Greil Marcus Talks About The Doors Secret Alphabets, Matthew Shipp Appears In The Upcoming Film, The Composer

Show description for Sunday 2/26/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

This afternoon, Matthew Shipp returns to discuss his most recent recording, featuring Michael Bisio and Whit Dickey, Elastic Aspects (Thirsty Ear).
Later in the program, Greil Marcus, pictured at right, joins us to talk about his new book, The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years.

"Nobody reads a song like Greil Marcus, whose prose is as passionate and omnivorous as the music he loves. Here he travels by way of Thomas Pynchon, Pop Art and Charles Manson to bring the chaotic, majestic, death-haunted Doors back to doomed and haunting life." -- Salman Rushdie

"No one thinks or writes like Greil Marcus. He has a genius for putting the aural dream-language of music into words, for making you 'hear' songs you thought you knew as if for the first time. Not just hear, but, as he puts it, 'feel on your skin' well after the song is over. Because 'the story it's telling is still going on.'" -- Mary Gaitskill

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Roscoe Mitchell Quartet	Mr. Freddy	Before There Was Sound	Nessa
	Roscoe Mitchell Quartet	Green	Before There Was Sound	Nessa
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Psychic Counterpart	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Frame Focus	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Flow Chart	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Art Ensemble Of Chicago & Cecil Taylor	Intro. To 15 Part 3A	Dreaming Of The Masters: Thelonious Monk	DIW
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	Betty Carter & Geri Allen	Stardust / Memories Of You	Droppin' Things	Bet-Car (Verve)
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Mute Voice	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Explosive Aspects	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Raw Materials	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Interview With Matthew Shipp By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Matthew Shipp By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Matthew Shipp By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Matthew Shipp By Justin Desmangles
	The Doors	The End	The Doors	Elektra
	Interview With Greil Marcus By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Greil Marcus By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Greil Marcus By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Greil Marcus By Justin Desmangles
	The Doors	When The Music's Over	Strange Days	Elektra
	The Doors	Soul Kitchen	The Doors	Elektra
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	Art Ensemble Of Chicago	As Clear As The Sun	Tribute To Lester	ECM
	Art Ensemble Of Chicago & Cecil Taylor	Caseworks	Dreaming Of The Masters: Thelonious Monk	DIW
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	Roscoe Mitchell Quartet	Jo Jar	Before There Was Sound	Nessa

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/

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Miles Davis	Directions 1	Directions	Columbia
	Miles Davis	Side Car 2	Circle In The Round	Columbia
	Miles Davis	Water Babies	Water Babies	Columbia
	Joe Henderson	Escapade	Our Thing	Blue Note
	Joe Henderson	Caribbean Fire Dance	Mode For Joe	Blue Note
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	Randy Weston	Samba Bassa	African Nite	Inner City
	Randy Weston	Niger Mambo	African Cookbook	Atlantic
	Gil Evans (Cecil Taylor)	Pots	Into The Hot	Impulse
	Cecil Talyor	Tales (8 Whisps)	Unit Structures	Blue Note
	Carmen McRae	I Left My Heart In San Francisco	Live At Sugarhill	Time
	Carmen McRae	I Didn't Know What Time It Was	Live At Sugarhill	Time
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	Cassandra Wilson	I Didn't Know What Time It Was	Blue Skies	JMT
	Cassandra Wilson	Shall We Dance	Blue Skies	JMT
	Charles Mingus featuring Honey Gordon	Strollin'	Mingus Dynasty	Columbia
	Charles Mingus	Song With Orange	Mingus Dynasty	Columbia
	Gil Evans & Steve Lacy	Orange WasThe Color OF Her Dress, Then Blue Silk	Paris Blues	Owl
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	Kenny Drew	If You Could See Me Now	Dark Beauty	Inner City
	Interview With Ishmael Reed By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Ishmael Reed By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Ishmael Reed By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Ishmael Reed By Justin Desmangles
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	Kenny Drew	All Souls Here (excerpt)	Dark Beauty	Inner City

