The Hangman's Great Hands By Kenneth Patchen

The Hangman's Great Hands

And all that is this day. . .
The boy with cap slung over what had been a face. ..

Somehow the cop will sleep tonight, will make love to his
wife...
Anger won't help. I was born angry. Angry that my father was being burnt alive in the mills; Angry that none of us knew anything but filth, and poverty. Angry because I was that very one somebody was supposed To be fighting for
Turn him over; take a good look at his face...
Somebody is going to see that face for a long time.
I wash his hands that in the brightness they will shine.
We have a parent called the earth.
To be these buds and trees; this tameless bird Within the ground; this season's act upon the fields of Man.
To be equal to the littlest thing alive,
While all the swarming stars move silent through The merest flower
. .. but the fog of guns.
The face with all the draining future left blank. . . Those smug saints, whether of church or Stalin, Can get off the back of my people, and stay off. Somebody is supposed to be fighting for somebody. . . And Lenin is terribly silent, terribly silent and dead. November 1937

I Plan to Stay a Believer . . . In Monk!

Show description for Sunday 10/10/2010 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

This afternoon on New Day Jazz we are honored to welcome back to the program bassist and composer William Parker, in the 4 o'clock hour, to discuss his most recent release, I Plan to Stay a Believer: The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield. Later in the program we are joined once again by one of the towering figures in the history of African-American music and culture, saxophonist and composer, the great Roscoe Mitchell (pictured above).
As part of our celebrations of Thelonious Monk's birthday, we will listen in on some of his earliest trio recordings on Prestige, as well as first sessions with Sonny Rollins.

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	William Parker	I Plan to Stay a Believer	I Plan to Stay a Believer: The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield	AUM-Fidelity
	William Parker	If There's a Hell Below	I Plan to Stay a Believer: The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield	AUM-Fidelity
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	Thelonious Monk Trio	Little Rootie Tootie	Thelonious Monk Trio	Prestige
	Thelonious Monk Trio	Sweet & Lovely	Thelonious Monk Trio	Prestige
	Thelonious Monk Trio	Bye-Ya	Thelonious Monk Trio	Prestige
	Thelonious Monk Trio	Monk's Dream	Thelonious Monk Trio	Prestige
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	William Parker & Hamid Drake	Anaya Dancing	Summer Snow Volume 2	AUM-Fidelity
	William Parker & Hamid Drake	Konte (excerpt)	Summer Snow Volume 2	AUM-Fidelity
	Interview with William Parker by Justin Desmangles
	William Parker & Hamid Drake	Earth (excerpt)	Summer Snow Volume 2	AUM-Fidelity
	William Parker	We the People Who Are Darker Than Blue	I Plan to Stay a Believer: The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield	AUM-Fidelity
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	Thelonious Monk Quartet	The Way You Look Tonight	Thelonious Monk with Sonny Rollins	Prestige
	Thelonious Monk Quartet	I Want to Be Happy	Thelonious Monk with Sonny Rollins	Prestige
	Interview with Roscoe Mitchell by Justin Desmangles
	Roscoe Mitchell & Muhal Richard Abrams	Romu	Spectrum	Mutable
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	Roscoe Mitchell featuring Thomas Buckner & the Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra	Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City 1	Spectrum	Mutable
	Roscoe Mitchell featuring Thomas Buckner & the Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra	Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City 2	Spectrum	Mutable
	Roscoe Mitchell featuring Thomas Buckner & the Janacek Philharmonic Orchestra

beyond complete immortal now.

Show description for Sunday 10/3/2010 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Soledad

by Robert Hayden



(And I, I am no longer of that world)

Naked, he lies in the blinded room
chainsmoking, cradled by drugs, by jazz
as never by any lover's cradling flesh.

Miles Davis coolly blows for him:
O pena negra, sensual Flamenco blues;
the redclay foxfire voice of Lady Day

(lady of the pure black magnolias)
sobsings her sorrow and loss and fare you well,
dryweeps the pain his treacherous jailers

have released him from for a while.
His fears and his unfinished self
await him down in the anywhere streets.

He hides on the dark side of the moon,
takes refuge in a stained-glass cell,
flies to a clockless country of crystal.

Only the ghost of Lady Day knows where
he is. Only the music. And he swings
oh he swings: beyond complete immortal now.

Pictured here; Romare Bearden
Profile/Part I, The Twenties:
Maudell Sleet's Magic Garden

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	Betty Carter	This Is Always	Inside Betty Carter	United Artists
	Betty Carter	Look No Further	Inside Betty Carter	United Artists
	Betty Carter	Beware My Heart	Inside Betty Carter	United Artists
	Betty Carter	My Favorite Things	Inside Betty Carter	United Artists
	Sarah Vaughn	Just In Time	Sarah + 2	Roulette
	Sarah Vaughn	When Sunny Gets Blue	Sarah + 2	Roulette
	Sarah Vaughn	All I Do Is Dream Of You	Sarah + 2	Roulette
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	Sonny Clark	I'll Remember April	Sonny Clark Trio	Blue Note
	Lee Morgan	Candy	Candy	Blue Note
	Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers	The Drum Thunder Suite: Drum Thunder, Cry a Blue Tear, Harlem's Disciples	Moanin'	Blue Note
	Sonny Rollins	Poor Butterfly	Sonny Rollins Volume 2	Blue Note
	Charles Mingus	Passions of a Woman Loved	Tonight at Noon	Atlantic
	Charles Mingus	Tonight at Noon	Tonight at Noon	Atlantic
	Duke Ellington	U.M.M.G.	" . . . and his mother called him Bill."	RCA
	Duke Ellington	Rain Check	" . . . and his mother called him Bill."	RCA
	Duke Ellington	My Little Brown Book	" . . . and his mother called him Bill."	RCA
	Duke Ellington & John Coltrane	My Little Brown Book	Duke Ellington & John Coltrane	Impulse
	Billy Strayhorn	Chelsea Bridge	Billy Strayhorn	Red Baron
	Tommy Flanagan	Chelsea Bridge	Overseas	Original Jazz Classics
	Tommy Flanagan	Delarna	Overseas	Original Jazz Classics
	Ella Fitzgerald	It's Only a Paper Moon	The Harold Arlen Song Book	Verve
	Ella Fitzgerald	Let's Do It	The Cole Porter Song Book	Verve
	Ella Fitzgerald & Ellis Larkins	They Can't Take That Away From Me	The Irving Berlin Song Book	Verve
	Ella Fitzgerald & Ellis Larkins	My One and Only	Ella Sings Gershwin	Decca
	Ella Fitzgerald & Ellis Larkins	Looking for a Boy	Ella Sings Gershwin	Decca
	Ella Fitzgerald & Ellis Larkins	Maybe	Ella Sings Gershwin	Decca
	Ella Fitzgerald & Ellis Larkins	Soon	Ella Sings Gershwin	Decca
	Kenny Dorham	Lotus Blossom	Quiet Kenny	New Jazz
	Kenny Dorham	Straight Ahead (excerpt)	Una Mas	Blue Note