only.
Learn about Memphis history of love gone wrong. The tour is completely outdoors, so dress for the weather.
Monster Jam, FedExForum, Feb. 17 – 18, 7 p.m., $15 and up all ages/kid friendly.
Revel in your distaste for the holiday of love by watching giant trucks crush things and run into each other, duh.
The No Show Ball benefiting The Forrest Spence Fund, Your House! Feb. 11, $100
There may be no better option to hide from Valentine’s Day then by having an entire dinner party delivered to your door, and all for a good cause. If you live in Shelby County, a cooler containing an entree, salad, bread, dessert and a bottle of wine will be delivered before 3:00 p.m. Turn on a weird Netflix series, and you are all set.
Let us know in the comments below how you plan on celebrating, or if there is anything else to add to this list. Happy Valentine’s Day, Memphis!
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AMAZING week of new releases - we've got new works by old favorites (members of SCORN, PANASONIC), JOHN ZORN, EUGENE CHANDBOURNE, new music by COLLEEN, KING KRULE, DON CABALLERO, and hallowwen favorites including BOLLYWOOD BLOODBATH, GUNDELLA THE WITCH, and VINCENT PRICE!!!!!!
so many great new tunes for your ears!!!
new arrivals for 10-20-17
BULLY: "LOSING" (Sub Pop) LOSER EDITION COLOR VINYL LP - $19.99 / CD - $13.99 BRAND NEW FULL LENGTH! Free Poster & Sticker (while supplies last)
WOLF PARADE: "CRY CRY CRY" (Sub Pop) LOSER EDITION COLOR VINYL Double LP - $24.99 / CD - $13.99 A couple of weeks late on this one, but we do have the Loser Editions! Free POSTER and STICKER while they last
COLLEEN: "A FLAME, MY LOVE" LP - cd $16.99 lp $21.99A flame my love, a frequency marks another bold step in Colleen's evolution as an artist, as Schott set aside her signature instrument the viola da gamba for an entirely electronic setup, utilizing pocket synthesizers and Moog pedals. Like her move from instrumental music to vocally driven songs, or her move from guitar to cello to the viola da gamba, the keyboard melodies of the album captures Colleen's ability to adapt and grow with each release, while retaining her singular qualities as an artist.
KING KRULE: "THE OOZ" Double LP $25.99
COURTNEY BARNETT & KURT VILE: LP - $19.99 / CD - $13.99
DESTROYER: "KEN" Color Vinyl LP w/ BONUS 7" - $26.99 / Black Vinyl LP - $19.99 / CD - $13.99
THE CLIENTELLE: "MUSIC FOR THE AGE OF MIRACLES" LP - $19.99
SPOON: "GA GA GA GA GA" Double LP - $29.99 10th Anniversary Re-issue. Remastered 180 gram. Download Included. Extra 12" includes previously unreleased songs.
SUPERCHUNK: "SUPERCHUNK" LP - $19.99 Remastered Debut Album comes with a poster & an additional download of a 1990 NYC concert.
WILLIAM TYLER: "DESERT CANNON" Double LP - $21.99 Double LP cut @ 45 rpm. USA Re-issue of this album originally an import only release from 2008
WILLIAM TYLER: "MODERN COUNTRY" LP - $19.99 Back In Stock! Outstanding recent release by this wonderful instrumental guitarist. A Stormy Records favorite!
RADIOHEAD: "OK Computer OKNOTOK" Triple LP - $39.99 BLUE COLOR VINYL!!!! One Copy Back In Stock
PAVEMENT: "CROOKED RAIN, CROOKED RAIN" LP - $20.99 Back In Stock after a long absence.
THE NATIONAL: "SLEEP WELL BEAST" Double LP - $25.99 Blue Color Vinyl. 1st time in stock.
JACKIE SHANE: "ANY OTHER WAY" (Numero) Double LP - $25.99 / Double CD - $21.99 Known by genre aficionados as one of the greatest singers and most riveting stage presences in soul music, Jackie Shane has remained largely unknown outside Toronto, where her career briefly flowered in the 1960s. Beyond her unmistakable gift of the gab, Shane is a pioneer of transgender rights, born in a male body but unabashedly living her entire life as a woman at a time when to do so seemed unthinkable. Any Other Way is the first artist-approved collection of Ms. Shane's work, collecting all six of her 45s and every highlight from the legendary 1967 live sessions at the Sapphire Tavern, including three mind blowing, previously-unreleased tracks. Rob Bowman's 20,000 word essay is Jackie's first communication with the public in nearly half a century, telling for the first time ever Jackie Shane's story in her own words.
RITUAL HOWLS: "THEIR BODY" 5 song 12" EP - $14.99 Back in stock - brand new music!
ALEX LAHEY: "I LOVE YOU LIKE A BROTHER" (Dead Oceans) LP - $17.99 Limited Edition OPAQUE YELLOW VINYL Pressing
DON CABALLERO: "SINGLES BREAKING UP (Vol. 1)" LP - $21.99 13 song collection of singles from the 1990's. COLOR VINYL first edition - download included.
HEADROOM: "HEAD IN THE CLOUDS" (Trouble In Mind) LP - $17.99 Color Vinyl 1st pressing.
PASTOR T.L. BARRETT: "LIKE A SHIP...(Without A Sail)" (Numero) LP - $16.99 FINALLY BACK IN PRINT!
JOHN CARPENTER: "LOST THEMES" (Sacred Bones) LP - $18.99 GREEN VINYL * Limited to only 500 copies
JOHN CARPENTER: "ANTHOLOGY Movie Themes 1974-1998" (Sacred Bones) LP + 7" - $22.99 Limited Edition COLOR VINYL pressing - includes a bonus 7"
CULTS: "OFFERING" LP - $21.99 Brand New Album
REPTALIENS: "FM-2030" (Captured Tracks) LP - $18.99 "Full of lush melodies and catchy hooks, Reptaliens create psychedelic, chameleonic dreamscapes on their debut album"
NHK YX KOYXEN: "EXIT ENTRANCE" (DFA) LP - $18.99 Exit Entrance is the Japanese techno artist’s first record for the veteran New York label. According to a press release, the album’s eight tracks cover “elegant arrangements and crisp drum breaks”. The album closes with ‘Outset’, a “somber hushed techno tune” dedicated to the late Mika Vainio, who collaborated with Matsunaga on several records over the years.
