Dreaming of the Master

Amiri Baraka was a regular guest on New Day Jazz for many years. Between 2007 and 2014 he appeared dozens of times. This archive comprises the majority of his broadcast media commentaries and interviews in recent years. I checked that. In addition, Baraka and I did many public events together, mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area, usually at the Koret Auditorium (some of which is available on youtube), but also Yoshi's, most often in collaboration with Roscoe Mitchell. Like many of you, I was greatly taken aback by news of his death. Over the coming months, I will invite back on to the program many of our regulars, offering tributes, memories, and so forth. Of course, there is also a vast array of private recordings I have made from the many projects Baraka and I worked on together, many of which will be edited for presentation in the near future and, with permissions granted, included in future broadcasts. This afternoon's broadcast is dedicated to his memory and vision.

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	James Baldwin	excerpt from The Struggle	The Struggle	Buddha
	Betty Carter	I Could Write a Book	The Audience with Betty Carter	Bet-Car
	Maya Angelou	My Man	The Poetry of Maya Angelou	Perception
	Maya Angelou	Faces	The Poetry of Maya Angelou	Perception
	John Coltrane	Mr. Knight	Coltrane Plays the Blues	Atlantic
	Claude McKay	If We Must Die	Anthology of Negro Poets	Folkways
	Amiri Baraka	Dope	Before Columbus Foundation Poets	Folkways
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	Malcolm X	excerpt from The Last Message	The Last Message	Charisma
	Thelonious Monk	Bye-Ya	Thelonious Monk Trio	Prestige
	Ishmael Reed	Judas	Conjure	Pangea
	John Coltrane	Satellite (How High the Moon)	Coltrane's Sound	Atlantic
	Amiri Baraka (Moses Gunn)	Preface to a 20 Volume Suicide Note	A Hand Is On the Gate	Verve-Folkways
	Budd Johnson	The Message (Memories of Lester Part 2)	Budd Johnson & the 4 Brass Giants	Riverside
	Audre Lorde	Harriet	A Sign / I Was Not Alone	Out & Out Books
	Woody Shaw	Tapscott's Blues	The Moontrane	Muse
	Amiri Baraka (Ellen Holly)	The End of Man is His Beauty	A Hand In On the Gate	Verve-Folkways
	Tommy Flanagan	Ugly Beauty	Thelonica	Enja
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	Kenneth Patchen	The Lions of Fire	Kenneth Patchen Reads His Poetry	Folkways
	Lester Bowie	Mirage	Rope-A-Dope	Muse
	Sam Rivers	Helix	Inventions & Dimensions	Blue Note
	Eldridge Cleaver	excerpt from Dig!	Dig!	More
	Andrew Hill	Without Malice	One Pluse One	Blue Note Re-issue Series
	Eric Doplhy	Tenderly	Far Cry	New Jazz (Prestige)
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	Paul Laurence Dunbar (Cicely Tyson)	We Wear the Mask	A Hand is On the Gate	Verve-Folkways
	Richard Pryor	Bicentennial Nigger	Bicentennial Nigger	Warner Brothers
	Charles Mingus	(Soul Fusion) Freewoman and Oh, This Freedom's Slave Cries	The Black Saint & the Sinner Lady	Impulse
	Edward Kamau Brathwaite	The Cabin	Rights of Passage	Argo (U.K.)
	Eddie Lang & Lonnie Johnson	Blue Minor Stomp	50 Years of Jazz Guitar	Columbia
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	James Baldwin	excerpt from The Struggle	The Struggle	Buddha
	Gwendolyn Brooks	The Preacher Ruminates Behind the Sermon	Anthology of Negro Poetry	Verve-Folkways
	Gwendolyn Brooks	The Children of the Poor: Sonnet 2	Anthology of Negro Poetry	Verve-Folkways
	Duke Ellington	Arabesque Cookie (Arabian Dance)	The Nutcracker Suite	Columbia
	Duke Ellington	Morning Mood	Swinging Suites by Edward E. and Edward G.	Columbia
	Duke Ellington	In the Hall of the Mountain King	Swinging Suites by Edward E. and Edward G.	Columbia
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	Art Ensemble of Chicago	Dreaming of the Master	Nice Guys	ECM

