Sunday, December 11, 2011

Head in the clouds he'd have said of himself, she'd have said elsewhere, his to be above and below, not know or say, hers to be alibi, elegy otherwise


Song of the Andoumboulou: 50
by Nathaniel Mackey

-ring of the well-


Fray was the name where we came
to next. Might've been a place,
might not've been a place but
we were there, came to it
sooner
than we could se... Come to
so soon, it was a name we stuck
pins in hoping we'd stay. Stray
was all we ended up with. Spar
was another name we heard
it
went by... Rasp we also heard it
was
called... Came to it sooner
than we could see but soon enough
saw we were there. Some who'd
come before us called it Bray...

Sound's own principality it was, a
pocket of air flexed mouthlike,
meaning's mime and regret, a squib of
something said, so intent it
seemed. At our backs a blown
conch,
bamboo flute, trapic remnant,
Lone
Coast reconnoiter come up empty
but for that, a first, forgotten
warble trafficked in again even so,
the
mango seed's reminder sent to what
end we'd eventually see...

We had
Come thru there before we were
told. Others claiming to be us had
come thru... The ubiquitous two lay
bound in cloth come down from on
high,
hoping it so, twist of their raiment
steep

integument, emollient feel for what
might not have been there. Head in the
clouds he'd have said of himself,
she'd
have said elsewhere, his to be above and
below, not know or say, hers to be
alibi, elegy otherwise known...

have said elsernrheren

Above and below, limbo what fabric
intervened. Limbo the bending they moved
in between. Limbo the book of
the
bent knee... Antiphonal thread
attended by thread. Keening string
by thrum, inwardness, netherness...
Violin
strings tied their hair high, limbo
the headrags they wore... The admission
of cloth that it was cover, what
was imminent out of reach, given
what
went for real, unreal,

split,
silhouetted
redress


ArtistSongAlbumLabel

Louis Armstrong West End BluesLouis Armstrong & Earl HinesPathe-Marconi (France)

Louis Armstrong & Earl HinesWeather BirdLouis Armstrong & Earl HinesPathe-Marconi (France)

Earl HinesA Monday DateEarl Hines SoloColumbia

Earl Hines Piano ManEarl Hines & His Grand Terrace OrchestraRCA

Maynard FergusonThat Jones BoyBirdland Dream BandFresh Sounds

George RussellAll About RosieThe Birth of the Third StreamColumbia

Shorty RogersDiablo's DanceShorty Rogers & His GiantsRCA

Charles MingusGunslinging BirdMingus DynastyColumbia

Ntozake ShangeSorryFor Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is EnufBuddha Records
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Count Basie Little PonyCount Basie & His OrchestraColumbia

Duke Ellington Primpin' for the PromPrimpin' for the PromRCA - France

Sarah Vaughn & Billy EckstineI've Got My Love to Keep Me WarmThe Irving Berlin Song BookMercury

Sarah VaughnLet's Call the Whole Thing OffSings GershwinMercury

Langston HughesHorn of PlentyBlack America Vol. 5 / The Black VerseBuddha Records Sunday Series

Miles DavisBlue X-Mas (To Whom it May Concern)Jingle Bell JazzColumbia

Carolina ShoutJames P. JohnsonJames P. JohnsonColumbia

Carolina ShoutFats WallerFats Waller SolosRCA

I'm Crazy About My BabyFats WallerFats Waller Sings & PlaysRCA
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Gigi Gryce featuring Clifford BrownBrown SkinsGigi Gryce OrchestraVogue

Gigi Gryce featuring Clifford BrownDeltitnuGigi Gryce OrchestraVogue

Zoot SimsSlingin' HaschZoot Sims QuartetVogue

Woody HermanFour BrothersWoody Herman OrchestraColumbia

Claude ThornhillYardbird SuiteClaude Thornhill OrchestraFresh Sounds

Langton HughesBird in OrbitBlack America Vol. 5 / The Black VerseBuddha Records Sunday Series
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Modern Jazz QuartetThe Jasmine TreeUnder the Jasmine TreeApple

Bob Brookmeyer Jive HootBob Brookmeyer & FriendsColumbia

Michel LegrandJitterbug WaltzLegrand JazzColumbia

Mary Lou WilliamsPerdidoIn LondonVogue

Mary Lou WilliamsKool BongoIn LondonVogue

Edward Brathwaite (Kamau Brathwaite)The EmigrantsRights of PassageArgo

Roscoe Mitchell Art EnsembleTutankhamen (solo by Malachi Favors)CongliptiousNessa
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Bessie JonesBeggin' the BluesRoots of the BluesNew World Records

Rose HemphillRolled & TumbledRoots of the BluesNew World Records

Ntozake ShangeAbortion Cycle # 1For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is EnufBuddah Records

Ntozake ShangeOneFor Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is EnufBuddah Records

KainBlack Amazon Fire Engine Cry BabyThe Blue GuerrillaJuggernaut Records
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Joseph JarmanBlack Paladins (poem by Henry Dumas)Black PaladinsBlack Saint
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Joseph JarmanGinger SongBlack PaladinsBlack Saint