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

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Mary Lou Williams	They Can't Take That Away From Me	The First Lady of the Piano	Inner City
	Mary Lou Williams	Lady Bird	The First Lady of the Piano	Inner City
	Dizzy Gillespie	Dizzy Song (Lady Bird)	Jazz Time Paris, Vol. 2	Vogue
	Miles Davis & Gil Evans	Springsville	Miles Ahead	Columbia
	Gigi Gryce	Brown Skins	Gigi Gryce et Son Orchestre	Vogue
	Betty Carter	All I've Got	Out There	Peacock
	Betty Carter	Make It Last	Out There	Peacock
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	Dizzy Gillespie	Afro-Paris	Horn Of Plenty	Blue Note
	Ahmad Jamal Trio	Billy Boy	Poinciana	Argo (Chess)
	Phineas Newborn, Jr.	What Is This Thing Called Love?	Phineas' Rainbow	RCA
	Charles Mingus	Mysterious Blues	Newport Rebels	Candid
	Billie Holiday	A Fine Romance	Music For Torching	Verve
	Billie Holiday	Cheek To Cheek	All Or Nothing at All	Verve
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	Roy Eldridge	Crazy Driver	Little Jazz	Inner City
	Thelonious Monk	Sixteen	Genius Of Modern Music Vol. 2	Blue Note
	Gil Evans (Cecil Taylor)	Pots	Into The Hot	Impulse
	Andrew Hill	The Griots	Andrew!!!	Blue Note
	Andrew Hill	Alfred	Judgement	Blue Note
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	Andrew Hill	Symmetry	Andrew!!!	Blue Note
	Milt Jackson	Out Of Nowhere	Wizard Of The Vibes	Disques Swing
	Zoot Sims	Slingin' Hash	First Recordings!	Prestige
	Buck Clayton	Passport To Paradise	Passport To Paradise	Inner City
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	Sonny Rollins	Misterioso (excerpt)	Sonny Rollins Volume 2	Blue Note
	Interview With Will Alexander By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Will Alexander By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Will Alexander By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Will Alexander By Justin Desmangles
	Sonny Rollins	Misterioso (excerpt)	Sonny Rollins Volume 2	Blue Note

Quincy Troupe Errançities

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

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	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

Matthew Shipp Interview on Elastic Aspects

Show description for Sunday 1/22/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

This afternoon, on the 5 o'clock hour, pianist, composer, Matthew Shipp returns to New Day Jazz to discuss his most recent projects, including the forthcoming Elastic Aspects (Thirsty Ear). A preeminent figure in the development of the new music, Shipp stands among the giants of international art today. Also this afternoon, selections from the rare lp A Sign / I Was Not Alone (Out & Out Books, 1977), featuring the poetry of Adrienne Rich and the late Audre Lorde.

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	The Last Poets	Beyonder	Delights Of The Garden	Celluloid
	Jayne Cortez	I Have Been Searching	Taking The Blues Back Home	Harmolodic - Verve
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Alternative Aspects	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Aspects	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Psychic Counterpart	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp	Jonesy	Cosmic Lieder	AUM-Fidelity
	Hank Mobley	No Room For Squares	No Room For Squares	Blue Note
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	Carmen McRae	As Time Goes By	Carmen McRae Alone	Amigo
	Carmen McRae	I Could Have Told You	Carmen McRae Alone	Amigo
	Carmen McRae	More Than You Know	Carmen McRae Alone	Amigo
	Audre Lorde	Meet	A Sign / I Was Not Alone	Out & Out Books
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Frame Focus	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Flow Chart	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Mute Voice	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Quincy Troupe	Finding The Lost Art Of Faith	A New Tongue	Soundart
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	Adrienne Rich	The Mirror In Which Two Are Seen As One	A Sign / I Was Not Alone	Out & Out Books
	Etta James	W-O-M-A-N	R&B Dynamite	Flair
	Etta James	I'd Rather Go Blind	Chess Classics	Chess
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Explosive Aspects	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Raw Materials	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Audre Lorde	From The House Of Yemanje	A Sign / I Was Not Alone	Out & Out Books
	Cassandra Wilson	Blue Skies	Blue Skies	JMT
	Cassandra Wilson	Apricots On Their Wings	Days Aweigh	JMT
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	Matthew Shipp Trio	Rain Forest	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Interview Matthew Shipp By Justin Desmangles	Interview Matthew Shipp By Justin Desmangles	Interview Matthew Shipp By Justin Desmangles	Interview Matthew Shipp By Justin Desmangles
	Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp	Black Lightning (excerpt)	Cosmic Lieder	AUM-Fidelity
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Stage 10	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Matthew Shipp Trio	Dimension	Elastic Aspects	Thirsty Ear
	Marlena Shaw	Liberation Song	Chess Classics	Chess

