Sunday, December 23, 2012

"Going Too Far" with Ishmael Reed

Show description for Sunday 12/9/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM


Our guest this afternoon, on the 5 o'clock hour, poet, playwright, essayist, and novelist, Ishmael Reed.
Mr. Reed returns to the program to discuss his most recent book, Going Too Far: Essays About America's Nervous Breakdown.
 

“Wonderful… Bravo!” Robert Wilson, Pulitzer Prize winner for CIVIL warS.
Ishmael Reed goes too far, again! Just as the fugitive slaves went to Canada and challenged the prevailing view that slaves were well off under their masters, Ishmael Reed has gone all the way to Quebec—where this book is published—to challenge the widespread opinion that racism is no longer a factor in American life.
In some ways, says Reed, the United States very much resembles the country of the 1850s. The representations of blacks in popular culture are throwbacks to the days of minstrelsy. Politicians are raising stereotypes about blacks reminiscent of those that the fugitive slaves found it necessary to combat: that they are lazy and dependent and need people to manage them.
Ishmael Reed establishes his diagnosis of a nervous breakdown in three parts. Part I on a black president of the United States is entitled “Chief Executive and Chief Exorcist, Too?” Part II on culture and representations of African Americans in our supposed post-race era, “Coonery and Buffoonery.” In Part III, “As Relayed by Themselves,” cultural figures have a chance to tell the story in their own words.
About Going Too Far and Ishmael Reed
“Ishmael Reed is a buzz-saw. He ambushes arguments from everunpredictable angles forcing the rest of us, whatever our politics, to acknowledge not just his passion but the fierceness of his intellect.” Trey Ellis, author of Platitudes, Home Repairs, and “The New Black Aesthetic.”
“Reed is a pre-future sage… His fiction, poems, plays, and recordings are a moral looking glass for envisioning what we might be. His nonfiction, however, is at once testimony and indictment of what we are.” Jerry Ward, Professor of English and African American World Studies, Dillard University, New Orleans.

“Reed tackles the Tea Party’s shockingly racist antics, Obama’s accomplishments, feminism’s effect on the black male image, the Occupy Movement—to varying results. Reed is best when he historicizes, as in his essay “Ethnic Studies in the Age of the Tea Party,” and when he draws on the more rational, even-tempered voices of others, as in his interviews with Terry McMillan and Nuruddin Farah.” Publishers Weekly,November 05, 2012.
Ishmael Reed
Ishmael Reed
“A courageous American man of letters, one who, if he lived in most places in the world, would be a martyr by now.”—Hakim Hasan, The San Francisco Chronicle
“Reed’s writing is incisive and astute; impassioned and amusing. He fully researches his topics and makes a decisive stand based on the facts, as he sees it….”—Gabrielle David, Phati’tude Literary Magazine
“With Ishmael Reed, the most persistent myths and prejudice crumble under powerful unrelenting jabs and razor-sharp insight.”—Le Devoir, Montreal
Ishmael Reed is an essayist, novelist, poet and playwright, and a prizewinner in all categories. He taught at the University of California (Berkeley) for thirty-five years, as well as at Harvard, Yale and Dartmouth. Reed is a member of Harvard’s Signet Society and Yale’s Calhoun Society. He lives in Oakland, California.

