Monday, October 15, 2012

Jason Weiss On ESP-Disk, Always in Trouble


Show description for Sunday 10/14/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Our guest this week, on the 5 o'clock hour, Jason Weiss, author of Always In Trouble: An Oral History of ESP-Disk, The Most Outrageous Record Label in America

In 1964, Bernard Stollman launched the independent record label ESP-Disk’ in New York City to document the free jazz movement there. A bare-bones enterprise, ESP was in the right place at the right time, producing albums by artists like Albert Ayler, Pharoah Sanders, and Sun Ra, as well as folk-rock bands like the Fugs and Pearls Before Swine. But the label quickly ran into difficulties and, due to the politically subversive nature of some productions and sloppy business practices, it folded in 1974. Always in Trouble tells the story of ESP-Disk’ through a multitude of voices—first Stollman’s, as he recounts the improbable life of the label, and then the voices of many of the artists involved.



“ESP’s music was startling, and it was unusual to have one company bring out so many styles of music at once under the same logo. This book takes a biographical approach to the label, and presents one of the best accounts I’ve seen of a chaotic, bizarre, and thrilling time.”—John Szwed, author of Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded the World
“Always in Trouble brims with lively, revealing stories and anecdotes. A multi-sided look at the legendary ESP record label, it is essential reading for anyone interested in the cultural explosions of the 1960s.”——Nathaniel Mackey, author of Bass Cathedral

ArtistSongAlbumLabel
Bud PowellCleopatra's DreamThe Scene ChangesBlue Note
Cannonball AdderleyAutumn LeavesSomethin' ElseBlue Note
Sarah VaughnWords Can't DescribeSwingin' EasyMercury
Sarah VaughnPennies From HeavenSwingin' EasyMercury
Hampton HawesJorduAll Night Session Vol. 1Contemporary
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Bobby TroupIs You Is Or Is You Ain't My BabyBobby Troup & His Stars Of JazzRCA
Zoot Sims featuring Mel LewisBrushesChoiceWorld Pacific
Ray CharlesBut On The Other Hand BabyGreatest HitsABC - Paramount
Clark Terry featuring Thelonious MonkIn OrbitIn OrbitJazzland
Red GarlandTake Me In Your ArmsRed's Good GrooveJazzland
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Sun RaHouse Of BeautyThe Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra Vol. 2ESP-Disk
Sun RaOuter NothingnessThe Heliocentric Worlds Of Sun Ra Vol. 1ESP-Disk
Albert AylerAngelsSpirits RejoiceESP-Disk
Gunter HampelAssemblage (excerpt)AssemblageESP-Disk
Ishmael ReedThe Freelance Pallbearers (excerpt)East Village OtherESP-Disk
Sonny SimmonsStaying On The Watch (excerpt)Staying On The WatchESP-Disk
Alan SondheimRitual All 7 70 (excerpt)Ritual All 7 70ESP-Disk
William S. BurroughsNova Express (excerpt)Call Me BurroughsESP-Disk
The FugsKIll For Peace (excerpt)The FugsESP-Disk
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Albert AylerGhosts (First Variation)Spiritual UnityESP-Disk
John BeecherReport To The StockholdersReport To The Stockholders & Other PoemsFolkways
Charlie ParkerKokoThe Complete Savoy MastersSavoy
Coleman HawkinsBody & SoulJive At FiveNew World
Duke EllingtonRidin' On A Blue NoteDuke Ellington 1938-1940Smithsonian
Duke EllingtonHip ChicDuke Ellington 1938-1940Smithsonian
Duke EllingtonOld King DoojiDuke Ellington 1938-1940Smithsonian
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Steve LacyThe Forest (excerpt)The Forest & The ZooESP-Disk
Interview With Jason Weiss By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Jason Weiss By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Jason Weiss By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Jason Weiss By Justin Desmangles
Tadd DameronLook, Stop, ListenThe Magic TouchRiverside
Bud PowellBlue Pearl (AlternateTake)Blue PearlBlue Note Japan

Sunday, September 16, 2012

"Jazz without the blues is a music without memory" - Amiri Baraka in conversation with Maya Angelou


 

Show description for Sunday 9/16/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM



In Summer by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Oh, summer has clothed the earth
In a cloak from the loom of the sun!
And a mantle, too, of the skies' soft blue,
And a belt where the rivers run.

And now for the kiss of the wind,
And the touch of the air's soft hands,
With the rest from strife and the heat of life,
With the freedom of lakes and lands.

