(20 Feb 2025)
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Memphis, Tennessee – 30 January 2025
1. Student playing trumpet
2. Wide of musical director leading band
3. Wide of students walking down hallway at Stax Music Academy
4. Wide of a mural of Isaac Hayes
5. Tight view through a window on a band practice
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonathan Cole, student at Stax Music Academy (singing ‘(Sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay"):
"Sitting in the morning sun, I’ll be sitting when the evening comes."
7. Tight on sheet music
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Brandon Wooten, student at Stax Music Academy:
"I like to see Stax music as the soundtrack to basically the Black History movement or the Civil Rights movement in general."
9. Close-up on guitar neck
10. Tight on Zalissa Stewart teaching students
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Zalissa Stewart, instructor at Stax Music Academy:
"It’s not just getting up here, you know singing a song. You have to portray whatever artist that you’re singing and be able to touch somebody in the audience."
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Pasley Thompson, student at Stax Music Academy (singing "A Rose is Still a Rose")
"There was a rose I knew, I met her once or twice before. She was a pretty sweet thing, not the least bit insecure ."
13. Mid of musical director leading band
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14. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Franklin IV, musical director, Stax Music Academy:
"A lot of students are you know are being shaped into leaders, you know. Learning how to lead, knowing how to properly say things, do things, you know."
15. Mid of Pasley Thompson singing
16. Close-up of student playing the keyboard
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17. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonathan Cole, student at Stax Music Academy:
"It feels good because with the world going crazy right now, everybody just needs a little bit of love, happiness and music. And that’s what Stax Music Academy has always been about: love, music, creativity. And this Black History Month show is really gonna display it. I mean we got a lot of people coming so. It’s all about love."
18. Close-up of a student singing
19. Wide of a group of students singing and laughing in the hallway
STORYLINE:
STUDENTS AT THE STAX MUSIC ACADEMY IN MEMPHIS ARE LEARNING MUSIC AND HISTORY LESSONS ALL IN ONE. THE AFTER-SCHOOL PROGRAM STARTED 25 YEARS AGO JUST NEXT DOOR TO THE FORMER STUDIO WHERE LEGENDS LIKE ISAAC HAYES, RUFUS AND CARLA THOMAS AND OTIS REDDING ONCE RECORDED THEIR HITS.
More than 4,000 students have graduated since it started in the Soulsville neighborhood where Stax Records produced soul and R&B hits in the 1960s and 1970s.
Students take pride in continuing the legacy of the influential record company where Otis Redding cut “(Sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay,” Sam and Dave worked on “Soul Man,” and The Staple Singers made “Respect Yourself.”
"I like to see Stax music as the soundtrack to basically the Black History movement or the Civil Rights movement in general or just anything back then," said Brandon Wooten, student at Stax.
THESE YOUNG MUSICIANS ARE PREPPING FOR CONCERTS IN MEMPHIS TO CELEBRATE BLACK HISTORY MONTH AND THE ACADEMY’S ANNIVERSARY THIS YEAR.
This year’s show is a series of in-person concerts at a downtown Memphis venue where attendees will hear Sam and Dave’s “Hold On, I’m Comin’”, Arthur Conley’s “Sweet Soul Music,” and “Cause I Love You,” by the father and daughter duet of Rufus and Carla Thomas.
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