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Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Janice Lowe in Conversation with Justin Desmangles, Sunday 11/06/2016
Joining me in conversation this afternoon in the 5 o'clock hour, poet, composer, Janice Lowe. A co-founder of the Dark Room Collective, Ms. Lowe's most recent collection of poetry is Leaving CLE: poems of nomadic dispersal (Miami University Press, 2016).
She is also the author of the chapbook SWAM (Belladonna Series). Her poems have been published in Callaloo, American Poetry Review, In the Tradition, and The Hat; they have also appeared on a digital album with Drew Gardner’s Poetics Orchestra. Her essays have appeared in Sing the Sun Up and The Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook.
“In Leaving CLE, Janice Lowe’s debut collection, she imagines poems as scores for socially-charged lyric and performative possibility. These poems explore the psychic and material spaces and traces of Cleveland and other cities through forms that leap off the page. Lowe transforms life’s arcs into song: ‘Sing back to me bright as Sunday’—and she does.”— John Keene
Conversation begins at 02:02:40, the preceding music on play list below.
Conversation begins at 02:02:40, the preceding music on play list below.
Sunday 11/06/2016 @ 3:00PM - 6:00PM
Nina Simone My Sweet Lord / Today is a Killer Emergency Ward RCA c. 1972
Jimi Hendrix Who Knows Band of Gypsys Capitol January 1, 1970
AIRBREAK
Art Ensemble of Chicago Dreaming of the Master Nice Guys ECM c. 1979
Ntozake Shange (Laurie Carlos) sorry for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf Buddha c. 1976
Esther Phillips I'm Gettin' Long Alright Confessin' the Blues Atlantic c. 1976
Esther Phillips I Wonder Confessin' the Blues Atlantic c. 1976
Jayne Cortez You Know Unsubmissive Blues Bola Press c. 1980
AIRBREAK
Funkadelic Music for My Mother Funkadelic Westbound c. 1970
Richard Pryor Bicentennial Nigger Bicentennial Nigger Warner Brothers c. 1976
Jimi Hendrix The Star-Spangled Banner Woodstock Cotillion August 1969
Sun Ra The Truth About Planet Earth The Space Age is Here to Stay Modern Harmonic c. 1978
Sun Ra Nuclear War The Space Age is Here to Stay Modern Harmonic c. 1983
Sly and the Family Stone If You Want Me to Stay Fresh Epic c. 1973
AIRBREAK
Gil-Scott Heron Lady Day and John Coltrane The Revolution Will Not Be Televised Flying Dutchman c. 1974
Ron Carter Uptown Conversation Uptown Conversation Embryo October 1969
Ron Carter Ten Strings Uptown Conversation Embryo October 1969
Ron Carter Half a Row Uptown Conversation Embryo October 1969
AIRBREAK
Herbie Hancock Jack Rabbit Inventions and Dimensions Blue Note August 30, 1963
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Abbey Lincoln My Way Live In Misty Kiva (Japan) c. 1973
Abbey Lincoln Japanese Dream Live In Misty Kiva (Japan) c. 1973
Abbey Lincoln Rainbow Live In Misty Kiva (Japan) c. 1973
Monday, May 25, 2015
Astra Taylor Discusses The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age.
Joining me this afternoon in the 5 o'clock hour, writer, director, Astra Taylor, discussing her most recent book, The People's Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age. Ms. Taylor will be appearing at the Oakland Book Festival
the following Sunday, May 31, in a panel discussion, Radical Lives, Radical Cities: Oakland and Beyond, with Elaine Brown and Frank B. Wilderson III.
the following Sunday, May 31, in a panel discussion, Radical Lives, Radical Cities: Oakland and Beyond, with Elaine Brown and Frank B. Wilderson III.
MISSED THE SHOW?