I envy the farmer's boy
Who sings as he follows the plow;
While the shining green of the young blades lean
To the breezes that cool his brow.

He sings to the dewy morn,
No thought of another's ear;
But the song he sings is a chant for kings
And the whole wide world to hear.

He sings of the joys of life,
Of the pleasures of work and rest,
From an o'erfull heart, without aim or art;
'T is a song of the merriest.

O ye who toil in the town,
And ye who moil in the mart,
Hear the artless song, and your faith made strong
Shall renew your joy of heart.

Oh, poor were the worth of the world
If never a song were heard,—
If the sting of grief had no relief,
And never a heart were stirred.

So, long as the streams run down,
And as long as the robins trill,
Let us taunt old Care with a merry air,
And sing in the face of ill.



 The Garden, Joan Miró, (April 20, 1893 – December 25, 1983)



ArtistSongAlbumLabel
LaVern BakerShake A HandSavedAtlantic
Ray CharlesI WonderGreatest HitsABC-Paramount
Oscar Brown, Jr. Man, Earnest BoyTells It Like It Is!Columbia
Miles Davis & Gil EvansGonePorgy & BessColumbia
Lee MorganLost & FoundExpoobident!VeeJay
Milt JacksonGingerbread BoyJive 'N' SambaImpulse
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Esther PhillipsI'm Gettin' 'Long AlrightConfessin' The BluesAtlantic
Esther PhillipsI WonderConfessin' The BluesAtlantic
Bobby BlandCry Cry CryTwo Steps Away From The BluesChess
Howlin' WolfGoing Down SlowHowlin' WolfChess
Dinah WashingtonNo CaviarThe Complete Dinah Washington Vol. 8Official
Miles DavisStablematesThe New Miles Davis QuintetPrestige
Art PepperWaltz Me BluesMeets The Rhythm SectionContemporary
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Dinah WashingtonMake Believe DreamsThe Complete Dinah Washington Vol. 8Official
Nina SimoneSomething To Live ForNina Sings EllingtonColpix
Ada LeeRain Is Such A Lonesome SoundAda Lee Comes OnAtco
Cannonball AdderleyArriving SoonCannonball Adderley Quintet PlusContemporary
Horace SilverNica's DreamHorace-ScopeBlue Note
The Three SoundsSaucer EyesBlack OrchidBlue Note
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Charles MingusTonight At NoonTonight At NoonAtlantic
Charles MingusPassions Of A ManOh Yeah!Atlantic
Charles MingusShe's Just Miss Popular HybridMingus Plays PianoImpulse
Little Jimmy ScottWhen Did You Leave Heaven?Little Jimmy ScottSavoy
Little Jimmy ScottImaginationLittle Jimmy ScottSavoy
Art PepperImaginationMeets The Rhythm SectionContemporary
King PleasureGolden DaysGolden DaysHi-Fi Jazz
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William Parker OrchestraPortrait Of New OrleansEssence Of Ellington: Live In MilanoCentering
Michael Bisio & Matthew Shipp Floating IceFloating IceRelative Pitch
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David S. WareMinus Gravity 1Organica (Solo Saxophones, Vol. 2)AUM-Fidelity
William Parker OrchestraIn A Sentimental MoodEssence Of Ellington: Live In MilanoCentering

Amiri Barka on the G.O.P., Adilifu Nama Returns

Show description for Sunday 9/2/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM


This afternoon, on the four o'clock hour, Adilifu Nama returns to follow up on our discussion from last week's broadcast concerning his most recent work, Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes, winner of the American Book Award 2012.

Later in the program, on the five o'clock hour, poet, playwright, social critic, political thinker and activist, Amiri Baraka, returns to New Day Jazz for a discussion on the coming election. A preeminent figure in the development of American culture, Mr. Baraka is a towering presence in international arts & letters. 


