Sunday, May 27, 2012

James Baldwin, The Artist's Struggle for Integrity, Miles Davis In Sweden

Show description for Sunday 5/27/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM


This week, on the 5 o'clock hour, a scarce recording of essayist, novelist, activist, James Baldwin, from 1963, The Struggle.
Also, at 4 o'clock, in honor of Miles Davis, born May 26, 1926, we will listen to a lengthy excerpt from a concert broadcast in Sweden, 1971.
This afternoon's broadcast is dedicated to the memory of Gil Scott-Heron, poet.

ArtistSongAlbumLabel
Art Farmer & His OrchestraWood'yn You The Aztec SuiteUnited Artists
Art Farmer & His OrchestraDrume NegritaThe Aztec SuiteUnited Artists
Art Farmer & His OrchestraAlone TogetherThe Aztec SuiteUnited Artists
Edward BrathwaiteThe CabinRights Of PassageArgo (U.K.)
Sonny RollinsWhat Is There To Say?Sonny's TimeJazzland
Sonny RollinsCutieSonny's TimeJazzland
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Al Cohn & Zoot SimsMotoring AlongMotoring AlongSonet
Tommy FlanaganOff MinorThelonicaEnja
Kenny Drew / Niels-Henning Orsted PedersonMy Little Suede ShoesDuo Live In ConcertSteepleChase
Audre LordeFrom The House Of YemanjeA Sign / I Was Not Alone Out & Out Books
Mal WaldronSnake OutMingus LivesEnja
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Miles DavisWhat I SayMiles Davis In Sweden 1971MD
Miles DavisSanctuaryMiles Davis In Sweden 1971MD
Miles DavisFunky TonkMiles Davis In Sweden 1971MD
Miles DavisThe EndMiles Davis In Sweden 1971MD
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John McLaughlinBlue In GreenMy Goals BeyondDouglas
Claude McKaySt. Issac's Church, LeningradAnthology Of Negro PoetsFolkways
Sonny Rollins My Old Flame Sonny's TimeJazzland
Anita O'DayAnita's BluesAn Evening With Anita O'DayNorgran Records
Ella FitzgeraldBewitchedThe Rodgers & Hart Song BookVerve
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James BaldwinThe Artist's Struggle for Integrity, Part OneThe StruggleBuddha Records
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James BaldwinThe Artist's Struggle for Integrity, Part TwoThe StruggleBuddha Records
Jackie McLeanCancellationIt's Time!Blue Note
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Jacqueline DuPre & Daniel BarenboimSonata In F Major, Op.99, Adagio affecttuosoBrahms: The Two Sonatas for Cello & PianoAngel
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Sunday, May 20, 2012

Alejandro Muguia on Arizona & Latin America. Malcolm X on Islam, Non-violence


Show description for Sunday 5/20/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM


This week, on the 5 o'clock hour, we are joined by one of the great writers of our times, a transformational figure in the development American literature over the last 40 years, Alejandro Murguia.
Also, at 4 o'clock, Malcolm X (May 19, 1925 – February 21, 1965), in an excerpt from his last recorded speech. 


“People who live in California deny the past,” asserts Alejandro Murguía. In a state where “what matters is keeping up with the current trends, fads, or latest computer gizmo,” no one has “the time, energy, or desire to reflect on what happened last week, much less what happened ten years ago, or a hundred.” From this oblivion of memory, he continues, comes a false sense of history . . .

