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★ TOIdMME • I I.• * $(jfl(D^$ ★ (DQWQWCO J |--—__ _J • ★ dIXUW<l)I$ THE CHMLOTTE POST. Charlotte s Fastest Growing Community Weekly" - --- Thursday. June 16. 1983 - THE CHARLOTTE POST - Page IB " " faeces Of A Dream Receiving Deserved Recognition ay L<oretui Manago Foot SUff Writer The pieces of a much sought after dream of recognition is falling into place for the Philadelphia based jazz group, Pieces of A Dream. In two short years Pieces Of A Dream has recorded two albums, “Pieces Of A Dream” and “We Are One” which have propelled them into a wider bracket of receptiveness. They were fortunate to have been taken under the wing of Grover Washington who produced both albums. “In the studio with the band, Washington had nothing but respect and admiration for their professionalism. The group handled them selves as well as any musicians I’ve worked with...they know how to really let a tune speak.” Long before Grover Washington came on the scene Pieces Of A Dream has been around. Cedric Napoleon, Curtis Harmon and James Lloyd have been playing together since 1975 when all three were attending Ada B. Lewis Middle School. “Napoleon initially played trumpet but switched to bass upon his music teacher’s recom mendations. Harmon, whose father and grand father are also musicians, remembers first banging out rhythm on his toy drum set at age eight. Lloyd took his first piano lesson at age six and won a full scho _ larship to Jenkiptown Music School when he was 10. It was Harmon’s father who started Pieces Of A Dream on the circuit. A seasoned musician and leader of the Danny Har mon Quartet, Harmon helped smooth the road for the striving group. “Be cause I’ve paid my dues as a musician, I’ve sort of outlined the road for them so it wouldn’t be as bad. I’ve tried to save them from playing dives and bad influences. Their experience with the Danny Harmon Quartet inevitably led to other pro fessionals’ growing in terest in them. “After sit ting in with them at the Blue Alley in Washington during Radio Free Jazz’s convention there, Milt Jackson asked them to be his band on a 16-week tour. Local engagements with Count Basie, Mercer El lington, Lionel Hampton, Deniece Williams and others proved their level of musicianship again and again. Not a group to sit on any past achievements Pieces Of A Dream has continued to improve its art through studies at Philadelphia’s Temple University. During the past few years the group has performed nu merous benefits for senior citizens and church organ izations and has partici pated in fundraisers for Lupus and sickle cell anemia research. And like others who have taken an interest in Pieces Of A Dream, they have taken an interest in younger jazz players in Philadelphia. “Pieces Of A Dream had to prove to skeptical au diences early in their career that they had much more to offer than pre cocity. The first trial is behind them, they’ve won the acceptance and praise .they’ve deserved.” With their latest album, "We Are One” their second trial is also behind them and that is: a youthful spirit and musical maturity can work together. Music-Video IP Sony To Introduce Video Software Innovation The Sony Corporation's Software Division, which introduced the Video 45 in March, is about to debut another video software in novation in June-tbe Vi deo LP. The initial Video LPs coo tain approximately 25 minutes of stereo music video, and retail at a price far below that of conven tional full-length music videos. The debut Beta HiFi Video LPs are $19.95 (The first VHS Video LPs are $24.95). Sony’s initial three Vi deo LPs will involve to other breakthroughs: they are the first commercially released videos of digitally recorded performances. And they are Sony’s first video releases of jazz. The debut Sony Video LPs in clude: Live Hamp- a 24-minute and 30-second concert by Lionel Hampton and his 20-piece band recorded at Paul Anka’s Jubilation Club in Las Vegas. The Bill Watrous Re fuge Band- a 24-minute and-eight-second live per formance by an ensemble whose trombonist-leader has won DOWNBEAT’S Reader Poll and Critics Awards for seven years. Rob McConnel and The Boss Brass—a 25-minute and-36-second live perfor mance by the big band that has won Lepnard Feather’s 1981 Golden Feather Awards as Band of the Year, four Juno nomina tions and numerous Gram rk /^k r-k ^k mies. All three Sony Video LPs were produced by Gary Reber and Wesley Ruggles Jr., the developers of the surround sound technology used in motion picture theatrical prints to achieve the effect known as “Dolby Stereo.” The Video LPs will be duplicated di rectly from the original di gital surround sound en coded masters. Says Rug gles, “It is theoretically impossible to have any higher quality audio. The audio performance of the Beta HlFi VCR is better than the finest studio 24 track analogue recorder. It’s as pure as if it’s right off the microphone at the recording session.” Miss INorth Carolina USA Pageant Scheduled Announcing tne 1384 Miss North Carolina USA to be. held January 12-14, 1984 in Winston-Salem. The reigning Miss North Carolina USA, Payge Pin son, will crown her suc cessor on the live prime time telecast on WXII-TV, Channel 12 in Winston Salem and on a regional network. The winner will represent our state in the 1984 Miss USA Pageant to be televised nationally on CBS. The Preliminary and Final Competitions will be held at the Roger L. Stevens Center for the Per forming Arts and contes tant headquarters will, once again, be at the Hil ton Inn in Winston-Salem. The search is on for women to compete for this prestigious title as well as for a prize package in cluding $1,500 in cash; a screen test; an all-expense paid trip to the 1984 Miss USA Pageant; an all-ex pense-paid trip to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; and much, much more to be announced. All contestants receive special gifts. If you are a single woman between the ages of 18 and 24 as of May 1, 1984, you may qualify. No per forming talent is required. For free entry information send a postcard with your name, address, telephone number and birthday to: Miss North Carolina USA National Headquarters, Tel-Air Interests, Inc., 1755 NE 149 Street, Miami, Fla. 33181. Or call 305-944-3268. The Miss North Carolina USA Pageant is a produc tion of Tel Air Interests, Inc., one of the leading motion picture and televi sion production companies n the Southeast, in con iunction with Miss Uni verse, Inc., a division of Paramount Pictures. Summer Theatre The CPCC Summer The atre presents Irving Ber lin’s ruggedly spectacular and wonderfully captivat ing musical, “Annie Get Your Gun,’’ June 23 through July 9, at 8:15 p.m. in Pease Auditorium. TickeU are $4.75 each mwawG jjjwi ©bum --> m WIM AMJ> JNMlfU ^SWSfBQQI /l)Ji SH++++*
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