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kenny Dorham | Afrodisia | Afro-Cuban | Blue Note | |
| Horace Silver | Pretty Eyes | Cape Verdean Blues | Blue Note | |
| Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers | Pensativa | Free for All | Blue Note | |
| Phineas Newborn, Jr. | Manteca | A World of Piano | Contemporary | |
| AIRBREAK | ||||
| Modern Jazz Quartet | Django | Django | Prestige | |
| John Lewis featuring Eric Dolphy | Afternoon in Paris | The Wonderful World of Jazz | Atlantic | |
| Dakota Staton | Summertime | The Late, Late Show | Capitol | |
| Dakota Staton | Misty | The Late, Late Show | Capitol | |
| Teddy Edwards & Howard McGhee | Misty | Together Again! | Contemporary | |
| Jimmy Heath | Gemini | Triple Threat | Riverside | |
| AIRBREAK | ||||
| Kenny Dorham | Basheer's Dream | Afro-Cuban | Blue Note | |
| Santana | El Nicoya | Abraxas | Columbia | |
| Santana | Se a Cabo | Abraxas | Columbia | |
| Horace Silver | Nutville | Cape Verdean Blues | Blue Note | |
| Eddie Jefferson | Sister Sadie | The Jazz Singer | Inner City | |
| Eddie Jefferson | So What | The Jazz Singer | Inner City | |
| AIRBREAK | ||||
| Cecil Taylor | Conquistador | Conquistador! | Blue Note | |
| Sun Ra & The Myth-Science Arkestra | Love in Outer Space (excerpt) | Planets of Life or Death | Art Yard / Strut | |
| AIRBREAK | ||||
| Interview with Astra Taylor By Justin Desmangles | Interview with Astra Taylor By Justin Desmangles | Interview with Astra Taylor By Justin Desmangles | Interview with Astra Taylor By Justin Desmangles | |
| Sun Ra & The Myth-Science Arkestra | Love in Outer Space (excerpt) | Planets of Life or Death | Art Yard / Strut | |
| Herbie Hancock | Round Midnight | The Other Side of Round Midnight | Blue Note | |
| AIRBREAK | ||||
| John Lewis | Two Degrees East, Three Degrees West | The Wonderful World of Jazz | Atlantic | |
Monday, May 18, 2015
Nathaniel Mackey Discusses Blue Fasa on New Day Jazz with Justin Desmangles
Nathaniel Mackey joins me this week in the 5 o'clock hour, discussing his most recent collection of poetry, Blue Fasa, out this month from New Directions.
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| Artist | Song | Album | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abbey Lincoln | How High the Moon (la lune est grise . . . mon coeur aussi) | The World is Falling Down | Verve (Germany) | |
| Tommy Flanagan | Ugly Beauty | Thelonica | Enja | |
| Cecil McBee | Undercurrent | Compassion | Enja | |
| AIRBREAK | ||||
| John Coltrane | Syeeda's Song Flute | Giant Steps | Atlantic | |
| John Coltrane | Moment's Notice | Blue Train | Blue Note | |
| Jackie McLean | Appointment in Ghana | Jackie's Bag | Blue Note | |
| AIRBREAK | ||||
| Betty Carter | 30 Years | Droppin' Things | Bet-Car (Verve) | |
| Betty Carter | Star Dust / Memories of You | Droppin' Things | Bet-Car (Verve) | |
| Stevie Wonder | You Are the Sunshine of My Life | Talking Book | Motown | |
| Stevie Wonder | You Got It Bad Girl | Talking Book | Motown | |
| Sun Ra & His Myth-Science Arkestra | Lights on a Satellite | Fate in a Pleasant Mood | Saturn Records | |
| AIRBREAK | ||||
| Freddie Hubbard | The Intrepid Fox | Red Clay | CTI | |
| Dave Holland | Interception | Conference of the Birds | ECM | |
| Caetano Veloso | Triste Bahia | Transa | Philips (Brazil) | |
| Jackie Mclean | Isle of Java (excerpt) | Jackie's Bag | Blue Note | |
| AIRBREAK | ||||
| Interview with Nathaniel Mackey by Justin Desmangles | Interview with Nathaniel Mackey by Justin Desmangles | Interview with Nathaniel Mackey by Justin Desmangles | Interview with Nathaniel Mackey by Justin Desmangles | |
| Joe Henderson | Blue Bossa | Page One | Blue Note | |
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature
Joining me this afternoon, in the 5 o'clock hour, William J. Maxwell, author of F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature. Tune in for what promises to be a vital, provocative discussion of this immensely important new book.
