New Day Jazz
Justin Desmangles
"Fleas dream of buying themselves a dog, and nobodies dream of escaping poverty: that, one magical day, good luck will suddenly rain down on them - will rain down in buckets. But good luck doesn’t rain down, yesterday, today, tomorrow or ever. Good luck doesn’t even fall in a fine drizzle, no matter how hard the nobodies summon it, even if their left hand is tickling, or if they begin the new day on their right foot, or start the new year with a change of brooms. The nobodies: nobody’s children, owners of nothing. The nobodies: the no-ones, the nobodied, running like rabbits, dying through life, screwed every which way. Who are not, but could be. Who don’t speak languages, but dialects. Who don’t have religions, but superstitions. Who don’t create art, but handicrafts. Who don’t have culture, but folklore. Who are not human beings, but human resources. Who do not have faces, but arms. Who do not have names, but numbers. Who do not appear in the history of the world, but in the crime reports of the local paper. The nobodies, who are not worth the bullet that kills them."
— Eduardo Galeano, "The Nobodies"
Herbert Gentry: Green Twins, 1963, oil on canvas, 39¼ by 32 inches
Genre
Blues & Classical & Experimental & Jazz & Poetry & Literature
Missed the Show?
Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments |
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Teddy Edwards & Howard McGhee | You Stepped Out Of A Dream | Together Again! | Contemporary | |
Phineas Newborn, Jr. | The Blessing | The Newborn Touch | Contemporary | |
Sylvia Plath | Ouija | Sylvia Plath Reads Her Poetry | Caedmon Records | |
Sonny Clark | Eastern Incident | Sonny Clark Quintets | Blue Note - Japan | |
Tommy Flanagan | Verdandi | Overseas | Prestige | |
Tommy Flanagan | Delarna | Overseas | Prestige | |
Airbreak | ||||
Sonny Rollins featuring Earl Coleman | My Ideal | Tour De Force | Prestige | |
Kenny Drew | Ruby My Dear | Kenny Drew Trio | Riverside | |
Jimmy Scott | When Did You Leave Heaven? | Little Jimmy Scott | Savoy | |
JImmy Scott | Guilty | Little Jimmy Scott | Savoy | |
Art Pepper | You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To | Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section | Contemporary | |
Airbreak | ||||
Miles Davis Quintet | Fran-Dance | Miles Davis & John Coltran Live In Stockholm | Dragon | |
Audre Lorde | Harriet | A Sign / I Was Not Alone | Out & Out Records | |
Gil Evans & Steve Lacy | Paris Blues | Paris Blues | Owl | |
Steve Lacy | Humph | Only Monk | Soul Note | |
Cyn Zarco | 3 Poems | Before Columbus Foundation Poets | Folkways | |
The Modern Jazz Sextet | Dizzy Meets Sonny | Modern Jazz Sextet | Verve - Japan | |
Charlie Parker | Star Eyes | Swedish Schnapps | Verve - Japan | |
Charlie Parker | Blues For Alice | Swedish Schnapps | Verve - Japan | |
Airbreak | ||||
Bing Crosby | Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? | Songs Of The Depression Era | New World | |
Ike Quebec | Brother, Can You Spare A Dime? | Heavy Soul | Blue Note | |
Amiri Baraka | Dope | Before Columbus Foundation Poets | Folkways | |
Ornette Coleman | Song For Che | Crisis | Impulse | |
Marion Brown | Karintha | Geechee Recollections | Impulse | |
Airbreak | ||||
Tadd Dameron | Delerium | Fountainebleau | Prestige | |
Tadd Dameron | You're A Joy | The Magic Touch | Riverside | |
Abbey Lincoln | Little Niles | It's Magic! | Riverside | |
Dexter Gordon | Everybody's Somebody's Fool | Gettin' Around | Blue Note | |
Airbreak | ||||
Stan Getz | Sweet Rain | Sweet Rain | Verve |