ArtistSongAlbumLabel
Herbie HancockOne Finger SnapEmpyrean IslesBlue Note
Herbie HancockThe Eye Of The HurricaneMaiden VoyageBlue Note
Herbie HancockLittle OneMaiden VoyageBlue Note
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Miles DavisRiotNefertitiColumbia
Herbie HancockRiotSpeak Like A ChildBlue Note
Sam RiversPrecisDimensions & ExtensionsBlue Note
Sam RiversPaenDimensions & ExtensionsBlue Note
Thelonious MonkCriss CrossCriss CrossColumbia
Charles MingusWork SongMingus At The BohemiaDebut
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Interview With Adilifu Nama By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Adilifu Nama By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Adilifu Nama By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Adilifu Nama By Justin Desmangles
Michael Bisio & Matthew ShippSupernovaFloating IceRelative Pitch
Michael Bisio & Matthew ShippHolographic RagFloating IceRelative Pitch
David S. WareAncestry SupramentalPlanetary UnknownAUM-Fidelity
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Jackie McLeanIt's TImeIt's Time!Blue Note
Interview With Amiri Baraka By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Amiri Baraka By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Amiri Baraka By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Amiri Baraka By Justin Desmangles
Lee MorganThe Sixth SenseThe Sixth SenseBlue Note
Lou DonaldsonOne CylinderAlligator BoogalooBlue Note
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Art Ensemble Of ChicagoDreaming Of The MasterNice GuysECM

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Adilifu Nama's Super Black: American Pop Culture & Black Superheroes

Show description for Sunday 8/26/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Our guest this afternoon, on the 5 o'clock hour, Adilifu Nama. We will be discussing his most recent work, Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes, winner of the American Book Award 2012. Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cultural trends in American politics and pop culture, which reveals how black superheroes are not disposable pop products, but rather a fascinating racial phenomenon through which futuristic expressions and fantastic visions of black racial identity and symbolic political meaning are presented. Adilifu Nama sees the value—and finds new avenues for exploring racial identity—in black superheroes who are often dismissed as sidekicks, imitators of established white heroes, or are accused of having no role outside of blaxploitation film contexts.  Nama examines seminal black comic book superheroes such as Black Panther, Black Lightning, Storm, Luke Cage, Blade, the Falcon, Nubia, and others, some of whom also appear on the small and large screens, as well as how the imaginary black superhero has come to life in the image of President Barack Obama. Super Black explores how black superheroes are a powerful source of racial meaning, narrative, and imagination in American society that express a myriad of racial assumptions, political perspectives, and fantastic (re)imaginings of black identity. The book also demonstrates how these figures overtly represent or implicitly signify social discourse and accepted wisdom concerning notions of racial reciprocity, equality, forgiveness, and ultimately, racial justice. 
Adilifu Nama is Associate Professor and Chair of the African American Studies Department at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of the award-winning Black Space: Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film, the first book length examination of the topic.

ArtistSongAlbumLabel
Bobby ShortYou've Got That ThingBobby Short Loves Cole PorterAtlantic
King PleasureDiaper Pin (That Old Black Magic)Mr. JazzUnited Artists
Teddy Edwards & Howard McGheeYou Stepped Out Of A DreamTogether Again!Contemporary
Harold Land The FoxThe FoxContemporary
James Moody featuring Eddie JeffersonBirdland StoryFlutin' The BluesChess
Johnny HartmanI Get A Kick Out Of YouThe Debonair Mr. Hartman Bethlehem
Johnny HartmanStairway To The StarsI Just Dropped By To Say HelloImpusle
Dexter GordonStairway To The StarsOur Man In ParisBlue Note
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Bud PowellCleopatra's DreamThe Scene ChangesBlue Note
Bud PowellBlues In The Closet 1960 Essen, Grugahalle Jazzline
Harold Land Mirror-Mind RoseThe FoxContemporary
Cedar Walton featuring Abbey LincolnIn A Sentimental MoodThe MaestroMuse
Carlos Santans & John McLaughlinNaimaLove Devotion SurrenderColumbia
John McLaughlinBlue In GreenMy Goals BeyondDouglas
Rahsaan Roland KirkSalvation And ReminiscingPrepare Thyself To Deal With A MiracleAtlantic
Rahsaan Roland KirkCelestial BlissPrepare Thyself To Deal With A MiracleAtlantic
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Eddie HarrisFreedom Jazz DanceThe In SoundAtlantic
Miles DavisFreedom Jazz DanceMiles SmilesColumbia
Sam JonesOver The RainbowThe ChantRiverside
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Cannonball AdderleyLisa (exceprt)Cannonball Adderley Quintet PlusRiverside
Interview With Adilifu Nama By Justin Desmangles Interview With Adilifu Nama By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Adilifu Nama By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Adilifu Nama By Justin Desmangles
Cannonball AdderleyLisa (exceprt)Cannonball Adderley Quintet PlusRiverside
Oscar Brown, Jr. One Foot In The GutterOscar Brown,Jr. Tells It Like It IsColumbia
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Teddy Edwards & Howard McGheeMistyTogether Again!Contemporary

Monday, August 27, 2012

Alan Gilbert on Black Patriots & Loyalists Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence



Show description for Sunday 8/19/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

(Please note; Darius Jones was rescheduled to a later program. JD) This week, on the 4 o'clock hour, saxophonist, composer, Darius Jones, returns to New Day Jazz to discuss his most recent recording, Book of Mæ'bul (Another Kind of Sunrise), part 3 his continuing Man'ish Boy series on AUM-Fidelity. Mr. Jones is among the most innovative and exciting alto saxophonists in his generation, and one of the most inspiring voices in the jazz world today.

