Robin D.G. Kelley: A Conversation on Suzanne Césaire, Surrealism, Négritude, and Black Feminism

Returning to New Day Jazz this afternoon in the 5 o'clock hour, Robin D.G. Kelley, for a discussion of Suzanne Césaire, and the recently published collection of her writings for Tropiques, The Great Camouflage.

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Artist	Song	Album	Label
Gato Barbieri	La China Leoncia Arreo La Correntinada Trajo Entre La Muchachada La Flor De La Juventud	Chapter One: Latin America	Impulse!
Michael White	The Land of Spirit and Light	The Land of Spirit and Light	Impulse!
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Andrew Hill	Siete Ocho	Judgement!	Blue Note
Bobby Hutcherson	Catta	Dialogue	Blue Note
Max Roach featuring Abbey Lincoln	Garvey's Ghost	Percussion Bitter Sweet	Impulse!
Charles Mingus	Passions of a Man	Oh Yeah!	Atlantic
Charles Mingus	Tonight at Noon	Tonight at Noon	Atlantic
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Art Ensemble of Chicago featuring Fontella Bass	Theme de Yoyo	Les Stances a Sophie	Nessa
Air	G.v.E.	Air Time	Nessa
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Andrew Hill	Diddy Wah	One for One	Blue Note
Andrew Hill	Poinsetta	One for One	Blue Note
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Duke Ellington	Fleurette Africaine (African Flower)	Money Jungle	United Artists
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Duke Ellington	Fleurette Africaine (African Flower)	Money Jungle	United Artists
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Bob Dorough	Small Day Tomorrow	Beginning to See the Light	Laissez-Faire
Ernestine Anderson	Sunny	Sunshine	Concord

Armond White on the State of American Criticism, 12 Years a Slave, GWTW, Pauline Kael, Antonioni

 Joining us this afternoon, on the 5 o'clock hour, writer, film and cultural critic, Armond White.
 A full transcript of the interview can be read at Konch Magazine. 

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Artist	Song	Album	Label
Charles Mingus	II B.S. (Haitian Fight Song)	Mingus Mingus Mingus	Impulse
Charles Mingus	Heart's Beat and Shades in Physical Embraces	The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady	Impulse
Count Basie featuring Joe Williams	Everyday I Have the Blues	Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings	Verve
Langston Hughes	Ode to Dinah	Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz	Buddha
Ike Quebec featuring Milt Hinton	Nature Boy	Heavy Soul	Blue Note
Miles Davis	Circle	Miles Smiles	Columbia
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Dizzy Gillespie featuring Chano Pozo	Cubana Be Cubana Bop	Dizzy Gillespie and His Afro-Cuban Orchestra	RCA
Dizzy Gillespie featuring Chano Pozo	Manteca	Dizzy Gillespie and His Afro-Cuban Orchestra	RCA
Woody Herman featuring Bill Harris	Bijou	Woody Herman and His Orchestra	Time-Life
Ella Fitzgerald and Ellis Larkins	Someone to Watch Over Me	Ella Sings Gershwin	Decca
Ella Fitzgerald and Ellis Larkins	My One and Only	Ella Sings Gershwin	Decca
Ella Fitzgerald	Aren't You Kind of Glad We Did?	Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook Vol. 3	Verve
Walter Davis, Jr.	Sweetness	Davis Cup	Blue Note
Freddie Redd	Music Forever	The Connection	Blue Note
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Miles Davis	Sorcerer	Sorcerer	Columbia
Miles Davis	Freedom Jazz Dance	Miles Smiles	Columbia
Martin Luther King, Jr.	The Drum Major Instinct (excerpt)	Free at Last	Motown
Cecil Payne	Martin Luther King, Jr.	Zodiac	Strata-East
Sarah Vaughn	Words Can't Describe	Swingin' Easy	EmArcy
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Eddie Harris	Listen Here (excerpt)	The Electrifying Eddie Harris	Atlantic
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Eddie Harris	Listen Here (excerpt)	The Electrifying Eddie Harris	Atlantic
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James Carr	The Dark End of the Street	The Dark End of the Street	Blue Side

African American Writers & Classical Traditon

Show description for Sunday 8/15/2010 @ 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

This afternoon on the 4 o'clock hour we are joined by James Tatum (pictured above, left), professor emeritus of classics at Dartmouth, to discuss his most recent work, co-authored with William W. Cook (above, right), professor emeritus of English and African American studies at Dartmouth, African American Writers and Classical Tradition.

