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The
Advertiser, Adelaide February 28, 2000
Black
Pearls and Strange Fruit
MUSIC: Rosemount
Theatre Bar Three and ˝ stars
Song, narrative
and slides tell the story of black American women, from slavery
to the performer herself, New York-born Jackie Gordon, now
resident in Melbourne. Backed
by a neat jazz trio, she tells it like a needle to the spine. The narrative may get a bit wordy but this dame is all class, but
this dame is all class. Gorgeous
on the eyes and the ears and the heart.
In the songs of Bessie, Billie, Lena, Ella. Dinah,
Eartha, Aretha and Nina, Jackie sings a personal quest for
her roots with style and sincerity. To be young gifted and black, now that’s a
wonderful fact.
The
Advertiser, Adelaide February 28, 2000
The buzz
Reviewer Paul Lloyd
clearly fell for Jackie Gordon, star of Fringe show Black
Pearls and Strange Fruit. Paul’s a western suburbs bloke who
reckons snags are for barbies and he’ll never become a sensitive
new age guy: but he
did confess to feeling “a bit apprehensive in the current
climate about writing her up as gorgeous”. However, in the Rosemount Theater Bar, two
lesbians were making quite plain their appreciation Of Ms
Gordon’s physical attributes.
So he reckoned it might not be sexist after all to
go to print calling her “gorgeous”. Please, nobody tell this unreconstructed western
suburbs bloke that Jackie Gordon is not only a gorgeous looker
and a gorgeous singer but also a gorgeous cook.
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