Show description for Sunday 1/29/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
This week, on the 5 o'clock hour, poet, essayist, editor, Quincy Troupe. We will be discussing his most recent collection, Errancities, as well as his new recording, SOUNDART a new tongue.
Many of the poems in Errançities had their origins in my visits to the beautiful French-speaking island of Guadeloupe. “Errance” is a French word meaning to “to wander,” or a “roving, wandering life,” also, “a risky, edgy, wandering life.” The title poem, “Errançities,” exemplifies all these concepts for me, as do other poems in the collection. I first discovered the word while reading the poems of Edouard Glissant, the late, distinguished poet, philosopher, novelist, and critical thinker from Martinique. I fell in love with the word and its meaning, and it seemed to apply to my life and the poems I was writing at the time—poems about different places I was visiting in the world.
But, and although I love the word “errance” and what it means, I felt it wasn’t exactly what I needed. So I coined the neologism errançities, an expression I felt more at home with, especially in the way the new word sounded, rolled off my tongue, and because it contains the word “cities” in it. In my mind I think of the word as a noun, because it identifies people, animals, places or things, even abstract concepts.
The rhythm and tone of errançities was also closer to another neologism of mine, Trancircularities, which was the title of my seventh book of poems, published by Coffee House in 2002. Also, in my mind, errançities means plural wanderings of many lives, rather than one life. Thus, Errançities is the title of this new book of poems: I hope you enjoy some of them.
—Quincy Troupe, January 19th, 2012, New York City
photo of Quincy Troupe by Chris Felver
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker | Shaw 'Nuff | Dizzy Gillespie All Star Quintet | Guild | ||
| Bud Powell | Shaw 'Nuff | 1960 Essen, Grugahalle | WDR | ||
| Woody Herman | Four Brothers | Woody Herman & His Orchestra | Columbia | ||
| Gerry Mulligan | As Catch Can | What Is There To Say? | Columbia | ||
| Hank Mobley | Uh Huh | Workout | Blue Note | ||
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| Big Joe Turner | Shake, Rattle & Roll | The Boss Of The Blues | Columbia | ||
| Lonnie Young | Jim & John | Southern Folk Heritage Series: Sounds Of The South | Atlantic | ||
| Alec Askew | Emmaline, Take Your Time | The Land Where the Blues Began | Alan Lomax Collection | ||
| Miles & Bob Pratcher | Buttermilk | I'm Gonna Live Till I Die Anyhow | Field Recordings of Alan Lomax | ||
| Bo Diddley | Mumblin' Guitar | Have Guitar Will Travel | Chess | ||
| Ray Charles | Movin' On | Hallelujah, I Love Her So! | Atlantic | ||
| Howlin' Wolf | Going Down Slow | Howlin' Wolf | Chess | ||
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| Erroll Garner | Stairway To The Stars | Portrait | Documents (Japan) | ||
| Erroll Garner | Stairway To The Stars | Portrait | Documents (Japan) | ||
| Earl Hines | Piano Man | Earl Hines & His Orchestra | RCA | ||
| Maynard Ferguson featuring Hank Jones | That Jones Boy | Birdland Dream Band | Fresh Sound (Spain) | ||
| George Russell featuring Bill Evans | All About Rosie | The Birth Of The Third Stream | Columbia | ||
| Charles Mingus | Gunslinging Bird | Mingus Dynasty | Columbia | ||
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| Lennie Tristano | Just Judy | Lennie Tristano 1946 - 1947 | The Chronogical Classics | ||
| Lennie Tristano | Spontaneous Combustion | Lennie Tristano 1946 - 1947 | The Chronogical Classics | ||
| Shorty Rogers featuring Hampton Hawes | Diablo's Dance | Shorty Rogers & His Giants | Documents (Japan) | ||
| Lou Levy | Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead | Solo Scene | Fresh Sound (Spain) | ||
| Hank Mobley | Roll Call | Roll Call | Blue Note | ||
| Hank Mobley | Smokin' | Workout | Blue Note | ||
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| Quincy Troupe | A Man Walks In Slow Motion | A New Tongue | Soundart | ||
| Interview With Quincy Troupe By Justin Desmangles | Interview With Quincy Troupe By Justin Desmangles | Interview With Quincy Troupe By Justin Desmangles | Interview With Quincy Troupe By Justin Desmangles | ||
| Quincy Troupe | Poem For Magic | A New Tongue | Soundart | ||
