New Day Jazz
Justin Desmangles
Everyday We Get More Illegal By Juan Felipe Herrera
Everyday we get more illegal
Yet the peach tree still rises & falls
With fruit and without
The birds eat it the sparrows fight
Our desert burns with trash & drug trucks en route
It also breathes & sprouts vines & Maguey
Laws pass laws with scientific walls & detention cells
Husband deported with the son
... The wife & the daughter who married a citizen
They stay behind broken slashed unpowdered
In the apartment to deal out the day & the puzzles
Another law then another
Mexican Indian spirit exile migration sky
The grass is mowed then blown by a machine
Sidewalks are empty clean & the Red Shouldered Hawk
Peers down from an abandoned wooden dome
In an empty field
It is all in between the light
Everyday this changes a little yesterday homeless
& without papers Alberto left for Denver
A Greyhound bus he said where they don’t check you
Walking working under the silvered darkness
Walking working with our mind our life
pictured at right, Frida Kahlo by Edward Weston (March 24, 1886 – January 1, 1958)
Genre
Blues & Classical & Experimental & Jazz & Poetry & Literature
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Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments |
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Bill Evans Trio | Nardis | Explorations | Riverside | |
Georege Russell | Nardis | Ezzthetics | Riverside | |
Eric Dolphy & Booker Little | Bird's Mother | Far Cry | New Jazz | |
Roland Kirk Quartet | No Tonic Pres. | Rip Rig & Panic | Limelight | |
Margaret Walker | Old Molly Means | Anthology Of Negro Poets | Folkways | |
Margaret Walker | Kissie Lee | Anthology Of Negro Poets | Folkways | |
Billie Holiday | Give Me A Pigfoot & A Bottle Of Beer | The Billie Holiday Story | Decca | |
Billie Holiday | Now Or Never | The Billie Holiday Story | Decca | |
Billie Holiday | The There Eyes | The Billie Holiday Story | Decca | |
Airbreak | ||||
John Coltrane Quartet | Nature Boy | John Coltrane Quartet Plays | Impulse | |
John Coltrane Quartet | Acknowledgement | A Love Supreme | Impulse | |
Paul Chambers | Blessed | 1st Bassman | VeeJay | |
Claude McKay | St. Issac's Church | Anthology Of Negro Poets | Folkways | |
Claude McKay | The Tropics In New York | Anthology Of Negro Poets | Folkways | |
Claude McKay | If We Must Die | Anthology Of Negro Poets | Folkways | |
Art Farmer Quartet | Tears | Sing Me Softly Of The Blues | Atlantic | |
Art Farmer Quartet | Ad Infinitum | Sing Me Softly Of The Blues | Atlantic | |
Airbreak | ||||
Karin Krog featuring Dexter Gordon | I Wish I Knew | Some Other Spring | Storyville | |
Karin Krog featuring Dexter Gordon | Everybody's Somebody's Fool | Some Other Spring | Storyville | |
Betty Carter | Deep Night | The Audience With Betty Carter | Bet-Car | |
Betty Carter | Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most | The Audience With Betty Carter | Bet-Car | |
Tommy Flanagan | Ugly Beauty | Thelonica | Enja | |
Thelonious Monk | Tea For Two | Criss Cross | Columbia | |
Airbreak | ||||
Ornette Coleman | Chappaqua Suite IV | Chappaqua Suite | CBS - France | |
William Carlos Williams | The Orchestra | William Carlos Williams Reading His Poems | Caedmon | |
Shirley Horn | Violets For Your Furs | Violets For Your Furs | SteeplChase | |
Chet Baker | Day Dream | Let's Get Lost | Novus | |
Airbreak | ||||
Rahsaan Roland Kirk | Clikety Clak | Bright Moments | Atlantic | |
Rahsaan Roland Kirk | Prelude To A Kiss | Bright Moments | Atlantic |