I. Reed, Yardbird, Katrina 5 Years On

Show description for Sunday 8/29/2010 @ 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHARLIE PARKER!

This afternoon, on the four o'clock hour, poet, playwright, essayist, and novelist, Ishmael Reed (pictured here, on the left, with Professor William C. Cook), returns to New Day Jazz. Along with the current events of the day, such as Wall $treet's financiers turning against Obama, neo-fascist demagogue and Fox News commentator, Glenn Beck, and midtown Manhattan's proposed Muslim Cultural Center, we will be discussing the forthcoming American Book Awards. Sponsored by the Before Columbus Foundation, of which Mr. Reed is a founder, the American Book Award, now in it's 31st year, honors excellence in multicultural literature.

Also, as part of this afternoon's broadcast, we will listen in on selections from the rare boxed set, issued in Japan only, The Other Side Of Blue Note 1500 Series, featuring outtakes and unissued cuts from classic sessions under the leadership of Lee Morgan, Herbie Nichols, Johnny Griffin, Bud Powell, and Bennie Green featuring the one and only Babs Gonzalez.

In addition, we will be focusing on the poetry of Jayne Cortez and Kenneth Patchen, throughout today's program, with particular attention on the recordings, Celebrations & Solitudes, featuring Ms. Cortez with bassist Richard Davis, and Selected Poems of Kenneth Patchen, recorded by Patchen himself for Folkways Records.

New Day Jazz

Justin Desmangles

Jazz music for lovers and the lonely.

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Jayne Cortez	Solo	Celebrations & Solitudes	Strata-East
	Lee Morgan	All At Once You Love Her	The Other Side of Blue Note 1500 Series	Blue Note - Japan
	Charlie Parker	Merry Go Round	The Complete Savoy Recordings	Savoy
	Kenneth Patchen	Nice Day For A Lynching	The Selected Poems Of Kenneth Patchen	Folkways
	Bennie Green	Soul Stirrin'	The Other Side of Blue Note 1500 Series	Blue Note - Japan
	Jayne Cortez	3 Day N.Y. City Blues	Celebrations & Solitudes	Strata-East
	Kenneth Patchen	State Of The Nation	The Selected Poems Of Kenneth Patchen	Folkways
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	Herbie Nichols	Argumentative Variation	The Other Side of Blue Note 1500 Series	Blue Note - Japan
	Charlie Parker	Koko	The Complete Savoy Recordings	Savoy
	Charlie Parker	Barbados	The Complete Savoy Recordings	Savoy
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	Jayne Cortez	Do You Think?	Celebrations & Solitudes	Strata-East
	Bud Powell	Collard Greens & Blackeyed Peas	The Other Side of Blue Note 1500 Series	Blue Note - Japan
	Paul Chambers	Untitled	The Other Side of Blue Note 1500 Series	Blue Note - Japan
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	Kenny Burrell	My Heart Stood Still	The Other Side of Blue Note 1500 Series	Blue Note - Japan
	Kenny Burrell	You Will Never Know (excerpt)	The Other Side of Blue Note 1500 Series	Blue Note - Japan
	Interview with Ishmael Reed by Justin Desmangles
	Charlie Parker	Relaxin' at Camarillo	The Complete Dial Masters

Poetry & All That Jazz on KDVS

Show description for Sunday 8/22/2010 @ 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

By special request, this afternoons broadcast of New Day Jazz is all-music, all-poetry. Tune in for special selections from rarely heard recordings by Helen Merrill, Andrew Hill, Ella Fitzgerald, Sam Rivers & Randy Weston, as well as poetry by Gloria Tropp, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Cecil Rajendra, Okot P'Bitek and the late, great Norman Pritchard.

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Linton Kwesi Johnson	Di Great Insohrekshan	An Evening of International Poetry	New Alliance
	Bobby Hutcherson	Catta (Andrew Hill)	Dialogue	Blue Note
	Okot P'Bitek	from Song of the Prisoner	An Evening of International Poetry	New Alliance
	Sam Rivers	Euterpe (Sam Rivers)	Contours	Blue Note
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	Norman Pritchard	Gyre's Galax	New Jazz Poets	Broadside Records
	Andrew Hill	Poinsenttia	One for One	Blue Note Re-Issue Series
	Gloria Tropp	Poem for Ernie Henry	New Jazz Poets	Broadside Records
	Helen Merrill	Day Dream (Strayhorn)	The Feeling Is Mutual	Milestone
	Helen Merrill	Deep In A Dream (DeLange-Van Heusen)	The Feeling Is Mutual	Milestone
	Randy Weston	Purple Gazelle (Ellington)	Berkshire Blues	Arista
	Randy Weston	I Know Your Kind (arranger, Melba Liston)	Little Niles	Blue Note Re-Issue Series
	Randy Weston	Every Once In A While (arranger, Melba Liston)	Little Niles	Blue Note Re-Issue Series
	Herbie Hancock	Sorcerer (Hancock)	Speak Like A Child	Blue Note
	Miles Davis	Sorcerer (Hancock)	Sorcerer	Columbia
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	Lionel Hampton	Central Avenue Breakdown
	Lionel Hampton	Jack the Bellboy
	Django Rheinhardt	I'll See You In My Dreams
	Coleman Hawkins	Body & Soul
	Fats Waller	I'm Crazy About My Baby
	Jack Kirby Orchestra	Bugler's Dilemma
	Ella Fitzgerald	Robbin's Nest
	Joe Mooney	Tea for Two
	Barney Bigard	Tapioca (Strayhorn)
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	Joe Venuti	My Honey's Loving Arms
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	Jane Harvey with Benny Goodman	Just Another Boy And Girl (Cole Porter)

