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Black History Month Special Hour of Poetry & Jazz

By Maurice Hogue | One Man's Jazz
March 11, 2020
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The salute to Black History Month continues in this episode with an entire hour devoted to poetry and music, as well as more from

Christian McBride

bass
b.1972

" data-original-title="" title="">Christian McBride's The Movement Revisited. New albums sampled are from New Orleans' trio Nutria, microtonal keyboardist

Giorgi Mikadze

piano
b.1989

" data-original-title="" title="">Giorgi Mikadze from Georgia (the country of Georgia), trumpeter

Susana Santos Silva

trumpet
b.1979

" data-original-title="" title="">Susana Santos Silva and her band Impermanence, German bassist

Robert Landfermann

bass, acoustic

" data-original-title="" title="">Robert Landfermann and the trio of

Bobby Previte

drums
b.1957

" data-original-title="" title="">Bobby Previte,

Jamie Saft

piano

" data-original-title="" title="">Jamie Saft and

Nels Cline

guitar, electric
b.1956

" data-original-title="" title="">Nels Cline.

Playlist

Pierrick Le Franc "Synallagmatique" from Ex Novo Quartet (Orgo) 00:00
Host speaks 05:32
Nutria "Meeting in Progress" from Meeting in Progress (Ears & Eyes) 07:07
Deep Ford "Loop of Chicago" from You May Cross Here (BMC) 15:38
Almeida/Santos Silva/Costa/ Stadhouders "Bangku" from Buku (Cylinder) 20:49
Host speaks 26:21
Susan Santos Silva & Impermanence "Expanded Life" from The Ocean Inside a Stone (Portajazz) 28:33
Kris Davis
piano
b.1980
" data-original-title="" title="">Kris Davis "Corn Crake" from Diatom Ribbons (Pyroclastic) 40:06
Aron Namenwirth
guitar
" data-original-title="" title="">Aron Namenwirth,
Daniel Carter
saxophone
b.1996
" data-original-title="" title="">Daniel Carter,
Zachary Swanson
vocals
" data-original-title="" title="">Zachary Swanson,
Joe Hertenstein
drums
" data-original-title="" title="">Joe Hertenstein "Carbondioxide Deficiency" from Live at the Bushwick Series ( Gaucimusic) 45:03
Host speaks 51:38
Giorgi Mikadze "Kartlos Blues" from Georgian Micro Jamz (Rare Noise) 53:54
chuffDRONE
band / ensemble / orchestra
" data-original-title="" title="">chuffDRONE "Fresh Start" from Chuffdrone (Kudos) 59:44
Host speaks 1:05:40
Bobby Previte, Jamie Saft, Nels Cline "The New Weird" from Music From The Early 21st Century (Rare Noise) 1:07:58
James Brandon Lewis
saxophone, tenor
b.1983
" data-original-title="" title="">James Brandon Lewis "Organized Minorities" from Divine Travels (Okeh) 1:17:55
Robert Landfermann "Pariner" from Topaz (Klaeng) 1:26:53
Host speaks 1:34:13
Miles Perkins
" data-original-title="" title="">Miles Perkins Quartet "It Takes Its Toll" from The Point in Question (Clean Feed) 1:35:53
Carniaux-Goldman-Carniaux "Let Anything Do All" from Carniaux-Goldman-Carniaux (Self-released) 1:41:35
Host speaks 1:48:24
Christian McBride "Malcolm Introduces Ali" from The Movement Revisited (Mack Avenue) 1:49:53
Christian McBride "Ali Speaks" from The Movement Revisited (Mack Avenue) 1:50:56
Christian McBride "Rumble in the Jungle" from The Movement Revisited (Mack Avenue) 1:53:39
Host speaks 1:59:37
Amiri Baraka
vocals
1934 - 2014
" data-original-title="" title="">Amiri Baraka "In Walked Bud" from Jazzspeak (New Alliance) 2:01:08
Shirley Le Flore "I Am a Black Woman Song" from Takin' It to the Hollow (Jazzjaunts) 2:03:49
Michael Harper,
Paul Austerlitz
multi-instrumentalist
b.1957
" data-original-title="" title="">Paul Austerlitz "High Modes: Vision as Ritual: Confirmation" from Double Take (Innova) 2:05:01
Langston Hughes
" data-original-title="" title="">Langston Hughes "Dream Montage" from Weary Blues (Verve) 2:07:05
Jayne Cortez
poet / spoken word
" data-original-title="" title="">Jayne Cortez & The Firesplitters "There It Is" from There It Is (Bola Press) 2:13:25
Kamau Daaood
poet / spoken word
" data-original-title="" title="">Kamau Daaood "Liberator of the Spirit—For John Coltrane" from Leimert Park (MAMA) 2:18:07
Stephen D. Coleman "Bodacious Cowgirl" from Takin' It to the Hollow (Jazzjaunts) 2:23:52
New York Free Quartet "Eat, Lay Eggs and Run" from Free Play (Fourth Stream) 2:27:06
Last Poets
" data-original-title="" title="">Last Poets "The Time Has Come" from Time Has Come (Self-released) 2:36:16
Sonia Sanchez
" data-original-title="" title="">Sonia Sanchez "Poem to Some Women/Leak in This Old Building" from Full Moon Of Sonia (VIA Intl. Artist) 2:40:32
Gil Scott-Heron
vocals
1949 - 2011
" data-original-title="" title="">Gil Scott-Heron "Winter in America" from Tour De Force (Prestige Elite) 2:45:53
Yusef Komunyakaa, David Cieri,
Mike Brown
" data-original-title="" title="">Mike Brown "Strange Fruit" from Dark Furniture (Ropeadope) 2:53:36

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