To Undertake My Corners Open

Show description for Sunday 8/7/2011 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Now to talk to me about black studies as if it's something that concerned [only] black people is an utter denial. This is the history of Western Civilization. I can't see it otherwise. This is the history that black people and white people and all serious students of modern history of the world have to know. To say it's some kind of ethnic problem is a lot of nonsense. - C.L.R. James, (1969)

O-Jazz-O

by Bob Kaufman

Where the string
At
some point,
Was umbilical jazz,
Or perhaps,
In memory,
A long lost bloody cross,
Buried in some steel cavalry.
In what time
For whom do we bleed,
Lost notes, from some jazzman's
Broken needle.
Musical tears from lost
Eyes.
Broken drumsticks, why?
Pitter patter, boom dropping
Bombs in the middle
Of my emotions
My father's sound
My mother's sound,
Is love,
Is life

pictured at right, Yves Tanguy, Dame a l'Absence, 1942

pictured above, Henry Treadgill, photo by Claudio Casanova

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Henry Grimes & Rashied Ali	This Must Have Always Happened	Going to the Ritual	Porter
	Odean Pope	Scorpio Twins	Plant Life	Porter
	Wordwind Chorus (Q.R.Hand)	The Rap From Living On Dreams	We Are of the Saying	Wordwind Chorus
	Michael Bisio	Zephyr Revisited	Travel Music	michaelbisio.com
	Henry Threadgill Zooid	After Some Time	This Brings Us To (Volume 1)	Pi
	Al Young	Sundays In Democracies	Something About the Blues	Sourcebooks
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	Henry Threadgill Zooid	Lying Eyes	This Brings Us To (Volume 2)	Pi
	Farmers By Nature	Sir Snacktray Speaks	Out of This Worlds Distortions	AUM-Fidelity
	Wordwind Chorus (Reginald Lockett)	A Veteran Contemplates the Fate of His Immigrant Students	We Are of the Saying	Wordwind Chorus
	Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp	Bleed	Cosmic Lieder	AUM-Fidelity
	Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp	Ultima Thule	Cosmic Lieder	AUM-Fidelity
	Al Young	Conjugal Visits	Something About the Blues	Sourcebooks
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	Michael Bisio	Livin' Large	Travel Music	michaelbisio.com
	Henry Threadgill Zooid	To Undertake My Corners Open	This Brings Us To (Volume 1)	Pi
	David S. Ware	Duality Is One	Planetary Unknown	AUM-Fidelity
	Farmers By Nature	Out Of This World's Distortions Grow Aspens and Other Beautiful Things	Out of This World's Distortions	AUM-Fidelity
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	Henry Threadgill Zooid	It Never Moved	This Brings Us To (Volume 2)	Pi
	Wordwind Chorus (Reginald Lockett)	The Movement	We Are of the Saying	Wordwind Chorus
	Odean Pope featuring Marshall Allen	Custody of the American Spirit	Universal Sounds	Porter
	Henry Threadgill Zooid	Extremely Sweet William	This Brings Us To (Volume 2)	Pi
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	Corey Wilkes & Abstrakt Pulse	Levitation	Cries From Tha Ghetto	Pi
	Marc Ribot	Spirits	Spiritual Unity	Pi
	Ran Blake & Jeanne Lee	Newswatch	You Stepped Out of a Cloud	Owl
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	Art Ensemble of Chicago	Everyday's a Perfect Day	[Sirius Calling]	Pi

New Music, New Poetry: Odean Pope, Farmers By Nature, Al Young, Ishmael Reed, Matthew Shipp, William Parker

Patrice Lumumba, pictured above, (July 2, 1925 – January 17, 1961) Know your history, know your culture. Your independence depends on your remembrance. Each one, teach one.

Show description for Sunday 7/3/2011 @ 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

PLEASE NOTE: MR. BARAKA HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO A LATER DATE

This week, on the 5 o'clock hour, poet, playwright, essayist, and activist, Amiri Baraka, returns to New Day Jazz to discuss the recent biography, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention, by the late Manning Marable.

