Sunday, October 25, 2009

Ugly Beauty


New Day Jazz


Justin Desmangles

Jazz music for lovers and the lonely

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Jazz

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Track Artist Song Album Label


Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants The Man I Love Miles Davis and the Modern Giants Prestige


Thelonious Monk The Man I Love The Man I Love Black Lion


Thelonious Monk Brilliant Corners Brilliant Corners Riverside

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Steve Lacy Criss Cross The Straight Horn of Steve Lacy Candid

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Steve Lacy Humpf Only Monk Soul Note


Thelonious Monk Humpf The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Thelonious Monk Mosaic


Thelonious Monk Off Minor The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Thelonious Monk Mosaic


Thelonious Monk Straight, No Chaser (excerpt) The Complete Blue Note Recordings of Thelonious Monk Mosaic

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Tommy Flanagan Ugly Beauty Thelonica Enja


Sonny Rollins featuring Thelonious Monk Reflections Sonny Rollins Volume 2 Blue Note - Japan


Sonny Rollins featuring Thelonious Monk Misterioso (excerpt) Sonny Rollins Volume 2 Blue Note - Japan


Interview with Robin D.G. Kelley By Justin Desmangles





Thelonious Monk Trinkle Tinkle Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane Jazzland

Sunday, October 18, 2009

I. Reed, The Plays . . .

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Justin Desmangles

Jazz music for lovers and the lonely

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Show Description for Sunday 10/18/2009

This afternoon on the four o'clock hour we welcome back to the program, poet, playwright, essayist, novelist, editor, publisher, and more recently, pianist and bandleader, Ishmael Reed. Mr. Reed and I will be discussing his latest book, The Plays.


Track Artist Song Album Label


Sonny Clark Cool Struttin' Cool Struttin' Blue Note


Lee Morgan Who Do You Love, I Hope? Candy Blue Note


Lee Morgan The Lady Lee Morgan Indeed! Blue Note

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Ella Fitzgerald & Ellis Larkins Someone To Watch Over Me Ella Sings Gershwin Decca



My One And Only



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Ella Fitzgerlad Gone With The Wind Mack The Knife - Ella In Berlin Verve



Misty




John Coltrane You Say You Care Soultrane Prestige

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Red Garland So Sorry Please Bright And Breezy Jazzland


Randy Weston Berkshire Blues African Cookbook Atlantic

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Randy Weston The Call Blues To Africa Arista


Interview With Ishmael Reed By Justin Desmangles





Ed O.G. And The Bulldogs featuring Umar Bin Hassan Love Comes And Goes (Jazz Poet Mix) Love Comes And Goes (Single)

Sunday, October 11, 2009

Buhaina's Delight!!!

New Day Jazz


Justin Desmangles

Jazz music for lovers and the lonely

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Show Description for Sunday 10/11/2009
HAPPY BIRTHDAY ART BLAKEY

Track Artist Song Album Label

Dizzy Gillespie Afro-Cuban Orchestra Cubana Be Cubana Bop Dizzy Gillespie Vol. 1/2 (1946-1949) RCA France composed and arranged by George Russell

Thelonious Monk Trio Bye-Ya Thelonious Monk Trio Prestige (OJC)


Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers Ping Pong Roots & Herbs Blue Note composed and arranged by Wayne Shorter

Waring Cuney (read by James Earl Jones) No Images A Hand Is On The Gate Verve-Folkways

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Art Blakey Mirage Holiday For Skins Blue Note

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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers A Night In Tunisia A Night At Birdland Volume One Blue Note


Carmen McRae When Sunny Gets Blue Bittersweet Focus (Atlantic) arranged by Norman Simmons, piano

Carmen McRae How Did He Look? Bittersweet Focus (Atlantic) arranged by Norman Simmons, piano

Carmen McRae Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry Bittersweet Focus (Atlantic) arranged by Norman Simmons, piano

