Lady Day Spring Toned, April Warmly

Show description for Sunday 4/17/2011 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Our annual celebration of Our Lady, the great Lady Day, Miss Billie Holiday!

New Day Jazz

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Billie Holiday	Your Mother's Son In Law	Quintessential	Columbia
	Billie Holiday	It's Like Reaching For The Moon	Quintessential	Columbia
	Billie Holiday	Pennies From Heaven	Quintessential	Columbia
	Billie Holiday	They Can't Take That Away From Me	Quintessential	Columbia
	Billie Holiday	If Dreams Come True	Quintessential	Columbia
	Billie Holiday	Now They Call It Swing	Quintessential	Columbia
	Countee Cullen	From The Dark Tower	A Hand Is On The Gate	Folkways
	Langston Hughes	I've Known Rivers	A Hand Is On The Gate	Folkways
	Robert Hayden	Frederick Douglass	A Hand Is On The Gate	Folkways
	Paul Laurence Dunbar	We Wear The Mask	A Hand Is On The Gate	Folkways
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	Eric Dolphy	Eclipse	Out There	New Jazz
	Jayne Cortez	Essence Of Rose Solitude	Celebrations & Solitudes	Strata-East
	Billie Holiday	Solitude	Quintessential	Columbia
	Billie Holiday	Solitude	First Verve Sessions	Verve
	Sonny Rollins	Solitude	Way Out West	Contemporary
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	Billie Holiday	Getting Some Fun Out Of Life	Quintessential	Columbia
	Billie Holiday	A Sail Boat In The Moonlight	Quintessential	Columbia
	Billie Holiday	He Ain't Got Rhythm	Quintessential	Columbia
	Billie Holiday	Billie's Blues	Quintessential	Columbia
	Billie Holiday	Spreadin' The Rhythm Around	Quintessential	Columbia
	Ntozake Shange	Sorry	For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf	Buddha
	Billie Holiday	Ain't Nobodies Business If I Do	Billie Holiday	Decca
	Billie Holiday	Do Your Duty	Billie Holiday	Decca
	Billie Holiday	Now Or Never	Billie Holiday	Decca
	Ntozake Shange	One	For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow Is Enuf	Buddha
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	Billie Holiday	God Bless The Child	Lady Sings The Blues	Verve
	Sonny Rollins	God Bless The Child	The Bridge	RCA
	Billie Holiday	God Bless The Child	Billie's Blues	Columbia
	Eric Dolphy	God Bless The Child	Status	Fantasy
	Billie Holiday	Nice Work If You Can Get It	At Newport	Verve
	Billie Holiday	Willow Weep For Me	At Newport	Verve
	Mahmood Jamal	A Gift Of Blood	An Evening of International Poetry	Alliance
	Mahmood Jamal	Silence	An Evening of International Poetry	Alliance
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	Sterling Brown	An Old Woman Remembers	A Hand Is On The Gate	Folkways
	Richard Wright	Between The World And Me	A Hand Is On The Gate	Folkways
	Billie Holiday	Strange Fruit	Lady Sings The Blues	Verve
	Billie Holiday	Strange Fruit	Strange Fruit	Commodore
	Billie Holiday	Born To Love	Quintessential	Columbia
	Billie Holiday	Let's Call The Whole Thing Off	Quintessential	Columbia
	Billie Holiday	This Years Kisses	Quintessential	Columbia
	Billie Holiday	Cheek To Cheek	Lady Sings The Blues	Verve
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	Billie Holiday	Lady Sings The Blues	Lady Sings The Blues	Verve
	Herbie Nichols	Lady Sings The Blues	The Third World	Blue Note
	Ronald Stone	Lady Day Spring Toned	New Jazz Poets	Broadside
	Archie Shepp	Lady Sings The Blues	Live In San Francisco	Impulse

LADY DAY SPRING TONED - Ronald Stone

LADY DAY SPRING TONED - Ronald Stone

Lady Day Spring-toned
april-warmly
bluesky-silently
"Heart in my soul
has got this solo"
(Charley Parker-birds
overhead
overbird
overhead
overheard
(a-flat minor fart-
ing perfume
of magenta smells
from a far corner
of a microsmic universe)
stand still
In nowhere air
Lady Day's heart
in her soul
(21-dimensionless-
dimension overtones
from 5 dimensional
Pagliacci scenes
we see only 3 dimensionally)
solos
Phony American Charley Morality
ate my flesh
but my soul was
West of horizons to
phony American Charley Morality
Everybody knows trouble
double-trouble
triple-trouble
I've seen
like a motherless child
traveling light
through 5 dimensional scenes
foolish fools
see as 3 dimensional scenes
I hungered for you're -my-
thrill-don't-explain love (no, don't explain love)
I thirsted for easy-living-
for-you-love
Trying to find love
found me pain
Trying to give love
gave me pain
Spikes spiking skin pain
swarms of insects stinging pain
Starfire pain
burning in every pore
burning in every blood vessel
burning in every bone marrow
Pain eating like cancer
Pain screaming so loud it's silent
I'm gone now
I'm gone now
Wow I'm gone
21st heaven melody !
Wink-smile-wink rhythm
Cosmic harmony
All 3 bound me
in future futureless
silent sounds
Love's strange fruits
in some other spring
where no pain sings
here in nowhere