Sonny Rollins By David Henderson

Sonny Rollins



sonny rollins seeking
peace in the city
jamming with
the subway train
a free rhythm section
coney island beach on the bridge
of hart crane /
"the most important thing to me
is my sanity"
refrain











By David Henderson

African American Writers & Classical Traditon

Show description for Sunday 8/15/2010 @ 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

This afternoon on the 4 o'clock hour we are joined by James Tatum (pictured above, left), professor emeritus of classics at Dartmouth, to discuss his most recent work, co-authored with William W. Cook (above, right), professor emeritus of English and African American studies at Dartmouth, African American Writers and Classical Tradition.

"This book is a magisterial treatment of sophisticated Black literary artists who deployed the deep and rich resources of Greek and Latin classical texts. The complex phenomenon of Afro-classicism is laid bare for all to apprehend and appreciate!" - Cornel West, Princeton University

"Traditionally, African American literature has been treated like an orphan, shifted from one special-interest home to another where only a few can get that extra serving of porridge. Rarely has the genre been treated as seriously as by Cook and Tatum. Knowing them, I'm sure that this excellent book, African American Writers and Classical Tradition, is the result of many hours of deliberation. They debunk for all time that African American literature is monotraditional." - Ishmael Reed

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	Miles Davis & John Coltrane	Walkin' / The Theme	Live in Stockholm 1960	Dragon
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	Eldridge-Flanagan-Mingus-Jones	Me & You Blues	The Complete Candid Recordings of Charles Mingus	Mosaic
	Charles Mingus Quartet	Folk Forms No. 1	Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus Quartet	Candid
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	Sonny Rollins	Misterioso	Sonny Rollins Volume 2	Blue Note
	Mal Waldron	Dee's Dilemma (excerpt)	Mal 1	Prestige
	Interview With James Tatum By Justin Desmangles
	Mal Waldron	Dee's Dilemma (excerpt)

DuBois on Art and Propanda

"All art is propaganda and ever must be, despite the wailing of the purists. I stand in utter shamelessness and say that whatever art I have for writing has been used always for propaganda for gaining the right of black folk to love and enjoy."

~ W.E.B. DuBois, "Criteria of Negro Art"

Harlem Sweeties By Langston Hughes

Have you dug the spill
Of Sugar Hill?
Cast your gims
On this sepia thrill:
Brown sugar lassie,
Caramel treat,
Honey-gold baby
Sweet enough to eat.
Peach-skinned girlie,
Coffee and cream,
Chocolate darling
Out of a dream.
Walnut tinted
Or cocoa brown,
Pomegranate-lipped
Pride of the town.
Rich cream-colored
To plum-tinted black,
Feminine sweetness
In Harlem’s no lack.
Glow of the quince
To blush of the rose.
Persimmon bronze
To cinnamon toes.
Blackberry cordial,
Virginia Dare wine—
All those sweet colors
Flavor Harlem of mine!
Walnut or cocoa,
Let me repeat:
Caramel, brown sugar,
A chocolate treat.
Molasses taffy,
Coffee and cream,
Licorice, clove, cinnamon
To a honey-brown dream.
Ginger, wine-gold,
Persimmon, blackberry,
All through the spectrum
Harlem girls vary—
So if you want to know beauty’s
Rainbow-sweet thrill,
Stroll down luscious,
Delicious, fine Sugar Hill.

Celebrating Abbey Lincoln, Universal Woman

Show description for Sunday 8/8/2010 @ 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

This week on New Day Jazz, we celebrate the life and legacy of Abbey Lincoln. Poet, songwriter and a leading force in the Black Consciousness Movement, Ms. Lincoln celebrated her 80th birthday this past week, August 6th.
Also, as part of our continuing focus on the works of James Baldwin, we will listen in on an interview, conducted by Studs Terkel, from 1961, on the occasion of the publication of the essay collection, Nobody Knows My Name.

