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Fat Freddy's Drop Jamming Live & Taking Names
Fat Freddy's Drop Captured in Their Natural State: Jamming Live and Taking Names at the Roundhouse Fat Freddy's Drop has battled mad scientists and unleashed mad skills. An unlikely band of sons of the Pacific, they can flip on the fly from Maori reggae to sweet Yankee soul with near psychic precision. Like kungfu masters, they ...
Isaac Hayes Highway Renaming Ceremony
Please join us for a special graveside ceremony to commemmorate the renaming of a stretch of I-40 the “Isaac Hayes Memorial Highway." Friday, August 20, 2010, 10am Memorial Park Funeral Home & Cemetery 5668 Poplar Avenue | Memphis, TN Speakers will include Memphis Mayor AC Wharton, David Porter, Kirk Whalum, and others. ...
Nat Birchall: Alone In The Music
by Chris May
Two of the most over-used phrases in music journalism are “overnight star" and “out of nowhere," and so apologies for starting with them here. But when it comes to describing British saxophonist Nat Birchall, they have an unusual degree of exactitude. Birchall, born in 1957 in the rural seclusion of the hill country of North-West England, ...
Beale Street Music Festival 2010
by C. Michael Bailey
Beale Street Music Festival, Memphis in May 2010 Tom Lee Park, FedEx Blues Tent, Memphis, Tennessee May 2, 2010 April, indeed, may be the cruelest of months, but I doubt that a blue-blood like Thomas Sterns Eliot ever spent the sweaty seasons in Hell that are Spring and Summer in the cultural ...
Take Five With Antoinette Montague
by AAJ Staff
Meet Antoinette Montague:Antoinette Montague likes to say she simply sings “people music." Make no mistake about it, she is a jazz singer through and through, but one who pushes the genre's boundaries. On her new recording, Behind the Smile, Montague sings classic jazz standards (new and old), resurrects lovely-but-obscure melodies, blends in blues and ...
Alan Hewitt: Retroactive
by Dee Dee McNeil
The CD artwork to Alan Hewitt's Retroactive looks like a reproduction from the old TV series, Miami Vice. Hewitt is dressed in a white suit with V-neck T-shirt, shades and shoulder-length blond hair. As a pianist and smooth jazz keyboardist, he travels on a flashback journey in both his attire and music. Hewitt opens ...
Isaac Hayes' "Shaft" Soundtrack Gets Deluxe Reissue from Stax
Pivotal 1971 soundtrack was one of soul music’s best sellers of all time and earned Isaac Hayes a Grammy, Oscar and Golden Globe. LOS ANGELES, Calif. — In 1971, the song was everywhere. “Who is the man who would risk his neck for his brother man?” Shaft? Damn right. Isaac Hayes’ Shaft soundtrack album became a ...
Jimmie Lunceford Awarded Note on Memphis' Beale Street Walk of Fame
Jimmie Lunceford, storied bandleader and educator was awarded a note on the Beale Street Walk of Fame in Memphis, Tennessee on Sunday, July 19. His note will join the likes of those who have had a tremendous impact on the City of Memphis as a musical center. Lunceford, who first came to Memphis in 1926 as ...
"Soul Men" Comes to DVD and Blu-Ray February 10th
Soul isn’t the only thing in The Weinstein Company and Genius Products’ newest comedy release, Soul Men, singing its way to shelves February 10th. This hilarious DVD is filled with numerous featurettes including tributes to both its star Bernie Mac and Isaac Hayes. Twenty years after an argument that destroyed their friendship and soul band, lead ...
Isaac Hayes' "Black Moses" and "Juicy Fruit" Albums Reissued on CD
LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Isaac Hayes’ epic 1971 album Black Moses, which captured the artist at the peak of his popularity, will be reissued on Stax Records on February 24, 2009. The release is a complete replication of the original Black Moses package, folding out into a cross-shaped image of the artist. The album was re-mastered ...