African American Writers & Classical Tradition

Show description for Sunday 4/3/2011 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

This afternoon on the 5 o'clock hour we are joined by James Tatum (pictured above, left), professor emeritus of classics at Dartmouth, to discuss his most recent work, co-authored with William W. Cook (above, right), professor emeritus of English and African American studies at Dartmouth, African American Writers and Classical Tradition.

"This book is a magisterial treatment of sophisticated Black literary artists who deployed the deep and rich resources of Greek and Latin classical texts. The complex phenomenon of Afro-classicism is laid bare for all to apprehend and appreciate!" - Cornel West, Princeton University

"Traditionally, African American literature has been treated like an orphan, shifted from one special-interest home to another where only a few can get that extra serving of porridge. Rarely has the genre been treated as seriously as by Cook and Tatum. Knowing them, I'm sure that this excellent book, African American Writers and Classical Tradition, is the result of many hours of deliberation. They debunk for all time that African American literature is monotraditional." - Ishmael Reed

New Day Jazz

Justin Desmangles

Jazz music for lovers and the lonely.

Genre

Jazz

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	William Parker	I'm So Proud / Ya He Yey Ya	I Plan To Stay A Believer	AUM-Fidelity
	William Parker & Hamid Drake	Earth	Summer Snow Volume 2	AUM-Fidelity
	William Parker & Hamid Drake	Pahos	Summer Snow Volume 2	AUM-Fidelity
	Ralph Towner & Paolo Fresu	Sacred Place (Reprise)	Chiaroscuro	ECM
	Ralph Towner & Paolo Fresu	Two Miniatures	Chiaroscuro	ECM
	Ralph Towner & Paolo Fresu	Postlude	Chiaroscuro	ECM
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	The Band with Muddy Waters	Mannish Boy	The Last Waltz	Warner Brothers
	James Carter	Layin' In The Cut	Layin' In The Cut	Atlantic
	Odean Pope	Blues	Universal Sounds	Porter
	Michael Bisio	Alabama	Travel Music	michaelbisio.com
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	Abbey Lincoln with The Staple Singers	The Music Is The Magic	Devil's Got Your Tongue	Verve
	Abbey Lincoln	Bird Alone	You Gotta Pay The Band	Verve
	Ornette Coleman	Word For Bird	In All Languages	Harmolodic-Verve
	Ornette Coleman	Space Church (Continous Services)	In All Languages	Harmolodic-Verve
	Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp	Bleed	Cosmic Lieder	AUM-Fidelity
	Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp	Ultima Thule	Cosmic Lieder	AUM-Fidelity
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	Darius Jones	Meekness	Man'ish Boy	AUM-Fidelity
	Interview With James Tatum By Justin Desmangles	Interview With James Tatum By Justin Desmangles	Interview With James Tatum By Justin Desmangles	Interview With James Tatum By Justin Desmangles
	Bob Dylan & The Band	Bessie Smith	The Basement Tapes

—-The New Invasion of Africa—– by Amiri Baraka

—-The New Invasion of Africa—–

by Amiri Baraka

So it wd be this way

That they wd get a negro

To bomb his own home

To join with the actual colonial

Powers, Britain, France, add Poison Hillary

With Israeli and Saudi to make certain

That revolution in Africa must have a stopper

So call in the white people who long tasted our blood

They would be the copper, overthrow Libya

With some bullshit humanitarian scam

With the negro yapping to make it seem right (far right)

But that’s how Africa got enslaved by the white

A negro selling his own folk, delivering us to slavery

In the middle of the night. When will you learn poet

And remember it so you know it

Imperialism can look like anything

Can be quiet and intelligent and even have

A pretty wife. But in the end, it is insatiable

And if it needs to, it will take your life.

This is a song for the genius child

Show description for Sunday 3/27/2011 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Genius Child

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This is a song for the genius child.
Sing it softly, for the song is wild.
Sing it softly as ever you can -
Lest the song get out of hand.

Nobody loves a genius child.

Can you love an eagle,
Tame or wild?
Can you love an eagle,
Wild or tame?
Can you love a monster
Of frightening name?

Nobody loves a genius child.

Kill him - and let his soul run wild.