New Day Jazz

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Odean Pope	Custody Of The American Spirit	Universal Sounds	Porter
	Odean Pope	Mwalimu	Universal Sounds	Porter
	Odean Pope	The Binder	Universal Sounds	Porter
	Ishmael Reed	If I Am A Welfare Queen Where Are My Jewels And Furs?	For All We Know	Konch Records
	Al Young	Sundays In Democracies	Something About The Blues	Sourcebooks
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	Farmers By Nature	Mud, Mapped	Out Of This Worlds Distortions	AUM-Fidelity
	William Parker Organ Quartet	The Struggle	Uncle Joe's Spirit House	Centering Records
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	Matthew Shipp	The New Fact	Art Of The Improviser	Thirsty Ear
	Matthew Shipp	3 In 1	Art Of The Improviser	Thirsty Ear
	Al Young	Straight, No Chaser	Something About The Blues	Sourcebooks
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	Odean Pope	Blues	Universal Sounds	Porter
	William Parker Organ Quartet	Jacques Groove	Uncle Joe's Spirit House	Centering Records
	William Parker Organ Quartet	Ennio's Tag	Uncle Joe's Spirit House	Centering Records
	Al Young	Conjugal Visits	Something About The Blues	Sourcebooks
	Ishmael Reed	Army Nurse	For All We Know	Konch Records
	Farmers By Nature	For Fred Anderson	Out Of This Worlds Distortions	AUM-Fidelity
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	Art Ensemble of Chicago	Dreaming Of The Master	Thelonious Sphere Monk: Dreaming Of The Masters Vol. 2

Something to live for . . .

Show description for Sunday 3/20/2011 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon never out of sight never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly."

— Zora Neale Hurston,

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Photo by Roy Decarava

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Count Basie featuring Joe Williams	Roll'em Pete	Count Basie Swings Joe Williams Sings	Verve
	Count Basie featuring Joe Williams	Teach Me Tonight	Count Basie Swings Joe Williams Sings	Verve
	Count Basie featuring Joe Williams	My Baby Upsets Me	Count Basie Swings Joe Williams Sings	Verve
	Count Basie featuring Joe Williams	Please Send Me Someone To Love	Count Basie Swings Joe Williams Sings	Verve
	Phineas Newborn Jr.	Please Send Me Someone To Love	Please Send Me Someone To Love	Contemporary
	Phineas Newborn Jr.	Rough Ridin'	Please Send Me Someone To Love	Contemporary
	Al Young	Straight, No Chaser	Something About The Blues	Source Books
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	Albert Ayler	Sonnymoon For Two	Holy Ghost	Revenant
	Albert Ayler	(Blues)	Holy Ghost	Revenant
	David Meltzer featuring Bob Dorough	Misspliced Sermon	Poet With Jazz	Sierra Records
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	Ella Fitzgerald	Let's Do It	The Jazz Sides	Verve
	Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong	They Can't Take That Away From Me	The Jazz Sides	Verve
	Ella Fitzgerald	One For My Baby (And One For The Road)	The Jazz Sides	Verve
	Frank Sinatra	I've Got The World On A String	The Capitol Years	Capitol
	Frank Sinatra	Witchcraft	The Capitol Years	Capitol
	Oscar Peterson	Witchcraft	A Jazz Portrait Of Frank Sinatra	Verve
	Bill Evans Trio	Witchcraft	Portrait In Jazz	Riverside
	Johnny Hodges	Day Dream	The Essential Duke Ellington Vol. 9 & !0	RCA - France
	Charles Mingus (Hank Jones Trio)	Day Dream	Complete Debut Recordings	Debut
	Billy Strayhorn	Day Dream	Lush Life	Red Baron
	Duke Ellington	Day Dream		RCA
	Frank O'Hara	Having A Coke With You	Private Recording	Private Recording
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	Andrew Hill	Spectrum	Point Of Departure	Blue Note
	Eric Dolphy	Something Sweet, Something Tender	Out To Lunch	Blue Note
	Molly Peacock	Have You Ever Faked An Orgasm?	Cornucopia	W. W. Norton & Company
	Billy Strayhorn featuring Ozzie Bailey	Love Came	Lush Life	Red Baron
	Billy Strayhorn featuring Ozzie Bailey	A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing	Lush Life	Red Baron
	Billy Strayhorn featuring Ozzie Bailey	Passed Me By	Lush Life	Red Baron
	Billy Strayhorn featuring Ozzie Bailey	Something To Live For	Lush Life	Red Baron
	Billy Strayhorn featuring Ozzie Bailey	Your Love Has Faded	Lush Life	Red Baron
	Billy Strayhorn featuring Ozzie Bailey	Multicolored Blue	Lush Life	Red Baron
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	Angela Davis	Young Black Men & Prison	The Prison Industrial Complex	AK Press Audio
	Angela Davis	Technologies Of Punishment	The Prison Industrial Complex	AK Press Audio
	Angela Davis	The Specter Of Crime	The Prison Industrial Complex	AK Press Audio
	Angela Davis	Political Persecution	The Prison Industrial Complex	AK Press Audio
	Angela Davis	Enemies Are Needed	The Prison Industrial Complex	AK Press Audio
	Angela Davis	Targeting Women	The Prison Industrial Complex	AK Press Audio
	Angela Davis	Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric	The Prison Industrial Complex	AK Press Audio
	Ishmael Reed	If I'm A Welfare Queen Where Are My Jewels And Furs	For All We Know	Konch Records
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	Jayne Cortez	Cultural Operations	Taking The Blues Back Home	Verve - Harmolodic

