When You Are Who You Are: Homage To Gil Scot-Heron, Poet

Show description for Sunday 5/29/2011 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

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This afternoon, an homage to the great poet, musician and artist, Gilbert "Gil" Scot-Heron (April 1, 1949 - May 27, 2011)

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Art Ensemble Of Chicago	Dreaming Of The Master	Nice Guys	ECM
	Gil Scot-Heron	Is That Jazz?	Reflections	Arista
	Gil Scot-Heron	Morning Thoughts	Reflections	Arista
	Gil Scot-Heron	Inner City Blues (Poem: "The Siege Of New Orleans")	Reflections	Arista
	Miles Davis	Black Satin	On The Corner	Columbia
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	Miles Davis	Black Satin	On The Corner	Columbia
	Miles Davis	John McLaughlin	Bitches Brew	Columbia
	Gil Scot-Heron	The Revolution Will Not Be Televised	Pieces Of A Man	Flying Dutchman
	Gil Scot-Heron	Save The Children	Pieces Of A Man	Flying Dutchman
	Gil Scot-Heron	Lady Day & John Coltrane	Pieces Of A Man	Flying Dutchman
	John Coltrane	Acknowledgement	A Love Supreme	Impulse
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	Gil Scot-Heron	Pieces Of A Man	Pieces Of A Man	Flying Dutchman
	Gil Scot-Heron	Grandma's Hands	Reflections	Arista
	Gil Scot-Heron	Gun	Reflections	Arista
	Miles Davis	Water Babies	Water Babies	Columbia
	Gil Scot-Heron	Did You Hear What They Said?	Free Will	Flying Dutchman
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	Gil Scot-Heron	B Movie	Reflections	Arista
	The Last Poets	Mean Machine	This Is Madness	Celluloid
	Gil Scot-Heron	When You Are You Are	Pieces Of A Man	Flying Dutchman

It's After The End Of The World, Don't You Know That Yet? Celebrating Sun Ra, Remembering Malcolm X

Show description for Sunday 5/22/2011 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Our annual celebration of Sun Ra (born Herman Poole Blount, Le Sony'r Ra, May 22, 1914 – May 30, 1993) Also, on the 5 o'clock hour, an excerpt from the last recorded speech by Malcolm X ( May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965), born Malcolm Little and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra	Adventure - Equation	Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy	Evidence
	Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra	Moon Dance	Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy	Evidence
	Sun Ra	Heliocentric	The Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra	ESP
	Sun Ra	Outer Nothingness	The Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra	ESP
	Sun Ra	Other Worlds	The Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra	ESP
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	Sun Ra	Cogitation	Monorails And Satellites	Evidence
	Sun Ra	Skylight	Monorails And Satellites	Evidence
	Sun Ra & His Outer Space Arkestra	The Bridge	The Singles	Evidence
	Sun Ra & His Outer Space Arkestra	Rocket #9	The Singles	Evidence
	Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra	The Outer Heavens	Art Forms Of Dimensions Tomorrow	Evidence
	Sun Ra & His Astro-Galatic Infintiy Arkestra	Enlightenment	The Singles	Evidence
	Sun Ra featuring David Henderson	Love In Outer Space	The Singles	Evidence
	Sun Ra	Mayan Temple	The Singles	Evidence
	Sun Ra & His Intergalatic Solar Arkestra	It's After The End Of The World	Soundtrack To The Film Space Is The Place	Evidence
	Sun Ra & His Intergalatic Solar Arkestra	Under Different Stars	Soundtrack To The Film Space Is The Place	Evidence
	Sun Ra & His Intergalatic Solar Arkestra	Discipline 33	Soundtrack To The Film Space Is The Place	Evidence
	Sun Ra & His Intergalatic Solar Arkestra	Watusa	Soundtrack To The Film Space Is The Place	Evidence
	Sun Ra & His Intergalatic Solar Arkestra	Calling Planet Earth	Soundtrack To The Film Space Is The Place	Evidence
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	Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra	Angels & Demons At Play	Angels & Demons At Play	Evidence
	Sun Ra	We Travel The Spaceways	Greatest Hits:Easy Listening For Intergalatic Travel	Evidence
	Sun Ra	Twin Stars Of Thence	Lanquidity	Evidence
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	Malcolm X	Excerpt One (Mecca, Non-violence, The Press)	Feb. 14, 1965, Detroit	Private Recording
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	Malcolm X	Excerpt Two ( Decolonisation, Kennedy as Neo-colonialist, Africa & Human Rights)	Feb. 14, 1965, Detroit	Private Recording
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	Sun Ra featuring John Gilmore & June Tyson	Enlightenment	Nuits de la Fondation Maeght Volume 1	Nuits de la Fondation Maeght
	Sun Ra	Astro Black	Astro Black	Impulse

I. Reed Juice! on Joan Walsh, Progessives & Obama

Show description for Sunday 5/8/2011 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Ishmael Reed returns to discuss his new novel, Juice!

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Betty Carter	This Is Always	Inside Betty Carter	United Artists
	Betty Carter	Beware My Heart	Inside Betty Carter	United Artists
	Betty Carter	Some Other Time	Inside Betty Carter	United Artists
	Betty Carter	Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most	Inside Betty Carter	United Artists
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	Sarah Vaughn	All I Do	Sarah + 2	Roulette
	Sarah Vaughn	I Understand	Sarah + 2	Roulette
	Sarah Vaughn	Baby Won't You Please Come Home	Sarah + 2	Roulette
	Sarah Vaughn	When Lights Are Low	Sarah + 2	Roulette
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	Chico Hamilton Quintet	Concerto Of Jazz Themes From The Soundtrack Of Sweet Smell Of Success	The Sweet Smell Of Success	Decca
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	Modern Jazz Quartet	Odds Against Tomorrow	Dedicated To Connie	Atlantic
	Roscoe Mitchell & Amiri Baraka	In Town	MLK Concert at Yoshi's SF Jan. 17, 2011	Private Recording
	Roscoe Mitchell & Amiri Baraka	Selections From Un Poco Low Coup	MLK Concert at Yoshi's SF Jan. 17, 2011	Private Recording
	Julian "Cannonball" Adderley	Love For Sale	Somethin' Else	Blue Note
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	Julian "Cannonball" Adderley	One For Daddy-O	Somethin' Else	Blue Note
	Julian "Cannonball" Adderley	Dancing In The Dark	Somethin' Else	Blue Note
	John Coltrane	I'm Old Fashioned	Blue Train	Blue Note
	John Coltrane	Lazy Bird	Blue Train	Blue Note
	Wynton Kelly	Keep It Moving (excerpt)	Kelly Blue	Riverside
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	Interview With Ishmael Reed By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Ishmael Reed By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Ishmael Reed By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Ishmael Reed By Justin Desmangles
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	Albert Ayler	Mothers	Holy Ghost	Revenant

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.