DOS CABEZAS (New Day Jazz Returns)

Show description for Sunday 1/5/2014 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

 

 Dos Cabezas signed, titled and dated '"DOS CABEZAS" Jean Michel Basquiat 1982' (on the reverse)
acrylic and oilstick on canvas with wood supports
59¾ x 60½

"It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his two-ness,—an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder." ~ W.E.B. DuBois

“The gaze that the colonized subject casts at the colonist’s sector is a look of lust, a look of envy. Dreams of possession. Every type of possession; of sitting at the colonist’s table and sleeping in his bed, preferably with his wife. The colonized man is an envious man.” ~ Frantz Fanon

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Count Basie featuring Joe Williams	The Comeback	Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings	Verve
	Johnny Hodges & His Orchestra	Blues for Basie	Perdido	Verve
	Nina Simone	I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl	Nina Simone Sings the Blues	RCA
	Nina Simone	I Shall Be Released	To Love Somebody	RCA
	Bobby Bland	Black Night	Ain't Nothing You Can Do	Duke
	Lightnin' Hopkins featuring Francis Clay	Little & Low	Lightnin'!	Tomatoe
	Sonny Rollins	Shadow Waltz	Freedom Suite	Prestige
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	Charles Mingus	Moanin'	Blues & Roots	Atlantic
	Margaret Walker	Old Molly Means	Anthology of Negro Poets	Folkways
	Lee Morgan	Just One of Those Things	The Cooker	Blue Note
	Horace Silver	Opus de Funk	Horace Silver Trio	Blue Note
	Horace Silver (Art Blakey)	Nothing But the Soul	Horace Silver Trio	Blue Note
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	Art Farmer & His Orchestra	Woody'n You	The Aztec Suite	United Artists
	Shorty Rogers & His Orchestra	Un Poco Loco	The Afro-Cuban Influence	RCA
	Bud Powell	Cleopatra's Dream	The Scene Changes	Blue Note
	Bud Powell	The Scene Changes	The Scene Changes	Blue Note
	Mildred Anderson	Everybody's Got Somebody But Me	No More in Life	Bluesville (Prestige)
	Ntozake Shange (Laurie Carlos)	Sorry	For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow id Enuf	Buddha
	Nina Simone	Just Like Tom Thumb's Blues	To Love Somebody	RCA
	Ike Quebec featuring Milt Hinton	Nature Boy	Heavy Soul	Blue Note
	Art Farmer	Naima	Listen to Art Farmer and the Orchestra	Mercury
	Carol Sloane	Spring is Here	Live at 30th St.	Columbia
	Carol Sloane	Taking a Chance on Love	Live at 30th St.	Columbia
	Jimmy Woods	Conflict	Conflict	Contemporary
	Richard Pryor	God	Are You Serious?	Laff
	Hampton Hawes	Yardbird Suite	Four!	Contemporary
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	Julie Wilson	Most Gentleman Don't Like Love	At the St. Regis	Vik
	Julie London	At Long Last Love	All Through the Night	Liberty
	Stan Getz	You're Blase	The Steamer	Verve
	Ben Webster	My Funny Valentine	Music for Loving	Nor-Gran
	Johnny Hodges & His Orchestra	Waiting for Duke	The Big Sound	Verve
	Jimmy Woods	Comin' Home	Conflict	Contemporary
	Adrienne Rich	Power	A Sign / I Was Not Alone	Out & Out Books
	Sarah Vaughn	Street of Dreams	After Hours	Columbia
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	Etta Jones	Don't Go to Strangers	Don't Go to Stangers	Prestige
	Lester Young	These Foolish Things	The Complete Aladdin Recordings	Blue Note Re-issue Series
	Ella Fitzgerald	Something to Live For	Ella at Duke's Place	Verve
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	Richard Pryor	Mankind	Are You Serious?	Laff