Monday, April 30, 2012

Poet Laureate of California, Juan Felipe Herrera

Show description for Sunday 4/22/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM


Our guest this week, on the 5 o'clock hour, Juan Felipe Herrera. A key figure in the development of California literature, Mr. Herrera has most recently been appointed Poet Laureate of our state.
Also this week, a special birthday tribute to Charles Mingus, born this day, April 22, 1922. We will pay particular attention to the scarce and infrequently heard sides recorded for his co-operative label, Debut, founded with Max Roach. 

ArtistSongAlbumLabel
Charles Mingus & Spaulding GivensWhat Is This Thing Called Love?The Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles Mingus & Spaulding GivensBody & SoulThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles Mingus & Spaulding GivensBlue Moon The Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles Mingus & Spaulding GivensBlue TideThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles Mingus OctetBlue TideThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles Mingus OctetEclipseThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles Mingus OctetPink TopsyThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles Mingus OctetMiss BlissThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
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Charles MingusMake BelieveThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles MingusParis In BlueThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles MingusMontageThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles MingusExtrasensory PerceptionThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles MingusPrecognitionThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles MingusPortraitThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles Mingus (Thad Jones)PortraitThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles Mingus (Thad Jones)ChazzanovaThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
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Charles MingusBass-ically SpeakingThe Complete Debut RecordingFantasy
Charles MingusBass-ically SpeakingThe Complete Debut RecordingFantasy
Charles MingusStardustThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles MingusStardustThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles Mingus (Miles Davis)Nature BoyThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles Mingus (Miles Davis)Nature BoyThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles MingusLove ChantThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles MingusLove ChantThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
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Charles MingusPrayin' With EricTown Hall Concert 1964JWS (Original Jazz Classics)
Charles MingusPrayin' With Eric (Meditations)Town Hall Concert 1964JWS (Original Jazz Classics)
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Charles MingusUntitled Original CompositionThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Interview With Juan Felipe Herrera By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Juan Felipe Herrera By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Juan Felipe Herrera By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Juan Felipe Herrera By Justin Desmangles
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The Band with The Staple SingersThe WeightThe Last WaltzWarner Brothers
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Monday, April 2, 2012

Night's Dancer

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


Our guest this afternoon on the 5 o'clock hour, Yaël Tamar Lewin, dance historian, writer, dancer, and most recently author of, Night's Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins, new from Wesleyan University Press

"Night's Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins is an enthralling read. It reinforces Collin's struggle, personal strength and ultimate success. While following her dreams with endless energy, she leapt over boundaries."—Karen Barr, Dance International

The biography of the first African-American prima ballerina

Dancer Janet Collins, born in New Orleans in 1917 and raised in Los Angeles, soared high over the color line as the first African-American prima ballerina at the Metropolitan Opera. Night’s Dancer chronicles the life of this extraordinary and elusive woman, who became a unique concert dance soloist as well as a black trailblazer in the white world of classical ballet. During her career, Collins endured an era in which racial bias prevailed, and subsequently prevented her from appearing in the South. Nonetheless, her brilliant performances transformed the way black dancers were viewed in ballet. The book begins with an unfinished memoir written by Collins in which she gives a captivating account of her childhood and young adult years, including her rejection by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Dance scholar Yaël Tamar Lewin then picks up the thread of Collins’s story. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with Collins and her family, friends, and colleagues to explore Collins’s development as a dancer, choreographer, and painter, Lewin gives us a profoundly moving portrait of an artist of indomitable spirit.

“With Night’s Dancer, Lewin has produced a major work that continues to correct the absence of historical writing on African Americans in ballet and modern dance. The author incorporates Collins’s own writings, intimate details from the artist’s life, and rich contextual material to create a work that is emotionally touching and incredibly informative.”—John O. Perpener III, author of African-American Concert Dance: The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond

“Blessed with extraordinary gifts for dance and painting, Janet Collins broke barriers as the first African-American prima ballerina at the world-renowned Metropolitan Opera. Her life’s journey is inspirational. History should recognize her as one of its pioneers. Janet Collins was truly one of earth’s angels.”—Arthur Mitchell, co-founder of the Dance Theatre of Harlem


ArtistSongAlbumLabel

Henry Grimes TrioDancestorsSublime Communication 2: Live At EdgefestPrivate Recording
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Ran Blake & Jeanne LeeYou Stepped Out Of A DreamYou Stepped Out Of A DreamOwl

Ran Blake & Jeanne LeeNewswatchYou Stepped Out Of A DreamOwl

Declared EnemyFlowersSalute To 100001 Stars: A Tribute To Jean GenetRogue Art

Declared EnemyAlberto's WorkshopSalute To 100001 Stars: A Tribute To Jean GenetRogue Art

Declared EnemyMettraySalute To 100001 Stars: A Tribute To Jean GenetRogue Art

Woody ShawStepping StoneLive: Volume OneHigh Note
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William ParkerPhiladelphia ClayCrumbling In The Shadows In Fraulein Miller's Stale CakeCentering Music

Tom CoraCows Stars Rivers And GiantsGumption In LimboSound Aspects

Derek Bailey & Cyro BaptistaRio BrancoCyroIncus

Quincy TroupeA Man Walks In Slow MotionA New TongueSound Art
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Freddie HubbardBreaking Point (excerpt)Breaking PointBlue Note

Interview With Yael Tamar Lewin By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Yael Tamar Lewin By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Yael Tamar Lewin By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Yael Tamar Lewin By Justin Desmangles
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Henry Grimes TrioRitual Future / NowSongNew (excerpts)Sublime Communication 2: Live At EdgefestPrivate Recording

Tyrone Brown featuring John A. WilliamsReadings From Safari WestSuite For John A. WilliamsDreambox
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