New Day Jazz
Justin Desmangles
Art vs. Trade
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON
