Mike

Art Director, on-set Supervisor, VFX Supervisor, Editor, Lead Compositor and Color Grader.

A soulful night

Shingaling at Club Sea in St.Petersburg (all 45s). Grand opening party, Aug.31,2013. www.djchak.spb.ru

My interview with Soul Music legend Maxine Brown recorded April 9, 2011. In Part 1, Maxine discusses her early years, coming to New York from Kingstree, South Carolina, her violent father, her beginnings in Gospel, Professor Charles Taylor, playing the Apollo, switching to secular Soul music, writing & recording 'All In My Mind' which went to #2 on the R&B charts. www.maxinebrown.com www.jamespower.net check other 4 parts out via the links above (under the video window) In Part 2, Maxine discusses working as a medical stenographer when 'All In My Mind' hit the top 10, working with Sam Taylor, Curtis Mayfield & The Impressions, her follow-up hit 'Funny', teaching Sam Cooke to do The Twist, signing with Scepter/Wand Records, Florence Greenberg, filling in for Tammi Terrell & singing with Marvin Gaye, Motown, British appreciation, Carole King, 'Oh No, Not My Baby', Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, Bacharach & David's 'I'll Cry Alone', and Big Maybelle. In Part 3, Maxine discusses Racism, Civil Rights era, Working with Otis Redding, Ashford & Simpson, Cissy Houston & The Sweet Inspirations, Central Park Music Festival with Lou Rawls in 1967, leaving Scepter/Wand, British Invasion, Producer/Arranger Mike Terry, Norman Whitfield, Changes in the music world, "We'll Cry Together", and Van McCoy. In Part 4, Maxine discusses meeting Jimi Hendrix, songs released in the UK only (I Want A Guarantee, It's Torture), working with Van McCoy, Luther Vandross, Avco Records, 'Picked Up, Packed, and Put Away', Broadway musical 'Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope (in New York City)', Learning acting and dancing, Ruth Brown, Ben E King, releasing first album in 35 years 'From the Heart', working with Beverly Crosby & Ella Garrett (AKA The Wild Women), Maxine sings in Spanish (Do That To Me One More Time, Yesterday I Heard the Rain), the name 'Ella Brown', receiving the Pioneer Award from the Rhythm & Blues Foundation. Talking with Maxine Brown (Part 2) Talking with Maxine Brown (Part 3) Talking with Maxine Brown (Part 4) Maxine Brown Interview (Excerpts)

Part II - Saturday November 26, 2011 Featuring Chuck Jackson MAXINE BROWN 1) Oh, No, Not My Baby (Carole King/Gerry Goffin) 2) We'll Cry Together (Rose Marie McCoy/Helen Miller) 3) Gin House Blues (Harry Burke) MAXINE BROWN & CHUCK JACKSON 4) Daddy's Home (Sheppard/Bassett/Baskerville) 5) Hold On, I'm Comin' (Isaac Hayes/David Porter) CHUCK JACKSON 6) Will You Love Me Tomorrow (Carole King/Gerry Goffin) 7) Since I Don't Have You (Joe Rock) 😎 Any Day Now (Burt Bacharach/Bob Hilliard)

The Manchester European Soul Weekender (MESW) will be 3. This year is bigger and better, with a fine blend of european, national and local DJ's & collectors giving everything they've got for two days of soulful bliss.

aachen soul weekender 2011

The cast of "Northern Soul" bob, spin and weave through the classic ‘Back Street’ by Guy Hennigan Don’t it make you just wanna… This was my first short film for Elaine Constantine, she left me to get on with it. And boy did I enjoy doing this.

This was featured both in the news and the forum sections at the time Dr Lucy Gibson at the Rare Records and Raucous Nights: Investigating Northern Soul symposium 4 November, University of Salford Lucy Gibson is a temporary lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester. Her doctoral research explored popular music and the life course, which included ethnographies of Northern Soul and rare soul, rock music, and electronic dance music scenes and interviews with over 70 adult fans. She is particularly interested in how ageing shapes participation in music scenes and music taste and is currently working on publications in this area.

“Gate City Soul” is a documentary film that follows the journeys, struggles and accomplishments of Roy Roberts, Walter Grady, George Bishop and a dozen others who chased their dreams of success in the music business during the 1960s and 1970s - not in New York, Chicago or Memphis, but in a place not generally regarded as the epicenter of the music business: Greensboro, North Carolina. https://www.soul-source.co.uk/articles/soul-news-archives/gate-city-soul-an-upcoming-documentary-r2904/ Roy Roberts Clip

Lack of Afro (Adam Gibbons) has achieved a startling amount in the few years since his first releases on Freestyle records. With four highly acclaimed albums under his belt, touring live and DJing across the world, and producing and remixing everyone from Tom Jones to The Pharcyde. Lack of Afro is soon to release his fifth album “Music for Adverts”. Wide ranging, eclectic and progressive musical outlook has always been the Lack of Afro approach. His new album follows suit as he harnesses disparate musical styles ranging from funk, soul and hiphop to create a contemporary yet retro musical escapade of dance floor friendly funk. Filmed and edited by Busha Productions for Band on the Wall TV Sat 26th April 2014

www.irobertson.co.uk www.twitter.com/ianR0B Director: Ian Robertson Producer - Corin Taylor & Brian Welsh (US) Executive Producer - Nathan James & Tamsin Glasson (US) Production Company - Colonel Blimp DOP - Pablo Berron 1st AD - Travis Knight Choreographer - Tamara Levison Art Director & Stylist - Alexis Johnson Editor - Peter O'Donovan @ Final Cut London Colourist - Houmam Abdallah @ ETC Commissioner - Caroline Clayton

The Impressions rehearsing with Binky Griptite and the Dee-Kays (feat. members of the Dap-Kings), Brooklyn, NY, February 2nd, 2012. © 2012 DJ Pari/Soulpower www.the-impressions.com www.facebook.com/official.impressions

A documentary on the 1972 "blaxploitation" movie 'Super Fly'. Re-uniting some of the cast and crew and examining the impact of the movie. RIP Ron O'Neal.