Saturday, October 30, 2010

The Hangman's Great Hands By Kenneth Patchen


The Hangman's Great Hands

And all that is this day. . .
The boy with cap slung over what had been a face. ..

Somehow the cop will sleep tonight, will make love to his
wife...
Anger won't help. I was born angry. Angry that my father was being burnt alive in the mills; Angry that none of us knew anything but filth, and poverty. Angry because I was that very one somebody was supposed To be fighting for
Turn him over; take a good look at his face...
Somebody is going to see that face for a long time.
I wash his hands that in the brightness they will shine.
We have a parent called the earth.
To be these buds and trees; this tameless bird Within the ground; this season's act upon the fields of Man.
To be equal to the littlest thing alive,
While all the swarming stars move silent through The merest flower
. .. but the fog of guns.
The face with all the draining future left blank. . . Those smug saints, whether of church or Stalin, Can get off the back of my people, and stay off. Somebody is supposed to be fighting for somebody. . . And Lenin is terribly silent, terribly silent and dead. November 1937

Monday, October 11, 2010

I Plan to Stay a Believer . . . In Monk!


Show description for Sunday 10/10/2010 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

This afternoon on New Day Jazz we are honored to welcome back to the program bassist and composer William Parker, in the 4 o'clock hour, to discuss his most recent release, I Plan to Stay a Believer: The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield. Later in the program we are joined once again by one of the towering figures in the history of African-American music and culture, saxophonist and composer, the great Roscoe Mitchell (pictured above).
As part of our celebrations of Thelonious Monk's birthday, we will listen in on some of his earliest trio recordings on Prestige, as well as first sessions with Sonny Rollins.


ArtistSongAlbumLabel

William ParkerI Plan to Stay a BelieverI Plan to Stay a Believer: The Inside Songs of Curtis MayfieldAUM-Fidelity

William ParkerIf There's a Hell BelowI Plan to Stay a Believer: The Inside Songs of Curtis MayfieldAUM-Fidelity
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Thelonious Monk TrioLittle Rootie TootieThelonious Monk TrioPrestige

Thelonious Monk TrioSweet & LovelyThelonious Monk TrioPrestige

Thelonious Monk TrioBye-YaThelonious Monk TrioPrestige

Thelonious Monk TrioMonk's DreamThelonious Monk TrioPrestige
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William Parker & Hamid DrakeAnaya DancingSummer Snow Volume 2AUM-Fidelity

William Parker & Hamid DrakeKonte (excerpt)Summer Snow Volume 2AUM-Fidelity

Interview with William Parker by Justin Desmangles




William Parker & Hamid DrakeEarth (excerpt)Summer Snow Volume 2AUM-Fidelity

William ParkerWe the People Who Are Darker Than BlueI Plan to Stay a Believer: The Inside Songs of Curtis MayfieldAUM-Fidelity
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Thelonious Monk QuartetThe Way You Look TonightThelonious Monk with Sonny RollinsPrestige

Thelonious Monk QuartetI Want to Be HappyThelonious Monk with Sonny RollinsPrestige

Interview with Roscoe Mitchell by Justin Desmangles




Roscoe Mitchell & Muhal Richard AbramsRomuSpectrumMutable
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Roscoe Mitchell featuring Thomas Buckner & the Janacek Philharmonic OrchestraNon-Cognitive Aspects of the City 1SpectrumMutable

Roscoe Mitchell featuring Thomas Buckner & the Janacek Philharmonic OrchestraNon-Cognitive Aspects of the City 2SpectrumMutable

Roscoe Mitchell featuring Thomas Buckner & the Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra

Sunday, October 3, 2010

beyond complete immortal now.

Show description for Sunday 10/3/2010 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Soledad

by Robert Hayden



(And I, I am no longer of that world)

Naked, he lies in the blinded room
chainsmoking, cradled by drugs, by jazz
as never by any lover's cradling flesh.

Miles Davis coolly blows for him:
O pena negra, sensual Flamenco blues;
the redclay foxfire voice of Lady Day

(lady of the pure black magnolias)
sobsings her sorrow and loss and fare you well,
dryweeps the pain his treacherous jailers

have released him from for a while.
His fears and his unfinished self
await him down in the anywhere streets.

He hides on the dark side of the moon,
takes refuge in a stained-glass cell,
flies to a clockless country of crystal.

Only the ghost of Lady Day knows where
he is. Only the music. And he swings
oh he swings: beyond complete immortal now.


Pictured here; Romare Bearden
Profile/Part I, The Twenties:
Maudell Sleet's Magic Garden


ArtistSongAlbumLabel

Betty CarterThis Is AlwaysInside Betty CarterUnited Artists

Betty CarterLook No FurtherInside Betty CarterUnited Artists

Betty CarterBeware My HeartInside Betty CarterUnited Artists

Betty CarterMy Favorite ThingsInside Betty CarterUnited Artists

Sarah VaughnJust In TimeSarah + 2Roulette

Sarah VaughnWhen Sunny Gets BlueSarah + 2Roulette

Sarah VaughnAll I Do Is Dream Of YouSarah + 2Roulette
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Sonny ClarkI'll Remember AprilSonny Clark TrioBlue Note

Lee MorganCandyCandyBlue Note

Art Blakey & the Jazz MessengersThe Drum Thunder Suite: Drum Thunder, Cry a Blue Tear, Harlem's DisciplesMoanin'Blue Note

Sonny RollinsPoor ButterflySonny Rollins Volume 2Blue Note

Charles MingusPassions of a Woman LovedTonight at NoonAtlantic

Charles MingusTonight at NoonTonight at NoonAtlantic













Duke EllingtonU.M.M.G." . . . and his mother called him Bill."RCA

Duke EllingtonRain Check" . . . and his mother called him Bill."RCA

Duke EllingtonMy Little Brown Book" . . . and his mother called him Bill."RCA

Duke Ellington & John ColtraneMy Little Brown BookDuke Ellington & John ColtraneImpulse

Billy StrayhornChelsea BridgeBilly StrayhornRed Baron

Tommy FlanaganChelsea BridgeOverseasOriginal Jazz Classics

Tommy FlanaganDelarnaOverseasOriginal Jazz Classics

Ella FitzgeraldIt's Only a Paper MoonThe Harold Arlen Song BookVerve

Ella FitzgeraldLet's Do ItThe Cole Porter Song BookVerve

Ella Fitzgerald & Ellis LarkinsThey Can't Take That Away From MeThe Irving Berlin Song BookVerve

Ella Fitzgerald & Ellis LarkinsMy One and OnlyElla Sings GershwinDecca

Ella Fitzgerald & Ellis LarkinsLooking for a BoyElla Sings GershwinDecca

Ella Fitzgerald & Ellis LarkinsMaybeElla Sings GershwinDecca

Ella Fitzgerald & Ellis LarkinsSoonElla Sings GershwinDecca

Kenny DorhamLotus BlossomQuiet KennyNew Jazz

Kenny DorhamStraight Ahead (excerpt)
Una MasBlue Note