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ArtistSongAlbumLabel
Carmen McRaeAs Time Goes ByAloneAmigo
Carmen McRaeI Could Have Told YouAloneAmigo
Dorothy ParkerA Fairly Sad TalePoems & "Horsie"Spoken Arts
Ruth Brown (Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter MeanAtlantic
Ray ChalresMovin' OnThe Genius Sings The BluesAtlantic
Albert AmmonsBoogie Woogie StompIn The Begining Blue Note
Count Basie OrchestraMutton LegCount Basie OrchestraRCA
Lucky ThompsonBoppin' The BluesLucky Thompson & His Lucky 7RCA
Slim Gaillard & Slam StewartPalm Springs JumpSlim & SlamColumbia
The 5 CousinsI've Got The World On A StringLeo WatsonSwingtime
Vic DickersonJingle BellsLeo WatsonSwingtime
Duke EllingtonJingle BellsPrimpin' For The PromCBS - France
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Duke EllingtonPeanut Brittle BrigadeThe Nutcracker SuiteColumbia
Duke EllingtonZweet ZurzdaySweet ThursdayColumbia
John BeecherScreenedReport To The StockholdersFolkways
Milt Jackson QuintetOn The SceneMilt JacksonBlue Note - France
Hampton Hawes QuartetBlues # 4All Night Session Vol. 3Contemporary
Lionel HamptonJack The BellboyThe Complete RCA RecordingsRCA
Django ReinhardtI'll See You In My DreamsDjango!Djangology
Eddie Lang & Lonnie JohnsonDeep Minor Rhythm Stomp50 Years Of Jazz GuitarColumbia
T-Bone WalkerStormy Monday BluesStraighten Up And Fly RightNew World
Muddy WatersHoochie Coochie ManMuddy WatersChess
Bo Diddley Who Do You Love?16 Greatest Chess
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Cab CallowayMinnie The MoocherTea Pad SongsReefer
Louis JordanWhat's The Use Of Getting Sober (When You're Going To Get Drunk Again?)Tea Pad SongsReefer
Yack TaylorWhip It To A JellySammy PriceSwingtime
Billie HolidayDo Your DutyComplete Decca RecordingsDecca
Thelonious MonkHackensackCriss CrossColumbia
Bud PowellUn Poco LocoThe Amazing Bud Powell! Vol. 1Blue Note
Shorty Rogers OrchestraUn Poco LocoThe Afro-Cuban InfluenceRCA - Living Stereo
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Miles Davis SextetStraight, No Chaser (excerpt)MilestonesColumbia
Ishmael Reed Interviewed By Justin DesmanglesIshmael Reed Interviewed By Justin DesmanglesIshmael Reed Interviewed By Justin DesmanglesIshmael Reed Interviewed By Justin Desmangles
Miles Davis SextetStraight, No Chaser (excerpt)MilestonesColumbia
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Frank SinatraOnly The LonelyOnly The LonelyCapitol

Friday, December 7, 2012

Rob Nixon talks about his award winning book, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor



Show description for Sunday 12/2/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Our guest this afternoon, on the 5 o'clock hour, Rob Nixon, author of Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, winner of the 2012 American Book Award,  the 2012 Harold and Margaret Sprout Awardfrom the Environmental Studies Section of the International Studies Association,  the 2012 Transdisciplinary Humanities Book Awardfrom the Institute for Humanities Research at Arizona State University, as well as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2011. 
In this enormously important book, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor, author RobNixon lays out some of the most persuasive and highly original analyses to date on the problems, perils, and confounding paradoxes surrounding the phenomenon of global destruction caused by rising levels of toxicity in the world today. While it is no secret that the most technologically advanced nations on earth, most especially in the West, and most particularly the United States, are the primary culprits in perpetuating the phenomenon of global warming, little has been done, until now, toward the unique role artists, particular writer-activists, can have and have created in off-setting the imminent catastrophes associated with it. Beginning with Lawrence Summers infamous quote outlining the logical necessity of the aforementioned advanced nations capitalists to dump toxins into an "under polluted" Africa, Nixon guides us through the surprising subterfuge of evasions, confrontations, revelations and disclosures surrounding the various industries, corporations, governments, unions, villages, townships, preserves, rivers and mines that are the landscape of the most volatile, socially and politically charged issues of our time. Those involving the very survival of the planet on which we live. Drawing heavily on the work of Rachel Carson, as well as Edward SaidNixon has created a singular, remarkably rigorous, and inventive style of literary criticism, illuminating the work of writer-activists both in America and around the world, whose own powerfully deciphering works offer highly original solutions and perspectives on the daunting, often intimidating, prospects of human extinction. In a culture where our perceptions of the world in which we live are increasingly mediated by rapid advances in communication technologies, and their attendant archives, Nixon forwards the theory of 'slow violence,' a violence that develops incrementally over time, time not immediately apparent or presentable by spectacle driven media and broadcast technology. For those trapped inside and outside this virtual membrane, the paradox is lethal. Among the many writer-activists discussed byNixon are American Book Award winner Camille Dungy, Arundhati Roy, the late Ken Saro-Wiwa, Noble Peace Prize winner Wangari Maathi, Njabulo Ndebele, and Indra Sinha, author ofAnimal's People.

New Day Jazz


Justin Desmangles
Interviews with authors of contemporary American literature.

