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