Carmen McRae The Meaning Of The Blues Bittersweet Focus (Atlantic) arranged by Norman Simmons, piano
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Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers When Love Is New Indestructible! Blue Note


Sonny Rollins Reflections Sonny Rollins Volume Two Blue Note composed by Thelonious Monk

Betty Carter 'Round Midnight 'Round Midnight Roulette composed by Thelonious Monk

Rep. Grayson (D-FLA.) on Health Care





Interview with Eric Baldwin on Atwater-Fixin To Die




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Sonny Rollins Reflections Sonny Rollins Volume Two Blue Note composed by Thelonious Monk

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Sphere Was His Middle Name ( for him, the high priest)


Sphere Was His Middle Name
(for him, the high priest)



Orbiting out past fingertips,
a thumb-screwed flatted fifth
added to the scale of your name.


No bigger than Bigger
No whiter than Christmas


This cutting was no game.
Bamboo shoots from the bladed grass
beneath Nica's snow.


Bright right angles
of Bud's glass enclosure
Hope came to visit that day.


"You hear that?"
88 keys on the nuthouse wall.
And not a single lock
unlocked.


That midnight is an axis
from the dark tower
traveling light
under the bridge.


'Twas meant by what's round?
Ask him now.





By Justin Desmangles

this poem originally appeared in Drumvoices, Fall 2008, Volume 16

Sunday, October 4, 2009

" . . . then I guess it's all about Herbie Nichols"













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Justin Desmangles

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Julian "Cannonball" Adderley Autumn Leaves Alison's Uncle ( 12" Single) Blue Note - Japan


Lou Donaldson The Things We Did Last Summer The Other Side Of Blue Note 1500 Series Blue Note - Japan


Beverly Kenney A Summer Romance Beverly Kenney Sings For Playboys Decca


Beverly Kenney I Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry Come Swing With Me Roost

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Herbie Nichols Dance Line The Third World Blue Note Reissue Series


Herbie Nichols Terpsichore The Third World Blue Note Reissue Series


Herbie Nichols Argumentative Variation The Other Side Of Blue Note 1500 Series Blue Note Japan


Herbie Nichols Riff Primatif The Other Side Of Blue Note 1500 Series Blue Note Japan

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Billie Holiday Cheek To Cheek Billie Holiday On Verve Volume Three Verve


Billie Holiday I Get A Kick Out Of You Billie Holiday On Verve Volume Three Verve


Bill Evans Star Eyes A Simple Matter Of Conviction Verve Japan


Bill Evans My Foolish Heart Waltz For Debby Riverside Japan


Beverly Kenney A Woman's Intuition Beverly Kenney Sings For Playboys Decca


Beverly Kenney You're My Boy Beverly Kenney Sings For Playboys Decca

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Bennie Green featuring Babs Gonzalez Soul Stirrin' Soul Stirrin' Blue Note Japan


Count Basie Orchestra featuring Joe Williams The Comeback Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings Verve Japan

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Count Basie Orchestra featuring Joe Williams Alright, Okay, You Win Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings Verve Japan


Count Basie Orchestra featuring Joe Williams In The Evening (When The Sun Goes Down) Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings Verve Japan

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Herbie Nichols 'Swonderful Thelonious Monk/Herbie Nichols Savoy


