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Robert C. Ford

Born: August 5

Robert C. Ford, aka Wall $treet Poet, is an American poet and spoken word artist based in New York City. He frequently collaborates with Composers Concordance, a contemporary music organization, and other world class performers for both recorded and live music featuring his words self-narrated or brought to life by accomplished jazz and opera singers.

In 2021 Ford released The Music Between Us, an album of his poetry reflecting on the COVID-19 pandemic, cancel culture and other then-current events, set to music by Charles Coleman (Paavo Järvi, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Kristjan Järvi, London Symphony Orchestra), Mark Kostabi (Guns N' Roses Use Your Illusion, Ramones Adios Amigos, Ornette Coleman) and Gene Pritsker (Matrix Resurrections, Joe Zawinul), on Composers Concordance Records/Naxos Distribution. A follow-up album Footprints of Steel, a collaboration with composers/musicians Carli Muñoz (Beach Boys, Eddie Gómez), Gene Pritsker and Jay Rodriguez (Groove Collective, Miles Davis) is expected to be released in the summer of 2024. He also wrote lyrics for Not All Apples Are Blue Color, a 2021 anti-Barbie anthem and video by Take a Pick (Brian DuFord, Milica Paranosic) encouraging people to overcome negative body image, and The Difference Unhappiness, a lyrically solemn but musically upbeat jazz tune on Sound Liberation's 2023 album Better Now, featuring the powerhouse soprano vocals of Adriana Valdés accompanied by Gene Pritsker (guitar), Franz Hackl (trumpet--Outreach Music Festival), and Gerry Brown (drums--Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, Stanley Clarke, Return to Forever).

Ascending Volumes

Label: Amuse
Released: 2024
Track listing: Ascending Volumes

Footprints of Steel

By Robert C. Ford

Label: Composers Concordance Records/Naxos Distribution
Released: 2024
Track listing: [1] 9-Months Earlier; [2] Why Didn't You Tag Me?; [3] The Difference Unhappiness; [4] The Day Saturn Lost It's Rings; [5] Suicide Barbie (Live); [6] Not All Apples Are Blue Color; [7] Dream Big; [8] Blissful Surrender; [9] Footprints of Steel; [10] Gross Domestic Happiness (GDH); [11] Ascending Volumes; [12] Puzzle Complete (The You of Me).

Puzzle Complete

Label: Amuse
Released: 2024
Track listing: Puzzle Complete.

CompCord@40

Label: Composers Concordance Records/Naxos Distribution
Released: 2024
Track listing: [1] Good Times (Joseph Pehrson); [2] Debussy's Lounge (Gene Pritsker); [3] Song of Light (John Clark); [4] Money, Part II: Need (Gene Pritsker); [5] Coffee Achiever (Adam Holzman); [6] Zvrk (Milica Paranosic); [7] Breaking Butterflies Upon a Wheel (Patrick Grant, Borislav Strulev); [19] The Music Between Us (Charles Coleman music, Robert C. Ford words), [20] All You Shining Stars: II. Arrows (Shanan Estreicher); [21] On Motion: I. The Atom Smasher (Seth Boustead); [22] Snow (Debra Kaye music, Roger Aplon words).

John S. Hall Of King Missile Strikes Sky Vault + Mike Visceglia, Gene Pritsker, Wayne Dumaine, Charles Coleman, Robert C. Ford & Carlinius M On March 29, 2024

March 20, 2024

On Friday March 29, 2024, at 7:30pm EST an intimate salon concert will be held at Sky Vault in the Financial District of New York City. Featured performers include poets Robert C. Ford, John S. Hall (King Missile) and Carli Munoz aka Carlinius M (Beach Boys, Eddie Gomez), accompanied by baritone Charles Coleman (Paavo Järvi, London ...

Gene Pritsker's Sound Liberation Feat. Lara St. John At Joe's Pub Saturday, March 9, 2024

March 3, 2024

On March 9th at 7pm (doors open 6pm), Joe's Pub and Composers Concordance present “Vivaldi's Hot House." This composition by Gene Pritsker (Matrix Resurrections, Joe Zawinul) is a starting point for this eclectic event with violin doyenne Lara St. John and Pritsker's ensemble Sound Liberation. The concert will feature a genre defying repertoire of music inspired ...

Gene Pritsker's Sound Liberation At Nublu Sunday, February 25, 2024

February 14, 2024

On February 25, 2024 at 7:30pm, Composers Concordance presents The Sound Liberation Trio at Nublu (151 Avenue C, NYC). The trio is comprised of Gene Pritsker (Matrix Resurrections, Joe Zawinul) guitar, Adam Holzman (Miles Davis, Steven Wilson, Brave New World) moog/synth and David Cossin (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) drums in a program of eclectic trio compositions. ...

NYC Salon Concert With David Soldier, Jason Kao Hwang, Gene Pritsker & Robert C. Ford Set for Thursday January 11, 2023

January 11, 2024

On Thursday January 11, 2023, at 7:30pm EST a concert will be held at the Sky Vault in the Financial District of New York City. It will feature original music and poetry by world class performers in an intimate salon atmosphere. This event is private but a free livestream is available via the Ticket Link below ...

Better Now

By Sound Liberation

Label: Composers Concordance Records/Naxos Distribution
Released: 2023
Track listing: [1] Quarentine Blues (Gene Pritsker) [2] Time Does Not Bring Relief (Gene Pritsker) [3] Outside (David Banks, Gene Pritsker) [4] Better Now (David Banks, Gene Pritsker) [5] Path (Gene Pritsker) [6] No I'm Not Allowed To Touch The World (Gene Pritsker music, Erik T. Johnson words) [7] Unreachable Light (Gene Pritsker) [8] The Difference Unhappiness (Gene Pritsker music, Robert C. Ford words) [9] I'm On A Lucky Streak With You (Gene Pritsker) [10] Vivaldi's Hot House (Antonio Vivaldi, Gene Pritsker)