SHIGETO: "THE NEW MONDAY" Double LP - $22.99 Brand New Release * COLOR VINYL and also comes with a SHIGETO button.
MOGWAI: "EVERY COUNTRY'S SON" Triple LP Box Set - $52.99 third album in this limited edition Box Set includes demo versions. Also comes with the CD version and a set of photo prints.
ASTON NEIGHBORHOOD PLEASURE CLUB featuring DAVID J - "HIS SIDE / HER SIDE" $9.99 BRAND NEW Clear Vinyl 7" Single released by HOLD FAST. Limited Numbered Edition of 500 copies
HER DARK HOST - "CRIMSON QUEEN" / "LYCANIA" $6.99 Danzig / Blues Metal. Brand New Single released by HOLD FAST. Limited Numbered Edition of only 300 copies
"THE ORBIT MAGAZINE ANTHOLOGY" 256 Page Book $35.00
die ANGEL: Entropien l LP $23.99Ilpo Väisänen (Pan Sonic) and Dirk Dresselhaus (Schneider TM) retitle themselves Die Angel for Entropien 1, their eighth LP of electro-acoustic music together, and the duo's debut for Shapednoise's Cosmo Rhythmic label. Accompanied by skilled improviser Oren Ambarchi on two tracks, Die Angel model a complex physicality through raw, elemental inputs, exploring a flux of reactive feedback processes and mutating, unstructured sonic states generated from crackling fusions of electronics, drums, electric guitar, and field recordings warped and riddled with FX. Taking its title from both the Finnish word and German plural for entropy -- in physics, the measure of thermodynamic disorder within a system -- Entropien 1 renders seven examples of their kinetic systems in elusive action, keening from arrhythmic mulch to sloshing Brownian motions and a brilliantly towering 15-minute exploration that tips into billowing, white hot feedback with scintillating effect. The amorphous results document and describe a freeness of energy travelling from body to machine and diffused across alternating acoustic environments. Each player works as controlled, external variables which act upon and interact with the different acoustic conditions to tempestuous impact, convulsing between squashed, recursive diffractions in "Roha", to the sublimated roil of jazz drums and electric guitar wail in "Terminen Kevät", before harnessing sloshing feedback chaos in the combustible, diaphanous two parts of "Entropia" -- both "North" and "South" -- which bring the LP to its logical, compelling conclusion. With the addition of Wold or KTL-like metal emulsification and lacquer-bubbling grain in "Kitka", and Ambarchi's plasmic overdubbing in the burning plasmic plong of "Silvaticum", the overall impression is like auditive DMT, dissolving the senses and the ego -- simultaneously theirs and the listeners -- to better snag the listener in the music's metastable potential and aid our unanchored exploration in those dimensions. Entropien 1 is dedicated to Mika Vainio. RIYL: Pan Sonic, Mika Vainio, KTL. Mastered and cut by Matt Colton at Alchemy.
Sun Ra: Discipline 27-II CD $16.99Corbett Vs. Dempsey present a reissue of Sun Ra Discipline 27-II, originally released on El Saturn Records in 1973. Arguably the last great original-era Saturn LP to be reissued on CD, Discipline 27-II has long deserved to be more familiar to Sun Ra fans and layfolk alike. Recorded during the same sessions in 1972 at Chicago's Streeterville Studios that produced Ra's most popular and best-known record, Space Is The Place (1973), it's got much the same vibe, from the 24-minute four-part suite of the title track -- an important conducted piece that Ra performed frequently in these years -- to the opening cut, "Pan Afro", with John Gilmore's sensational tenor work. Sporting a percussion-rich 18-piece Arkestra, the music can be thick, voluble, and dense or it can winnow down to a small group, as on the delightful track "Neptune", a vehicle for June Tyson's singing and the site of the indelible Sun Ra space chant: "Have you heard the latest news from Neptune, Neptune, Neptune?" This marks the first time Discipline 27-II has been reissued on CD. It has been remastered from the original tapes, includes a never published period photo of Ra by Charles Shabacon, and ends with an explosive bonus track from the same session, showing quite a different side of the same ensemble. Personnel: Sun Ra - electronic keyboard space age instruments, Moog synthesizer, vocals; John Gilmore - tenor saxophone, percussion, vocals; Marshall Allen - alto saxophone, flute; Danny Davis - alto saxophone, flute; Pat Patrick - baritone saxophone, bass; Danny Thompson - baritone saxophone, flute; Eloe Omoe - bass clarinet, flute; Akh Tal Ebah - trumpet, flugelhorn, vocals; Lamont Kwamie McClamb - trumpet, percussion; Russell Branch - percussion, congas; Stanley Morgan - percussion, congas; with Alzo Wright, Harry Richards, Lex Humphries, Robert Underwood on drums and vocals by June Tyson, Cheryl Banks, Judith Holton, and Ruth Wright. Cover art by LeRoy Butler; cover design by Alton Abraham. Recorded by Ed Michel at Streeterville Studios, Chicago, October, 1972; LP produced by Alton Abraham for Infinity Inc.
Chadbourne, Eugene: Lost Eddie Chatterbox Session CD $16.99Corbett Vs. Dempsey present The Lost Eddie Chatterbox Session, a reissue of Eugene Chadbourne's album, first released as a cassette on No Prestige Records in 1988. Dateline: Christmas Day, 1977, San Francisco. On an ailing quarter-track tape deck, in a marathon session, Eugene Chadbourne recorded a series of slide guitar solos playing compositions by the likes of Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, and Ornette Coleman, along with a few standards and originals. Although the recording quality was imperfect, the playing was absolute genius -- enough so that Chadbourne was eventually convinced, a decade later, to issue it as a cassette tape, which he sold at concerts. Long pre-dating the slash-and-burn-and-reinvent approach to jazz songbooks now familiar from groups like News From Lulu, Chadbourne leapt into each short track with giddy abandon, introducing the piece with a nerdy credit line, then ripping and tearing at it adoringly, his improvisations forcing a new view of the familiar melodies. Anyone familiar with Chadbourne's wonderful duets with Frank Lowe on Don't Punk Out! (1979), waxed in the same period, has a general sense of his modus, but the complete commitment he gave to the project on The Lost Eddie Chatterbox Session makes it a special and wholly unique item in the manic master's chronicles. On this special CD reissue, the tracks have been tenderly but respectfully restored, eliminating some of the most distracting audio flaws but leaving the inconceivable artistry intact. Four unreleased tracks have been added to the jam-packed program, as well as the original cover photo and Chadbourne's unreadable track listing, which is carefully reproduced on the interior. Recorded December 25, 1977, in San Francisco
John Zorn and Eugene Chadbourne: 77-81 LP+BK $44.99Song Cycle Records present a reissue of 1977-1981, a collection of rare free-jazz pieces performed by John Zorn and selected by the American guitarist and music critic Eugene Chadbourne originally released in 1998. Originally released to accompany the book release of Sonora: John Zorn (Materiali Sonori), the album is presented here for the first time in an exclusive release in limited edition on vinyl. This special issue includes the original book that features exclusive interviews, essays, and photos about the artist's entire oeuvre up to 1988.