Head in the clouds he'd have said of himself, she'd have said elsewhere, his to be above and below, not know or say, hers to be alibi, elegy otherwise

Song of the Andoumboulou: 50

by Nathaniel Mackey

-ring of the well- Fray was the name where we came to next. Might've been a place, might not've been a place but we were there, came to it sooner than we could se... Come to so soon, it was a name we stuck pins in hoping we'd stay. Stray was all we ended up with. Spar was another name we heard it went by... Rasp we also heard it was called... Came to it sooner than we could see but soon enough saw we were there. Some who'd come before us called it Bray... Sound's own principality it was, a pocket of air flexed mouthlike, meaning's mime and regret, a squib of something said, so intent it seemed. At our backs a blown conch, bamboo flute, trapic remnant, Lone Coast reconnoiter come up empty but for that, a first, forgotten warble trafficked in again even so, the mango seed's reminder sent to what end we'd eventually see... We had Come thru there before we were told. Others claiming to be us had come thru... The ubiquitous two lay bound in cloth come down from on high, hoping it so, twist of their raiment steep integument, emollient feel for what might not have been there. Head in the clouds he'd have said of himself, she'd have said elsewhere, his to be above and below, not know or say, hers to be alibi, elegy otherwise known... have said elsernrheren Above and below, limbo what fabric intervened. Limbo the bending they moved in between. Limbo the book of the bent knee... Antiphonal thread attended by thread. Keening string by thrum, inwardness, netherness... Violin strings tied their hair high, limbo the headrags they wore... The admission of cloth that it was cover, what was imminent out of reach, given what went for real, unreal, split, silhouetted redress

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Louis Armstrong	West End Blues	Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines	Pathe-Marconi (France)
	Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines	Weather Bird	Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines	Pathe-Marconi (France)
	Earl Hines	A Monday Date	Earl Hines Solo	Columbia
	Earl Hines	Piano Man	Earl Hines & His Grand Terrace Orchestra	RCA
	Maynard Ferguson	That Jones Boy	Birdland Dream Band	Fresh Sounds
	George Russell	All About Rosie	The Birth of the Third Stream	Columbia
	Shorty Rogers	Diablo's Dance	Shorty Rogers & His Giants	RCA
	Charles Mingus	Gunslinging Bird	Mingus Dynasty	Columbia
	Ntozake Shange	Sorry	For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf	Buddha Records
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	Count Basie	Little Pony	Count Basie & His Orchestra	Columbia
	Duke Ellington	Primpin' for the Prom	Primpin' for the Prom	RCA - France
	Sarah Vaughn & Billy Eckstine	I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm	The Irving Berlin Song Book	Mercury
	Sarah Vaughn	Let's Call the Whole Thing Off	Sings Gershwin	Mercury
	Langston Hughes	Horn of Plenty	Black America Vol. 5 / The Black Verse	Buddha Records Sunday Series
	Miles Davis	Blue X-Mas (To Whom it May Concern)	Jingle Bell Jazz	Columbia
	Carolina Shout	James P. Johnson	James P. Johnson	Columbia
	Carolina Shout	Fats Waller	Fats Waller Solos	RCA
	I'm Crazy About My Baby	Fats Waller	Fats Waller Sings & Plays	RCA
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	Gigi Gryce featuring Clifford Brown	Brown Skins	Gigi Gryce Orchestra	Vogue
	Gigi Gryce featuring Clifford Brown	Deltitnu	Gigi Gryce Orchestra	Vogue
	Zoot Sims	Slingin' Hasch	Zoot Sims Quartet	Vogue
	Woody Herman	Four Brothers	Woody Herman Orchestra	Columbia
	Claude Thornhill	Yardbird Suite	Claude Thornhill Orchestra	Fresh Sounds
	Langton Hughes	Bird in Orbit	Black America Vol. 5 / The Black Verse	Buddha Records Sunday Series
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	Modern Jazz Quartet	The Jasmine Tree	Under the Jasmine Tree	Apple
	Bob Brookmeyer	Jive Hoot	Bob Brookmeyer & Friends	Columbia
	Michel Legrand	Jitterbug Waltz	Legrand Jazz	Columbia
	Mary Lou Williams	Perdido	In London	Vogue
	Mary Lou Williams	Kool Bongo	In London	Vogue
	Edward Brathwaite (Kamau Brathwaite)	The Emigrants	Rights of Passage	Argo
	Roscoe Mitchell Art Ensemble	Tutankhamen (solo by Malachi Favors)	Congliptious	Nessa
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	Bessie Jones	Beggin' the Blues	Roots of the Blues	New World Records
	Rose Hemphill	Rolled & Tumbled	Roots of the Blues	New World Records
	Ntozake Shange	Abortion Cycle # 1	For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf	Buddah Records
	Ntozake Shange	One	For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf	Buddah Records
	Kain	Black Amazon Fire Engine Cry Baby	The Blue Guerrilla	Juggernaut Records
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	Joseph Jarman	Black Paladins (poem by Henry Dumas)	Black Paladins	Black Saint
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	Joseph Jarman	Ginger Song	Black Paladins	Black Saint

Telling It Like It Is, with Daruis Jones & Paul Mooney

Show description for Sunday 11/27/2011 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

We are honored this afternoon on New Day Jazz to welcome one of the most exciting voices in jazz today, alto saxophonist, bandleader, composer, Darius Jones, in the 5 o'clock hour.

Also this afternoon, on the 4 o'clock hour, writer, actor, comedian, Paul Mooney returns to New Day Jazz. Mr. Mooney will be appearing at the Punch Line, in Sacramento, Dec. 1st - 4th.

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Freddie Hubbard	The Intrepid Fox	Red Clay	CTI
	Dave Holland	Interception	Conference of the Birds	ECM
	Miles Davis	Directions	Paraphernalia	JMY
	Jack Hirschman	Occuparty Arcane	Private Recording	Private Recording
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	Darius Jones	Chasing The Ghost	Man'ish Boy	AUM-Fidelity
	Darius Jones	Big Train Rollin'	Man'ish Boy	AUM-Fidelity
	Hamiett Bluiett featuring Quincy Troupe	Snake Back Solos	Nali Kola	Soul Note
	Abbey Lincoln	You Made Me Funny	You Gotta Pay The Band	Verve
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	Henry Grimes & Rashied Ali	Moments (Poem)	Spirits Aloft	Porter
	Henry Grimes & Rashied Ali	Rapid Transit (excerpt)	Spirits Aloft	Porter
	Interview With Paul Mooney By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Paul Mooney By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Paul Mooney By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Paul Mooney By Justin Desmangles
	Henry Grimes & Rashied Ali	Rapid Transit (excerpt)	Spirits Aloft	Porter
	Louie Belogenis	Alabama	Tiresias	Porter
	Louie Belogenis	Seven Lives	Tiresias	Porter
	Darius Jones	A Train	Big Gurl (Smell My Dream)	AUM-Fidelity
	Darius Jones	Ol' Metal Faced Bastard	Big Gurl (Smell My Dream)	AUM-Fidelity
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	Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp	Overvoid	Cosmic Lieder	AUM-Fidelity
	Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp	Weeja Dell	Cosmic Lieder	AUM-Fidelity
	Darius Jones Interviewed By Justin Desmangles	Darius Jones Interviewed By Justin Desmangles	Darius Jones Interviewed By Justin Desmangles	Darius Jones Interviewed By Justin Desmangles
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	Dinah Washington	Cold, Cold Heart	Alabama	Oxford American

Will Alexander & Deep Time

Show description for Sunday 10/30/2011 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Our guest this afternoon, in the 5 o'clock hour, poet Will Alexander. His most recent book, Compression & Purity, is new from City Lights. Also featured this week, new music from alto saxophonist and composer Darius Jones. His new disc, featuring Adam Lane on bass, and Jason Nazary on drums, is Big Gurl (Smell My Dream). We will also be listening in on the extraordinary 3 disc collection from William Parker Crumbling In the Shadows Is Fraulein Miller's Stale Cake.

