A Happy Birthday to Dizzy Gillespie!
Show description for Sunday 10/23/2011 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Runagate Runagate
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.
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Countee Cullen | Heritage | Anthology of Negro Poets | Folkways | ||
| Dizzy Gillespie featuring Chano Pozo | Minor Walk | Dizzy Gillespie Vol. 1/2 | RCA - France | ||
| Dizzy Gillespie featuring Chano Pozo | Cubana Be Cubana Bop | Dizzy Gillespie Vol. 1/2 | RCA - France | ||
| Machito & His Orchestra featuring Charlie Parker | Mango Mangue | Afro-Cuban Jazz | Verve | ||
| Langston Hughes | the Negro Speaks of Rivers | Anthology of Negro Poets | Folkways | ||
| Langston Hughes | I, Too | Anthology of Negro Poets | Folkways | ||
| James Moody | Cu-Ba | James Moody & His Modernists | Blue Note | ||
| Tadd Dameron Septet | Jahbero | Tadd Dameron Septet | Blue Note | ||
| Bud Powell Trio | Un Poco Loco | The Amazing Bud Powell | Blue Note | ||
| ========================== Airbreak ========================== | |||||
| Margaret Walker | For My People | Anthology of Negro Poets | Folkways | ||
| Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra | Things to Come | Bebop | New World Records | ||
| Kenny Clarke & His 52nd St. Boys | Royal Roost | Jazz In Revolution | New World Records | ||
| Machito & His Orchestra featuring Charlie Parker | Okidoke | Afro-Cuban Jazz | Verve | ||
| Dizzy Gillespie featuring Chano Pozo | Algo Bueno (Woody'n You) | Dizzy Gillespie Vol. 1/2 | RCA - France | ||
| Modern Jazz Quartet | Woody'n You | Nica's Dream | New World Records | ||
| Gwendolyn Brooks | The Preacher Ruminates | Anthology of Negro Poets | Folkways | ||
| Gwendolyn Brooks | The Children of the Poor | Anthology of Negro Poets | Folkways | ||
| Charles Mingus | Ysabels' Table Dance | Tijuana Moods | RCA | ||
| ========================== Airbreak ========================== | |||||
| Woody Herman & His Orchestra | Lemon Drop | Bebop | New World Records | ||
| Elliott Lawrence | Elevation | Jazz In Revolution | New World Records | ||
| Dizzy Gillespie featuring Kenny Hagood | Ool Ya Koo | Dizzy Gillespie Vol. 1/2 | RCA - France | ||
| James Moody | Tropicana | James Moody & His Modernists | Blue Note | ||
| Tadd Dameron | On A Misty Night | The Magic Touch | Riverside | ||
| Sarah Vaughn | A Ship Without A Sail | Great Songs From Hit Shows Volume 2 | Mercury | ||
| Sarah Vaughn | He's Only Wonderful | Great Songs From Hit Shows Volume 2 | Mercury | ||
| ========================== Airbreak ========================== | |||||
| Dizzy Gillespie | Groovin' High | In The Beginning | Prestige | ||
| Tadd Dameron featuring Barbara Winfield | If You Could See Me Now | The Magic Touch | Riverside | ||
| Sterling Brown | Long Gone | Anthology of Negro Poets | Folkways | ||
| Dodo Marmarosa Trio | Mellow Mood | Jazz In Revolution | New World Records | ||
| Charlie Parker | Relaxin' at Camarillo | Bebop | New World Records | ||
| Dexter Gordon - Wardell Gray Quintet | The Chase Part 1 & 2 | Jazz In Revolution | New World Records | ||
| Claude McKay | St. Issac's Church | Anthology of Negro Poets | Folkways | ||
| Claude McKay | The Tropics in New York | Anthology of Negro Poets | Folkways | ||
| Claude McKay | Intro / If We Must Die | Anthology of Negro Poets | Folkways | ||
| Randy Weston | Con Alma | African Nite | Inner City | ||
| ========================== Airbreak ========================== | |||||
| Harlan Leonard & His Rockets | A-La-Bridges | Jazz In Revolution | New World Records | ||
| Dizzy Gillespie featuring Chano Pozo | Good Bait | Dizzy Gillespie Vol. 1/2 | RCA - France | ||
| Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker | Hot House | In the Beginning | Prestige | ||
| Tadd Dameron | Dial B for Beauty | The Arranger's Touch | Prestige | ||
| Tadd Dameron | You're A Joy | The Magic Touch | Riverside | ||
| Tadd Dameron | Swift as the Wind | The Magic Touch | Riverside | ||
| Dizzy Gillespie featuring Joe Carroll | Jump-Did-Le-Ba | Dizzy Gillespie Vol. 1/2 | RCA - France | ||
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| Sarah Vaughn | Embraceable You | Sarah Vaughn | Emarcy | ||