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Classical, Jazz, Blues, Experimental, Poetry & Literature

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Gato BarbieriLa China Leoncia Arreo La Correntinada Trajo Entre La Muchachada La Flor De La JuventudChapter One: Latin AmericaImpulse
Duke Ellington / Billy Strayhorn All-StarsCaravanJohnny Hodges All-StarsPrestige
Duke EllingtonCaravanMoney JungleUnited Artists
Randy WestonZuluZuluMilestone
Randy WestonPortrait Of VivianAfrican CookbookAtlantic
Randy WestonTribute To Duke EllingtonCarnivalArista
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William Parker OrchestraThe Essence Of EllingtonEssence Of Ellington: Live In MilanoCentering Records
Sun RaEnlightenmentNuits De La Fondation MaeghtFondation Maeght
Don CherryBrown RiceBrown RiceHorizon
Ornette ColemanVoice PoetryBody MetaArtist's House
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Michael WhiteThe Land Of Spirit And LightThe Land Of Spirit And LightImpulse
Michael WhiteFiesta DominicalThe Land Of Spirit And LightImpulse
Ornette ColemanTrouble In The EastCrisisImpulse
Sun Ra And His Intergalactic Research ArkestraIt's After The End Of The WorldLive At The Donaueschingen And Berlin FestivalsMPS
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Sun Ra featuring June TysonNeptune (excerpt)Discipline 27-IISaturn
Interview With Rob Nixon By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Rob Nixon By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Rob Nixon By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Rob Nixon By Justin Desmangles
Depeche ModeEverything Counts (In Large Amounts)Everything Counts (In Large Amounts)Sire

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Will Alexander, Poet

Show description for Sunday 11/18/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM


Our guest this afternoon, on the 5 o'clock hour, Will Alexander

Mr. Alexander works in multiple genres. In addition to being a poet, he is also a novelist, essayist, aphorist, playwright, philosopher, visual artist, and pianist. His influences range from poetic practitioners, such as Aimé Césaire, Bob Kaufman, Andre Breton, Antonin Artaud, and Philip Lamantia, to the encompassing paradigm of Sri Aurobindo’s Integral Yoga, and the Egyptian worldview as understood by Cheikh Anta Diop and R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz. The latter is central to Alexander’s expanding inner range, which has allowed him access to levels of mind beyond the three-dimensional as boundary. He thereby explores the full dimensionality of each word. For him, each word has access to not only the median level of three-dimensional experience, but also partakes of experience on both the supra and subconscious planes. His praxis of language is not unlike the Mayan numerical world where each letter of the alphabet spontaneously engages in non-limit. Thus, all the fields of experience are open for exploration. Art, physics, botany, history, astronomy, architecture, poetics, each being a portion of the fields open for exploration. His books include Asia and Haiti, The Sri Lankan Loxodrome, Compression and Purity, Sunrise In Armageddon, Diary As Sin, Inside the Earthquake Palace, Towards The Primeval Lightning Field, and Mirach Speaks To His Grammatical Transparents.



ArtistSongAlbumLabel
Duke Ellington Pitter Patter PantherAn Explosion of Genius, 1938-1940Smithsonian
Duke Ellington PyramidAn Explosion of Genius, 1938-1940Smithsonian
Duke Ellington Portrait Of The LionAn Explosion of Genius, 1938-1940Smithsonian
Duke Ellington I'm Checking Out, GoombyeAn Explosion of Genius, 1938-1940Smithsonian
Duke Ellington CottontailAn Explosion of Genius, 1938-1940Smithsonian
Duke Ellington Blue Light (Take 2)An Explosion of Genius, 1938-1940Smithsonian
Ron CarterRallyWhere?New Jazz
Eric DolphyMiss AnnFar CryNew Jazz
Adrienne RichPowerA Sign / I Was Not Alone Out & Out Books
Jayne Cortez & Richard DavisSoloCelebrations & SolitudesStrata-East
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Audre LordeHarrietA Sign / I Was Not Alone Out & Out Books
Andrew HillSiete OchoJudgement!Blue Note
Andrew HillOde To VonSmokestackBlue Note
Andrew HillPoinsettia One For One Blue Note - Reissue Series
Andrew HillDiddy Wah One For One Blue Note - Reissue Series
LaVern BakerSoul On FireLaVern BakerAtlantic
Ray CharlesThe Right TimeRay Charles at NewportAtlantic
Ray CharlesI've Got A WomanRay Charles at NewportAtlantic
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Carmen McRaeBye, Bye BlackbirdBy Special RequestDecca
Carmen McRaeGeorgia RoseBy Special RequestDecca
Carmen McRaeFlamingoBy Special RequestDecca
Charles MingusFlamingoTijuana MoodsRCA
Charles MingusLos Mariachis (Alternate Take)Tijuana MoodsRCA
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Jean-Claude EloyEquivalences (excerpt)Pierre Boulez Conducts The Doumaine Musical EnsembleEverest
Will Alexander Interviewed By Justin DesmanglesWill Alexander Interviewed By Justin DesmanglesWill Alexander Interviewed By Justin DesmanglesWill Alexander Interviewed By Justin Desmangles
Jean-Claude EloyEquivalences (excerpt)Pierre Boulez Conducts The Doumaine Musical EnsembleEverest
Henri PousseurMadrigal III (excerpt)Pierre Boulez Conducts The Doumaine Musical EnsembleEverest

Monday, November 12, 2012

Khalil Gibran Muhammad On Election 2012

Show description for Sunday 11/11/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM


Our guest this afternoon, on the 5 o'clock hour, scholar, writer, activist, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, winner of the American Studies Association John Hope Franklin Publication Prize. 