VA: Bollywood Bloodbath CD $17.99
VA: Bollywood Bloodbath 2LP $29.99restock on one of carl's essentail listening favorites!!black vinyl, 2 slabs of screams, sighs, shrieks and sitars!! songs from horror slasher bollywood films - makes great halloween listening!!
Caretaker: Everywhere At The End Of Time 1-3 3CD set $29.99The first three stages in a series of six albums by The Caretaker, compiled here on a deluxe three CD collector's edition. Each album reveals new points of progression, loss and disintegration, progressively falling further and further towards the abyss of complete memory loss and nothingness... Embarking on the Caretaker's final journey with the familiar vernacular of abraded shellac 78s and their ghostly waltzes to emulate the entropic effect of a mind becoming detached from everyone else's sense of reality and coming to terms with their own, altered, and ever more elusive sense of ontology. The series aims to enlighten our understanding of dementia by breaking it down into a series of stages that provide a haunting guide to its progression, deterioration, and disintegration, and the way that people experience it according to a range of impending factors. In other words, Everywhere At The End Of Time probes some of the most important questions about modern music's place in a world that's increasingly haunted or even choked by the tightening noose of feedback loops of influence; perceptibly questioning the value of old memories as opposed to the creation of new ones, and, likewise the fidelity of those musical memories which remain, and whether we can properly recollect them from the mire of our faulty memory banks without the luxury of choice. It's highly encouraged that you join The Caretaker on this, his final journey through the endless haunted ballrooms and mazy corridors of his wasting mind... Features new and exclusive artwork by Ivan Seal on each panel -- made especially for this series. Housed in a deluxe eight-panel, triple digifile. Mastered and cut by Lupo.
Fret: Over Depth 2LP $28.99 Mick Harris (Scorn, Quoit, Painkiller) returns after several years of hiatus with ten tracks of blasting landmine bass and interlocking shrapnel rhythms. Derek Szeto on the album: "... For someone with decades of releases over various solo projects, collaborations and pseudonyms, whether it's doing blast beats in the original Napalm Death to crushing techno brutality as Monrella, or savage drum & bass as Quoit. Then of course there's the mighty Scorn and his numerous collaborations with fellow luminaries such as John Zorn and Bill Laswell (in Painkiller). Rather than being tied to genres or scenes, Mick Harris is one of those producers who creates a whole sonic world uniquely of his own . . . Needless to say his work has influenced legions of producers like Surgeon, Regis, Ontal, Vatican Shadow/Prurient, Fausten, Shapednoise et al. . . . And yet after all this time, it is impressive that Harris still stands way above his successors and has never been surpassed in his own production/performance game. After a hiatus of several years, he is back with a new album under the guise of Fret. Working at a faster tempo than his Scorn material, the Fret project first surfaced years ago on the Downwards label, rooting it firmly in the dark, industrial and technoid world, and appeared more recently on Tresor (Kern mix by Objekt), maintaining the characteristic colossal bass-heaviness and textural depth. And now a full album on Karlrecords, Berlin. Harris fans will be delighted to know that despite the 130 bpm tempo, the newest Fret still resolutely avoids any straight four-on-the-floor kick drums; every track lurches, stumbles, staggers and charges forth with beats in beautifully broken asymmetry. We get ten tracks of crushing, percussive destroyers, each itself a storm of precision chaos, with colossal low-end frequencies that'll cause stampedes in the right circumstances. The classic Harris sound is there; searing waves of feedback distortion, intricate, interlocking rhythms and cold, abattoir atmospheres . . . The lazy-minded would probably lump it in with the term 'techno', but the disciplined brutality, blasting landmine bass and interlocking shrapnel rhythms are clearly Harris's own trademark style, sitting somewhere between Scorn and Quoit. The tracks appear deceptively chaotic on the surface, yet each is meticulously and masterfully composed with great attention to layering and detail." 180 gram vinyl; Includes download code.
Outro Tempo: Electronic And Contemporary Music From Brazil, 1978-1992 double cd $22.99Double CD release of the outstanding compilation, Outro Tempo: Electronic And Contemporary Music From Brazil, 1978-1992. Contains three tracks not included on the double LP version (MFM 016LP). For their first multi-artist compilation, Music From Memory take a trip to the heart of the Amazon rainforest. Outro Tempo: Electronic And Contemporary Music From Brazil, 1978-1992 explores the outer reaches of Brazilian music, where indigenous rhythms mix with synthesizers and where MPB mingles with drum computers. As Brazil faced the last years of its military dictatorship and transition to democracy, a generation of forward-thinking musicians developed an alternative vision of Brazilian music and culture. They embraced traditionally shunned electronic production methods and infused their music with elements of ambient, jazz-fusion, and minimalism. At the same time they referenced the musical forms and spirituality of indigenous tribes from the Amazon. The music they produced was a complex and mesmerizing tapestry that vividly evoked Brazilian landscapes and simultaneously reached out to the world beyond its borders. Features: Piry Reis, Nando Carneiro, Cinema, João De Bruçó & R. H. Jackson, Os Mulheres Negras, Fernando Falcão, Anno Luz, Andréa Daltro, Bené Fonteles, Maria Rita, Carlinhos Santos, Bené Fonteles, Priscilla Ermel, Carioca, Marco Bosco, and Luhli E Lucina.