Herbie Nichols Lady Sings The Blues The Third World Blue Note Reissue Series


Billie Holiday Lady Sings The Blues Lady Sings The Blues Verve


Archie Shepp Lady Sings The Blues Live In San Francisco Impulse

Friday, October 2, 2009

Fight Back Against The Right Wing Attack By Amiri Baraka



The lynchers, the stink face stenchers, the retrenchers

Can’t thinkers, old stinkers, imbeciles, evil cant fillers

Bloody vaudevillians who aint funny, dumb motherfuckers

Who think you got they money. Stupid people, crazy lazy

Dishonest people , ignorant pseudo mammals, suckers so dumb

white supremacy is they religion, even though they themselves

is proof it’s a lie, people so low they aspire to be liars

The crazy doo doo brains is loose again

They hurt we elected Obama, and his mother

Look like they mama, Father, no shit, a mau mau

So they on the loose with leaders who pee they bed

Everytime they open they mouth. Don’t have to be from the south

But they brain is a confederate. All you religious believers if you

Want a convert tell your god to put a hurt on Limbaugh, may the next drug

He take, take his ass a way from here. Say God, waste Rupert Murdoch,

Send some lightning down on his ass and given him a fatal shock. They

Talking about killing Obama, Hey God, ice Glen Beck , ring his neck

Whip his ass till he get correct, and Cheney, him with no brainey,

Who already killed almost a whole nation, ration his life

With a thunderbolt to straighten his lopsided mouth

Hang him up side down like Mussolini in the hood

Till he start tellin the truth, & who know how long that’ll be.

Fight against the right wing attack, The klan done took off they gowns

So we wont know its they, but the GOP is the new KKK.

Like Weimar when the social democrats won

Hitler was in Munich practicing his rule to come

By 1933 the communists and socialists and workers

Was fighting among themselves, Hitler got his Nazi shit

Off the shelves, backed by the same corporations that threatening our nation

The right cant fight unless they have money, they bankrupt the banks

Still Madoff with your wealth, so in disrepute and backed against a wall

Of disillusion , popular sentiment, and even elections

they have to resort to stealth. They organize riots

and hire thugs to speak to the backward, use their money

to turn the rest as backward as they can, while they plot to

put the people in yet another trick, take even more of your money

and total control, get a McCain or somebody with even less of brain

What ever they say white supremacy and theft will be the order of the day

Whatever they look like, soon they will be Palin, they want fascism, there’s

No other description for they ugly ambition . They want the gas chambers

Concentration camps even though they call them low income housing,

The billionaires get the dimwits , the misfits, the race freaks, the pip squeaks

To want what they tell them which never existed but they insisted telling these fools

Equal rights is against the rules, in these little Pennsylvania towns where thinking

Is mythology and insanity is the only humanity

Got to fight against the right

Or they blow up another reichstag, 911 didn’t quite do it

They had a plan but Bush 2 was 2 stupid, and we fought back

Made it clear that “White America” was a fable

At best, and no longer here. The idea that some

Half white dude much smarter than they

Put their brain in their stomach and they shat it

Away. So now they lookin for they black suits

They wanna try the Nazi shit again. Be Clear

If we don’t support this President organize

To make him do the right thing, the really backward

Will organize to do the far right racist white thing.

And they’ll have n-words like Larry Elder or Juan Williams or

Who ever they can raise from the colored spittoon

Even your boy, the mad man, the real public coon.

But its Counterattack on the Black, Death to Progress and Reform

You can look in the eyes of the insane, they be on channel dumb

Every night, trying to hide the fact that they are afraid

That we will act to crush their 21st century lynch mob mind

Imagine an O’Reilly, or Hannity or Dobbs trying to convince you they intelligent

Like prehistoric cave dwellers arguing against cooking your food or cleaning your house.

Inside their empty skulls worn out cd’s playing old Rockefeller raps. But this is serious

I’m not delirious. We have to fight back. So you think Obama hasn’t done enough

Like these old communists arguing with the socialists arguing with the trade unionists

Wrestling with the colored and the Jews. Forget all that, don’t play that Weimar blues

Again. We went for that, fell into that trap. And found ourselves wallowing in our blood

Weeping for decades of our dead. We got to stop them now, turn back the right attack.

We can argue later, when the situation is straighter. But remember what the Chairman said, don’t let it slip out of your head. Fight your enemies one by one. And the biggest one

Is these crypto fascist parrots of the money claque, who want the power back , who want you under their feet altogether again. Stop them now. Smash their lies. Only thing we want

From them is good bye, just once.

Amiri Baraka

8/12/09 for Shani