Mr. Muhammad, director of The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, will be joining us for a discussion of the recent election, its results and vicissitudes. 



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ArtistSongAlbumLabel
Count Basie featuring Joe WilliamsRoll 'Em PeteCount Basie Swings, Joe Williams SingsVerve
Count Basie featuring Joe WilliamsTeach Me TonightCount Basie Swings, Joe Williams SingsVerve
Count Basie featuring Joe WilliamsMy Baby Upsets MeCount Basie Swings, Joe Williams SingsVerve
Sarah VaughanIt Shouldn't Happen to a DreamIn the Land of Hi-Fi EmArcy
Sarah VaughanSometimes I'm HappyIn the Land of Hi-Fi EmArcy
Sarah VaughanMaybeIn the Land of Hi-Fi EmArcy
Charles MingusE's Flat Ah's Flat TooBlues & RootsAtlantic
Charles MingusTensionsBlues & RootsAtlantic
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"Cannonball" AdderleyAlison's UncleAlison's Uncle Blue Note - Japan
Bud PowellBlue Pearl (alternate take)Blue PearlBlue Note - Japan
Bud PowellTopsy TurvyStrictly PowellRCA
Bud PowellTheloniousPortrait Of Thelonious MonkColumbia
Mable MercerI Walk A Little FasterMerely MarvelousAtlantic
Mable MercerYou Fascinate Me SoMerely MarvelousAtlantic
Duke EllingtonOn A Turquoise CloudMonologue CBS - France
Duke EllingtonNew York City BluesMonologue CBS - France
Charles Mingus(Soul Fusion) Freewoman And Oh, This Freedom's Slave CriesThe Black Saint And The Sinner LadyImpulse
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Lionel HamptonCentral Avenue BreakdownThe Complete Small Group RecordingsRCA
Lionel HamptonJack The BellboyThe Complete Small Group RecordingsRCA
Dizzy Gillespie featuring Don ByasAnthropologyDizzy!RCA
Miles DavisHalf NelsonWorkin'Prestige
Teddy Edwards & Howard McGheePerhapsTogether Again!Contemporary
Dexter GordonWho Can I Turn To?Gettin' AroundBlue Note
Abbey LincolnAfro-BlueAbbey Is BlueRiverside
Abbey LincolnLonely HouseAbbey Is BlueRiverside
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Bobby HutchersonDialogue (excerpt)DialogueBlue Note
Interview With Khalil Gibran Muhammad By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Khalil Gibran Muhammad By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Khalil Gibran Muhammad By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Khalil Gibran Muhammad By Justin Desmangles
Bobby HutchersonDialogue (excerpt)DialogueBlue Note
Bobby HutchersonGhetto LightsDialogueBlue Note
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Miles DavisThe ThemeWorkin'Prestige

Monday, November 5, 2012

Alejandro Murguia on the Elections, Nov. 2012

Show description for Sunday 11/4/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM


  
This afternoon, on the 5 o'clock hour, we are joined by Alejandro Murguia (pictured at right), Poet Laureate of San Francisco. Educator, activist, editor, and founder of the seminal magazine, Tin-Tan, Mr. Murguia will be discussing the coming election, Tuesday, Nov. 6th.
A key figure in the development of literature in the United States, Mr. Murguia is twice winner of the American Book Award.