Greiner, Svarte: Knive LP $23.99Miasmah present a reissue of Svarte Greiner's debut album Knive, originally released on Type in 2006. 11 years since its inception, the surreal and darkly romantic Knive still sounds like a mystery and something that's hard to pin down. Svarte Greiner's debut album feels like a trip into the forest at midnight, with all the sounds and impressions that comes with it. Spiritual, horrific, and fragile in essence, its melancholic core is hard to shake off, and feels as present today as it did back then. While starting off the sub-genre of "acoustic doom" back in 2006, it's difficult to say what else to name it now, with its inspiration and elements from countless genres. The record flows through the dissonant cellos and washed-out vocals of "Ocean Out Of Wood" past the introverted church organs of "The Black Dress", distorted guitars and wooden beats of "The Dining Table" to the operatic finale of "Final Sleep". Everything is scattered, with field recordings from crows, branches, walking, sleeping, rain, wind, and who-knows-what. Knive stands on many feet, wherever they may be. Erik K Skodvin's path as Svarte Greiner have since been dwelling more and more into this world, picking each element apart to focus on them, stretching them out or cutting them down, looping, experimenting, and flooding with reverb -- trying to make time stop and night fall. But for now a re-visit to where it all started seems appropriate. Includes download code; Full-tone color artwork; Edition of 500.
Partch, Harry: And On The Seventh Day Petals Fell In Petaluma lp $26.99Performed by The Gate 5 Ensemble: Harry Partch (director), Danlee Mitchell, Harry Partch, Michael Ranta, Emil Richards, Wallace Snow, Stephen Tosh. Limited edition LP release (180 gram vinyl) with previously unpublished bonus tracks + free download card. "'In late 1962 Harry Partch returned to California and began a project that would not only become the bones of a masterwork, Delusion of the Fury, but have a life of its own. In a too-small space within an abandoned Petaluma chick hatchery, Partch gathered the instruments he had designed and built -- new and old -- eager to once again expand the boundaries of his compositional fabric. He learned each individual part as he composed, establishing that it could be played. And On The Seventh Day Petals Fell In Petaluma (1963-64, rev. 1966) was born of his exploration and assembled with that 'minimum of players' over a three-year period. In spite of rough conditions and meager resources Partch's dogged persistence, along with the efforts of his dedicated assistants, eventually succeeded in realizing the 34 verses of expanded duets. With this album we revisit an important work and turning-point, guided by the original 'Statement' Partch wrote for the first commercial release of the piece. Previously only excerpted, it is a voicing of his beliefs that transcends one project to illuminate an entire purpose. We also reprise exquisite notes by the late Bob Gilmore, who distills and explains the story of Petals so clearly and eloquently. No one wants a dead reissue, so by digging into the archives, I am pleased to offer hidden gems. First, The Petals Sessions is an aural glance into the cramped quarters of the recording space, as composer and players labor to bring new notes to life, Harry himself giving direction. The montage ends with a 'test take' by Danlee Mitchell and Michael Ranta that could have easily been a keeper! Finally, we present the original Verse 17. In 1964 Partch wrote two duets that used the Adapted Viola; by the time the piece was finished in 1967, he had excised them. The ending track -- never before released -- brings Harry back to life, playing and recording Adapted Viola for one of the last times. I was completely unaware of this recording until I examined the outtakes and it glows, fifty years on. That Petals ever came to be, like much of Partch's story, stands somewhere between determination and miracle.' --Jon Szanto, The Harry Partch Foundation"
Price, Vincent: Hornbook for Witches CD $12.99Reissue of the ultra-rare 1976 vinyl, Vincent Price's A Hornbook For Witches, Stories And Poems For Halloween, on CD for the first time. Turn up the volume, and turn down the lights. Suspense-master Vincent Price presents a hair-raising, bone-chilling collection of classic horror tales featuring a ghastly brew of witches, ghosts, and goblins. Edgar Allan Poe's eerie Dreamland, John Collier's offbeat Thus I Refute Beezly, and Marias Leech's practical but frightful How To See Ghosts Or Surely Bring Them To You, are just a few of the tales stirring up fear in this chilling concoction of horror. These stories, sounds, spells, and incantations will send shivers up your spine. This is a truly amazing landmark recording from the good old days presented by one of the greatest voices of horror. Also features pieces written by Leah Bodine Drake, Charles Kingsley, and John Kendrick Bangs. Comes complete with all the original stunning album artwork. Digitally remastered.
Gundella - The Hour Of The Witch LP $27.99 Make someone love you, discourage an unwanted suitor, and more - with the power of witchcraft! Finally, this obscure LP of spells reappears! A descendant of the green witches of Scotland, part of a Detroit area coven, and author of multiple books and a newspaper column helping solve everyday problems from the Wiccan perspective, Gundella helps you test your psychic powers, make ritualistic candles, and mold wax dolls. She’ll define witchcraft & magic, and teach you how to cast your own spells! Gundella’s arcane instructions are accompanied by a perfectly atmospheric and esoteric soundscape created by her son. All scribed into bewitching green vinyl or CD! Both including extensive notes by Gundella’s daughter! The LP features a 16 page portfolio of Witch Watch articles compiled by Gundella herself!
Kelela - Take Me Apart black vinyl $24.99 Kelela - Take Me Apart (TRANSPARENT VINYL) $28.99With great anticipation, Kelela's debut album emerges as an epic portrait of an artist spanning the past and future of R&B. In her hands, however, the genre knows no boundaries and so Take Me Apart exists as an absolutely singular and fearless addition to a canon of recent classics. From her very earliest work, honesty and vulnerability have been cornerstones of Kelela's art - even when clad in the armor of the avant-garde electronics she so deftly inhabits - and Take Me Apart sees her double down on both the emotional intensity and resonance of her message as well as the sonic seeking she is renowned for. Single vinyl with printed inner and outer sleeves includes download code.