ArtistSongAlbumLabel

Amiri BarakaDopeBefore Columbus Foundation PoetsFolkways

Kenneth PatchenNice Day For A LynchingKenneth Patchen Reads His PoetryFolkways

Miles Davis QuintetTune UpCookin'Prestige

Miles Davis QuintetWhen Lights Are LowCookin'Prestige

Tadd Dameron With John ColtraneOn A Misty NightMating CallPrestige
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Jayne CortezFor The PoetsBefore Columbus Foundation PoetsFolkways

Tadd Dameron OrchestraOn A Misty NightThe Magic TouchRiverside







Tadd Dameron OrchestraFountainbleauThe Magic TouchRiverside







Cyn ZarcoFlipochinos, Being Your Woman, Pacific LoverBefore Columbus Foundation PoetsFolkways







Abbey LincolnI Am In LoveIt's MagicRiverside







Abbey LincolnIt's MagicIt's MagicRiverside
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Malcolm X Last Recorded Speech (excerpt)Private RecordingPrivate Recording







Steve Lacy Uh Uh UhDreamsSaravah

Robin KenyattaBlues For Your MamaGirl From MartiniqueECM

Kenneth Patchen The Lions Of Fire Shall Have Their HuntingKenneth Patchen Reads His PoetryFolkways

Mal Waldron Mingus LivesMingus LivesEnja
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Victor Hernandez CruzArtist/Art, Anonymous SonnetBefore Columbus Foundation PoetsFolkways

Kenny Drew & Niels-Henning Orsted PedersonMy Little Suede ShoesDuo Live In ConcertSteepleChase

AluristaBoringuenBefore Columbus Foundation PoetsFolkways
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Charles McPhersonDee Blues (excerpt)New HorizonsXanadu

Interview With Alejandro Murguia By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Alejandro Murguia By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Alejandro Murguia By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Alejandro Murguia By Justin Desmangles
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Ralph TownerNardisSolo ConcertECM

Bill EvansNardisExplorationsRiverside
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Walt Dickerson & Sun RaUtopiaVisionsSteepleChase
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Robin D.G. Kelley talks about his new book, Africa Speaks,America Answers:Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times.

Show description for Sunday 5/6/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM


Please note, program begins at 3:30, due to pre-emption by KDVS Sports.

This week, on the 5 o'clock hour, Robin D.G. Kelley returns to New Day Jazz to discuss his most recent book,

Africa Speaks, America Answers:Modern Jazz in Revolutionary

Times.
 Also joining us this afternoon, composer, musician, and organizer of the annual In The Flow Festival, Ross Hammond.

ArtistSongAlbumLabel
Randy WestonCon AlmaAfrican NightInner City
Norman PritchardGyre's GalaxNew Jazz PoetsBroadside
Andrew HillBlack FireBlack FireBlue Note
Ron CarterSaucer EyesWhere?New Jazz
Jayne Cortez & Richard DavisWelcomeCelebrations & SolitudesStrata-East
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Jackie McLeanMessage From TraneDemons DanceBlue Note
Interview With Ross Hammond By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Ross Hammond By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Ross Hammond By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Ross Hammond By Justin Desmangles
Jackie McLeanIsle Of JavaJackie's BagBlue Note
Gigi GryceNica's TempoGigi Gryce QuartetSavoy
Randy WestonWell, You Needn'tHow High The MoonBiograph
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Randy WestonAfrican CookbookAfrican CookbookAtlantic
Interview With Robin D.G. Kelley By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Robin D.G. Kelley By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Robin D.G. Kelley By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Robin D.G. Kelley By Justin Desmangles
Randy WestonTribute To Duke EllingtonCarnivalArista
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Monday, April 30, 2012

Poet Laureate of California, Juan Felipe Herrera

Show description for Sunday 4/22/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM


Our guest this week, on the 5 o'clock hour, Juan Felipe Herrera. A key figure in the development of California literature, Mr. Herrera has most recently been appointed Poet Laureate of our state.
Also this week, a special birthday tribute to Charles Mingus, born this day, April 22, 1922. We will pay particular attention to the scarce and infrequently heard sides recorded for his co-operative label, Debut, founded with Max Roach. 