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ArtistSongAlbumLabel
Johnny Dodds TrioMr. Jelly LordJohnny Dodds TrioSwaggie
Louis ArmstrongMahogany Hall StompLouis Armstrong Jazz Classics Vol. 1Swaggie
Jimmy Dorsey featuring Louis ArmstrongSwing That MusicSwing That Music Vol. 6Swaggie
Louis ArmstrongStruttin' With Some BarbecueSwing That Music Vol. 8Swaggie
Honey HillBoogie WoogiePiano Jazz Boogie Woogie StyleSwaggie
Count Basie & His OrchestraTickle ToeCount Basie & Lester YoungCBS
Lester YoungLady Be GoodYoung LesterCBS - France
Art TatumOut Of NowhereArt TatumRCA
Benny Goodman featuring Teddy WilsonSomeday SweetheartBenny GoodmanRCA
John Kirby SextetNight WhispersThe Biggest Little Band in the LandRCA - France
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Tommy Dorsey featuring Frank SinatraEverything Happens To MeTommy Dorsey & Frank Sinatra 1940-42RCA
Teddy Wilson featuring Ella FitzgeraldMy Melancholy BabyTeddy Wilson OrchestraCBS - France
Sarah Vaughn featuring Miles DavisNice Work If You Can Get It Sarah Vaughn In Hi-FiColumbia
Thelonious MonkNice Work If You Can Get ItGenius Of Modern MusicBlue Note
Thelonious MonkIn Walked BudGenius Of Modern MusicBlue Note
Thelonious MonkCriss CrossGenius Of Modern MusicBlue Note
Dizzy Gillespie featuring Don ByasA Night In TunisiaThe Complete Dizzy Gillespie On RCARCA
Charlie ParkerA Night In TunisiaThe Complete Dial MastersWarner Brothers
Bud PowellA Night In TunisiaThe Amazing Bud PowellBlue Note
Modern Jazz QuartetA Night In TunisiaModern Jazz QuartetAtlantic
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Bud Powell Un Poco LocoThe Amazing Bud PowellBlue Note
Shorty Rogers Big BandUn Poco LocoThe Afro-Cuban InfluenceRCA "Living Stereo"
Art Farmer & His OrchestraWoody'n YouThe Aztec SuiteUnited Artists
Sonny RollinsWoody'n YouAt The Village VanguardBlue Note - Japan
Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra featuring Chano PozoCubana Be Cubana BopThe Complete Dizzy Gillespie On RCARCA
Woody Herman OrchestraBijouWoody Herman OrchestraRadio Daze
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Woody Herman OrchestraFour BrothersFour BrothersCBS - France
Earl Hines & His OrchestraPiano ManJazz Piano 2RCA - France
Maynard Ferguson featuring Hank JonesThat Jones BoyBirdland Dream BandRoulette
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Bud Powell Buser Rides Again (excerpt)Time WaitsBlue Note
Interview With Alejandro Murguia By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Alejandro Murguia By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Alejandro Murguia By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Alejandro Murguia By Justin Desmangles
Bud Powell Buster Rides Again (excerpt)Time WaitsBlue Note
George Russell featuring Bill EvansAll About RosieBrandeis Jazz FestivalCBS - France
Shorty Rogers featuring Hampton HawesDiablo's Dance Shorty Rogers & His GiantsRCA
Billy Eckstine & Sarah VaughnI've Got My Love To Keep Me WarmSing The Best Of Irving BerlinMercury
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PrinceIf I Was Your GirlfriendSign Of The TimesPaisley Park

Monday, October 15, 2012

Jason Weiss On ESP-Disk, Always in Trouble


Show description for Sunday 10/14/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Our guest this week, on the 5 o'clock hour, Jason Weiss, author of Always In Trouble: An Oral History of ESP-Disk, The Most Outrageous Record Label in America

In 1964, Bernard Stollman launched the independent record label ESP-Disk’ in New York City to document the free jazz movement there. A bare-bones enterprise, ESP was in the right place at the right time, producing albums by artists like Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, and Sun Ra, as well as folk-rock bands like the Fugs and Pearls Before Swine. But the label quickly ran into difficulties and, due to the politically subversive nature of some productions and sloppy business practices, it folded in 1974. Always in Trouble tells the story of ESP-Disk’ through a multitude of voices—first Stollman’s, as he recounts the improbable life of the label, and then the voices of many of the artists involved.



“ESP’s music was startling, and it was unusual to have one company bring out so many styles of music at once under the same logo. This book takes a biographical approach to the label, and presents one of the best accounts I’ve seen of a chaotic, bizarre, and thrilling time.”—John Szwed, author of Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World
Always in Trouble brims with lively, revealing stories and anecdotes. A multi-sided look at the legendary ESP record label, it is essential reading for anyone interested in the cultural explosions of the 1960s.”——Nathaniel Mackey, author of Bass Cathedral

