Celebrating Abbey Lincoln, Universal Woman

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

This week on New Day Jazz, we celebrate the life and legacy of Abbey Lincoln. Poet, songwriter and a leading force in the Black Consciousness Movement, Ms. Lincoln celebrated her 80th birthday this past week, August 6th.
Also, as part of our continuing focus on the works of James Baldwin, we will listen in on an interview, conducted by Studs Terkel, from 1961, on the occasion of the publication of the essay collection, Nobody Knows My Name.

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Sterling Brown (Read by James Earl Jones & Moses Gunn)	Ol' Lem	A Hand Is On The Gate	Verve - Folkways
	Max Roach featuring Abbey Lincoln	Driva' Man	Freedom Now Suite	Candid
	Robert Hayden (read by Gloria Foster, Jones & Gunn)	Runagate, Runagate	A Hand Is On The Gate	Verve - Folkways
	Max Roach featuring Abbey Lincoln	Freedom Day	Freedom Now Suite	Candid
	Margaret Walker (read by Foster)	We Have Been Believers	A Hand Is On The Gate	Verve - Folkways
	Max Roach featuring Abbey Lincoln	Tryptich: Prayer/Protest/Peace	Freedom Now Suite	Candid
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	Abbey Lincoln	You And Me Love	People in Me	Inner City
	Abbey Lincoln	Natas (Playmate)	People in Me	Inner City
	Abbey Lincoln	Dorian (The Man With The Magic)	People in Me	Inner City
	Abbey Lincoln	Africa	People in Me	Inner City
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	James Baldwin Interviewed By Studs Terkel
	Abbey Lincoln featuring Archie Shepp	Throw It Away	Painted Lady	Blue Marge
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	Abbey Lincoln	Retribution	Straight Ahead	Candid
	Jean Toomer (read by Arna Bontemps)	Song of the Sun	Anthology of Negro Poets in the U.S.A. - 200 Years	Folkways
	Max Roach featurign Abbey Lincoln	Garvey's Ghost	Percussion Bitter Sweet	Impulse
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	Abbey Lincoln	The Music Is The Magic	Devil's Got Your Tongue	Verve France

Baraka on Obama, Baldwin's Legacy

Show description for Sunday 8/1/2010 @ 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM

This week, on the four o'clock hour, poet, playwright, and essayist, Amiri Baraka, returns to New Day Jazz, to discuss the representation, and misrepresentation, of President Barack Obama, in the corporate sponsored media.

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Track	Artist	Song	Album	Label	Comments
	Michel Legrand Orchestra featuring Miles Davis	Jitterbug Waltz	Legrand Jazz	Columbia
	Michel Legrand Orchestra featuring Miles Davis	Round Midnight	Legrand Jazz	Columbia
	Michel Legrand Orchestra featuring Miles Davis	Wild Man Blues	Legrand Jazz	Columbia
	Michel Legrand Orchestra featuring Miles Davis	Django	Legrand Jazz	Columbia
	Modern Jazz Quartet	Django	Django	Prestige
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	Clifford Brown	Parisian Thoroughfare	The Quintet	Emarcy
	Clifford Brown	George's Dilemma	Study In Brown	Emarcy
	Sarah Vaughn	I'm Glad There Is You	Sarah Vaughn	Emarcy
	Sarah Vaughn	September Song	Sarah Vaughn	Emarcy
	Sarah Vaughn	It's Crazy	Sarah Vaughn	Emarcy
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	Randy Weston	Earth Birth	Little Niles	Blue Note
	Randy Weston	Nice Ice	Little Niles	Blue Note
	Randy Weston	Hi Fly	Randy Weston at the 5 Spot	United Artists
	Randy Weston	Blues Beef Stew	Randy Weston at the 5 Spot	United Artists
	Interview with Amiri Baraka by Justin Desmangles
	Randy Weston	Blues 5 Spot (excerpt)	Randy Weston at the 5 Spot	United Artists

James Baldwin on Black Music

It is only in his music, which Americans are able to admire because a protective sentimentality limits their understanding of it, that the Negro in America has been able to tell his story. It is a story which otherwise has yet to be told and which no American is prepared to hear . . .

The story of the Negro in America is the story of America - or, more precisely, it is the story of Americans. It is not a very pretty story: the story of a people is never very pretty. The Negro in America, gloomily referred to as that shadow that lies athwart our national life, is far more than that. He is a series of shadows, self-created, intertwining, which we now helplessly battle . . .

This is why his history and his progress, his relationship to all Americans, has been kept in the social arena. He is a social and not a personal or a human problem; to think of him is to think of statistics, slums, rapes, injustices, remote violence; it is to be confronted with an endless cataloging of losses, gains, skirmishes; it is to feel virtuous, outraged, helpless, as though his continuing status among us were somehow analogous to disease - cancer, perhaps, or tuberculosis - which must be checked, even though it cannot be cured. In this arena the black man acquires quite another aspect from that which he has in life. We do not know what to do with him in life; if he breaks our sociological and sentimental image of him we are panic stricken and we feel ourselves betrayed. When he violates this image, therefore, he stands in the greatest danger (sensing which, we uneasily suspect that he is often playing a part for our benefit); and, what is not always so apparent but is equally true, we are then in some danger ourselves - hence our retreat or blind and immediate retaliation.

James Baldwin, 1951