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"According to the Bureau's own declassified word, Hoover and many lesser FBI ghostreaders pored over scores of Afro-modernist poems, plays, stories, novels, essays, and reviews - some even before publication with the aid of bookish informers at magazines and publishing firms. Alarmingly, the files divulge that the FBI readied preventive arrests of the majority of the black authors shadowed in its archive. Twenty-seven of fifty-one were caught in the invisible dragnet of the Bureau's 'Custodial Detention' index and its successors, hot lists of precaptives 'whose presence at liberty in this country in time of war or national emergency,' Hoover resolved, 'would be dangerous to the public peace and the safety of the United States Government' (Hoover, Directive 409). By the time the Black Panthers and Black Power, Hoover's literary-critical G-men style of state minstrelsy bent to counterintelligence purposes of simulation, infiltration, and plausibly deniable manipulation. The early and creative intensity of the Bureau's watch on black literature has been unknowingly minimized, the files collectively suggest, both in literary studies and in recent historical exposes harnessing FOIA requests to uncover either the Bureau's 'war on words' or its 'secret file on black America,' parallel tracks that should acknowledge their parallel underground crossings. The backdating and thick description of FBI surveillance of legal dissent, a muckracking preoccupation since Hoover's passing, is thus due for extension into the field of African American literary history. And the Bureau's peculiar contributions to this history are due at least a moment of national self-reflection. Even now, when it takes massive NSA 'data mining' to excite resistance to the surveillance of daily life, it is not just an academic matter that U.S. state intelligence essentially arranged to jail the African American literary tradition at mid-century. Well before the labeling of the prison-industrial complex, the republic of black letters joined black urban communities as an exceptional zone of police supervision." ~ William J. Maxwell, F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature
Few institutions seem more opposed than African American literature and J. Edgar Hoover’s white-bread Federal Bureau of Investigation. But behind the scenes the FBI’s hostility to black protest was energized by fear of and respect for black writing. Drawing on nearly 14,000 pages of newly released FBI files, F.B. Eyes exposes the Bureau’s intimate policing of five decades of African American poems, plays, essays, and novels. Starting in 1919, year one of Harlem’s renaissance and Hoover’s career at the Bureau, secretive FBI “ghostreaders” monitored the latest developments in African American letters. By the time of Hoover’s death in 1972, these ghostreaders knew enough to simulate a sinister black literature of their own. The official aim behind the Bureau’s close reading was to anticipate political unrest. Yet, as William J. Maxwell reveals, FBI surveillance came to influence the creation and public reception of African American literature in the heart of the twentieth century.
Taking his title from Richard Wright’s poem “The FB Eye Blues,” Maxwell details how the FBI threatened the international travels of African American writers and prepared to jail dozens of them in times of national emergency. All the same, he shows that the Bureau’s paranoid style could prompt insightful criticism from Hoover’s ghostreaders and creative replies from their literary targets. For authors such as Claude McKay, James Baldwin, and Sonia Sanchez, the suspicion that government spy-critics tracked their every word inspired rewarding stylistic experiments as well as disabling self-censorship.
Illuminating both the serious harms of state surveillance and the ways in which imaginative writing can withstand and exploit it, F.B. Eyes is a groundbreaking account of a long-hidden dimension of African American literature.
William J. Maxwell is associate professor of English and African American studies at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of New Negro, Old Left: African-American Writing and Communism between the Wars and the editor of Claude McKay’s Complete Poems.
"[An] immensely important story about the black authors that we thought we knew, from the 'notorious negro revolutionary' Claude McKay to the Black Arts poet Sonia Sanchez. . . . [A] welcome model for seeing state interference in culture as a two-way street."--Los Angeles Review of Books
"[A] bold, provocative study. . . . Maxwell's passion for the subject spills onto every page of his detailed, persuasive documentation that 'the FBI [was] an institution tightly knit (not consensually) to African-American literature.'"--Publishers Weekly (a Publishers Weekly pick of the week)
