RoCM Playlist: 1 Apr 2023
Pretty uneventful news week this week, eh? I love it when news breaks late on a Thursday after I have the show mostly in the can so that it seems totally strange that I am not mentioning events that are clearly on everyone’s mind. Anyhoo…
So we get a great album released by Angel Bat Dawid on March 24th, a 12 movement jazz suite called Requiem for Jazz of which I play the first two movements during this week’s show. The album took a great deal of inspiration from the 1959 Edward Bland documentary “The Cry of Jazz” – and low and behold there is a copy of it available on YouTube for your viewing pleasure:
As I also reference during the show, here’s the video of James Mtume debating Stanley Crouch about the later period of Mile Davis’ career of which James Mtume was a substantial contributor (part two of this debate can be found here). While I tend to side with Mtume in this debate, I think the use of the word “destroys” in this video title is a tad bit unfortunate. Stanley Crouch would survive this debate and that kind of hyperbole is unnecessary. But aside from that, both parts of this are very much worth your time:
period at the Amistad Center for Art & Culture in Hartford, CT (2010)
Interestingly enough – when clips of this debate initially made the rounds back in 2010, it elicited a brief response from none other than Ta-Nehisi Coates.
And lastly but hopefully not least, please enjoy the playlist for this week’s show. Don’t forget that you can listen online at KCSB-FM’s website and there’s an online archive available for two weeks after the show airs.
| Time | Artist | Song | Release | Song note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6:00:16 PM | The Little Willies | It’s Not You, It’s Me | The Little Willies | Lee Alexander – Bass |
| 6:05:55 PM | Angel Bat Dawid | Jazz is merely the Negroes cry of Joy & Suffering | Requiem for Jazz | |
| 6:07:01 PM | Angel Bat Dawid | INTROIT- Joy n’ Suff’rin | Requiem for Jazz | |
| 6:10:34 PM | Angel Bat Dawid | Jazz is the musical expression of the triumph of the Negroes Spirit | Requiem for Jazz | |
| 6:11:48 PM | Angel Bat Dawid | KYRIE ELEISON- Lawd Hav’ Merci | Requiem for Jazz | |
| 6:16:48 PM | Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru | The Last Tears of the Deceased | Spielt Eigen Kompositionen – EP | Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru – piano |
| 6:27:31 PM | The Art Ensemble of Chicago | Whatever Happens | The Alternative Express | Malachi Favors – Bass, Percussion |
| 6:37:24 PM | Grachan Moncur III | When | New Africa / One Morning I Woke Up Very Early | Roscoe Mitchell – Alto Saxophone, Piccolo Flute |
| 6:51:12 PM | Tom Waits | 2:19 | Orphans: Live in Cleveland – August 2006 | |
| 7:00:15 PM | Gil Scott-Heron | Enough (Radio Edit) | Small Talk at 125th and Lenox | |
| 7:06:44 PM | Frank Foster | The Loud Minority | The Loud Minority | Gene Perla, Stan Clarke – Acoustic Bass, Electric Bass [Fender Bass] |
| 7:21:14 PM | Albert “Toudie” Heath | Maulana | Kawaida | Buster Williams-Mchezaji – Bass |
| 7:36:57 PM | The Carla Bley Band | Song Sung Long | Live in Berlin 1979 | Carla Bley – Piano, Vocals, Organ |
| 7:47:42 PM | Peter Brötzmann – Hamid Drake | It’s an Angel on the Door | The Dried Rat-Dog | Peter Brötzmann – Tárogató, e-flat Clarinet, Alto/Tenor Saxophone |
