"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)

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	Artist	Song	Album	Label
	LaVern Baker	Shake A Hand	Saved	Atlantic
	Ray Charles	I Wonder	Greatest Hits	ABC-Paramount
	Oscar Brown, Jr.	Man, Earnest Boy	Tells It Like It Is!	Columbia
	Miles Davis & Gil Evans	Gone	Porgy & Bess	Columbia
	Lee Morgan	Lost & Found	Expoobident!	VeeJay
	Milt Jackson	Gingerbread Boy	Jive 'N' Samba	Impulse
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	Esther Phillips	I'm Gettin' 'Long Alright	Confessin' The Blues	Atlantic
	Esther Phillips	I Wonder	Confessin' The Blues	Atlantic
	Bobby Bland	Cry Cry Cry	Two Steps Away From The Blues	Chess
	Howlin' Wolf	Going Down Slow	Howlin' Wolf	Chess
	Dinah Washington	No Caviar	The Complete Dinah Washington Vol. 8	Official
	Miles Davis	Stablemates	The New Miles Davis Quintet	Prestige
	Art Pepper	Waltz Me Blues	Meets The Rhythm Section	Contemporary
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	Dinah Washington	Make Believe Dreams	The Complete Dinah Washington Vol. 8	Official
	Nina Simone	Something To Live For	Nina Sings Ellington	Colpix
	Ada Lee	Rain Is Such A Lonesome Sound	Ada Lee Comes On	Atco
	Cannonball Adderley	Arriving Soon	Cannonball Adderley Quintet Plus	Contemporary
	Horace Silver	Nica's Dream	Horace-Scope	Blue Note
	The Three Sounds	Saucer Eyes	Black Orchid	Blue Note
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	Charles Mingus	Tonight At Noon	Tonight At Noon	Atlantic
	Charles Mingus	Passions Of A Man	Oh Yeah!	Atlantic
	Charles Mingus	She's Just Miss Popular Hybrid	Mingus Plays Piano	Impulse
	Little Jimmy Scott	When Did You Leave Heaven?	Little Jimmy Scott	Savoy
	Little Jimmy Scott	Imagination	Little Jimmy Scott	Savoy
	Art Pepper	Imagination	Meets The Rhythm Section	Contemporary
	King Pleasure	Golden Days	Golden Days	Hi-Fi Jazz
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	William Parker Orchestra	Portrait Of New Orleans	Essence Of Ellington: Live In Milano	Centering
	Michael Bisio & Matthew Shipp	Floating Ice	Floating Ice	Relative Pitch
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	David S. Ware	Minus Gravity 1	Organica (Solo Saxophones, Vol. 2)	AUM-Fidelity
	William Parker Orchestra	In A Sentimental Mood	Essence Of Ellington: Live In Milano	Centering

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. 

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	Herbie Hancock	One Finger Snap	Empyrean Isles	Blue Note
	Herbie Hancock	The Eye Of The Hurricane	Maiden Voyage	Blue Note
	Herbie Hancock	Little One	Maiden Voyage	Blue Note
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	Miles Davis	Riot	Nefertiti	Columbia
	Herbie Hancock	Riot	Speak Like A Child	Blue Note
	Sam Rivers	Precis	Dimensions & Extensions	Blue Note
	Sam Rivers	Paen	Dimensions & Extensions	Blue Note
	Thelonious Monk	Criss Cross	Criss Cross	Columbia
	Charles Mingus	Work Song	Mingus At The Bohemia	Debut
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	Interview With Adilifu Nama By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Adilifu Nama By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Adilifu Nama By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Adilifu Nama By Justin Desmangles
	Michael Bisio & Matthew Shipp	Supernova	Floating Ice	Relative Pitch
	Michael Bisio & Matthew Shipp	Holographic Rag	Floating Ice	Relative Pitch
	David S. Ware	Ancestry Supramental	Planetary Unknown	AUM-Fidelity
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	Jackie McLean	It's TIme	It's Time!	Blue Note
	Interview With Amiri Baraka By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Amiri Baraka By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Amiri Baraka By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Amiri Baraka By Justin Desmangles
	Lee Morgan	The Sixth Sense	The Sixth Sense	Blue Note
	Lou Donaldson	One Cylinder	Alligator Boogaloo	Blue Note
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	Art Ensemble Of Chicago	Dreaming Of The Master	Nice Guys	ECM

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.