ArtistSongAlbumLabel
Charles Mingus & Spaulding GivensWhat Is This Thing Called Love?The Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles Mingus & Spaulding GivensBody & SoulThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles Mingus & Spaulding GivensBlue Moon The Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles Mingus & Spaulding GivensBlue TideThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles Mingus OctetBlue TideThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles Mingus OctetEclipseThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles Mingus OctetPink TopsyThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles Mingus OctetMiss BlissThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
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Charles MingusMake BelieveThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles MingusParis In BlueThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles MingusMontageThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles MingusExtrasensory PerceptionThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles MingusPrecognitionThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles MingusPortraitThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles Mingus (Thad Jones)PortraitThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles Mingus (Thad Jones)ChazzanovaThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
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Charles MingusBass-ically SpeakingThe Complete Debut RecordingFantasy
Charles MingusBass-ically SpeakingThe Complete Debut RecordingFantasy
Charles MingusStardustThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles MingusStardustThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles Mingus (Miles Davis)Nature BoyThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles Mingus (Miles Davis)Nature BoyThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles MingusLove ChantThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Charles MingusLove ChantThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
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Charles MingusPrayin' With EricTown Hall Concert 1964JWS (Original Jazz Classics)
Charles MingusPrayin' With Eric (Meditations)Town Hall Concert 1964JWS (Original Jazz Classics)
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Charles MingusUntitled Original CompositionThe Complete Debut RecordingsFantasy
Interview With Juan Felipe Herrera By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Juan Felipe Herrera By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Juan Felipe Herrera By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Juan Felipe Herrera By Justin Desmangles
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The Band with The Staple SingersThe WeightThe Last WaltzWarner Brothers
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Monday, April 2, 2012

Night's Dancer

Show description for Sunday 3/11/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM


Our guest this afternoon on the 5 o'clock hour, Yaël Tamar Lewin, dance historian, writer, dancer, and most recently author of, Night's Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins, new from Wesleyan University Press

"Night's Dancer: The Life of Janet Collins is an enthralling read. It reinforces Collin's struggle, personal strength and ultimate success. While following her dreams with endless energy, she leapt over boundaries."—Karen Barr, Dance International

The biography of the first African-American prima ballerina

Dancer Janet Collins, born in New Orleans in 1917 and raised in Los Angeles, soared high over the color line as the first African-American prima ballerina at the Metropolitan Opera. Night’s Dancer chronicles the life of this extraordinary and elusive woman, who became a unique concert dance soloist as well as a black trailblazer in the white world of classical ballet. During her career, Collins endured an era in which racial bias prevailed, and subsequently prevented her from appearing in the South. Nonetheless, her brilliant performances transformed the way black dancers were viewed in ballet. The book begins with an unfinished memoir written by Collins in which she gives a captivating account of her childhood and young adult years, including her rejection by the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. Dance scholar Yaël Tamar Lewin then picks up the thread of Collins’s story. Drawing on extensive research and interviews with Collins and her family, friends, and colleagues to explore Collins’s development as a dancer, choreographer, and painter, Lewin gives us a profoundly moving portrait of an artist of indomitable spirit.

“With Night’s Dancer, Lewin has produced a major work that continues to correct the absence of historical writing on African Americans in ballet and modern dance. The author incorporates Collins’s own writings, intimate details from the artist’s life, and rich contextual material to create a work that is emotionally touching and incredibly informative.”—John O. Perpener III, author of African-American Concert Dance: The Harlem Renaissance and Beyond

“Blessed with extraordinary gifts for dance and painting, Janet Collins broke barriers as the first African-American prima ballerina at the world-renowned Metropolitan Opera. Her life’s journey is inspirational. History should recognize her as one of its pioneers. Janet Collins was truly one of earth’s angels.”—Arthur Mitchell, co-founder of the Dance Theatre of Harlem


ArtistSongAlbumLabel

Henry Grimes TrioDancestorsSublime Communication 2: Live At EdgefestPrivate Recording
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Ran Blake & Jeanne LeeYou Stepped Out Of A DreamYou Stepped Out Of A DreamOwl