Al Young Reads Straight No Chaser

Novelist, poet, essayist and jazz critic, Al Young reads his poem, Straight No Chaser. The original recording comes from the CD contained in the book, Something About the Blues. The title, Straight No Chaser, comes from an original composition by Thelonious Monk. Like other masters in the Blues idiom, Young retains the sentiments of the tradition, such as plain speech and "telling it like it is," without making direct allusion to the Blues itself.

Al Young Remembers Eartha Kitt

“We 13-year-olds at Hutchins Intermediate in Detroit didn’t really know what to make of Eartha Kitt, billed as a chanteuse, when she broke on the scene in the early 1950s with hit records like ‘Ç’est Si Bon,’ ‘I Want to Be Evil,’ or ‘Santa Baby.’ But we could imitate and sing right along with her, French and all, clueless nonetheless. We read all the gossip about how she was dating actor-director Orson Welles and running around Europe with him. We didn’t know what that meant, either. We knew Eartha must’ve been hip or cool since she was making headlines and hits. She could sing in French and Turkish, and she’d danced with Katherine Dunham. Clearly she was someone you followed. Years later I would come to love the story she tells in one of her memoirs about the London opening of New Faces of 1952, the Broadway review in which she steals the show with ‘Monotonous,’ songwriters Ronnie Graham and Arthur Siegel’s sensuous tribute to world-weariness. One of the lines goes: ‘T.S. Eliot writes books for me, / Sherman Billingsley cooks for me.’ In one of her memoirs Kitt discloses that Mr. Eliot himself (author of The Wasteland and The Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats) turned up backstage after the show to present her with flowers. Still, for eleven years Eartha Kitt was blacklisted, as it were, for patriotic remarks she made to Lady Bird and Lyndon Johnson at a White House dinner to which she’d been invited as an honored guest. I loved Ms. Kitt for her moral courage to speak the truth about the American war in Vietnam. ‘The thing that hurts, that became anger,’ she later told Essence magazine, ‘was when I realized that if you tell the truth — in a country that says you’re entitled to tell the truth — you get your face slapped and you get put out of work.’ Like most American originals — Walt Whitman, Thomas Edison, George Washington Carver, Buster Keaton, Mae West, Billie Holiday, Oprah, Madonna — Eartha Kitt was self-invented. She came to attention in the heart of the McCarthy era, and died Christmas day on the crest of another wave of official repression. For decades Eartha Kitt brightened our dark, brutal, and increasingly loveless world with spirited movement, dance and song.”
– Al Young