Few poets writing today can compare with L.A.-based surrealist Will Alexander in terms of the intensity of his imagination or his radically experimental approach to language as material object. Through the use of automatic writing, Alexander practices a surrealism of the word, creating densely textured layers of signification from its sounded and written forms. Compression & Purity, volume five of our Spotlight poetry series, is Alexander's seventh full-length collection. Known for his visionary epics influenced by poets like Césaire, Artaud and Lamantia, Alexander here returns to shorter forms to address his ecological, cosmological and historical concerns. Highlights include monologues from the perspective of "The Blood Penguin" and "The Pope at Avignon," a song by the "Water on New Mars," and an homage to Cesar Vallejo, "Combustion & Leakage." In true surrealist fashion, the book also includes both an autobiographical lyric essay, "My Interior Vita," describing the evolution of Alexander's artistic consciousness through jazz and surrealism, and his disavowal of the autobiographical process, "On Anti-Biography." An imaginative tour de force, Compression & Purity confirms Alexander's reputation among surrealism's foremost contemporary practitioners.

"This new & rich gathering of Will Alexander's works – always in progress – marks him again as the true successor among us to the likes of Surreal & deeply explorative figures like Breton & Césaire. No other poet writing in America today does it the way that Alexander does – a range of words & images that startle & create new pathways for language & the mind-in-freedom (“alchemical, mesmeric, totalic,” as he names them in these pages). Compression & Purity, so aptly titled, is the work of a true American & world master – & a joy to have & read." —Jerome Rothenberg

“Even at its most confounding, most silent level, this work will unavoidably enter and leave you by a genetic thread of conscious mind woven beyond your 'domestic horizon,; your ‘provincial description' to a vibrating ‘celebration of un-brokeneness.’ This song, in the genealogical terms of cognitive evolution, sings us backwards ‘or forwards’ into a state where we are undifferentiated from the cosmos and can speak, as Will Alexander does, in the full range at once of carbon from dust to diamond.” —Ed Roberson

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Darius Jones Trio	E-Gaz	Big Gurl (Smell My Dream)	AUM - Fidelity
	Darius Jones Trio	Michelle Loves Willie	Big Gurl (Smell My Dream)	AUM - Fidelity
	Darius Jones Trio	A Train	Big Gurl (Smell My Dream)	AUM - Fidelity
	William Parker	Green Mountains (for Bill Dixon)	Crumbling In the Shadows Is Fraulein Miller's Stale Cake.	Centering Records
	William Parker	Philadelphia Clay	Crumbling In the Shadows Is Fraulein Miller's Stale Cake.	Centering Records
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	Henry Threadgill Zooid	Lying Eyes	This Brings Us To, Vol. 2	Pi Recordings
	Henry Grimes & Rashied Ali	Larger Astronomical Time	Spirits Aloft	Porter Records
	Odean Pope featuring Marshall Allen	The Track	Universal Sounds	Porter Records
	Roscoe Mitchell & Muhal Richard Abrams	Romu	Spectrum	Mutable
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	Alice Coltrane	Leo	Translinear Light	Impulse
	John Coltrane	India	The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings	Impulse
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	Wasimxzama Khan Naseri	Kavali	Music In The World Of Islam: Human Voice / Lutes	Topic
	Dunya Yunis	Abu Zeluf	Music In The World Of Islam: Human Voice / Lutes	Topic
	Gadabursi Somali of Ogaden	Leader/Chorus Song (excerpt)	Music In The World Of Islam: Human Voice / Lutes	Topic
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	Interview With Will Alexander By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Will Alexander By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Will Alexander By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Will Alexander By Justin Desmangles
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	John Coltrane	Chasing The Trane	The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings

Making Moves with Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra

A Happy Birthday to Dizzy Gillespie!

Show description for Sunday 10/23/2011 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

This afternoon we will focus on the contributions of the Dizzy Gillespie Afro-Cuban Orchestra. As part of these efforts, we will also explore the music recorded by Charlie Parker as featured soloist with Machito & His Orchestra, including Mango Mangue, as well as Okidoke. In bringing attention to this period, the great composer, arranger Tadd Dameron will also be featured, including his earliest efforts with Harlan Leonard, the small groups featuring Fats Navarro, and the neglected masterwork, The Magic Touch, recorded for Riverside. Along the way we will hear poetry from Countee Cullen, Gwendolyn Brooks, Claude McKay, Margaret Walker, Sterling Brown, and Langston Hughes. (Pictured at right, Harriet Tubman)

Runagate Runagate

by Robert Hayden

I.

Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness

and the darkness thicketed with shapes of terror

and the hunters pursuing and the hounds pursuing

and the night cold and the night long and the river

to cross and the jack-muh-lanterns beckoning beckoning

and blackness ahead and when shall I reach that somewhere

morning and keep on going and never turn back and keep on going

Runagate

Runagate

Runagate

Many thousands rise and go

many thousands crossing over

O mythic North

O star-shaped yonder Bible city

Some go weeping and some rejoicing

some in coffins and some in carriages

some in silks and some in shackles

Rise and go or fare you well

No more auction block for me

no more driver’s lash for me

If you see my Pompey, 30 yrs of age,

new breeches, plain stockings, negro shoes;

if you see my Anna, likely young mulatto

branded E on the right cheek, R on the left,

catch them if you can and notify subscriber.

Catch them if you can, but it won’t be easy.

They’ll dart underground when you try to catch them,

plunge into quicksand, whirlpools, mazes,

turn into scorpions when you try to catch them.

And before I’ll be a slave

I’ll be buried in my grave

North star and bonanza gold

I’m bound for the freedom, freedom-bound

and oh Susyanna don’t you cry for me

Runagate

Runagate

II.

Rises from their anguish and their power,

Harriet Tubman,

woman of earth, whipscarred,

a summoning, a shining

Mean to be free

And this was the way of it, brethren brethren,

way we journeyed from Can’t to Can.

Moon so bright and no place to hide,

the cry up and the patterollers riding,

hound dogs belling in bladed air.

And fear starts a-murbling, Never make it,

we’ll never make it. Hush that now,

and she’s turned upon us, levelled pistol

glinting in the moonlight:

Dead folks can’t jaybird-talk, she says;

you keep on going now or die, she says.

Wanted Harriet Tubman alias The General

alias Moses Stealer of Slaves

In league with Garrison Alcott Emerson

Garrett Douglas Thoreau John Brown

Armed and known to be Dangerous

Wanted Reward Dead or Alive

Tell me, Ezekiel, oh tell me do you see

mailed Jehovah coming to deliver me?

Hoot-owl calling in the ghosted air,

five times calling to the hants in the air.

Shadow of a face in the scary leaves,

shadow of a voice in the talking leaves:

Come ride-a my train

Oh that train, ghost-story train

through swamp and savanna movering movering,

over trestles of dew, through caves of the wish,

Midnight Special on a sabre track movering movering,

first stop Mercy and the last Hallelujah.

Come ride-a my train

Mean mean mean to be free.

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Does the Secret Mind Whisper? Nov. 11, 2011

• Friday NOV 11

"Does the Secret Mind Whisper?"
Will Alexander, Maria Damon and Justin Desmangles
a symposium on Bob Kaufman, Black surrealism, and cultural poetics
7:30 pm @ Meridian Gallery, 535 Powell Street,



Co-sponsored with Before Columbus Foundation

“…the ‘secret mind’ represents the convergence of multiple cultural trajectories. It is the political unconscious of the US, which registers all the ‘secret, terrible hurts’ (Kaufman, “Bagel Shop Jazz”) visited upon people who belong to an ‘America not on any map’ (Will Alexander), the disenfranchised who may ruminate silently on these social, spiritual and bodily injuries but who may speak of them openly only at their peril.”

—Maria Damon, Jacket2, “Poetry in 1960, A Symposium”

"Does the Secret Mind Whisper?" was the gnomic open question posed by poet Bob Kaufman in an early City Lights broadside by that title. In collaboration with the Before Columbus Foundation, the Poetry Center hosts an evening symposium under that rubric, in order to take up the nature of Kaufman's legacy and practice, and its extensions into the 21st Century. Featured guests include poet-scholars Will Alexander and Maria Damon, in conversation with Bay Area writer, radio host/dj and cultural worker Justin Desmangles.

BOB KAUFMAN (1925–1986) was a key participant in the 1950s San Francisco poetry renaissance and the Beat movement. Author of three renowned poetry broadsides, Abomunist Manfesto, Second April, and Does the Secret Mind Whisper?, published in the late 1950s by City Lights Books, his poetry in print remained elusive until two collections came out in the mid-1960s. The landmark Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness (1965), published by New Directions, has remained in print for better than four decades. Golden Sardine (1967) became a signature City Lights Pocket Poets volume alongside the works of renowned contemporaries Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. During Kaufman's last decade, editor Raymond Foye assembled the volume of fugitive works, Ancient Rain: Poems 1956–1978 (New Directions, 1981). The posthumous collection, Cranial Guitar: Selected Poems, appeared in 1996 (Coffee House Press). Following Kaufman's death in 1986, a two-hour feature program, Bob Kaufman, Poet, was produced by David Henderson for KPFA-FM and aired nationally through the Pacifica network. Regarded in France as "the American Rimbaud," Bob Kaufman has been celebrated internationally for his particular mode of Surrealism, permeated by a profound affinity for the outcasts of American society, the poor and punished. The late saxophonist and jazz song composer Steve Lacy called Kaufman "the greatest jazz poet, and the beatest of the Beats."

