Monday, February 27, 2012

Speaking with Joanne Griffith, editor of Redefining Black Power

Show description for Sunday 2/19/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM




Our guest this afternoon, on the 5 o'clock hour, Joanne Griffith, editor of Redefining Black Power, new from City Lights Books.


"Redefining Black Power is an important, historical rumination on race, class, power and politics in the Age of Obama. The conversations with such figures as Van Jones, Michelle Alexander and civil rights icon Dr. Vincent Harding are thoughtful, probing, nuanced insights into the state of African-American political power at this historic moment. The book raises challenging questions, but rather than offer definitive answers, it provokes the reader to personally define 'Black power' and inspires all of us to continue the work of 'deepening the meaning of democracy.'" – Wade Henderson, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights

"I agree with economist Julianne Malveaux, who says the notion that Obama's election made America 'post racial' is utter nonsense, when you look at current rates of poverty, income and unemployment among black people. Van Jones, former Green Jobs Czar at the White House, intrigued me when he claims that the youth who believe that electing a black president changes nothing were right. Joanne Griffith, of the Pacifica Radio Archives, interviews these and other long distance runners for justice to provide a lively array of conflicting, complex and critical attitudes the first black U.S. president has evoked, to answer the question of whether it's time to redefine Black Power." -- Kathleen Cleaver


ArtistSongAlbumLabel

Countee Cullen (read by James Earl Jones)From The Dark TowerA Hand Is On The GateVerve-Folkways

Langston Hughes (read by Ellen Holly)I've Known RiversA Hand Is On The GateVerve-Folkways

Robert Hayden (read by Moses Gunn) Frederick DouglassA Hand Is On The GateVerve-Folkways

Paul Laurence Dunbar (read by Cicely Tyson)We Wear The MaskA Hand Is On The GateVerve-Folkways

Abbey Lincoln Laugh Clown, LaughAbbey Is Blue Riverside

Tadd DameronJust Plain Talkin'The Magic TouchRiverside

Kenny Dorham featuring Ernie HenrySposin'2 Horns / 2 RhythmRiverside

Eric Dolphy & Booker LittleFar CryFar CryNew Jazz (Prestige)

Frederick WilliamsBabylon A Turn The ScrewAn Evening Of International PoetryNew Alliance

George Russell All About RosieThe 3rd StreamRCA

Count Basie Little PonyClassic CountCBS

Billie HolidayMean To MeA Love StoryCBS
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Eric Dolphy Out ThereOut ThereNew Jazz (Prestige)

Sterling Brown (read by James Earl Jones & Moses Gunn)Ol' LemA Hand Is On The GateVerve-Folkways

Helene Johnson (Read by Josephine Premice)Sonnet To A Negro In HarlemA Hand Is On The GateVerve-Folkways

Arna Bontemps (read by Leon Bibb)Southern MansionA Hand Is On The GateVerve-Folkways

Langston Hughes (read by Ellen Holly)Mother To SonA Hand Is On The GateVerve-Folkways

Abbey Lincoln Lost In The StarsAbbey Is BlueRiverside

Abbey Lincoln Long As Your LivingAbbey Is BlueRiverside

Tadd DameronLook, Stop & ListenThe Magic TouchRiverside

Hank Mobley The BreakdownRoll Call Blue Note

Steve LacyCriss CrossThe Staight Horn Of Steve LacyCandid

Edward Brathwaite (Kamau Brathwaite)The EmigrantsRites Of PassageArgo (U.K.)
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Charles MingusLos Mariachis (The Street Musicians)Tijuana MoodsRCA

Roscoe Mitchell & Anthony BraxtonOff Five Dark SixNonaahNessa

Roscoe Mitchell & Malachi FavorsA1 TAL 2LANonaahNessa
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Art Ensemble Of ChicagoTheme De Yoyo (excerpt)Les Stances A SophieNessa

Interview With Joanne Griffith By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Joanne Griffith By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Joanne Griffith By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Joanne Griffith By Justin Desmangles

Art Ensemble Of ChicagoTheme De Yoyo (excerpt)Les Stances A SophieNessa
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Kenny Dorham featuring Ernie HenryThe End Of A Love Affair2 Horns / 2 RhythmRiverside

Bob Dorough & Bill TakasSmall Day TomorrowBeginning To See The Light Laissez-Faire

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Ishmael Reed, Unreconstructed & Not Post-Black!