Various Artists - Detroit Ghetto Blues 1948-1954 LP $20.99
Laraaji - Bring On The Sun + Sun Gong CD restock $17.99
Wolfe, Chelsea - Hiss Spun LP $26.99 While past albums operated on the intimacy of stripped-down folk music (The Grime and the Glow, Unknown Rooms), or the throbbing pulse of supplemental electronics (Pain Is Beauty, Abyss), Chelsea Wolfe’s sixth official album Hiss Spun wrings its exquisiteness out of a palette of groaning bass, pounding drums, and crunching distortion. Recorded by Kurt Ballou (Converge), the album was conceived as an emotional purge, a means of coming to terms with the tumult of the outside world by exploring the complexities of one’s inner unrest. “I’m at odds with myself,” she explains. “I got tired of trying to disappear. The record became very personal in that way. I wanted to open up more, but also create my own reality.” Hiss Spun features contributions by Aaron Turner (Old Man Gloom, SUMAC) and Troy Van Leeuwen (Queens of the Stone Age, Failure).
Various Artists - Lake Michigan Blues 1934-1941 LP $20.99
MacKay, Bill and Ryley Walker - SpiderBeetleBee LP $22.99 Drag City presents the second volume of Bill MacKay and Ryley Walker's inspired collaboration. It's been nearly two years since their much-admired 2015 debut, Land of Plenty (Whistler Records), and SpiderBeetleBee more than makes up for lost time with rich, resonant performances that elevate the sound of the guitar duo as they work with an ever-widening panorama of styles. Their first album was developed over a month-long live residency at Chicago bar The Whistler, and reflected MacKay and Walker's shared joy in a new relationship with a kindred spirit, in playing that might wordlessly finish a phrase or suggest a direction, as they spoke through their guitars. SpiderBeetleBee continues fluidly down the path of their initial psych-folkblues-raga tandem, brewing further explorations in mixed-and-matchedidioms, turning composed melodies inside-out via improvisation, and finding in the blend a shared Walker/ MacKay pasture, serendipitously found somewhere between Appalachia and the Highlands. SpiderBeetleBee radiates forth with equal parts austerity and whimsy, opening with an almost-baroque dance before giving way to a Celtictheme, both featuring MacKay and Walker's acoustics in rambling conversation, picking through intricate passages as though they were exchanges, thoughts and afterthoughts. The second of these, Pretty Weeds Revisited is enhanced by sonorous statements from Dutch cellist Katinka Kleijn (a veteran of the CSO), showing a deep, instinctive feel for the Walker/MacKay sound. The album then takes an unexpected turn at midpoint, slowly melting down and drifting soulfully through the expansive space of Naturita. Side two picks up the tempo on 'I Heard ThemSinging,' with the aid of MacKay's requinto (a kind of 5-string Mexican guitar), Walker's rolling chords and the percolating tabla of Ryan Jewell, suggesting a hitherto unknown short-cut from Brazil to India. Drafts of slide guitar and bittersweet blues evocation illumine further fruitfultravels before Dragonfly, also featuring Ms. Kleijn's haunting cello, closes the cycle with a flourish. Adorned with Bill MacKay's colorful and wilfully primitive cover-art, SpiderBeetleBee wanders through styles, landmasses and hemispheres, capturing the further adventures of MacKay and Walker with spellbinding snapshots that only bloom
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Smorgasbord Blog Magazine – Music Column - The Big Band Era with William Price King and Sally Cronin 1930s - Earl Burtnett and Cab Calloway
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Welcome to the new series of the music column where I am joined as always by Jazz singer and composer William Price King. We hope you will join us every Tuesday for some of the chart hits of the big band era from the 1930s through to the 1950s.
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2016 albums
Finally, the list everyone has been waiting for...2016 albums to which I listened
These are the albums that I have heard from 2016, so far. Besides for their star ratings, they are not necessarily in any order. I will have my top 5 at the end of the list, the big question for #1 obviously being Bowie or RTJ. Also, a genre description will be added to each, to give an idea of what you will be listening to...Happy Listening!
5 Star
David Bowie- Blackstar (rock)
Run The Jewels- 3 (rap)
4.5 Star
Tortoise- The Catastrophist (post rock)
Chance The Rapper- Coloring Book (rap/R&B)
Solange- A Seat At The Table (R&B/funk)
Steven Wilson- 4 1/2 (prog rock)
Esperanza Spalding- Emily's D+Evolution (jazz/funk fusion)
Flatbush Zombies- 3001: A Laced Odyssey (rap)
Oddisee- Alwasta (rap)
Childish Gambino- Awaken, My Love! (R&B/funk)
Common- Black America Again (rap)
Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band- The Rarity Of Experience (post rock)
Sturgill Simpson- A Sailor's Guide To Earth (outlaw country)
Gov't Mule- The Tel-Star Sessions (blues rock)
Harvey Mandel- Snake Pit (rock)
Terry Dolan- s/t (early '70s SF rock, not released when made)
Black Milk & Nat Turner- The Rebellion Sessions (jazz/instrumental R&B)
Radiohead- A Moon Shaped Pool (post rock)
Kaytranada- 99.9% (electronica/R&B)
The Rolling Stones- Blue And Lonesome (blues rock)
Danny Brown- Atrocity Exhibition (rap)
Hedwig Mollestad Trio- Black Stabat Mater (stoner rock)
4 Star
Anderson .Paak- Malibu (R&B/rap)
Saul Williams- MartyrLoserKing (R&B)
Lucinda Williams- The Ghost Of Highway 20 (country)
Mavis Staples- Livin' On A High Note (R&B)
Motorpsycho- Here Be Monster (stoner rock)
Kendrick Lamar- Untitled Unmastered (rap)
Bon Iver- 22, A Million (indie rock)
Jim James- Eternally Even (rock)
Margo Price- Midwest Farmer's Daughter (country)
Ray LaMontagne- Ouroboros (rock)
Bas- Too High To Riot (rap)
Elephant9 & Reine Fiske- Silver Mountain (stoner rock)
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard- Nonagon Infinity (rock)
Black Mountain- IV (hard rock)
Santana- IV (latin rock)
St. Paul & The Broken Bones- Sea Of Noise (neo-soul)
Robert Glasper Experiment- ArtScience (R&B)
John Scofield- No Country For Old Men (jazz)
