An Evening with Stax's 24-Carat Black

926 East McLemore Avenue,Memphis TN 38106

06 October, 2022

Description

In 1973, Enterprise Records, a subsidiary released a landmark LP that would, over time, help change the face of Black music. The 24-Carat Black, a group of more than a dozen young musicians from Cincinnati, and their producer, Dale Warren, created Ghetto: Misfortune’s Wealth, a genre-bending, orchestral soul masterpiece that, due to Stax’s financial troubles, never received the support it needed to gain listeners. Fast forward 20 years to the 1990s: hip-hop DJs have discovered the deep grooves, powerful vocals, and pointed political commentary and sampled it for their own recordings. Since then, Kendrick Lamar, Jay-Z, Digable Planets, and many more have sampled The 24-Carat Black. Join us for a listening party and discussion with three former band members – Princess Hearn, Jerome Derrickson, and C. Niambi Steele – and their biographer Zach Schonfeld.