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lamp lighter’s black history month top ten
10) Living for the City - Stevie Wonder (1973) 9) Evil N igger - Julius Eastman (1979) 8) Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos - Public Enemy (1988) 7) Chain Gang Quantum Blues - Moor Mother (2016) 6) Every N igger Is a Star - Boris Gardiner (1974) 5) Triptych: Prayer/Protest/Peace - Max Roach (1960) 4) Ol’ Man River - Paul Robeson (1927) 3) Strange Fruit - Nina Simone (1965) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strange_Fruit 2) Song of the Underground Railroad - John Coltrane (1961) 1) Alabama - John Coltrane (1963) |
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William Hooker + Sabir Mateen – Dharma https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....z3L._SS500.jpg Percussion and reeds duet released 33 years after Interstellar Space was released and 40 years after it recorded. Meaning Dharma was released at a time when adherents to the Saint John William Coltrane African Orthodox Church were meditating on the significance of humanity having lived without Coltrane’s physical manifestation for, again, 40 years - the same amount of time He graced our earth, 40 years. Hooker, as always is bombastic and exciting. He also will briefly hook into a groove in a way that’s effective but would’ve been inappropriate for Rashied Ali on IS. Sabir Mateen, who was 60 at the time, still correctly echoes late period Coltrane with dashes of Dolphy and some squawking à la manière de the highly influential Kaoru Abe, who died of a drug overdose at the age of 29 in 1978. Dharma was recorded live at CBGB’s in 2004. |
Ranaldo, Lee / William Hooker / Jim O'Rourke / Gianni Gebbia Clouds: Victoriaville Concert May 1997 https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon....mzL._SS500.jpg http://cps-static.rovicorp.com/3/JPG...er=allrovi.com In case there’s any confusion about this obscenely underrated masterpiece let me ****ing tell you it has it all. Rock’n’roll guitar god Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo meets up with the above mentioned Hooker and with Jim O'Rourke and Gianni Gebbia they flare up and tear up and make post-punk-free-jazz-noise history. |
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PS- "Strange Fruit" is one of the most important artistic achievements in American history. |
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https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Qf1Nrz9TS...%252Bcover.jpg Sabir Mateen & William Simone – JOYS! This is absolutely fantastic! It’s like finding a lost 5 Star Sun Ra record. Sabir Mateen: tenor & soprano saxophones, Bb & alto clarinets and piano William Simone: percussion and electronics Recorded in Bologna, Italy Release: September 2016 Total CD time 64:00 https://sabirmateen.bandcamp.com/album/joys |
I discovered Nina's version of Strange Fruit first and thus have the strongest connection to that one. I personally find the rawness and "newness" of Billie's version to make it the objectively better version, but they're both great. I would kill to hear the original musical version as sung by Laura Duncan, but I don't know if there are any recordings of that.
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