Spoken word records, jazz

[jlhoots]

On 5/12/2024 at 10:51 AM, rostasi said:

Joy plays / reads / speaks here in Santa Fe often. She's cool.

[clifford_thornton]

Personally I could never get that into them, but the Haki R. Madhubuti (Don L. Lee) albums certainly fit the bill. Forgot to mention these upthread:

https://www.discogs.com/release/4059278-Nation-Afrikan-Liberation-Art-Ensemble-Featuring-Haki-R-Madhubuti-Don-L-Lee-Rise-Vision-Comin

https://www.discogs.com/release/1274063-Haki-R-Madhubuti-Nation-Medasi

I thought Rise Vision Comin was the better of the two. Ended up trading them years ago, alas.

Joe McPhee's poetry is awesome. I will have to pick up a copy of that CD.

[T.D.]

Having read Joseph Jarman's book published by Blank Forms, I should have mentioned him...

Going to see Joe McPhee in a spoken word concert this weekend, but don't know what is on the program.

Edited May 13, 2024 by T.D.

[clifford_thornton]

Yes, that performance is awesome -- a real classic. I saw him read as part of Equal Interest in at least one Vision Festival, IIRC.

[rostasi]

[rostasi]

with Dewey Redman, Sirone, and Errol Parker

Edited May 14, 2024 by rostasi

[clifford_thornton]

Yeah, that's a fun one -- haven't dug it out in ages.

[colinmce]

I'm a big fan of this one, however for some reason or another I got rid of it at one point and it's not so easy to replace for the amount I bought it for the first time:

[JSngry]

44 minutes ago, colinmce said:

I'm a big fan of this one, however for some reason or another I got rid of it at one point and it's not so easy to replace for the amount I bought it for the first time:

YES!!!!

[optatio]

I don't know if there's a recording of them!

[clifford_thornton]

apparently there are recordings but to my knowledge none have been issued.

https://www.wm.edu/as/africanastudies/middlepassage/play/playwright/

[optatio]

David Murray feat. Saul Williams: Blues for Memo. Motéma MTMO256 [2018]

Saw them live at Theaterstübchen in Kassel near Göttingen November 20, 2018.

Bought CD and book, both signed!

[mjazzg]

1 hour ago, optatio said:

David Murray feat. Saul Williams: Blues for Memo. Motéma MTMO256 [2018]

Saw them live at Theaterstübchen in Kassel near Göttingen November 20, 2018.

Bought CD and book, both signed!

That's a good album

[Chuck Nessa]

On 5/13/2024 at 3:32 PM, T.D. said:

Having read Joseph Jarman's book published by Blank Forms, I should have mentioned him...

Going to see Joe McPhee in a spoken word concert this weekend, but don't know what is on the program.

We recorded that back in 1966.

[JSngry]

Has this been mentioned yet?

 

[danasgoodstuff]

Soul, Barbara Simmons with Jackie Mac & Grachan, et al

On this album Wm. Blake is set to new music since his music has been lost, sometimes it's sung and sometimes spoken.

And I have a cassette recording of me reading my Hank Mobley poem to the accompaniment of my friend Scot Fultz's band Straight No Filter, said poem published in the UK literary journal Fire, all rights reserved by yours truly.  as far as I know, it's not on the net.

No wonder he got a No Bell Prize!

[T.D.]

This is borderline jazz at most (some boogie-woogie content), but I'm a big Robert Ashley fan so:

 

[sgcim]

 

[JSngry]

 

[Brad]

Some of Babs’s material wouldn’t fly today but that is a-ok. 

[clifford_thornton]

On 5/16/2024 at 7:56 PM, danasgoodstuff said:

Soul, Barbara Simmons with Jackie Mac & Grachan, et al

Right, that McLean record is really good. Is Barbara Simmons the reciter actually the same Barbara Simmons who plays trumpet on an Ed Townsend record for Casablanca? Discogs says so but I am not actually sure.

[rostasi]

[soulpope]

42 minutes ago, clifford_thornton said:

Right, that McLean record is really good. Is Barbara Simmons the reciter actually the same Barbara Simmons who plays trumpet on an Ed Townsend record for Casablanca? Discogs says so but I am not actually sure.

On the Townsend platter this is Barbara Simmons aka Barbara Donald .... always assumed that Barbara Simmons - whose work was published by Amiri Baraka - being a different person ....

[danasgoodstuff]

5 hours ago, clifford_thornton said:

Right, that McLean record is really good. Is Barbara Simmons the reciter actually the same Barbara Simmons who plays trumpet on an Ed Townsend record for Casablanca? Discogs says so but I am not actually sure.

Interesting, but I have no idea.

[JSngry]

Barbara Simmons as in Mrs. Sonny Simmons (who is also on the record): 

https://www.discogs.com/release/2458826-Townsend-Townsend-Townsend-Rogers-Townsend-Townsend-Townsend-Rogers

So, Barbara Donald.