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Fire Music: When Jazz Speaks Out - Part 3
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As Martin Luther King put it in the opening address to the 1964 Berlin Jazz Festival, "Jazz speaks for life. The Blues tell the story of life's difficulties, and if you think for a moment, you will realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph. This is triumphant music. Modern jazz has continued in this tradition, singing the songs of a more complicated urban existence. When life itself offers no order and meaning, the musician creates an order and meaning from the sounds of the earth which flow through his instrument."And so, with that in mind, we continue our exploration of socially engaged jazz in search of order and meaning in the complicated phase we're leaving, looking at how
Max Roach
drums1925 - 2007
Abbey Lincoln
vocals1930 - 2010
Charles Mingus
bass, acoustic1922 - 1979
Archie Shepp
saxophone, tenorb.1937
Lou Donaldson
saxophone1926 - 2024
Oscar Brown Jr.
vocals1926 - 2005
Cannonball Adderley
saxophone1928 - 1975
Ornette Coleman
saxophone, alto1930 - 2015
Charlie Haden
bass, acoustic1937 - 2014
Hank Jones
piano1918 - 2010
Gary Bartz
saxophone, altob.1940
Alicia Hall Moran
vocals
Dominique Fils-Aimé
vocals
Jaimeo Brown
drums
Uri Caine
pianob.1956
Playlist
- Ben Allison "Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00
- Gary Bartz & Maisha "Uhuru Sasa" Night Dreamer Direct-To-Disc Sessions (Night Dreamer) 0:16
- Host talks 3:40
- Pharoahs "Freedom Road" Awakening (Ubiquity) 5:48
- Host talks 11:35
- Archie Shepp "Attica Blues" Attica Blues (Verve) 12:25
- Lou Donaldson "If There's Hell Below (We're All Going to Go)" Cosmos (Blue Note) 17:07
- Host talks 26:10
- Cannonball Adderley Quintet "Why Am I Treated So Bad!" Why Am I Treated So Bad! (Capitol) 29:55
- Uri Caine "Change" The Passion of Octavius Catto (816) 37:35
- Max Roach "Freedom Day" We Insist! (Candid) 40:54
- Host talks 46:53
- Dominique Fils-Aimé "Birds" Nameless (Ensoul) 49:36
- Alicia Hall Moran "I Am the Fire" Here Today (Yes) 53:14
- Alicia Hall Moran "Gold" Here Today (Yes) 54:23
- Alicia Hall Moran "Metal" Here Today (Yes) 56:01
- Jaimeo Brown Transcendence "Be so Glad" Work Songs (Motema) 56:39
- Oscar Brown Jr. "Work Song" Sin and Soul... and Then Some More (Columbia) 1:02:31
- Host talks 1:05:11
- Charles Mingus "Original Faubus Fables" Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (Candid) 1:07:21
- Hank Jones, Charlie Haden "We Shall Overcome" Steal Away (Verve) 1:16:15
- Host talks 1:21:44
- Ornette Coleman "Song for Che" Crisis (Impulse!) 1:23:10
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