WILL ALEXANDER (see bio above) has previously published the essay "Bob Kaufman: The Footnotes Exploded" in Conjunctions 29: Tributes.

MARIA DAMON (see bio above) his written on Bob Kaufman, extensively in her early book The Dark End of the Street: Margins in American Vanguard Poetry (University of Minnesota) and more recently online at Jacket2.

JUSTIN DESMANGLES hosts the radio program New Day Jazz, currently at KDVS-90.3 FM, and available online, a heady blend of music and cultural commentary, focused on the African-American cultural continuum. Frequent guests offer a largesse of inquiring and informed commentary, via conversations with, e.g., scholars William W. Cook and James Tatum on African American Writers and Classical Tradition; A. James Arnold and Clayton Eshlemen on their collaborative translation of Aimé Césaire's Solar Throat Slashed; Robin D.G. Kelley on his stellar biography Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original; and jazz pianist Matthew Shipp on the legacy of Bud Powell. Chair of the Before Columbus Foundation, which hosts the annual American Book Award, Justin Desmangles has organized numerous public programs, at San Francisco Public Library and Yoshi's jazz club in San Francisco's Fillmore neighborhood, among other venues.

In a series of public programs on the life and legacy of Bob Kaufman under the title "Does the Secret Mind Whisper?" he recently brought together AACM co-founder Roscoe Mitchell with Kaufman's poetry in performances of original compositions. An upcoming November 14 Benefit for the Before Columbus Foundation at Yoshi's San Francisco will reunite Roscoe Mitchell and Amiri Baraka in duo performance, and feature the new Ishmael Reed Band.

African American Writers & Classical Tradition, Winner of the American Book Award 2011

African American Writers & Classical Tradition is the most exciting work of of literary criticism to emerge in decades. Indeed, it lays the groundwork for an entirely new field of study. Rarely can it be said that the reading of literary criticism is a joyful process, yet with this book, William W. Cook and James Tatum (pictured above, right to left), have produced just that. Written with great humor, at times tremendous passion, the reader is swept into the excitement of surprise and new discovery, following the adventure unearthed in the vast resources of classical Latin and ancient Greek literature employed by African American poets, novelists, and political thinkers. Once familiar, canonized figures, such as Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. DuBois, and Ralph Ellison, are illuminated in fresh, often startling ways. Neglected masters, Melvin B. Tolson, and George S. Schulyer, are revived, given new life, and shown to have vital relevance to today’s times, cutting to the very core of the most contentious and controversial issues in America. Relatively obscure artists, such as Fran Ross, author of Oreo, are given their proper place alongside the aforementioned giants, and the greatness of poet Rita Dove is affirmed in the brilliant concluding chapter. There is a tremendous sense of momentum in the pages of this book, a momentum propelled by the lifelong friendship of its authors, Cook & Tatum. Their shared wisdom, wit, and delight in the task of bringing this complex and subtle story to us, one so uniquely American, is felt throughout the work. African American Writers & Classical Tradition, presents a new, and much needed, image of American literature, indeed, of American history. One that is vivid, compelling, and crackling with the electricity of folklore and mythology rooted to ancient sources, in both Africa and Europe, giving light to the present moment, our times.

We Kiss In A Shadow

Happy Birthday to Sonny Rollins, pictured above, born Sept. 7th

Show description for Sunday 9/11/2011 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

"Always bear in mind that people are not fighting for ideas, for the things in anyone's head. They are fighting to win material benefits, to live better and in peace, to see their lives go forward, to guarantee the future of their children." - Amilcar Cabral, (September 12, 1924 – January 20, 1973)

". . . the hottest places in hell are reserved for those, who in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence is betrayal." Martin Luther King, Jr., April 4, 1967, "Why I Oppose the War In Vietnam"

Photograph, at right, by Seydou Keïta

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