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
| Artist | Song | Album | Label |
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| Henry Grimes & Rashied Ali | This Must Have Always Happened | Going to the Ritual | Porter |
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| Odean Pope | Scorpio Twins | Plant Life | Porter |
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| Wordwind Chorus (Q.R.Hand) | The Rap From Living On Dreams | We Are of the Saying | Wordwind Chorus |
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| Michael Bisio | Zephyr Revisited | Travel Music | michaelbisio.com |
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| Henry Threadgill Zooid | After Some Time | This Brings Us To (Volume 1) | Pi |
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| 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 |
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| Farmers By Nature | Sir Snacktray Speaks | Out of This Worlds Distortions | AUM-Fidelity |
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| Wordwind Chorus (Reginald Lockett) | A Veteran Contemplates the Fate of His Immigrant Students | We Are of the Saying | Wordwind Chorus |
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| Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp | Bleed | Cosmic Lieder | AUM-Fidelity |
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| Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp | Ultima Thule | Cosmic Lieder | AUM-Fidelity |
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| Al Young | Conjugal Visits | Something About the Blues | Sourcebooks |
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| Michael Bisio | Livin' Large | Travel Music | michaelbisio.com |
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| Henry Threadgill Zooid | To Undertake My Corners Open | This Brings Us To (Volume 1) | Pi |
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| David S. Ware | Duality Is One | Planetary Unknown | AUM-Fidelity |
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| 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 |
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| Wordwind Chorus (Reginald Lockett) | The Movement | We Are of the Saying | Wordwind Chorus |
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| Odean Pope featuring Marshall Allen | Custody of the American Spirit | Universal Sounds | Porter |
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| 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 |
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| Marc Ribot | Spirits | Spiritual Unity | Pi |
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| 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 |
