Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Sonho poema de Clarice Lispector



O sonho

Sonhe com aquilo que você quer ser,
porque você possui apenas uma vida
e nela só se tem uma chance
de fazer aquilo que quer.

Tenha felicidade bastante para fazê-la doce.
Dificuldades para fazê-la forte.
Tristeza para fazê-la humana.
E esperança suficiente para fazê-la feliz.

As pessoas mais felizes não tem as melhores coisas.
Elas sabem fazer o melhor das oportunidades
que aparecem em seus caminhos.

A felicidade aparece para aqueles que choram.
Para aqueles que se machucam
Para aqueles que buscam e tentam sempre.
E para aqueles que reconhecem
a importância das pessoas que passaram por suas vidas.











Tuesday, March 30, 2010

The Ecstatic Embrace of David Meltzer, Poet


New Day Jazz


Justin Desmangles

Jazz music for lovers and the lonely.

Genre
Jazz

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Also, please see earlier entries by clicking on the words, David Meltzer, among the labels for this post.
Show Description for Sunday 03/21/2010

David Meltzer this week on the 4 o'clock hour.

DAVID MELTZER: Checklist of publications

POETRY

The Clown [Semina, 1960].
The Process [Oyez, l965].
The Dark Continent [Oyez, 1967].
Round the Poem Box [Black Sparrow Press, l969].
Yesod [Trigram, l969].
Luna [Black Sparrow Press, 1970].
Tens, Selected Poems, edited by Kenneth RexrothMcGraw-Hill, l973].
Hero/Lil [Black Sparrow Press, 1973].
The Art, The Veil [Membrane Press, 1981].
The Name: Selected Poetry, 1973-1983 [Black Sparrow Press, 1984].
Arrows: Selected Poetry, 1957-1992 [Black Sparrow Press, 1994].
No Eyes: Lester Young [Black Sparrow, 2000].
Beat Thing [La Alameda Press, 2004].
David’s Copy: Selected Poems; edited by Michael Rothenberg [Penguin, 2005].
Angelize [Word Temple, 2008].




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Bud Powell Cleopatra's Dream The Scene Changes Blue Note


Hank Mobley Workout Workout Blue Note


Betty Carter Jazz (Aint' Nothin' But Soul) The Modern Sound of Betty Carter ABC - Paramount


Betty Carter For You The Modern Sound of Betty Carter ABC - Paramount

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David Meltzer From: The Lowlands David Meltzer Poet w/Jazz Sierra Records


Hank Mobley My Groove Your Move Roll Call Blue Note


Betty Carter My Shining Hour 'Round Midnight Roulette


Betty Carter Something Wonderful 'RoundMidnight Roulette

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Carmen McRae The Meaning of the Blues Bittersweet Focus


Carmen McRae If You Could Love Me Bittersweet Focus


Carmen McRae Spring Can ReallyHang You Up the Most Bittersweet Focus

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David Meltzer Misspliced Sermon David Meltzer Poet w/Jazz Sierra Records


Ernie Henry Active Ingredients(excerpt) Presenting Ernie Henry Riverside


Interview with David Meltzer by Justin Desmangles

Monday, March 15, 2010

Celebrating Ornette Coleman, Part Two

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A special edition of Brian Ang's "Farewell Transmission", this week hosted by Justin Desmangles, continuing the celebrations of Ornette Coleman, born March 9, 1930.









Ornette Coleman & Charlie Haden Soap Suds Soapsuds, Soapsuds Artists House


Cecil Rajendra The Animal & Insects Act An Evening Of International Poetry Alliance


Linton Kwesi Johnson Di Great Insohrekshan An Evening Of International Poetry Alliance


Ornette Coleman Voice Poetry Body Meta Artists House

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The Chamber Symphony of Philadelphia Quartet Space Flight The Music of Ornette Coleman RCA


Roscoe Mitchell Sextet Ornette Sound Delmark


Norman Pritchard Gyre's Galax New Jazz Poets Broadside


Ornette Coleman The Empty Foxhole The Empty Foxhole Blue Note


Gwendolyn Brooks The Preacher Ruminates Behind the Sermon Anthology of Negro Poetry Folkways


Ornette Coleman & Prime Time Mothers of the Veil In All Languages Caravan of Dreams

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Jackie McLean Strange As It Seems New & Old Gospel Blue Note


Jayne Cortez & Richard Davis 3 Day New York Blues Celebrations & Solitudes Strata-East


Ornette Coleman Open To The Public Love Call Blue Note

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Ornette Coleman & The Master Musicians of Joujouka Midnight Sunrise Dancing In Your Head A&M


Mushtaq Singh Respite An Evening Of International Poetry Alliance


Mushtaq Singh 4 Lines in Urdu Translation An Evening Of International Poetry Alliance


Okot P'Bitek Acholi Song / Song of the Prisoner An Evening Of International Poetry Alliance


Ornette Coleman & The Orginal Quartet Africa Is The Mirror Of All Colors In All Languages Caravan Of Dreams


Ornette Coleman & The Orginal Quartet Word For Bird In All Languages Caravan Of Dreams


Ornette Coleman & The Orginal Quartet Space Church (Continuous Services) In All Languages Caravan Of Dreams

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Ornette Coleman Lonely Woman The Shape Of Jazz To Come Atlantic


Margaret Walker Kissie Lee Anthology of Negro Poetry Folkways


Ornette Coleman T & T (Totem & Taboo) Ornette! Atlantic

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Ornette Coleman Bells & Chimes Ornette at 12 Impulse

Sunday, March 14, 2010

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

Saturday, March 13, 2010

Celestial Hobo, a poem by Bob Kaufman


Celestial Hobo



For every remembered dream
There are twenty nighttime lifetimes.

Under multiplied arcs of sleep
Zombie existences become Existence.

In night's warped rectangles
Stormy bathtubs of wavy sex
Come hotly drawn.

Everyday, confused in desperate poses,
Loses its hue, to Dada prodigies of black.
There never was a night that ended
Or began.













from Solitudes Crowded with Loneliness,
New Directions

Friday, March 12, 2010

Harmolodic = Highest Instinct


When I speak of rhythm I'm speaking about the oxygen of the notes. The beat or the time is the constant format. It's the mechanical part of motion. Rhythm is the freest part of that motion. The beat is the cement for the road. It's the road you're traveling on; the road doesn't necessarily ever change. Rhythm can be harmonic or melodic. Most listeners and players think of rhythm as the drums and think of non-rhythm as sound or words. To me they're the same. You can be moved rhythmically or non-rhythmically.

Improvising is a word used to express music that is not being written and calculated at the moment. Once I heard Eubie Blake say that when he was playing in black bands for white audiences, during the time that segregation was strong, that the musicians would go backstage, look at the music, then leave the music there and go out and play it. He was saying that they had a more saleable appeal if they pretended not to know what they were doing. The white audience felt safer. If they had the music in front of them, the audience would think they were trying to be white. So that's what I think of the word improvising. It's outdated. The term doesn't describe the muscians individual struggle for expression. Usually the person improvising has to use some sort of vehicle to let you know he's doing that. It's a limited term. Memory has a lot to do with improvisation. People enjoy the music they've heard before, much more than the music they haven't heard. To me that's like memory. The same sensations that made them enjoy what they liked in the past, when it was the present, wasn't memory. That was an experience.




This essay, written by Ornette Coleman, originally appeared in
FREE SPIRITS: ANNALS OF THE INSURGENT IMAGINATION

pictured above are, left to right,
Charles Ellerbe, Ornette Coleman, Bern Nix,
at Caravan of Dreams, 1986.