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

This afternoon, on the 5 o'clock hour, poet, playwright, essayist, and novelist, Ishmael Reed returns to New Day Jazz. His most recent novel, his first in over a decade, is Juice! A new book of essays, Barack Obama and the Jim Crow Media, is the first collection of its kind by a leading African-American intellectual. Mr. Reed's online magazine, Konch, published it's latest issue this month.

http://www.ishmaelreedpub.com/


ArtistSongAlbumLabel

Miles DavisDirections 1DirectionsColumbia

Miles DavisSide Car 2Circle In The RoundColumbia

Miles DavisWater BabiesWater BabiesColumbia

Joe HendersonEscapadeOur ThingBlue Note

Joe HendersonCaribbean Fire DanceMode For JoeBlue Note
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Randy WestonSamba BassaAfrican NiteInner City

Randy WestonNiger MamboAfrican CookbookAtlantic

Gil Evans (Cecil Taylor)PotsInto The HotImpulse

Cecil TalyorTales (8 Whisps)Unit StructuresBlue Note

Carmen McRaeI Left My Heart In San FranciscoLive At SugarhillTime

Carmen McRaeI Didn't Know What Time It WasLive At SugarhillTime
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Cassandra WilsonI Didn't Know What Time It WasBlue SkiesJMT

Cassandra WilsonShall We DanceBlue SkiesJMT

Charles Mingus featuring Honey GordonStrollin'Mingus DynastyColumbia

Charles MingusSong With OrangeMingus DynastyColumbia

Gil Evans & Steve LacyOrange WasThe Color OF Her Dress, Then Blue SilkParis BluesOwl
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Kenny DrewIf You Could See Me NowDark BeautyInner City

Interview With Ishmael Reed By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Ishmael Reed By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Ishmael Reed By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Ishmael Reed By Justin Desmangles
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Kenny DrewAll Souls Here (excerpt)Dark BeautyInner City

Monday, February 6, 2012

Will Alexander and the Ancient Future

Show description for Sunday 2/5/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

This afternoon, on the 5 o'clock hour, poet, playwright, novelist, Will Alexander. We will be discussing his most recent works, Diary as Sin, Inside the Earthquake Palace: 4 Plays, and Mirach Speaks to His Grammatical Transparents.

“I am not of one persona, not of one mystery, but arrayed with intransigent neurons and timings. … I’ve splintered my own trajectory from a fissioning of threats which have issued from my great monomial leprosy. Which has created in me a raw ascensional vastitude, allowing me further millennia although the bodies about me will all have been destroyed. Because I speak out of blindness I am able to respond to spiritual extremity, which has transmuted dearth and soulless nightmare relations. Of course I am speaking from auto-causality, from an enriched alkaline insurrection, altricial, haunted, partaking cacophony from the cinders of nauseous aeronautics. Because I am Mexican and Seminole I breed schisms, I breed eloquent ransacking laws." -

Rosanna Galvez from Diary as Sin


ArtistSongAlbumLabel

Mary Lou WilliamsThey Can't Take That Away From MeThe First Lady of the PianoInner City

Mary Lou WilliamsLady BirdThe First Lady of the PianoInner City

Dizzy GillespieDizzy Song (Lady Bird)Jazz Time Paris, Vol. 2Vogue

Miles Davis & Gil EvansSpringsvilleMiles AheadColumbia

Gigi GryceBrown SkinsGigi Gryce et Son OrchestreVogue

Betty CarterAll I've GotOut TherePeacock

Betty CarterMake It LastOut TherePeacock
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Dizzy Gillespie Afro-ParisHorn Of PlentyBlue Note

Ahmad Jamal TrioBilly BoyPoincianaArgo (Chess)

Phineas Newborn, Jr. What Is This Thing Called Love? Phineas' RainbowRCA

Charles MingusMysterious BluesNewport RebelsCandid

Billie HolidayA Fine RomanceMusic For TorchingVerve

Billie HolidayCheek To CheekAll Or Nothing at AllVerve
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Roy EldridgeCrazy DriverLittle JazzInner City

Thelonious MonkSixteenGenius Of Modern Music Vol. 2Blue Note

Gil Evans (Cecil Taylor)PotsInto The HotImpulse

Andrew HillThe GriotsAndrew!!!Blue Note

Andrew HillAlfredJudgementBlue Note
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Andrew HillSymmetryAndrew!!!Blue Note

Milt JacksonOut Of NowhereWizard Of The VibesDisques Swing

Zoot SimsSlingin' HashFirst Recordings!Prestige

Buck ClaytonPassport To ParadisePassport To ParadiseInner City
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Sonny Rollins Misterioso (excerpt)Sonny Rollins Volume 2Blue Note

Interview With Will Alexander By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Will Alexander By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Will Alexander By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Will Alexander By Justin Desmangles

Sonny Rollins Misterioso (excerpt)Sonny Rollins Volume 2Blue Note