Ran Blake & Jeanne LeeNewswatchYou Stepped Out Of A DreamOwl

Declared EnemyFlowersSalute To 100001 Stars: A Tribute To Jean GenetRogue Art

Declared EnemyAlberto's WorkshopSalute To 100001 Stars: A Tribute To Jean GenetRogue Art

Declared EnemyMettraySalute To 100001 Stars: A Tribute To Jean GenetRogue Art

Woody ShawStepping StoneLive: Volume OneHigh Note
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William ParkerPhiladelphia ClayCrumbling In The Shadows In Fraulein Miller's Stale CakeCentering Music

Tom CoraCows Stars Rivers And GiantsGumption In LimboSound Aspects

Derek Bailey & Cyro BaptistaRio BrancoCyroIncus

Quincy TroupeA Man Walks In Slow MotionA New TongueSound Art
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Freddie HubbardBreaking Point (excerpt)Breaking PointBlue Note

Interview With Yael Tamar Lewin By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Yael Tamar Lewin By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Yael Tamar Lewin By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Yael Tamar Lewin By Justin Desmangles
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Henry Grimes TrioRitual Future / NowSongNew (excerpts)Sublime Communication 2: Live At EdgefestPrivate Recording

Tyrone Brown featuring John A. WilliamsReadings From Safari WestSuite For John A. WilliamsDreambox
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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

You Have Given Me A Country, Neela Vaswani's America

Show description for Sunday 3/4/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM


Our guest this afternoon on the 5 o'clock hour, Neela Vaswani. We will be discussing her most recent work, You Have Given Me a Country, winner of the American Book Award 2011.

You Have Given Me a Country is a mixed-genre exploration of blurred borders, identity, and what it means to be bicultural. Combining memoir, history, and fiction, the book follows the paths of the author’s Irish-Catholic mother and Sindhi-Indian father on their journey towards each other and the biracial child they create. Vaswani’s second full-length work thematically echoes such books as The Color of Water, Running in the Family, or Motiba’s Tattoos, but is entirely unique in approach, voice, and story, The book reveals the self as a culmination of all that went before it, a new weave of two varied, yet ultimately universal backgrounds that spans continents, generations, languages, wars, and, at the center of it all, family.

-ForeWord Book of the Year. Gold Medal. Essay category. 2010.
-Independent Book Publisher's Award (IPPY). Silver Medal. Multicultural fiction. 2010.
-Honor Book. Asian/Pacific American Literature Award. Nonfiction category. 2010.
-Honor Book. Association for Asian American Studies Book Award. Prose category. 2010.


ArtistSongAlbumLabel

Louis ArmstrongStardust ("Oh, memory")Louis Armstrong & His OrchestraPhillips

Louis Armstrong & His OrchestraStruttin' With Some BarbecueSwing That Music (ep)Swaggie

Rose Murphy featuring Slam StewartBig Noise From WinnetkaDinah b/w Big Noise From WinnetkaDecca

Lucky Thompson & His Lucky 7Boppin' The BluesCrazy & CoolRCA

Jazz At The PhilharmonicEndidoJ.A.T.P. Volume 10Mercury

Billy EckstinePrisoner Of LoveBilly Eckstine SingsNational

Benny Goodman With Peggy LeeLet's Do ItBenny Goodman With Peggy LeeColumbia

Julian "Cannonball" AdderleyKelly BlueAfrican Waltz b/w Kelly BlueRiverside

Earl HinesMountain AirEarl Hines & His All-StarsMercury
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Bill Evans TrioMilestonesWaltz For DebbyRiverside

Oscar Brown, Jr.Man, Earnest BoyTells It Like It Is!Columbia

The Jazz MessengersEcarohThe Jazz MessengersColumbia

Sarah VaughnWords Can't DescribeSarah Vaughn & Her TrioEmercy

Stan GetzStella By StarlightStan Getz Quartet (ep)Clef

Coleman HawkinsPhantomesqueColeman Hawkins (ep)Aladdin

Dinah WashingtonMakebelieve DreamsDinah Washington Vol. 8Official

Frank Sinatra with Nelson RiddleOnly The Lonely Only The LonelyCapitol
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Sarah VaughnMean To MeHot JazzRemington