"[S]tartling. . . . Much of what Maxwell has discovered . . . paints a sobering picture of state-sanctioned repression and harassment over decades. It's a tribute to the strength of the panoply of FBI-targeted writers, intellectuals and leaders that they, for the most part, toughed it out and remain with us today as a fundamental part of the fabric of American history and letters."--Repps Hudson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
"[T]his well-researched volume illustrates the paranoia and self-censorship that altered the course of African American literature for decades as a result of the bureau's surveillance. This scholarly work will appeal to academic readers with a particular interest in African American literature or the FBI."--Library Journal
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| John Coltrane | Lush Life | Lush Life | Prestige | |
| Thelonious Monk | Epistrophy | Monk's Music | Riverside | |
| Billie Holiday | Cheek to Cheek | All or Nothing at All | Verve | |
| AIRBREAK | ||||
| Billie Holiday | Love Me or Leave Me | Lady Sings the Blues | Verve | |
| Billie Holiday | Too Marvelous for Words | Lady Sings the Blues | Verve | |
| Nina Simone | Lilac Wine | Wild is the Wind | Philips | |
| Charles Mingus | West Coast Ghost | East Coasting | Bethlehem | |
| Bill Evans Trio | When I Fall in Love | Portrait in Jazz | Riverside | |
| Michel Legrand featuring Miles Davis | Wild Man Blues | Legrand Jazz | Columbia | |
| Michel Legrand featuring Miles Davis | Django | Legrand Jazz | Columbia | |
| AIRBREAK | ||||
| Sonny Rollins | Come, Gone | Way Out West | Contemporary | |
| Joe Henderson | Blue Bossa | Page One | Blue Note | |
| Hank Mobley | Message from the Border | Mobley's Second Message | Prestige | |
| Thelonious Monk | Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away) | The Unique Thelonious Monk | Riverside | |
| AIRBREAK | ||||
| Roscoe Mitchell and the Sound Ensemble | 3 X 4 Eye | 3 X 4 Eye | Black Saint | |
| Interview with William J. Maxwell by Justin Desmangles | Interview with William J. Maxwell by Justin Desmangles | Interview with William J. Maxwell by Justin Desmangles | Interview with William J. Maxwell by Justin Desmangles | |
| Miles Davis Quintet | Budo | Facets | CBS-France | |
Monday, April 6, 2015
Billie Holiday (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) Know your history, know your culture. Your independence depends on your remembrance. Each one, teach one.
New Day Jazz
Justin Desmangles
Billie Holiday (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) Know your history, know your culture. Your independence depends on your remembrance. Each one, teach one.
GENRE
Jazz
MISSED THE SHOW?
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Billie Holiday | Them There Eyes | The Billie Holiday Story | Decca | |
| Billie Holiday | Now or Never | The Billie Holiday Story | Decca | |
| Billie Holiday | Gimme a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer | The Billie Holiday Story | Decca | |
| Billie Holiday | Do Your Duty | The Billie Holiday Story | Decca | |
| Ntozake Shange (Laurie Carlos) | Sorry | For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf | Buddha | |
| Billie Holiday | Ain't Nobodies Business If I Do | The Billie Holiday Story | Decca | |
| AIRBREAK | ||||
| Mal Waldron | Blues for Lady Day | Blues for Lady Day: A Tribute to Billie Holiday | Arista | |
| Adrienne Rich | Power | A Sign / I Was Not Alone | Out & Out Books | |
| Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra | I Wished in the Moon | The Quintessential Billie Holiday Vol. 1 | Columbia | |
| Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra | What A Little Moonlight Can Do | The Quintessential Billie Holiday Vol. 1 | Columbia | |
| Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra | Miss Brown to You | The Quintessential Billie Holiday Vol. 1 | Columbia | |
| Margaret Walker | Kissie Lee | Anthology of Negro Poets | Folkways | |
| Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra | Billie's Blues | The Quintessential Billie Holiday Vol. 2 | Columbia | |
| AIRBREAK | ||||
| Eric Dolphy | God Bless the Child | Status | Prestige | |
| Langston Hughes (Ellen Holly) | Mother to Son | A Hand is on the Gate | Verve-Folkways | |
| Billie Holiday | God Bless the Child | Lady Sings the Blues | Verve | |
| Sonny Rollins | God Bless the Child | The Bridge | RCA | |
| Billie Holiday | Love is Here to Stay | All or Nothing at All | Verve | |
| AIRBREAK | ||||
| Teddy Wilson & His Orchestra | This Year's Kisses | The Quintessential Billie Holiday Vol. 3 | Columbia | |
| Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra | A Sailboat in the Moonlight | The Quintessential Billie Holiday Vol. 4 | Columbia | |
| Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra | He's Funny That Way | The Quintessential Billie Holiday Vol. 5 | Columbia | |
| Maya Angelou | To a Man | The Poetry of Maya Angelou | Perception | |
| Maya Angelou | Faces | The Poetry of Maya Angelou | Perception | |
| Lee Morgan | The Lady | The Rumproller | Blue Note | |
| Herbie Nichols | The Lady Sings the Blues | The Third World | Blue Note Re-issue Series | |
| Billie Holiday | Lady Sings the Blues | Lady Sings the Blues | Verve | |
| AIRBREAK | ||||
| Sterling Brown (Gloria Foster) | An Old Woman Remembers | A Hand is on the Gate | Verve-Folkways | |
| Richard Wright (James Earl Jones) | Between the World and Me | A Hand is on the Gate | Verve-Folkways | |
| Billie Holiday | Strange Fruit | Lady Sings the Blues | Verve | |
| Mal Waldron | Strange Fruit | Blues for Lady Day: A Tribute to Billie Holiday | Arista | |
| Ronald Stone | Lady Day Spring-toned | New Jazz Poets | Broadside Records | |
| Archie Shepp | The Lady Sings the Blues | Live in San Francisco | Impulse! | |
| Jayne Cortez & Richard Davis | Essence of Rose Solitude | Celebrations & Solitudes | Strata-East | |
| Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra | Solitude | The Billie Holiday Story Vol. 3 | (Okeh) Columbia | |
| Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra | I'm in a Low-down Groove | The Billie Holiday Story Vol. 3 | (Okeh) Columbia | |
| AIRBREAK | ||||
| Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra | The Way You Look Tonight | The Golden Years | Columbia | |
| Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra | That's All I Ask of You | The Golden Years | Columbia | |
| Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra | Ghost of Yesterday | The Golden Years | Columbia | |
| John Hicks | Ghost of Yesterday | Some Other Time | Theresa | |
| Billie Holiday | Crazy He Calls Me | The Billie Holiday Story | Decca | |
| Billie Holiday | That Old Devil Called Love | The Billie Holiday Story | Decca | |
| Johnny Griffin | That Old Devil Called Love | White Gardenia: A Tribute to Billie Holiday | Riverside | |
| Billie Holiday | I Thought About You | Lady Sings the Blues | Verve | |
| AIRBREAK | ||||
| Gil-Scott Heron | Pieces of a Man | Pieces of a Man | Flying Dutchman | |
Friday, September 5, 2014
Ishmael Reed on "Bad Apples in Ferguson"
Sunday 8/31/2014 @ 3:00PM - 6:00PM Returning to New Day Jazz this Sunday in the 5 o'clock hour, poet, playwright, novelist, Ishmael Reed.
Photo of Mr. Reed by Lia Ching
Bad Apples in Ferguson
Photo of Mr. Reed by Lia Ching
Bad Apples in Ferguson
by ISHMAEL REED, Aug. 29, 2914
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MP3 Stream 320kbps, broadband| Artist | Song | Album | Label | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sonny Clark | Be-Bop | Sonny Clark Trio | Blue Note | |
| The Last Poets | On the Subway | The Last Poets | Douglas | |
| Phineas Newborn, Jr. | Dahoud | A World of Piano | Contemporary | |
| Phineas Newborn, Jr. | Cheryl | A World of Piano | Contemporary | |
| Teddy Edwards & Howard McGhee | Perhaps | Together Again! | Contemporary | |
| Teddy Edwards & Howard McGhee | Misty | Together Again! | Contemporary | |
| Thelonious Monk | Pannonica | Brilliant Corners | Riverside | |
| Thelonious Monk | Liza | The Unique Thelonious Monk | Riverside | |
| Gil Evans (Cecil Taylor) | Pots | Into the Hot | Impulse | |
| Eric Dolphy | Tenderly | Far Cry | New Jazz | |
| Gil Scott-Heron | Inner City Blues | Reflections | Arista | |
| Gil Scott-Heron | Is That Jazz? | Reflections | Arista | |
| Woody Shaw | Tapscott's Blues | The Moontrane | Muse | |
| Johnny Dyani | Heart with Minor's Face | Witchdoctor's Son | Steeplechase | |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Johnny Hartman | I Just Dropped by to Say Hello | I Just Dropped by to Say Hello | Impulse | |
| Johnny Hartman | Stairway to the Stars | I Just Dropped by to Say Hello | Impulse | |
| Milt Jackson & Wes Montgomery | Stairway to the Stars | Bags Meets Wes | Riverside | |
| Abbey Lincoln | Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise | Abbey Is Blue | Riverside | |
| Sonny Clark | Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise | Sonny Clark Trio | Blue Note | |
| Ron Carter | Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise | Where? | New Jazz | |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Dizzy Gillespie | The Manteca Suite (excerpt) | The Manteca Suite | Verve | |
| 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 | |
| Dizzy Gillespie | The Manteca Suite (excerpt) | The Manteca Suite | Verve | |
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