Later in the program, on the 5 o'clock hour, we are joined by Alan Gilbert for a discussion of his most recent book, Black Patriots and Loyalists Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence, new from the University of Chicago Press. Mr. Gilbert is a John Evans Professor in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. He is the author of Marx’s Politics: Communists and Citizens, Democratic Individuality, and Must Global Politics Constrain Democracy?



ArtistSongAlbumLabel
Jackie McLeanAppointment In GhanaJackie's BagBlue Note
Hank MobleyNo Room For SquaresNo Room For SquaresBlue Note
HoraceSilverPretty EyesCape Verdean BluesBlue Note
Joe HendersonShort StoryIn 'N OutBlue Note
Bobby HutchersonRojoHappeningsBlue Note
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Michael Bisio & Matthew ShippSwing LaserFloating IceRelative Pitch
Darius Jones QuartetThe Fagley BluesBook of Mae'bul (Another Kind of Sunrise)AUM-Fidelity
Darius Jones QuartetWinkieBook of Mae'bul (Another Kind of Sunrise)AUM-Fidelity
Darius Jones QuartetBe Patient With MeBook of Mae'bul (Another Kind of Sunrise)AUM-Fidelity
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David S. WarePrecessional 3Planetary Unknown: Live at Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2011AUM-Fidelity
Joe MorrisMesosphereAltitudeAUM-Fidelity
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Red GarlandYou'll Never KnowBright & BreezyJazzland
Jimmy HeathGoodbyeTriple ThreatRiverside
Jimmy HeathGeminiTriple ThreatRiverside
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Interview With Alan Gilbert By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Alan Gilbert By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Alan Gilbert By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Alan Gilbert By Justin Desmangles
Roscoe Mitchell & The Sound EnsembleThe Stick & The StoneLive At The Knitting FactoryBlack Saint

Friday, August 24, 2012

The State of Chicano Literature 2012


Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguia• Sunday SEPT 9
The State of Chicano Literature 2012


Juan Felipe Herrera
California State Poet Laureate

Alejandro Murguia
San Francisco Poet Laureate
and Lorna Dee Cervantes

reading with a discussion chaired by
Justin Desmangles Before Columbus Foundation

1:00-4:00 pm @ Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Main Public Library, 100 Larkin Street, free

co-presented by the Before Columbus Foundation, Friends of the San Francisco Public Library, and the Poetry Center, San Francisco State University

above: Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguia, August 26, 2012, photo by Holly Ayala

Juan Felipe HerreraJUAN FELIPE HERRERA, the son of migrant farm workers, was educated at UCLA and Stanford University, and received his MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His numerous poetry collections include 187 Reasons Mexicanos Can't Cross The Border: Undocuments 1971-2007 (2008), Half of the World in Light: New and Selected Poems (2008), and Border-Crosser with a Lamborghini Dream (1999). In addition to publishing more than a dozen collections of poetry, Herrera has written short stories, young adult novels, and children’s literature.

On March 21, 2012, Herrera was appointed California State Poet Laureate by Governor Jerry Brown. The first Latino to hold that position, Herrera is also a performance artist and activist on behalf of migrant and indigenous communities and at-risk youth. His creative work often crosses genres, including poetry opera, and dance theater. He has taught at California State University-Fresno and at the University of California-Riverside. More here.

