William Parker Returns to New Day Jazz: Praise, Remembrance, Poetry & Freedom

Returning to New Day Jazz this afternoon, in the 5 o'clock hour, bassist, composer, William Parker, discussing his most recent release on AUM-Fidelity, Wood Flute Songs: Anthology / Live 2006-2012.

Also this afternoon, in honor of Ornette Coleman, born this day, March 9, 1930, we will revisit Coleman's earliest recordings alongside his son, Denardo Coleman, beginning with The Empty Foxhole, and carrying on through Crisis.

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Sunday 3/09/2014 @ 3:00PM - 6:00PM

Artist	Song	Album	Label
Phineas Newborn, Jr.	The Blessing	The Newborn Touch	Contemporary
John Coltrane & DonCherry	The Blessing	The Avant-Garde	Atlantic
Myron O'Higgins (Gloria Foster)	To a Young Poet	A Hand is on the Gate	Verve-Folkways
James Vaughn (Roscoe Lee Browne)	from Four Questions	A Hand is on the Gate	Verve-Folkways
Owen Dodson (Leon Bibb)	Counterpoint	A Hand is on the Gate	Verve-Folkways
Ornette Coleman	Song for Che	Crisis	Impulse
Ornette Coleman	Space Jungle	Crisis	Impulse
Airbreak
Lennie Tristano	Intuition	Crosscurrents	Capitol
Lennie Tristano	Digression	Crosscurrents	Capitol
Lee Konitz	You Go to My Head	Subconscious-lee	Prestige
Louis Armstrong	Stardust	Louis Armstrong Favorites Vol. 4	Columbia
Louis Armstrong	Stardust (Oh, Memory)	Louis Armstrong Favorites Vol. 4	Columbia
Countee Cullen (James Earl Jones)	From the Dark Tower	A Hand is on the Gate	Verve-Folkways
Langston Hughes (Ellen Holly)	The Negro Speaks of Rivers	A Hand is on the Gate	Verve-Folkways
Robert Hayden (Moses Gunn)	Frederick Douglass	A Hand is on the Gate	Verve-Folkways
Tommy Flanagan	Parisian Thoroughfare	Alone Too Long	Denon
Jack Wilson	Glass Enclosure	The Two Sides of Jack Wilson	Atlantic
Airbreak
Muddy Waters	Mannish Boy	The Real Folk Blues	Chess (France)
Howlin' Wolf	Everybody's in the Mood	The Legendary Sun Performers	Charly R&B
Ornette Coleman	Good Old Days	The Empty Fox Hole	Blue Note
Richard Pryor	Grandmothers - Leroy	Are You Serious?	Laff
Roscoe Mitchell Sextet	Ornette	Sound	Delmark
Airbreak
William Parker	Daughter's Joy	Wood Flute Songs: Anthology/ Live 2006-2012	AUM-Fidelity
William Parker	Late Man of This Planet	Wood Flute Songs: Anthology/ Live 2006-2012	AUM-Fidelity
Interview with William Parker by Justin Desmangles	Interview with William Parker by Justin Desmangles	Interview with William Parker by Justin Desmangles	Interview with William Parker by Justin Desmangles
Son House	John the Revelator	Father of the Blues	Columbia
Airbreak
Ruby & The Romantics	Our Day Will Come	Our Day Will Come	Kapp

Derrida on Improvisation

'It's not easy to improvise, it's the most difficult thing to do. Even when one improvises in front of a camera or microphone, one ventriloquizes or leaves another to speak in one's place the schemas and languages that are already there. There are already a great number of prescriptions that are prescribed in our memory and in our culture. All the names are already preprogrammed. It's already the names that inhibit our ability to ever really improvise. One can't say what ever one wants, one is obliged more or less to reproduce the stereotypical discourse. And so I believe in improvisation and I fight for improvisation. But always with the belief that it's impossible. And there where there is improvisation I am not able to see myself. I am blind to myself. And it's what I will see, no, I won't see it. It's for others to see. The one who is improvised here, no I won't ever see him.'
JACQUES DERRIDA
UNPUBLISHED INTERVIEW, 1982