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	Bobby Short	You've Got That Thing	Bobby Short Loves Cole Porter	Atlantic
	King Pleasure	Diaper Pin (That Old Black Magic)	Mr. Jazz	United Artists
	Teddy Edwards & Howard McGhee	You Stepped Out Of A Dream	Together Again!	Contemporary
	Harold Land	The Fox	The Fox	Contemporary
	James Moody featuring Eddie Jefferson	Birdland Story	Flutin' The Blues	Chess
	Johnny Hartman	I Get A Kick Out Of You	The Debonair Mr. Hartman	Bethlehem
	Johnny Hartman	Stairway To The Stars	I Just Dropped By To Say Hello	Impusle
	Dexter Gordon	Stairway To The Stars	Our Man In Paris	Blue Note
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	Bud Powell	Cleopatra's Dream	The Scene Changes	Blue Note
	Bud Powell	Blues In The Closet	1960 Essen, Grugahalle	Jazzline
	Harold Land	Mirror-Mind Rose	The Fox	Contemporary
	Cedar Walton featuring Abbey Lincoln	In A Sentimental Mood	The Maestro	Muse
	Carlos Santans & John McLaughlin	Naima	Love Devotion Surrender	Columbia
	John McLaughlin	Blue In Green	My Goals Beyond	Douglas
	Rahsaan Roland Kirk	Salvation And Reminiscing	Prepare Thyself To Deal With A Miracle	Atlantic
	Rahsaan Roland Kirk	Celestial Bliss	Prepare Thyself To Deal With A Miracle	Atlantic
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	Eddie Harris	Freedom Jazz Dance	The In Sound	Atlantic
	Miles Davis	Freedom Jazz Dance	Miles Smiles	Columbia
	Sam Jones	Over The Rainbow	The Chant	Riverside
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	Cannonball Adderley	Lisa (exceprt)	Cannonball Adderley Quintet Plus	Riverside
	Interview With Adilifu Nama By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Adilifu Nama By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Adilifu Nama By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Adilifu Nama By Justin Desmangles
	Cannonball Adderley	Lisa (exceprt)	Cannonball Adderley Quintet Plus	Riverside
	Oscar Brown, Jr.	One Foot In The Gutter	Oscar Brown,Jr. Tells It Like It Is	Columbia
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	Teddy Edwards & Howard McGhee	Misty	Together Again!	Contemporary

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?

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	Jackie McLean	Appointment In Ghana	Jackie's Bag	Blue Note
	Hank Mobley	No Room For Squares	No Room For Squares	Blue Note
	HoraceSilver	Pretty Eyes	Cape Verdean Blues	Blue Note
	Joe Henderson	Short Story	In 'N Out	Blue Note
	Bobby Hutcherson	Rojo	Happenings	Blue Note
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	Michael Bisio & Matthew Shipp	Swing Laser	Floating Ice	Relative Pitch
	Darius Jones Quartet	The Fagley Blues	Book of Mae'bul (Another Kind of Sunrise)	AUM-Fidelity
	Darius Jones Quartet	Winkie	Book of Mae'bul (Another Kind of Sunrise)	AUM-Fidelity
	Darius Jones Quartet	Be Patient With Me	Book of Mae'bul (Another Kind of Sunrise)	AUM-Fidelity
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	David S. Ware	Precessional 3	Planetary Unknown: Live at Jazzfestival Saalfelden 2011	AUM-Fidelity
	Joe Morris	Mesosphere	Altitude	AUM-Fidelity
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	Red Garland	You'll Never Know	Bright & Breezy	Jazzland
	Jimmy Heath	Goodbye	Triple Threat	Riverside
	Jimmy Heath	Gemini	Triple Threat	Riverside
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	Interview With Alan Gilbert By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Alan Gilbert By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Alan Gilbert By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Alan Gilbert By Justin Desmangles
	Roscoe Mitchell & The Sound Ensemble	The Stick & The Stone	Live At The Knitting Factory	Black Saint

The State of Chicano Literature 2012

• 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 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 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 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."

