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
Interview with Robin D.G. Kelley by Justin Desmangles	Interview with Robin D.G. Kelley by Justin Desmangles	Interview with Robin D.G. Kelley by Justin Desmangles	Interview with Robin D.G. Kelley by Justin Desmangles
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

Something to live for . . .

Show description for Sunday 3/20/2011 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon never out of sight never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly."

— Zora Neale Hurston,

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Photo by Roy Decarava

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	Count Basie featuring Joe Williams	Roll'em Pete	Count Basie Swings Joe Williams Sings	Verve
	Count Basie featuring Joe Williams	Teach Me Tonight	Count Basie Swings Joe Williams Sings	Verve
	Count Basie featuring Joe Williams	My Baby Upsets Me	Count Basie Swings Joe Williams Sings	Verve
	Count Basie featuring Joe Williams	Please Send Me Someone To Love	Count Basie Swings Joe Williams Sings	Verve
	Phineas Newborn Jr.	Please Send Me Someone To Love	Please Send Me Someone To Love	Contemporary
	Phineas Newborn Jr.	Rough Ridin'	Please Send Me Someone To Love	Contemporary
	Al Young	Straight, No Chaser	Something About The Blues	Source Books
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	Albert Ayler	Sonnymoon For Two	Holy Ghost	Revenant
	Albert Ayler	(Blues)	Holy Ghost	Revenant
	David Meltzer featuring Bob Dorough	Misspliced Sermon	Poet With Jazz	Sierra Records
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	Ella Fitzgerald	Let's Do It	The Jazz Sides	Verve
	Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong	They Can't Take That Away From Me	The Jazz Sides	Verve
	Ella Fitzgerald	One For My Baby (And One For The Road)	The Jazz Sides	Verve
	Frank Sinatra	I've Got The World On A String	The Capitol Years	Capitol
	Frank Sinatra	Witchcraft	The Capitol Years	Capitol
	Oscar Peterson	Witchcraft	A Jazz Portrait Of Frank Sinatra	Verve
	Bill Evans Trio	Witchcraft	Portrait In Jazz	Riverside
	Johnny Hodges	Day Dream	The Essential Duke Ellington Vol. 9 & !0	RCA - France
	Charles Mingus (Hank Jones Trio)	Day Dream	Complete Debut Recordings	Debut
	Billy Strayhorn	Day Dream	Lush Life	Red Baron
	Duke Ellington	Day Dream		RCA
	Frank O'Hara	Having A Coke With You	Private Recording	Private Recording
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	Andrew Hill	Spectrum	Point Of Departure	Blue Note
	Eric Dolphy	Something Sweet, Something Tender	Out To Lunch	Blue Note
	Molly Peacock	Have You Ever Faked An Orgasm?	Cornucopia	W. W. Norton & Company
	Billy Strayhorn featuring Ozzie Bailey	Love Came	Lush Life	Red Baron
	Billy Strayhorn featuring Ozzie Bailey	A Flower Is A Lovesome Thing	Lush Life	Red Baron
	Billy Strayhorn featuring Ozzie Bailey	Passed Me By	Lush Life	Red Baron
	Billy Strayhorn featuring Ozzie Bailey	Something To Live For	Lush Life	Red Baron
	Billy Strayhorn featuring Ozzie Bailey	Your Love Has Faded	Lush Life	Red Baron
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	Angela Davis	Young Black Men & Prison	The Prison Industrial Complex	AK Press Audio
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	Ishmael Reed	If I'm A Welfare Queen Where Are My Jewels And Furs	For All We Know	Konch Records
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	Jayne Cortez	Cultural Operations	Taking The Blues Back Home	Verve - Harmolodic

Klook! Telling it like it is, and like it ought to be!

Show description for Sunday 1/9/2011 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Happy Birthday, to one of the great fathers of modern jazz percussion, Kenny Clarke!

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Miles Davis	Solar	Walkin'	Prestige
	Kenny Clarke	Cotton Tail	Jazz Men Detroit	Savoy
	Jayne Cortez & Richard Davis	Making It	Celebrations & Solitudes	Strata-East
	Jayne Cortez & Richard Davis	So Long	Celebrations & Solitudes	Strata-East
	Kenny Dorham featuring Ernie Henry	Noose Bloos	2 Horns / 2 Rhythm	Riverside
	Sylvia Tropp	Poem to Ernie Henry	New Jazz Poets	Broadside
	Tommy Flanagan	Ugly Beauty	Thelonica	Enja
	Herbie Nichols	Riff Primatiff	The Third World	Blue Note
	Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland	Volcano	Live at Ronnie Scott's	BASF
	Linton Kwesi Johnson	Di Great Insohrekshan	An Evening of International Poetry	New Alliance Records
	Modern Jazz Quartet	La Ronde (For Drums)	MJQ	Prestige
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	Bing Crosby	Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?	Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?	New World Records
	Deane Janis	Boulevard of Broken Dreams	Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?	New World Records
	Jane Harvey with Benny Goodman	Only Another Boy & Girl	Haven't We Met Before?	New World Records
	Billie Holiday	I Can't Get Started	When Malindy Sings	New World Records
	Count Basie & His Orchestra	Every Tub	Jazz In Revolution	New World Records
	Leo Watson	It's the Tune That Counts	When Malindy Sings	New World Records
	Louis Prima	In A Little Gypsy Tea Room	Louis Prima	Capitol
	Cab Calloway featuring Milt Hinton	Ebony Silhouette	The World of Swing	Columbia-Legacy
	Lionel Hampton featuring Charles Mingus	Mingus Fingers	Jazz In Revolution	New World Records
	Duke Ellington & Jimmy Blanton	Pitter Panther Patter	Duke Ellington: The Blanton-Webster Band	RCA-Bluebird
	Duke Ellington	The Clothed Woman	Monologue	CBS-France
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	Jayne Cortez (read by Justin Desmangles)	No Simple Explanations	Coagulations	Bola Press
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	Thelonious Monk	Ruby, My Dear	The Genius of Thelonious Monk	Blue Note
	Tommy Flanagan	North of the Sunset	Thelonica	Enja
	Bennie Green featuring Bab Gonzalez	Soul Stirrin'	Soul Stirrin'	Blue Note - Japan
	Miles Davis All-Stars	Blue 'N Boogie	Walkin'	Prestige
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	Owen Dodson	Counterpoint	A Hand is on the Gate	Verve-Folkways
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	Nas	One Love	Illmatic	CBS-Sony