Langston Hughes

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Sonny Clark Trio	Bebop	Sonny Clark Trio	Blue Note
	Sonny Clark Trio	Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise	Sonny Clark Trio	Blue Note
	Sonny Clark Trio	I'll Remember April	Sonny Clark Trio	Blue Note
	Abbey Lincoln	Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise	Abbey Is Blue	Riverside
	Abbey Lincoln	Lost In The Stars	Abbey Is Blue	Riverside
	Sheila Jordan	When The World Was Young	Portrait Of Sheila	Blue Note
	Sheila Jordan	Let's Face The Music And Dance	Portrait Of Sheila	Blue Note
	Sheila Jordan	Hum Drum Blues	Portrait Of Sheila	Blue Note
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	Kenny Dorham	Blue Spring Shuffle	Quiet Kenny	New Jazz
	Kenny Dorham	I Had The Craziest Dream	Quiet Kenny	New Jazz
	Tommy Flanagan Trio	Delarna	Overseas	Prestige
	Tommy Flanagan Trio	Relaxin At Camarillo	Overseas	Prestige
	Jack Kerouac	San Francisco Scene	Readings by Jack Kerouac on the Beat Generation	Verve
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	Slim Gaillard All-Stars	Slim's Jam	Charlie Parker Memorial Album	Savoy
	Charlie Parker Quintet	Klaunstance	Charlie Parker Memorial Album	Savoy
	Charlie Parker Quintet	Barbados	Charlie Parker Memorial Album	Savoy
	Charlie Parker Quintet	Merry-Go-Round	Charlie Parker Memorial Album	Savoy
	Charlie Parker Quintet	Koko	Charlie Parker Memorial Album	Savoy
	Charlie Parker Quintet	Warming Up A Riff	Charlie Parker Memorial Album	Savoy
	Dizzy Gillespie	Oo-Shoo-Be-Doo-Bee	Groovin' High	Savoy
	Dizzy Gillespie	On The Sunny Side Of The Street	School Days	Savoy
	Dizzy Gillespie	Oh, Lady Be Good!	School Days	Savoy
	Langston Hughes	Blues Montage	The Weary Blues	Verve
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	Eddie Jefferson	Birdland Story	Eddie Jefferson	Savoy
	Eddie Jefferson	Body & Soul	Eddie Jefferson	Savoy
	Annie Ross	The Way You Look Tonight	Annie Ross	Savoy
	Annie Ross	Between The Devil & The Deep Blue Sea	Annie Ross	Savoy
	Lambert Hendricks & Ross	Twisted	Lambert Hendricks & Ross	Columbia
	Babs Gonzalez	A Manhattan Fable	Tales of Manhattan: The Cool Philosophy of Babs Gonzales	Jaro
	William Parker Organ Quartet	The Struggle	Uncle Joe's Spirit House	Centering Music
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	Declared Enemy	Black Panthers	Salute To 100001 Stars: A Tribute to Jean Genet	Rogue Art
	Declared Enemy	Abdallah	Salute To 100001 Stars: A Tribute to Jean Genet	Rogue Art
	Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp	Motherboxx	Cosmic Lieder	AUM-Fidelity
	Darius Jones & Matthew Shipp	Black Lightening	Cosmic Lieder	AUM-Fidelity
	Odean Pope	Custody Of The American Spirit	Universal Sounds	Porter
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	Neil Young	You And Me	Harvest Moon	Reprise
	Neil Young	Harvest Moon	Harvest Moon	Reprise

Charlie Parker by Frank Marshall Davis

Charlie Parker



Who named him Yard Bird?
He was a homing pigeon
With no home to fly to

Sky unlimited
Route uncharted
Eagle strong
He scorched his wings
Haunting the heavens
Buzzing the sun
As the feebler fowl
Looked up in awe
But played it safe

In the rambling sky
He lived!
Here he rendezvoused
With freedom
Flashing feathers
Of burning blue
Dipping, darting
In strange and wild
Ecstatic arcs
Dazzling with his daring
Flying
As none before had ever flown

Even as eagle tires
And returns to his airy crag
A homing pigeon
Cannot soar forever
But this majestic bird
Had no home
To go to;
Helpless
On the ground
He wandered aimlessly
Pecking in the garbage
Like a common sparrow
With a weary wing
And he was trapped
And hooked
And cooked -
That's the simple story
Of the heaven - haunting pigeon
Who flew his way to glory

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
	Billy Strayhorn featuring Ozzie Bailey	Multicolored Blue	Lush Life	Red Baron
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	Angela Davis	Young Black Men & Prison	The Prison Industrial Complex	AK Press Audio
	Angela Davis	Technologies Of Punishment	The Prison Industrial Complex	AK Press Audio
	Angela Davis	The Specter Of Crime	The Prison Industrial Complex	AK Press Audio
	Angela Davis	Political Persecution	The Prison Industrial Complex	AK Press Audio
	Angela Davis	Enemies Are Needed	The Prison Industrial Complex	AK Press Audio
	Angela Davis	Targeting Women	The Prison Industrial Complex	AK Press Audio
	Angela Davis	Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric	The Prison Industrial Complex	AK Press Audio
	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