A 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.

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.

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	Miles Davis & John Coltrane	All Blues / The Theme	Live In Stockholm 1960	Dragon
	Edward (Kamau) Braithwaite	The Cabin	Rights Of Passage	Argo (U.K.)
	Archie Shepp Quartet	Gingerbread, Gingerbread Boy	New Thing At Newport	Impulse
	Okot p'Bitek	Song Of The Prisoner (excerpt)	An Evening Of International Poetry	Alliance Records
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	Hampton Hawes	Hamp's Pulpit	All Night Session Vol. 1	Contemporary
	Interview With Michael Parenti By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Michael Parenti By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Michael Parenti By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Michael Parenti By Justin Desmangles
	Carmen McRae	As Time Goes By	Alone: Live at Dug	Amigo (Spain)
	Carmen McRae	I Could Have Told You	Alone: Live at Dug	Amigo (Spain)
	Dave Holland	Solar	Emerald Tears	ECM
	Dave Holland Quartet	Conference of the Birds	Conference of the Birds	ECM
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	Joseph Jarman & Don Moye	Ode To Wilbur Ware	Black Paladins	Black Saint
	Interview With Michael Warr By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Michael Warr By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Michael Warr By Justin Desmangles	Interview With Michael Warr By Justin Desmangles
	Joseph Jarman & Don Moye	Black Paladins (poem by Henry Dumas)	Black Paladins	Black Saint
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	Kenny Dorham featuring Ernie Henry	Noose Bloos	2 Horns/2 Rhythm	Riverside

Ishmael Reed: Going Too Far, Essays About America's Nervous Breakdown

Show description for Sunday 8/5/2012 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM

This afternoon, on the 5 o'clock hour, poet, playwright, essayist, novelist, and songwriter, Ishmael Reed, returns to New Day Jazz to discuss his most recent book, Going Too Far: Essays About America's Nervous Breakdown.
A preeminent figure in American art and literature, and a towering presence in international poetry, Mr. Reed continues to be one of the most innovative and inspiring writers working today.

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	Kenny Barron	Green Chimneys	Green Chimneys	Criss Cross
	Kenny Barron	Well, You Needn't	Green Chimneys	Criss Cross
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	Gwendolyn Brooks	The Children Of The Poor, Sonnet No. 2	Anthology Of Negro Poets	Folkways
	Spencer Barefield - Anthony Holland - Tani Tabbal	Xenogenesis	Live At Nickelsdorf Konfrontationen	Sound Aspects
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	Jayne Cortez & Richard Davis	3 Day New York Blues	Celebrations & Solitudes	Strata-East
	Teddy Edwards & Howard McGhee	You Stepped Out Of A Dream	Together Again!!!	Contemporary
	Mark Murphy	Out Of This World	Rah	Riverside
	Carmen McRae	Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry	Bittersweet	Focus
	Dexter Gordon	Guess I'll Hang My Tears Out To Dry	Go	Blue Note
	Mal Waldron	Status Seeking	The Quest	New Jazz
	Mal Waldron	Duqility	The Quest	New Jazz
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	Paul Laurence Dunbar (read by Cicely Tyson)	When Malindy Sings	A Hand Is On The Gate	Verve - Folkways
	Abbey Lincoln	When Malindy Sings	Straight Ahead	Candid
	James Weldon Johnson (read by Gloria Foster)	Since You Went Away	A Hand Is On The Gate	Verve - Folkways
	Abbey Lincoln	Left Alone	Straight Ahead	Candid
	Margaret Walker (read by Gloria Foster)	We Have Been Believers	A Hand Is On The Gate	Verve -Folkways
	Max Roach & Abbey Lincoln	Prayer / Protest / Peace	We Insist!:The Freedom Now Suite	Candid
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	Teddy Edwards & Howard McGhee	Perhaps	Together Again!!!	Contemporary
	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
	Gil Scott-Heron	Inner City Blues	Reflections	Arista