Celebrating Ornette Coleman, Part One

Show Description for Sunday 03/14/2010

This afternoon, on New Day Jazz, we celebrate the music of Ornette Coleman, born March 9, 1930.

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	Ornette Coleman Trio	Faces & Places	At the Golden Circle Volume 1	Blue Note
	Okot P'Bitek	Song ofthe Prisoner (excerpt)	An Evening of International Poetry	Alliance
	Ornette Coleman	Round Trip	New York Is Now!	Blue Note
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	Ornette Coleman Quartet	Monk & the Nun	Twins	Atlantic
	Ronald Stone	Lady Day Spring Toned	New Jazz Poets	Broadside
	Ornette Coleman Quartet	Beauty Is A Rare Thing	This Is Our Music	Atlantic
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	Charlie Haden	The Golden Number	The Golden Number	A&M
	Modern Jazz Quartet	Lonely Woman	Lonely Woman	Atlantic
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	Calvin C. Hernton	Jitterbugging in the Streets	New Jazz Poets	Broadside
	Ornette Coleman	Song for Che	Crisis	Impulse
	Ornette Coleman	Space Jungle	Crisis	Impulse
	Ornette Coleman	Trouble in the East	Crisis	Impulse
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	Langston Hughes	Jazztet Muted	Ask Your Mama	Buddha Records
	Jayne Cortez & the Firespitters	No Simple Explanations	Maintain Control	Bola Press
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	Ornette Coleman & Prime Time	Space Church (Continous Service)	In All Languages	Caravan of Dreams

Eugene Redmond and the tradition of Damn Sure Telling It Like It Is

Poet, critic, editor and publisher, Eugene Redmond, is one of the leading figures in the history of African-American letters. Author of the seminal critical work, Drumvoices, Mr. Redmond is also the major force in the dissemination of the work of the late master Henry Dumas.




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Track	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Gato Barbieri	La China Leoncia Arreo La Correntinada Trajo Entre La Muchachada La Flor De La Juventud Part One	Latin America: Chapter One	Impulse
	Gato Barbieri	La China Leoncia Arreo La Correntinada Trajo Entre La Muchachada La Flor De La Juventud Part Two	Latin America: Chapter One	Impulse
	Gato Barbieri	La China Leoncia Arreo La Correntinada Trajo Entre La Muchachada La Flor De La Juventud Part Three	Latin America: Chapter One	Impulse
	Gato Barbieri	La China Leoncia Arreo La Correntinada Trajo Entre La Muchachada La Flor De La Juventud Part Four	Latin America: Chapter One	Impulse
	Nina Simone	Isn't It A Pity	Emergency Ward	RCA
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	Michael White	The Land of Spirit and Light Part 1	The Land of Spirit and Light	Impulse
	Michael White	The Land of Spirit and Light Part 2	The Land of Spirit and Light	Impulse
	Michael White	The Land of Spirit and Light Part 3	The Land of Spirit and Light	Impulse
	Margaret Walker	For My People	An Anthology of Negro Poetry	Folkways
	Sam Rivers	Involution	Extensions & Dimensions	Blue Note
	Andrew Hill	No Malice	One for One	Blue Note
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	Andrew Hill	Ilusion	Change	Blue Note
	Interview with Eugene Redmond by Justin Desmangles Part One
	Jayne Cortez with Richard Davis	Essence of Rose Solitude	Celebrations & Solitudes	Strata-East
	Interview with Eugene Redmond by Justin Desmangles Part Two
	Andrew Hill	Hope	Change	Blue Note

Our Lady

Today we honor the birth of one of the greatest storytellers the world has ever known, the great Lady Day, Miss Billie Holiday. Why one of the world's greatest storytellers? It would be enough that she is universally recognized as the most influential singer in jazz. But in recognizing Billie Holiday, we also recognize the depth, and power, of her emotional authority, and undeniable sense of reality. Those qualities, along with her intense swing, and lyrical embrace of even the most "common" material, rank her among the greatest in the arts of telling a story. And, damn sure telling it like it is. Here is a poem about Billie written by Jayne Cortez;


Billie

Everyone snatched
a piece of her gardenia
to wear in cut flesh
of their gloomy Sunday
Everyone looked
for detours
had premonitions
& forgot
what a little moonlight could do
to a woman standing on
the outside of her body
singing to
the body inside of a song about lynching
Everyone knew about transported spirits
random rooster combs
& the lover man sanctifying in her solitude
But no one wanted to touch
that low fired instantaneous friction sitting
on the inside of outside when she sang
"strange fruit hanging on a poplar tree"


from, The Beautiful Book by Jayne Cortez, Bola Press, New York, 2007