Lorna Dee CervantesLORNA DEE CERVANTES, a fifth generation Californian of Mexican and Native American (Chumash) heritage, born in San Francisco in 1954, became a pivotal figure throughout the Chicano literary movement. She began publishing the literary journal Mango in the mid-1970s. Her small press, also named Mango, was widely admired for its creative designs and for the important voices it first brought into print, including Sandra Cisneros, Luis Omar Salinas, Ray Gonzalez, Jimmy Santiago Baca and Alberto Ríos among them.
“Lorna Dee Cervantes is a daredevil... We are transfixed as she juggles rage, cruelties, passion. There is no net. Seven generations uphold the trick of survival. No one is alone in this amazing act of love.” —Joy Harjo
Cervantes’ first book, Emplumada (University of Pittsburgh, 1981), a recipient of the American Book Award, was praised as “a seamless collection of poems that move back and forth between the gulf of desire and possibility.” Her second collection, From the Cables of Genocide: Poems on Love and Hunger (Arte Público, 1991) was awarded the Patterson Poetry Prize, the poetry prize of the Institute of Latin American Writers, and the Latino Literature Award. In 1995 she received a Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Writers' Award. Her latest book, nominated this year for a Northern California Book Award, is Ciento: 100 100-Word Love Poems (Wings Press). She holds an A.B.D. in the History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz; she is an associate professor of English at the University of Colorado in Boulder where until recently she directed the creative writing program.
Visit her blog, and read more on Cervantes at The Poetry Foundation.


Alejandro MurguiaALEJANDRO MURGUIA was appointed the 6th San Francisco Poet Laureate by Mayor Ed Lee in July 2012. He was the editor of Tin-Tan magazine, the first Chicano-Latino arts and literature magazine that established an international perspective for Latino writing.


"El Tin Tan," Murguía has said, "was probably the first [Chicano-Latino] magazine that was intercontinental in scope, a combination of politics and literature and art and different trends from the Mission to Mexico City to Argentina and everywhere in between."

Vargas & MurguiaA founding member and the first director of the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco’s Mission District, he has also been an editor (Volcán: Poetry from Central America), publisher (Tin-Tan) and a translator (Rosario Murillo: Angel in the Deluge). His books include Southern Front (American Book Award, 1991), Spare Poems (2001), and This War Called Love (American Book Award, 2002), City Lights Books. In non-fiction, he published The Medicine of Memory: A Mexica Clan in California, University of Texas Press. In January 2003, the New Fiction Series in Los Angeles presented his stories turned into plays. The story “The Other Barrio”—in the noir genre—appears in the anthology San Francisco Noir, Akashic Books, NY and was recently adapted to a screen play by local photographer and filmmaker, Lou Dematteis. Another story, “Boy on Wooden Horse,” appears in the anthology Pow Wow: Charting the American Experience; Short Stories from then to now, edited by Ishmael Reed and Carla Blank, Da Capo Press. He is a Professor in Raza Studies at San Francisco State University.
Photos: Alejandro Murguía, San Francisco Chronicle, August 2012; Roberto Vargas and Alejandro Murguía, San Francisco, c. 1976, protest in support of a free Nicaragua. More on Murguía and friends at East Los Angeles Dirigible Air Transport Lines.

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Michael Warr's Armageddon of Funk, Michael Parenti on Iran

Show description for Sunday 8/12/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM


This week on the 4 o'clock hour, author, activist, and political scientist, Michael Parenti, returns to New Day Jazz to discuss his most recent essay, Iran and Everything Else.
Later in the program, on the 5 o'clock hour, writer, journalist, and poet, Michael Warr (pictured above) joins us for a discussion on his most recent collection of poetry, The Armageddon of Funk, new from Tia Chucha Press.

Missed the show?

ArtistSongAlbumLabel
Miles Davis & John ColtraneAll Blues / The ThemeLive In Stockholm 1960Dragon
Edward (Kamau) BraithwaiteThe CabinRights Of PassageArgo (U.K.)
Archie Shepp QuartetGingerbread, Gingerbread BoyNew Thing At NewportImpulse
Okot p'BitekSong Of The Prisoner (excerpt)An Evening Of International Poetry Alliance Records
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Hampton HawesHamp's PulpitAll Night Session Vol. 1Contemporary
Interview With Michael Parenti By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Michael Parenti By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Michael Parenti By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Michael Parenti By Justin Desmangles
Carmen McRaeAs Time Goes ByAlone: Live at DugAmigo (Spain)
Carmen McRaeI Could Have Told YouAlone: Live at DugAmigo (Spain)
Dave HollandSolarEmerald TearsECM
Dave Holland QuartetConference of the Birds Conference of the Birds ECM
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Joseph Jarman & Don MoyeOde To Wilbur WareBlack PaladinsBlack Saint
Interview With Michael Warr By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Michael Warr By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Michael Warr By Justin DesmanglesInterview With Michael Warr By Justin Desmangles
Joseph Jarman & Don MoyeBlack Paladins (poem by Henry Dumas)Black PaladinsBlack Saint
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Kenny Dorham featuring Ernie HenryNoose Bloos2 Horns/2 Rhythm Riverside