Miles Davis & Robert Glasper- Everything's Beautiful (jazz/R&B)
Hard Working Americans- Rest In Chaos (rock)
Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment- The First Time (rap/jazz)
Betty Davis- The Columbia Years: 1968-1969 (R&B/funk)
Jerry Garcia & Merl Saunders- July 5, 1973 Lion's Share: Garcia Live, Vol. 6 (rock)
Jeff Beck- Loud Hailer (hard rock)
Charlie Hunter- Everybody Has A Plan Until They Get Punched In The Mouth (jazz)
Chris Robinson Brotherhood- Anyway You Love, We Know How You Feel (rock)
Dinosaur Jr.- Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not (hard rock)
Opeth- Sorceress (prog/death metal)
Oddisee- The Odd Tape (instrumental hip-hop)
Norah Jones- Day Breaks (roots singer/songwriter)
Todd Snider- Eastside Bulldog (rock)
A Tribe Called Quest- We Got It From Here...Thank You For Your Service (rap)
Pretenders- Alone (rock)
Dawes- We're All Gonna Die (indie rock)
Banks & Steelz- Anything But Words (rap)
3.5 Star
Tedeschi Trucks Band- Let Me Get By (rock)
Bonnie Raitt- Dig In Deep (blues/rock)
Mary Halvorson Octet- Away With You (jazz)
Wilco- Schmilco (rock)
Hart Valley Drifters- Folk Time (bluegrass)
The Weeknd- Starboy (R&B)
Bruno Mars- 24 K Magic (R&B)
Carl Broemel- 4th Of July (rock)
Mudcrutch- 2 (bluegrass/rock)
Nx Worries/Anderson .Paak- Yes Lawd! (rap)
J Dilla- The Diary (rap)
Phish- Big Boat (rock)
Schoolboy Q- Blank Face LP (rap)
Shabazz Palaces- Live At Third Man Records (rap)
Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals- Call It What It Is (rock)
Snarky Puppy- Culcha Vulcha (jazz)
Cuong Vu- Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny (jazz)
3 Star
Snarky Puppy- Family Dinner, Vol. 2 (jazz)
De La Soul- And The Anonymous Nobody (rap)
The Hamilton Mixtape (rap/R&B)
Musically Rich's Top 5
1. David Bowie- Blackstar
2. Run The Jewels- 3
3. Chris Forsyth & The Solar Motel Band- The Rarity Of Experience
4. Solange- A Seat At The Table
5. Kaytranada- 99.9%
Hedwig Mollestad Trio and Sturgill Simpson, were the 2 that just missed.
Written Under the Influence of...
Three Dog Night- Around The World With Three Dog Night Mighty Mighty Bosstones- Question The Answers
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INTERVIEW:
THE STEVE VAUGHAN-WILLIAMS BLUES BAND
1970 to 2017 - Rock and Rollers Play the Blues
Ahead of their recent performance in Bury St Edmunds, B-Side’s Francine Carrel caught up with one of East Anglia’s finest rhythm and blues acts.
Oakes Barn might not seem the most likely spot for a music venue - the new-build, old-style pub doesn’t have the best acoustics or the biggest stage space. But it’s got a great atmosphere and reasonably priced ales and, every last Thursday of the month, the Bury St Edmunds bar is packed out and basking in the blues.
The Steve Vaughan-Williams Blues Band is the namesake of one of the men sitting in front of me: Steve himself. He’s a singer and lead guitar player with decades of top-notch musical experience. Next to him is long-time percussionist and mischief-maker Richard Carr – formerly of 1960s heavy rock band The System and 1970s psychedelic Caribbean blues rockers SAM – who plays the cajón in Steve’s band. They’ve joined me for a drink and a chat, ostensibly to contribute some worldly-wise experience to this magazine.
Steve Vaughan-Williams is something of a legend in Bury music history, having been part of Smoke, a psychedelic heavy rock band in the early 70s, whose first and only single ‘Dream Of Dreams’ was recently rereleased on Spoke Records, having become something of a collectors item since the band’s demise (original copies have reportedly been selling for £600). Smoke achieved local-legend status thanks to their marathon charity fundraising “gig” at Bury St Edmunds Corn Exchange in 1970 for the Guinness World Record. As Steve explains, “Our manager thought it would be a good idea. We were the longest-playing band, we broke the record. Guinness allowed each person an hour’s break every so many hours as long as the band kept playing. They kept an eye, making sure it was all done properly! As you can see on the video, I was out of it.” Not long afterwards, Smoke disbanded. Steve says it was his decision. “It was me. I’d just had enough, really. I wanted to get married and I couldn’t carry on with it. I got disillusioned.”
Steve sold his equipment and didn’t pick up a guitar for many years. But Bury St Edmunds’ music scene sucked him back in, and he was persuaded to play in a series of folk and jazz bands (“I kept going off on blues tangents, though”) before the Steve Vaughan-Williams Blues Band was formed. Comprising musicians of an impressive collective calibre including keyboard player/vocalist Ron Reimann, saxophonist Paul Jolly and bassist Gregg Mallett, the band grew from jam sessions between drinking buddies with shared musical passions.
A jazz and blues musician for more than five decades, Ron began playing piano in 1959, playing with a jazz-morphing-into-mainstream group called the Dixieland Wanderers; since then, he’s provided piano, keyboards, harmonica and vocals for numerous groups, in venues ranging from working men’s clubs to glitzy parties in Dubai. Paul’s introduction to the jazz scene came whilst working as a London commis chef in the 1980s, when his colleagues would take him to Soho to watch artists like the Tommy Chase Quartet; moving to Ixworth in 1986, he began playing alto sax in much-missed Bury St Edmunds music pubs The Rising Sun and The Garland Street Café, later taking up tenor and baritone sax. In 2009, Ron, Paul and Gregg met after joining jazz fusion band Rondo; Ron went on to meet Steve whilst drinking at (real ale watering hole of fine repute) The Dove in 2014, and the Steve Vaughan-Williams Blues Band began to take shape. Finally, the current line-up was completed when Oakes Barn barmaid Briony King joined the ranks, adding classic blues vocals with a fantastic range. She’s a fair bit younger than most of the boys, in her early 30s, but she grew up with the blues and took to it like a fish to water. She blew the band away with her rendition of ‘Walking on the Sand’, a classic song that Richard says some people come specifically to see performed.