Earl HinesFather CooperatesEarl Hines & His All-StarsMercury

Louis Armstrong & His OrchestraSatchel Mouth SwingSwing That Music (ep)Swaggie

Honey HillBoogie WoogiePiano Jazz: Boogie Woogie Style (ep)Swaggie

Dinah WashingtonMad About The BoyDinah Washington Vol. 8Official

Ella Fitzgerald & Ellis LarkinsWhat Is There To Say? Songs In A Mellow Mood (ep)Decca

Garland WilsonSweet LorraineSwing Sessions 2 - 1938/1939Pathe Marconi

Oscar AlemanRussian LullabySwing Sessions 2 - 1938/1939Pathe Marconi
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McCoy TynerMessage From The Nile (excerpt)ExtensionsBlue Note

Interview With Neela Vaswani By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Neela Vaswani By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Neela Vaswani By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Neela Vaswani By Justin Desmangles

McCoy TynerMessage From The Nile (excerpt)ExtensionsBlue Note
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Peggy LeeIs That All There Is? Is That All There Is? Capitol
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Sunday, March 4, 2012

Greil Marcus Talks About The Doors Secret Alphabets, Matthew Shipp Appears In The Upcoming Film, The Composer

Show description for Sunday 2/26/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

This afternoon, Matthew Shipp returns to discuss his most recent recording, featuring Michael Bisio and Whit Dickey, Elastic Aspects (Thirsty Ear).
Later in the program, Greil Marcus, pictured at right, joins us to talk about his new book, The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years.

"Nobody reads a song like Greil Marcus, whose prose is as passionate and omnivorous as the music he loves. Here he travels by way of Thomas Pynchon, Pop Art and Charles Manson to bring the chaotic, majestic, death-haunted Doors back to doomed and haunting life." -- Salman Rushdie

"No one thinks or writes like Greil Marcus. He has a genius for putting the aural dream-language of music into words, for making you 'hear' songs you thought you knew as if for the first time. Not just hear, but, as he puts it, 'feel on your skin' well after the song is over. Because 'the story it's telling is still going on.'" -- Mary Gaitskill


ArtistSongAlbumLabel

Roscoe Mitchell QuartetMr. FreddyBefore There Was SoundNessa

Roscoe Mitchell QuartetGreenBefore There Was SoundNessa

Matthew Shipp TrioPsychic CounterpartElastic AspectsThirsty Ear

Matthew Shipp TrioFrame FocusElastic AspectsThirsty Ear

Matthew Shipp TrioFlow ChartElastic AspectsThirsty Ear

Art Ensemble Of Chicago & Cecil TaylorIntro. To 15 Part 3ADreaming Of The Masters: Thelonious MonkDIW
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Betty Carter & Geri AllenStardust / Memories Of YouDroppin' ThingsBet-Car (Verve)

Matthew Shipp TrioMute VoiceElastic AspectsThirsty Ear

Matthew Shipp TrioExplosive AspectsElastic AspectsThirsty Ear

Matthew Shipp TrioRaw MaterialsElastic AspectsThirsty Ear

Interview With Matthew Shipp By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Matthew Shipp By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Matthew Shipp By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Matthew Shipp By Justin Desmangles

The DoorsThe EndThe DoorsElektra

Interview With Greil Marcus By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Greil Marcus By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Greil Marcus By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Greil Marcus By Justin Desmangles

The DoorsWhen The Music's OverStrange DaysElektra

The DoorsSoul KitchenThe DoorsElektra
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Art Ensemble Of ChicagoAs Clear As The SunTribute To LesterECM

Art Ensemble Of Chicago & Cecil TaylorCaseworksDreaming Of The Masters: Thelonious MonkDIW
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Roscoe Mitchell QuartetJo JarBefore There Was SoundNessa
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