ArtistSongAlbumLabel
Bud PowellCleopatra's DreamThe Scene ChangesBlue Note
Cannonball AdderleyAutumn LeavesSomethin' ElseBlue Note
Sarah VaughnWords Can't DescribeSwingin' EasyMercury
Sarah VaughnPennies From HeavenSwingin' EasyMercury
Hampton HawesJorduAll Night Session Vol. 1Contemporary
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Bobby TroupIs You Is Or Is You Ain't My BabyBobby Troup & His Stars Of JazzRCA
Zoot Sims featuring Mel LewisBrushesChoiceWorld Pacific
Ray CharlesBut On The Other Hand BabyGreatest HitsABC - Paramount
Clark Terry featuring Thelonious MonkIn OrbitIn OrbitJazzland
Red GarlandTake Me In Your ArmsRed's Good GrooveJazzland
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Sun RaHouse Of BeautyThe Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra Vol. 2ESP-Disk
Sun RaOuter NothingnessThe Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra Vol. 1ESP-Disk
Albert AylerAngelsSpirits RejoiceESP-Disk
Gunter HampelAssemblage (excerpt)AssemblageESP-Disk
Ishmael ReedThe Freelance Pallbearers (excerpt)East Village OtherESP-Disk
Sonny SimmonsStaying On The Watch (excerpt)Staying On The WatchESP-Disk
Alan SondheimRitual All 7 70 (excerpt)Ritual All 7 70ESP-Disk
William S. BurroughsNova Express (excerpt)Call Me BurroughsESP-Disk
The FugsKIll For Peace (excerpt)The FugsESP-Disk
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Albert AylerGhosts (First Variation)Spiritual UnityESP-Disk
John BeecherReport To The StockholdersReport To The Stockholders & Other PoemsFolkways
Charlie ParkerKokoThe Complete Savoy MastersSavoy
Coleman HawkinsBody & SoulJive At FiveNew World
Duke EllingtonRidin' On A Blue NoteDuke Ellington 1938-1940Smithsonian
Duke EllingtonHip ChicDuke Ellington 1938-1940Smithsonian
Duke EllingtonOld King DoojiDuke Ellington 1938-1940Smithsonian
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Steve LacyThe Forest (excerpt)The Forest & The ZooESP-Disk
Interview With Jason Weiss By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Jason Weiss By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Jason Weiss By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Jason Weiss By Justin Desmangles
Tadd DameronLook, Stop, ListenThe Magic TouchRiverside
Bud PowellBlue Pearl (AlternateTake)Blue PearlBlue Note Japan

Sunday, September 16, 2012

"Jazz without the blues is a music without memory" - Amiri Baraka in conversation with Maya Angelou


 

Show description for Sunday 9/16/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM



In Summer by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Oh, summer has clothed the earth
In a cloak from the loom of the sun!
And a mantle, too, of the skies' soft blue,
And a belt where the rivers run.

And now for the kiss of the wind,
And the touch of the air's soft hands,
With the rest from strife and the heat of life,
With the freedom of lakes and lands.

I envy the farmer's boy
Who sings as he follows the plow;
While the shining green of the young blades lean
To the breezes that cool his brow.

He sings to the dewy morn,
No thought of another's ear;
But the song he sings is a chant for kings
And the whole wide world to hear.

He sings of the joys of life,
Of the pleasures of work and rest,
From an o'erfull heart, without aim or art;
'T is a song of the merriest.

O ye who toil in the town,
And ye who moil in the mart,
Hear the artless song, and your faith made strong
Shall renew your joy of heart.

Oh, poor were the worth of the world
If never a song were heard,—
If the sting of grief had no relief,
And never a heart were stirred.

So, long as the streams run down,
And as long as the robins trill,
Let us taunt old Care with a merry air,
And sing in the face of ill.



 The Garden, Joan Miró, (April 20, 1893 – December 25, 1983)



ArtistSongAlbumLabel
LaVern BakerShake A HandSavedAtlantic
Ray CharlesI WonderGreatest HitsABC-Paramount
Oscar Brown, Jr. Man, Earnest BoyTells It Like It Is!Columbia
Miles Davis & Gil EvansGonePorgy & BessColumbia
Lee MorganLost & FoundExpoobident!VeeJay
Milt JacksonGingerbread BoyJive 'N' SambaImpulse
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Esther PhillipsI'm Gettin' 'Long AlrightConfessin' The BluesAtlantic
Esther PhillipsI WonderConfessin' The BluesAtlantic
Bobby BlandCry Cry CryTwo Steps Away From The BluesChess
Howlin' WolfGoing Down SlowHowlin' WolfChess
Dinah WashingtonNo CaviarThe Complete Dinah Washington Vol. 8Official
Miles DavisStablematesThe New Miles Davis QuintetPrestige
Art PepperWaltz Me BluesMeets The Rhythm SectionContemporary
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Dinah WashingtonMake Believe DreamsThe Complete Dinah Washington Vol. 8Official
Nina SimoneSomething To Live ForNina Sings EllingtonColpix
Ada LeeRain Is Such A Lonesome SoundAda Lee Comes OnAtco
Cannonball AdderleyArriving SoonCannonball Adderley Quintet PlusContemporary
Horace SilverNica's DreamHorace-ScopeBlue Note
The Three SoundsSaucer EyesBlack OrchidBlue Note
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Charles MingusTonight At NoonTonight At NoonAtlantic
Charles MingusPassions Of A ManOh Yeah!Atlantic
Charles MingusShe's Just Miss Popular HybridMingus Plays PianoImpulse
Little Jimmy ScottWhen Did You Leave Heaven?Little Jimmy ScottSavoy
Little Jimmy ScottImaginationLittle Jimmy ScottSavoy
Art PepperImaginationMeets The Rhythm SectionContemporary
King PleasureGolden DaysGolden DaysHi-Fi Jazz
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William Parker OrchestraPortrait Of New OrleansEssence Of Ellington: Live In MilanoCentering
Michael Bisio & Matthew Shipp Floating IceFloating IceRelative Pitch
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David S. WareMinus Gravity 1Organica (Solo Saxophones, Vol. 2)AUM-Fidelity
William Parker OrchestraIn A Sentimental MoodEssence Of Ellington: Live In MilanoCentering

