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Saturday, December 9, 2006
7:00 p.m - 8:30 p.m.
FREE ADMISSION!

Lausanne Collegiate School's Elder Performing Arts Center
1381 West Massey Road, Memphis, TN  38120

Call 901 946 2535 for more information.

JAZZ ARTISTS SAL CROCKER & THE STRICTLY JAZZ QUINTET!
In conjunction with our new exhibit, "MILT HINTON: ALL THAT JAZZ - A Behind the Scenes View of Jazz in the 20th Century," please join us for this special evening of live jazz! 

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Last Mondays in Studio A
Stax Museum of American Soul Music
Monday, November 27, 2006
Music starts at 7pm sharp!

Complimentary Hors D'oeuvres & Soft Drinks...Cash Bar
$20 General Admission and FREE to all members of th Stax Museum!

Thanks to our sponsors Comcast and Andrea Zucker Photography.

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Please call 901 946 2535 for more information.

Even Scots got soul. Arts/culture blog "Alternatives to Valium" recently visited the Stax Museum of American Soul Music and wrote one of the most wonderful pieces about the Soulsville dream that we've seen in a long time...

Looking for the birthplace of southern soul, I came across the Hooper Chapel, an African Methodist Episcopalian church which used to stand in Duncan, Mississippi, 100 miles south of Memphis on Highway 61. It was a spartan building with hard pews, an ornate pulpit and a piano that was never tuned.

By the right aisle was a case containing a paper fan with a portrait of Mahalia Jackson on it, and a notice, with an explanatory message from Deanie Parker, whose grandfather founded the church in 1906: "The full moon would shine brightly, casting a shadow on the bayou. The sounds of the bullfrogs and crickets were drowned out by the stirring music that reverberated from thigh-slapping male quartets. The visiting preacher, along with the unrehearsed choirs singing R&B selections, could be heard way down the road past the silos and bamboo thickets."

The Hooper Chapel is the second thing you see when you enter the Stax Museum of American Soul Music...

Enjoy the rest of their visit here.

When Billie Holiday entered the recording studio in New York City in the spring of 1959, the glass of vodka she sipped didn't help her voice the way she thought it would. The session didn't go well. In fact, it would be the last recording session of her acclaimed life, which ended tragically later that year on July 17^th. What was also recorded that day was her session on film in the camera of one of the greatest jazz bass players in the world, Milt Hinton, who played bass on the session. Hinton was also an avid photographer. He almost always carried a camera with him, documenting over a period of decades the performances, sessions, camaraderie, travel, and between-gigs lives of the people he loved and respected so much--his fellow performers in the world of jazz.

The Stax Museum of American Soul Music will host a very special photography exhibit from November 12, 2006 - January 29, 2007: Milt Hinton: All That Jazz Behind the Scenes Photographs of 20^th Century Jazz. The exhibit, on loan from the New York City-based Milton J. Hinton Photographic Collection, will include 50 Hinton photographs of the most important jazz figures in history, including Cab Calloway, Ella Fitzgerald, Pearl Bailey, Dizzy Gillespie, Louis Armstrong, Sarah Vaughan, Thelonious Monk, Memphis' own Mulgrew Miller and Aretha Franklin, the aforementioned Billie Holiday, and dozens of other legendary performers who helped shape the American art form.

The Stax Museum will host an opening reception for the exhibit on Sunday, November 12, 2006 from 2-5 p.m. with complimentary hors d'oeuvres and soft drinks, a cash bar with Mimosas and Bloody Marys, special guests, and live jazz. Admission is $9 to the general public and free to Stax Museum members.

Want to help make money for Soulsville by playing on the internet? Well, now you can--and it won't cost you a penny.

GoodSearch.com is a new search engine that donates half its revenue (about a cent per search) to non-profit organizations designated by its users.  You use it just as you would any search engine, and it’s powered by Yahoo!, so you get great results. 
It works like this: go to www.goodsearch.com and enter Soulsville as the charity you want to support. Then search for whatever you want. That's all. Easy.

500 people searching four times a day will raise about $7,300.00 in a single year-- without anyone spending a dime.  These funds will be used to support the great new exhibits and live music events at the Stax Museum of American Soul Music and the music education programs, unique performance opportunities, and valuable mentoring resources for at-risk youth at the Stax Music Academy.

You can also make Goodsearch.com your homepage by visiting www.goodsearch.com/MakeHomepage.aspx, and add Goodsearch.com to your browser's toolbar by visiting www.goodsearch.com/toolbar.

Tell everyone you know--and start your soul searching today...

Following his appearance at the Freedom Awards ceremonies on Tuesday (which included a special performance by our Soulsville Charter School rhythm and string orchestra!) Motown legend STEVIE WONDER paid us a visit at the Stax Museum of American Soul Music, escorted by none other than Stax greats Isaac Hayes and David Porter. Big thanks to Isaac and David for bringing Stevie over, and much love and gratitude to Mr. Wonder for honoring us with his visit.