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Sterling Brown (Read by James Earl Jones & Moses Gunn)	Ol' Lem	A Hand Is On The Gate	Verve - Folkways
	Max Roach featuring Abbey Lincoln	Driva' Man	Freedom Now Suite	Candid
	Robert Hayden (read by Gloria Foster, Jones & Gunn)	Runagate, Runagate	A Hand Is On The Gate	Verve - Folkways
	Max Roach featuring Abbey Lincoln	Freedom Day	Freedom Now Suite	Candid
	Margaret Walker (read by Foster)	We Have Been Believers	A Hand Is On The Gate	Verve - Folkways
	Max Roach featuring Abbey Lincoln	Tryptich: Prayer/Protest/Peace	Freedom Now Suite	Candid
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	Abbey Lincoln	You And Me Love	People in Me	Inner City
	Abbey Lincoln	Natas (Playmate)	People in Me	Inner City
	Abbey Lincoln	Dorian (The Man With The Magic)	People in Me	Inner City
	Abbey Lincoln	Africa	People in Me	Inner City
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	James Baldwin Interviewed By Studs Terkel
	Abbey Lincoln featuring Archie Shepp	Throw It Away	Painted Lady	Blue Marge
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	Abbey Lincoln	Retribution	Straight Ahead	Candid
	Jean Toomer (read by Arna Bontemps)	Song of the Sun	Anthology of Negro Poets in the U.S.A. - 200 Years	Folkways
	Max Roach featurign Abbey Lincoln	Garvey's Ghost	Percussion Bitter Sweet	Impulse
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	Abbey Lincoln	The Music Is The Magic	Devil's Got Your Tongue	Verve France

An Exchange with Ishmael Reed, August 4, 2010

Ishmael:

cornel west criticizes obama for not being mlk jr.more evidence that
"progressives" and their front men are out to destroy obama just as
they did humphrey,carter,etc.they're staying home and pouting will
lead to rep.victory and a corporate plant plain victory in 2012.then you
can forget about ss.medicaid,welfare,etc. all because of progressives'
ego.

Justin:

West, and the like, are prodding this country into a situation not unlike that of Germany's Weimar, just before the rise of the Nazi Party. The left, divided against itself, and unable to consolidate a cohesive agenda around issues that garnered a broad base of support, caved in, leading to the rise of the most criminal and reactionary elements in the country, namely, Hitler. They, too, had massive corporate support in the media. Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld and Rice all remained illegally invested in companies that profited from the wars they started, violating domestic and international laws. Now the papers of record, that acted like cheerleaders for the Bush admin. to invade Afghanistan and Iraq, wish to publicly humiliate Waters & Rangel. Race is the issue the G.O.P. wishes to use to light their cross on the White House lawn. Charismatics like West and his brethren in the hallowed hall of the cathode rays ought best turn their attentions to the issues that united the otherwise disparate groups that elected Obama in the first place, instead of playing such facile games of comparison.

Desmangles

Desmangles



Let me bring some relief to my name,
famous for hiding runaway slaves
and future kings, sons of Europe,
whose marriage, arranged by Laveau,
brought stock to the fortunes of Creoles
and voodoo tyrants alike.

Let me display the roots and tethered vines,
the fetid swamp which covers this secret
with protoplasm, and basalt theory.
Wreckage from a promise kept,
beneath the fire of the fortaleza,
the villa of inquisitional escapees
mattering with Dahomey chiefs,
the ouster of Napoleon,
and the coinage of Négritude,
Césaire's notebooks, leaves
on the brackish ponds of my namesake.

And just below the freedom
of a million castles burned,
a slave masters whips drys
in the window of a museum,
near the blouse of my Corrina.

For a Bluesman's pluck and dash,
a railroad capsizes. The iron rails
of a ship going nowhere
in particular except home.

There, my swamp secret begins,
in the foliage of this poem.

The first breath
in a long song unsung.

Baraka on Obama, Baldwin's Legacy

Show description for Sunday 8/1/2010 @ 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

This week, on the four o'clock hour, poet, playwright, and essayist, Amiri Baraka, returns to New Day Jazz, to discuss the representation, and misrepresentation, of President Barack Obama, in the corporate sponsored media.

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	Michel Legrand Orchestra featuring Miles Davis	Jitterbug Waltz	Legrand Jazz	Columbia
	Michel Legrand Orchestra featuring Miles Davis	Round Midnight	Legrand Jazz	Columbia
	Michel Legrand Orchestra featuring Miles Davis	Wild Man Blues	Legrand Jazz	Columbia
	Michel Legrand Orchestra featuring Miles Davis	Django	Legrand Jazz	Columbia
	Modern Jazz Quartet	Django	Django	Prestige
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	Clifford Brown	Parisian Thoroughfare	The Quintet	Emarcy
	Clifford Brown	George's Dilemma	Study In Brown	Emarcy
	Sarah Vaughn	I'm Glad There Is You	Sarah Vaughn	Emarcy
	Sarah Vaughn	September Song	Sarah Vaughn	Emarcy
	Sarah Vaughn	It's Crazy	Sarah Vaughn	Emarcy
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	Randy Weston	Earth Birth	Little Niles	Blue Note
	Randy Weston	Nice Ice	Little Niles	Blue Note
	Randy Weston	Hi Fly	Randy Weston at the 5 Spot	United Artists
	Randy Weston	Blues Beef Stew	Randy Weston at the 5 Spot	United Artists
	Interview with Amiri Baraka by Justin Desmangles
	Randy Weston	Blues 5 Spot (excerpt)	Randy Weston at the 5 Spot	United Artists