Amiri Barka on the G.O.P., Adilifu Nama Returns

Show description for Sunday 9/2/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM


This afternoon, on the four o'clock hour, Adilifu Nama returns to follow up on our discussion from last week's broadcast concerning his most recent work, Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes, winner of the American Book Award 2012.

Later in the program, on the five o'clock hour, poet, playwright, social critic, political thinker and activist, Amiri Baraka, returns to New Day Jazz for a discussion on the coming election. A preeminent figure in the development of American culture, Mr. Baraka is a towering presence in international arts & letters. 


ArtistSongAlbumLabel
Herbie HancockOne Finger SnapEmpyrean IslesBlue Note
Herbie HancockThe Eye Of The HurricaneMaiden VoyageBlue Note
Herbie HancockLittle OneMaiden VoyageBlue Note
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Miles DavisRiotNefertitiColumbia
Herbie HancockRiotSpeak Like A ChildBlue Note
Sam RiversPrecisDimensions & ExtensionsBlue Note
Sam RiversPaenDimensions & ExtensionsBlue Note
Thelonious MonkCriss CrossCriss CrossColumbia
Charles MingusWork SongMingus At The BohemiaDebut
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Interview With Adilifu Nama By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Adilifu Nama By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Adilifu Nama By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Adilifu Nama By Justin Desmangles
Michael Bisio & Matthew ShippSupernovaFloating IceRelative Pitch
Michael Bisio & Matthew ShippHolographic RagFloating IceRelative Pitch
David S. WareAncestry SupramentalPlanetary UnknownAUM-Fidelity
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Jackie McLeanIt's TImeIt's Time!Blue Note
Interview With Amiri Baraka By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Amiri Baraka By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Amiri Baraka By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Amiri Baraka By Justin Desmangles
Lee MorganThe Sixth SenseThe Sixth SenseBlue Note
Lou DonaldsonOne CylinderAlligator BoogalooBlue Note
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Art Ensemble Of ChicagoDreaming Of The MasterNice GuysECM

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Adilifu Nama's Super Black: American Pop Culture & Black Superheroes

Show description for Sunday 8/26/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Our guest this afternoon, on the 5 o'clock hour, Adilifu Nama. We will be discussing his most recent work, Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes, winner of the American Book Award 2012. Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cultural trends in American politics and pop culture, which reveals how black superheroes are not disposable pop products, but rather a fascinating racial phenomenon through which futuristic expressions and fantastic visions of black racial identity and symbolic political meaning are presented. Adilifu Nama sees the value—and finds new avenues for exploring racial identity—in black superheroes who are often dismissed as sidekicks, imitators of established white heroes, or are accused of having no role outside of blaxploitation film contexts.  Nama examines seminal black comic book superheroes such as Black Panther, Black Lightning, Storm, Luke Cage, Blade, the Falcon, Nubia, and others, some of whom also appear on the small and large screens, as well as how the imaginary black superhero has come to life in the image of President Barack Obama. Super Black explores how black superheroes are a powerful source of racial meaning, narrative, and imagination in American society that express a myriad of racial assumptions, political perspectives, and fantastic (re)imaginings of black identity. The book also demonstrates how these figures overtly represent or implicitly signify social discourse and accepted wisdom concerning notions of racial reciprocity, equality, forgiveness, and ultimately, racial justice. 
Adilifu Nama is Associate Professor and Chair of the African American Studies Department at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of the award-winning Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film, the first book length examination of the topic.