"This book is a magisterial treatment of sophisticated Black literary artists who deployed the deep and rich resources of Greek and Latin classical texts. The complex phenomenon of Afro-classicism is laid bare for all to apprehend and appreciate!" - Cornel West, Princeton University

"Traditionally, African American literature has been treated like an orphan, shifted from one special-interest home to another where only a few can get that extra serving of porridge. Rarely has the genre been treated as seriously as by Cook and Tatum. Knowing them, I'm sure that this excellent book, African American Writers and Classical Tradition, is the result of many hours of deliberation. They debunk for all time that African American literature is monotraditional." - Ishmael Reed

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Miles Davis & John Coltrane	Walkin' / The Theme	Live in Stockholm 1960	Dragon
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	Eldridge-Flanagan-Mingus-Jones	Me & You Blues	The Complete Candid Recordings of Charles Mingus	Mosaic
	Charles Mingus Quartet	Folk Forms No. 1	Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus Quartet	Candid
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	Sonny Rollins	Misterioso	Sonny Rollins Volume 2	Blue Note
	Mal Waldron	Dee's Dilemma (excerpt)	Mal 1	Prestige
	Interview With James Tatum By Justin Desmangles
	Mal Waldron	Dee's Dilemma (excerpt)

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.

A.B. Spellman and the tradition of damn sure telling it like it is

New Day Jazz Justin Desmangles Jazz music for lovers and the lonely Genre Jazz Miss the Show? MP3 Stream (128kbps, broadband) MP3 Stream (32kbps, dial-up) [View Past Shows] [View Upcoming Shows]

Track	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Ray Charles	Let The Good Times Roll	The Genius of Ray Charles	Atlantic
	Ray Charles & Betty Carter	It Takes Two to Tango	Ray Charles & Betty Carter	ABC - Paramount
	Lorez Alexandria	The Wildest Gal in Town	Alexandria the Great	Impulse
	Esther Philips	I'm Getting Along Alright	Confessin' the Blues	Atlantic
	Esther Philips	I Wonder	Confessin' the Blues	Atlantic
	Jesse Faucet (read by Ellen Holly)	La Vie C'est La Vie	A Hand is on the Gate	Verve - Folkways
	Binga Dismond (read by James Earl Jones)	At Early Morn	A Hand is on the Gate	Verve - Folkways
	Ray Charles	Tell Me You'll Wait For Me	The Genius of Ray Charles	Atlantic
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	Dewey Redman	Boody	The Ear of the Behearer	Impulse
	Oscar Brown, Jr.	40 Acres and a Mule	Oscar Brown, Jr. Goes to Washington	Fontana
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	Ray Charles & Betty Carter	Baby, It's Cold Outside	Ray Charles & Betty Carter	ABC - Paramount
	Bill Evans	Star Eyes	A Simple Matter of Conviction	Verve
	Modern Jazz Quartet	Monterey Mist	Blues at Carnegie Hall	Atlantic
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	Esther Philips	I Love Paris	Confessin' the Blues	Atlantic
	Duke Ellington	It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)	Johnny Come Lately	RCA
	Interview with A.B. Spellman By Justin Desmangles
	Duke Ellington	I Ain't Got Nothing But the Blues	Johnny Come Lately	RCA
	Duke Ellington	Chocolate Shake	Jumpin' Punkins	RCA
	Duke Ellington	Clementine	Jumpin' Punkins	RCA

Blues Women on KDVS

Here is a recent play list from the broadcasts I host at KDVS. Most effective, I believe, was the sequence starting out with Duke Ellington, It Don't Mean A Thing, and concluding with Jayne Cortez, 3 Day New York Blues. The image presented here is of Gwendolyn Brooks.

