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Friday, March 11, 1983
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undergone by Tacuma
ARTS PEOPLE IN THE NEWS:
Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
will become Broadway's highest-paid
performers when they portray the
curiously-true-to-life roles of a divorced
couple in the new play, 'Private Lives.'
By C. E. Krell
'Blind John Davis' blues
.Ry Sherry Gordon
OHN HENRY DAVIS, the talented
and versatile pianist and blues ar-
tist, will be playing with drummer S.P.
Leary, who is an ex-Howlin' Wolf per-
y former, at the Blind Pig Friday and
Saturday nights, March 11 and 12.
Davis and Leary have united to per-
form the boisterous Chicago Boogie-
Woogie number they helped to create.
These exciting, entertaining shows
begin at 9:30 P.M.
John Henry Davis was born on.
Records
lJohnnie Taylor -
ijJust Ain't Good
Enough' (Beverly t
Glen) t
b~arry Ray -'It's
0.ood To Be Home'
tSugarhill)
19 Tn an age of techno-pop
sophistication, very few singers seem
rominent, even on their own records.
?IAngs eimphasize beat, and producers
become stars by employing new
production gimmicks. But although a
1diot new sound may render some older
-(decords obsolete, great songs and great
singers never sound old. The latest
releases from Harry Ray and Johnnie
Taylor illustrate this point.
Harry Ray is the owner of a gorgeous
"ialsetto, and on It's Good To Be Home,
"is first solo album, he uses it to create
V sensual sound which borrows heavily
r.trom Smokey Robinson. On songs like
e Bloodstone-influenced title cut, Ray
groons about the ups and downs of
domestic relationships in a style only
gightly less dreamy than Smokey's.
'roducer Joey Robinson, Jr. helped to
provide Ray with tunes which cast him
..as a sensitive, beleaguered lover who
appreciates his blessings, but also ex-
periences heartbreak.
-It's Good To Be Home is also
notable as another breakthrough for the
New Jersey-based Sugarhill label.
Already the home of such rap stalwarts
as Grandmaster Flash and the
December 7, 1913 in the heart of the
South, Hattiesburg, Mississippi. He
moved with his family to the "Windy
City," Chicago, and has lived there
ever since. Davis is a self-made, talen-
ted individual who taught himself to
play the piano after becoming blind due
to an accident.
Davis became house pianist for the
Bluebird Record label as Chicago Blues
became popular in the 1940s. Davis'
piano talents can be heard on the
original tracks of many excellent songs
by Doc Clayton and Lonnie Johnson,
among others.
Davis is a proven success throughout
the world as a blues artist. His
reputation for excellence has been
going strong for the past thirty years
worldwide. In his hometown, Davis is
appreciated as "one of the greatest
around."' Look for his latest album,
Stomping On a Saturday Night, to
discover how Davis has earned his
fame. Admission is $3.25 for the most
fantastic blues spectacular around.
a two act play
"A Night at the Bar"
Starring: Cosmetic, featuring bassist
Jamaaladeen Tacuma, and a cast of
hundreds.
The setting: Rick's American Cafe,
Wednesday night, March 9.
(The play takes place four days after
Double Exchange entertained at the court of
heads and hearts. Jamaaladeen returns
determined to conquer the feet as well, not
satisfied with his destruction of the U-Club).
Act One
(after a wait, the band, Cosmetic, comes
on stage)
Bass; Dum dum de de dum dum
dede dum dum de dumededdededed
dum dum dum de dum dum !
Drums: Thump thump thump pow
pow thump crash pow pow thump crash
scrash thimp thamp thump.
Saxophone: Squeek, squeeeeeeek
squink honk toooot squeeeeeeek squonk
toot de toot rooootie honk
blewwewewew squonk squeek.
Guitar: Ching a chink a ching a chop-
pa choppa beeep rowwr clippa ching
ching ching beeeeeep whooooosh.
Cast of Hundreds: Whoa! Gosh!
Whoopie! Yay! (They shuffle their feet)
shuffle shuffle shuffle sweat pant pant.
The Band (together): La la la la ooooo
Aa party! Get it up! You and Me,
lalalalal 00000 Waaaaaaaaa!
Act Two
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Cast of Thousands: Yea dance dance
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dance dance!
(Exeunt)
The End.
Correction
The Wynton Marsalis Quintet,
concert at the Power Center tonight;
was erroneously listed in yester-
day's Daily as beginning at 9 p.m.;
The correct starting time is 8 p.m.
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avoiding those artists' tendency to
sound pre-fabricated. Harry Ray's
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Johnnie Taylor's latest effort, Just
Ain't Good Enough, is his first for the
Beverly Glen label, and is one of his
best ever. Taylor is most remembered
for "Who's Makin' Love,"a 19'70 Memn-
phis classic, as well as the mid-
seventies smash "Disco Lady."
But in recent years, Taylor was
unable to find a formula modern
enough to be popular, yet adaptable to
his unique vocal style. Taylor has ac-
tually risen through the star-making
machinery twice, with soul stompers
first, and later with slick disco, only to
be left with an outdated persona when
each trend passed. On his new album,
Johnnie Taylor exclaims the fact of his
survival over and over again.
.Ist Ain't Gnd Ennuh is an aium
of impassioned, melody-conscious funk,
on which producers Patrick Moten and
Otis Smith remove the cobwebs from
Johnnie Taylor's powerful, howling
voice. Throughout the LP, Taylor wails
for a lost lover's return or forgiveness.
On "I'm So Proud," he maniacally ex-
tols the virtues of a deep love, and on
the closing "Reaganomics," he
righteously shouts that:
The squeeze is on y-on
Nou, the squeeze is on 'me, too
The common thread between these
cuts is the hard-nosed soulfulness, and
on the single "What About My Love,"
this attitude is summed up perfectly.
The song is a string-laced, loping
funker, which picks up steam as it goes
0along. It shifts into high gear for a final
a1out chorus in which Taylor repeats:
I're been won derin ba by
I're been hopin' baby
Ire been prayn' babv
I're been wishin'that vou'd
change your mind.
Anyone who doubted Johnnie
Taylor's art will change their mind af-
ter hearing Just Ain't Good Enough, an
album which, like Harry Ray's It's
Good To Be Home, illustrates once
again, the lasting power of a great,
soulful voice.
(another long wait)
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Reporter: AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!
(the band returns to the stage)
Cosmetic: Dum dum de dum thump
dum thimp crash toot squeek chink a
ching beeep dumde dum thump crash
lalalala!
The cast of Thousands: Whoa gosh
yea shuffle shuffle dance sweat
whoopee clap clap clap shuffle yea
whoa !
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