“We don’t do covers, as such,” Richard clarifies. “We take numbers and do them our way.” Blues lends itself to this kind of creativity, and it means that no one set is the same – which probably helps keep up audience numbers. How do they decide on the songs? “Somebody makes a suggestion and it goes to the committee!” They then work on it until everyone’s happy with it: that can be quick, or a song can be “on the boil” for several months.
With the structured part of the interview over, I drilled the two musicians for stories and advice.
What was your first instrument?
Steve: An acoustic guitar given to me by an American serviceman who was heading back home. My first electric belonged to my brother – he never played it. When my father heard me play it one day he got my brother to give it to me!
Richard: Some cushions and a Zildjian cymbal. Back when they were actually Turkish and handmade.
What was the first single you bought?
Richard [cringing]: ‘Rubberball’, by Bobby Vee. I hate telling people that.
Steve: I don’t know! Probably a Beatles track.
What’s the best album of all time?
Steve: My favourite – I think I’ve worn it out – is a triple album: ‘The Best of Eric Clapton’.
Richard: I honestly couldn’t choose… I like Osibisa’s ‘African Criss Cross’. Listen to it, seriously.
Who are your musical inspirations?
Richard: Pete Green; Alexis Korner; John Mayall; Chuck Berry.
Steve: Johnny Winter. And, of course, Eric Clapton.
Give us a rock and roll anecdote.
Steve: We were at Island Studios in London, and they said, “Boys, use anything in the studio.” Sitting on the chair was a Vox AC30. So, I plugged it in and the guy behind the bar went, “No!” He pulled the plug out. We said, “You said we could use anything!” He said: “Not that, it’s (Irish blues/rock legend) Rory Gallagher’s!” Rory would have been horrified if he had known. That’s a good claim to fame, eh?
Richard: We (The System) out-Who’d The Who. We played at Bow’s Lion in Stevenage. Unfortunately, our bass player accepted an amphetamine taking competition with (legendarily hard-partying Who drummer) Keith Moon. Keith was there, just flicking up pills, one after the other… he got to about 20. He came out and did a typical Keith Moon thing. The curtains came across and he got sent off to hospital for a stomach pump. So, of course, our bass player had to take 21 pills. He came out absolutely out of his head, picked up an amplifier, and hurled it across the stage. There was a floor-to-ceiling drape that caught fire. Everyone was running around, evacuating the building, putting out the fire and so on… and, amazingly, we got paid.
Yes, that… is amazing. Do I dare ask, is there a separate ‘most memorable gig’?
Richard: Yes. We (The System) went down to Margate to support the Pretty Things. Skip Allen was on the drums. We couldn’t park anywhere near the venue, so we asked him if I could use Allen’s drum kit. There was a split-level stage - I was on the top, everyone else was on the lower section. The top section itself was in two halves. The Pretty Things’ roadie had put the spurs of the bass drum in a groove where the two halves met. At the time I used to really thump the bass drum. So I was playing during the closing song and all of a sudden, the spurs struck down a hole I’d created by driving the front section away from the back section. The whole kit came crashing down. The cymbal hit the lead guitarist on the head, and he yelled “Oh, fuck!” Well, it was a hot summer’s night and everyone was primed. We kicked off a riot. They had to evacuate.
Steve: There was another band called The Smoke in them days. They did quite a famous record, ‘My Friend Jack’. We were always confused with them. So one day our agent got us a big gig near Birmingham, paid very well, we had a big support band, it was a huge venue… it was great. We got there and saw the poster. It said: “The Smoke - hit band with My Friend Jack”. Our manager told us to just play the song, nobody would know the difference. People were waiting to see it. I was not happy. But what could I do? We did it. I shouldn’t have done. I told the manager to NEVER do that to me again. If he had I’d have gone out and told the audience it was a fraud.
Best musician you’ve ever worked with?
Steve: We played with Colosseum (a pioneering jazz-rock band) in Newcastle. They were extraordinary musicians.
Richard: Of all the bands I supported it comes down to David Bowie and The Who; both for different reasons. Bowie was a sheer professional - he was the first person I saw in a rock band put his hand over his ear so he knew exactly how he sounded. The Who were just fun. They were great to be with.
What makes a good tour?
Richard: Beer.
Steve: Yeah.
What can be improved in the Bury St Edmunds music scene?
Richard: There are so many good musos out there who aren’t getting the recognition they deserve. People like Scare the Normals, Men of Munga… there’s so many of them out there. It’s very difficult for them to find anywhere to play. The (old touring) venues – dance halls and things – don’t exist any more. Pubs have to take a lot of money to be able to pay the band, so a lot of bands are playing for nothing, which is criminal, really. Venues should be paying bands. People are playing - giving up time and money - and they should get rewarded for it.
What advice would you give to an aspiring musician?
Steve: You have to play from the heart, and play what you want to play. Become your own person. Jimi Hendrix wasn’t taught by a tab. Eric Clapton wasn’t taught by a tab. Put your own slant on things.
Richard: Practice. Keep practicing, all the time. And never take “no” for an answer. Keep knocking on doors. Eventually one will open - if you’re good.
THE LOWDOWN – Who’s Who in the Steve Vaughan-Williams Blues Band:
Briony King is lead vocalist.
Steve Vaughan-Williams plays lead guitar and sings lead vocals on some of the songs.
Richard Carr plays the cajón. He’s been in and out of music since the early 60s, and has racked up an intimidating and probably libelous collection of anecdotes.
Ron Reimann plays keyboard and takes the lead vocals on several songs. He’s been playing jazz and the blues for over 50 years and it shows (in a good way!).
On the saxophone is Paul Jolly, a music child of the 80s rather than the 70s. He switches between instruments mid-set, seeming as confident with alto as tenor.
Gregg Mallett plays bass with controlled style, easily keeping up with his bandmates’ improvisations and adding his own flair to the music.
You can see the Steve Vaughan-Williams Blues Band at Oakes Barn in Bury St Edmunds on the last Thursday of every month, from 8pm. They’re not on social media, but you can contact the band directly via e-mail: [email protected]
Photo credit: Steve Vaughan-Williams and Richard Carr by Francine Carrel
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Hyperallergic: Art Movements
Henry Stanier, “Karnak” (1868), watercolor and bodycolor, 665 x 476 mm, British Museum 1994 (© The Trustees of the British Museum)
Art Movements is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world.