	Fats Waller	I'm Crazy About My Baby	Fat's Plays, Sings, Alone & With Various Groups	CBS France
	Fats Waller	Draggin' My Heart Around	Fats Plays, Sings, Alone & With Various Groups	CBS France
	Fats Waller	Us On A Bus	Complete Recordings Volume 10	RCA France
	Alberta Hunter	Sugar	Women Of The Blues	RCA
	Alberta Hunter	Beale Street Blues	Women Of The Blues	RCA
	Duke Ellington featuring Baby Cox	The Mooche	The Music Of Duke Ellington	Columbia
	Duke Ellington featuring Ivy Anderson	Mood Indigo	The Music Of Duke Ellington	Columbia
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	Duke Ellington featuring Marie Ellington, Joya Sherrill & Kay Davis	It Don't Mean A Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)	Johnny Come Lately	RCA
	Nellie Lutcher	My New Papa's Got To Have Everything	My New Papa's Got To Have Everything	Jukebox Lil' (Sweden)
	Lil' Green	Now What Do You Think?	Chicago 1940-1947	Rosetta Records
	Margaret Walker	Kissie Lee	Anthology Of Negro Poetry	Folkways
	'Sippi Wallace	You Gonna Need My Help	Women Of The Blues	RCA
	'Sippi Wallace	I'm A Mighty Tight Woman	Women Of The Blues	RCA
	Jayne Cortez featuring Richard Davis	3 Day New York Blues	Celebrations & Solitudes	Strata-East
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	Carmen McRae	When Sunny Gets Blue	Bittersweet	Focus
	Carmen McRae	How Did He Look?	Bittersweet	Focus
	Carmen McRae	Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry	Bittersweet	Focus
	Carmen McRae	The Meaning Of The Blues	Bittersweet	Focus
	Gwendolyn Brooks	The Preacher Ruminates	Antholgy Of Negro Poetry	Folkways
	Gwendolyn Brooks	The Children Of The Poor, Sonnet #2	Anthology Of Negro Poetry	Folkways
	Gwendolyn Brooks	Old Laughter	Anthology Of Negro Poetry	Folkways
	Duke Ellington	The New East St. Louis Toodle-Lo	The Music Of Duke Ellington	Columbia
	Lil' Green	Romance In The Dark	Chicago 1940-1947	Rosetta Records
	Billie Holiday	Rocky Mountain Blues	Shades Of Blue	Sunset
	Billie Holiday	Detour Ahead	Shades Of Blue	Sunset
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	Carmen McRae	Sometimes I'm Happy	Woman Talk	Mainstream
	Carmen McRae	Woman Talk	Woman Talk	Mainstream
	Ntozake Shange (read by Laurie Carlos)	Sorry	For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf	Buddha
	Monette Moore	Somebody's Been Loving My Baby	Women Of The Blues	RCA
	Monette Moore	Hard Hearted Papa	Women Of The Blues	RCA
	Duke Ellington	The New Black & Tan Fantasy	The Music Of Duke Ellington	Columbia
	Duke Ellington	Johnny Come Lately	Johnny Come Lately	RCA
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	Lil' Green	What's The Matter With Love?	Chicago 1940-1947	Rosetta Records
	Lil' Green	Why Don't You Do Right?	Chicago 1940-1947	Rosetta Records
	Bud Powell Trio	Tempus Fugit	The Genius Of Bud Powell	Verve
	Bud Powell Trio	Celia	The Genius Of Bud Powell	Verve
	Bud Powell Trio	Cherokee	The Genius Of Bud Powell	Verve
	Bud Powell Solo	Parisian Thouroughfare	The Genius Of Bud Powell	Verve
	Bud Powell Solo	Oblivion	The Genius Of Bud Powell	Verve
	Bud Powell Solo	Dusk In Sandi	The Genius Of Bud Powell	Verve
	Jayne Cortez featuring Richard Davis	Making It	Celebrations & Solitudes	Strata-East
	Jayne Cortez featuring Richard Davis	So Long	Celebrations & Solitudes	Strata-East

Wayne's Blues To Come

"When I was growing up, black connoted gloom, skepticism, no hope, no foreseeable way out of the muck and the mire. And the blues then to me were centered around gloom and darkness, too. The old blues and funk were good for their time and place, but what I'm trying to do now is to get the meat out of the old blues while also presaging the different kind of blues to come. In this particular piece (Charcoal Blues), I'm both looking back at the good things in those older blues and also laughing at that part of my background. The laughter is satirical but not mocking. It's laughter from the inside. During the earlier periods of the blues, moreover, you'd get to where there seemed to be a point of no return. Things were so bad that the only way to go was to laugh - that kept you going. There's some of that, too, in 'Charcoal Blues.' "

Wayne Shorter, Composer, Saxophonist.

Charcoal Blues, recorded by Wayne Shorter on Duke Ellington's birthday, April 29th, in 1964, appears on the album Night Dreamer. Widely acknowledged as a classic, Night Dreamer was recorded during the same period as the phenomenal Jazz Messenger's album Indestructible. Both sessions feature Lee Morgan on trumpet and Reggie Workman at the bass. By the end of that same year Shorter would join Miles Davis, making his debut as a member of the now mythic quintet of Hancock, Carter & Williams. The first recording of this group can be heard on the album Miles in Berlin.