ArtistSongAlbumLabel
Bobby ShortYou've Got That ThingBobby Short Loves Cole PorterAtlantic
King PleasureDiaper Pin (That Old Black Magic)Mr. JazzUnited Artists
Teddy Edwards & Howard McGheeYou Stepped Out Of A DreamTogether Again!Contemporary
Harold Land The FoxThe FoxContemporary
James Moody featuring Eddie JeffersonBirdland StoryFlutin' The BluesChess
Johnny HartmanI Get A Kick Out Of YouThe Debonair Mr. Hartman Bethlehem
Johnny HartmanStairway To The StarsI Just Dropped By To Say HelloImpusle
Dexter GordonStairway To The StarsOur Man In ParisBlue Note
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Bud PowellCleopatra's DreamThe Scene ChangesBlue Note
Bud PowellBlues In The Closet 1960 Essen, Grugahalle Jazzline
Harold Land Mirror-Mind RoseThe FoxContemporary
Cedar Walton featuring Abbey LincolnIn A Sentimental MoodThe MaestroMuse
Carlos Santans & John McLaughlinNaimaLove Devotion SurrenderColumbia
John McLaughlinBlue In GreenMy Goals BeyondDouglas
Rahsaan Roland KirkSalvation And ReminiscingPrepare Thyself To Deal With A MiracleAtlantic
Rahsaan Roland KirkCelestial BlissPrepare Thyself To Deal With A MiracleAtlantic
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Eddie HarrisFreedom Jazz DanceThe In SoundAtlantic
Miles DavisFreedom Jazz DanceMiles SmilesColumbia
Sam JonesOver The RainbowThe ChantRiverside
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Cannonball AdderleyLisa (exceprt)Cannonball Adderley Quintet PlusRiverside
Interview With Adilifu Nama By Justin Desmangles Interview With Adilifu Nama By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Adilifu Nama By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Adilifu Nama By Justin Desmangles
Cannonball AdderleyLisa (exceprt)Cannonball Adderley Quintet PlusRiverside
Oscar Brown, Jr. One Foot In The GutterOscar Brown,Jr. Tells It Like It IsColumbia
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Teddy Edwards & Howard McGheeMistyTogether Again!Contemporary

Monday, August 27, 2012

Alan Gilbert on Black Patriots & Loyalists Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence



Show description for Sunday 8/19/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

(Please note; Darius Jones was rescheduled to a later program. JD) This week, on the 4 o'clock hour, saxophonist, composer, Darius Jones, returns to New Day Jazz to discuss his most recent recording, Book of Mæ'bul (Another Kind of Sunrise), part 3 his continuing Man'ish Boy series on AUM-Fidelity. Mr. Jones is among the most innovative and exciting alto saxophonists in his generation, and one of the most inspiring voices in the jazz world today.

Later in the program, on the 5 o'clock hour, we are joined by Alan Gilbert for a discussion of his most recent book, Black Patriots and Loyalists Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence, new from the University of Chicago Press. Mr. Gilbert is a John Evans Professor in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. He is the author of Marx’s Politics: Communists and Citizens, Democratic Individuality, and Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy?



ArtistSongAlbumLabel
Jackie McLeanAppointment In GhanaJackie's BagBlue Note
Hank MobleyNo Room For SquaresNo Room For SquaresBlue Note
HoraceSilverPretty EyesCape Verdean BluesBlue Note
Joe HendersonShort StoryIn 'N OutBlue Note
Bobby HutchersonRojoHappeningsBlue Note
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Michael Bisio & Matthew ShippSwing LaserFloating IceRelative Pitch
Darius Jones QuartetThe Fagley BluesBook of Mae'bul (Another Kind of Sunrise)AUM-Fidelity
Darius Jones QuartetWinkieBook of Mae'bul (Another Kind of Sunrise)AUM-Fidelity
Darius Jones QuartetBe Patient With MeBook of Mae'bul (Another Kind of Sunrise)AUM-Fidelity
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David S. WarePrecessional 3Planetary Unknown: Live at Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2011AUM-Fidelity
Joe MorrisMesosphereAltitudeAUM-Fidelity
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Red GarlandYou'll Never KnowBright & BreezyJazzland
Jimmy HeathGoodbyeTriple ThreatRiverside
Jimmy HeathGeminiTriple ThreatRiverside
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Interview With Alan Gilbert By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Alan Gilbert By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Alan Gilbert By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Alan Gilbert By Justin Desmangles
Roscoe Mitchell & The Sound EnsembleThe Stick & The StoneLive At The Knitting FactoryBlack Saint