Archaeologists discovered a 26-foot statue submerged in groundwater in east Cairo. The sculpture is thought to depict Pharaoh Ramses II, also known as Ramses the Great or Ozymandias.
Authorities on the Indonesian island of Bali refused to cover up nude statues and figures of Hindu deities ahead of a visit by the king of Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud.
A watercolor by little-known artist Henry Stanier went on display alongside works by James Whistler and John Singer Sargent as part of the British museum’s Places of the Mind: British watercolour landscapes 1850–1950 exhibition. The watercolor, which depicts the Temple of Karnak in Egypt, was one of three paintings by the artist found at the museum by curator Kim Sloan over ten years ago. It’s still not known how the works entered the museum’s collection.
Jeff Koons was convicted of plagiarism by a French court over his 1988 ceramic sculpture “Naked.”
Iraqi archaeologists claim to have unearthed an Assyrian period palace underneath the Nebi Yunus shrine in Iraq. The site was discovered during a search of tunnels dug by ISIS. Archaeologists and reporters confirmed that much of the Mosul antiquities museum‘s collection has been completely destroyed after Iraqi forces retook the museum from ISIS earlier this week.
Art adviser Lisa Jacobs was ordered to pay back the $1 million she made from the sale of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s painting “Future Sciences Versus the Man” (1983) by the New York Supreme Court. Jacobs sold the painting on behalf of Michael Schulhof — the former president of Sony Pictures — but did not disclose the painting’s true sale price, pocketing $1 million in the process. Judge Charles Ramo ruled that Jacobs had committed fraud and breached a contract that set her fee for the sale at $50,000.
Art storage company ARCIS was granted permission to open a tax-free warehouse (known popularly as a “freeport“) in New York. The 100,000-square-foot facility will open in Harlem later this year.
The Art Handlers Alliance of New York relaunched its foundational Bill of Rights as an online petition. The organization is calling for a citywide adoption of the bill.
Police identified and arrested a man who attacked a security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art last week. Brandon Aebersold struck the guard with a glass bottle shortly after complaining that a painting was crookedly displayed.
Grayson Perry took to Twitter to crowdsource models for a pair of vases inspired by the UK’s EU Referendum. The two vases, dubbed “Leave” and “Remain,” will be unveiled as part of a new program on Channel 4.
Adrián Villar Rojas was selected to create the fifth site-specific installation for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden.
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission unanimously voted to grand landmark status to several of the Waldorf-Astoria‘s interiors.
The United States Copyright Office is soliciting feedback on current copyright laws from artists and photographers as part of a public study on moral rights for authors.
Transactions
Salvador Dalí, “Figura de perfil” (1925), oil on board, 29 3/16 x 19 11/16 in (courtesy Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation)
The Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation acquired the artist’s 1925 painting, “Figure in profile.” The work was purchased at Bonhams for just over $2,196,000.
Harvard Art Museums received a $250,000 grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art.
Transitions
Hong Ra-hee resigned from her posts as director general of Seoul’s Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art and director of the Ho-Am Art Museum. Ra-hee’s son, Lee Jae-yong — the acting head of Samsung Group — has been charged with embezzlement and bribery as part of the wider corruption investigation of South Korea’s impeached president, Park Geun-Hye.
Cooper Union laid off 14 members of its staff [via email announcement].
Christie’s announced that it will close down its London salesroom in South Kensington and scale back its operations in Amsterdam. According to the New York Times, the proposed changes may result in 250 layoffs.
Sonny Kalsi and Ellen Susman were appointed to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden’s board of trustees. Jarrett Gregory joined the museum’s curatorial team.
Stephanie Rosenthal was appointed director of Martin-Gropius-Bau.
Susanne Gaensheimer will succeed Marion Ackermann as artistic director of the Kunstsammlung NRW (NRW Art Collection) in Düsseldorf.
Jennifer M. Williams was appointed deputy director of Prospect New Orleans.
Chus Martínez was appointed to curate Sculpture Park Cologne’s ninth exhibition program.
Tonya McCain was appointed program manager at the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens.
Sheetal Prajapati was appointed director of public engagement at Pioneer Works.
Margaret Doyle will leave her post as director of communications at the Museum of Modern Art to join the public relations firm Polskin Arts & Communications.
Popular Photography will cease publication after its next issue.
Accolades
Rineke Dijkstra, “Almerisa, Asylum seekers center Leiden, March 14, 1994” (1994) (© Rineke Dijkstra)
Rineke Dijkstra received the 2017 Hasselblad Award.
Kellie Romany received the Forward Arts Foundation’s 2016–2017 Emerging Artist Award.
Josh Mannis was awarded the 2017 NADA Artadia Award.
Opportunities
The Queens Museum launched an open call in conjunction with its upcoming exhibition, Marinella Senatore: La Piazza Universale/Social Stages. The museum is currently accepting song and sound submissions that will be used as inspiration for a new Queens anthem.
The National Gallery of Canada’s Canadian Photography Institute launched its first Research Fellowship Program.
Obituaries
Howard Hodgkin, “Snow Cloud” (2009–10) (© Howard Hodgkin, courtesy Gagosian; photo by Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd.)
Miriam Colón (1936–2017), actress. Founder of the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in New York.
Paula Fox (1923–2017), novelist.
Spencer Hays (1936–2017), businessman and art collector.
Howard Hodgkin (1932–2017), artist.
Marian Javits (1925–2017), arts patron.
Ben Martin (1930–2017), photographer.
Misha Mengelberg (1935–2017), pianist and composer.
Robert Osborne (1932–2017), film historian and actor.
David Rubinger (1924–2017), photographer.
Irvine Sellar (1934–2017), property developer. Partnered with Renzo Piano on the construction of the Shard.
Louise Hopkins Underwood (1919–2017), co-founder of the Louise Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts.
Boaz Vaadia (1951–2017), sculptor.
Dave Valentin (1952–2017), jazz flutist.
Leon Ware (1940–2017), music producer and writer.
Fred Weintraub (1928–2017), producer. Owner of The Bitter End coffeehouse.
Nancy Willard (1936-2017), children’s author and poet.
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