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Jazz & Spoken Word Show

By David Brown | The Jazz Continuum
February 28, 2023
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This week, The Jazz & Spoken Word Show. Featuring Damon Locks, Fred Moten, Trapeta B. Mason; Tributes to NYC from Charles Mingus and George Russell; John Zorn's homage to Mike Hammer detective adventures with Spillane, plus works from William Parker, The Exploding Star Orchestra, Irreversible Entanglements and Gil Scott Heron. Word up!

Playlist

Thelonious Monk "Esistrophy (Theme)" from Live at the It Club-Complete (Columbia) 01:00
Duke Ellington "Moon Maiden" from The Intimate Ellington (Pablo Records) 02:30
Sons of Kemet "My Queen Is Ada Eastman" from Your Queen Is A Reptile (Impulse!) 05:12
Charles Mingus "Scenes In The City" from A Modern Jazz Symposium of Music and Poetry with Charles Mingus (Bethlehem) 12:51
George Russell "Manhattan" from New York N.Y. (Verve Records) 24:40
John Zorn "Spillane" from Spillane (Elektra/Nonsuch Records) 35:53
Gil Scott-Heron "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" from The Revolution Begins (The Flying Dutchman Masters) (Flying Dutchman) 1:02:21
Damon Locks Black Monument Ensemble "The People Vs. The Rest Of Us" from Now (International Anthem Recording Company) 1:05:21
Irreversible Entanglements "No Más" from Who Sent You? (International Anthem Recording Company) 1:08:56
Fred Moten, Brandon Lopez, Gerald Cleaver "James Baldwin" from Moten/Lopez/Cleaver (Relative Pitch Records) 1:17:55
William Parker "Baldwin" from Migration of Silence into and out of the Tone World (Centering Records) 1:20:58
Darius Jones Quartet, Emilie Lesbros "Chanteuse in Blue" from Le Bébé De Brigitte (Lost In Translation) (AUM Fidelity) 1:30:15
Monnette Sudler, Trapeta B. Mayson "Future Shaman" from This Is How We Get Through (MSM Records) 1:39:16
William Parker "A Great Day to Be Dead" from Migration of Silence into and out of the Tone World (Centering Records) 1:51:53

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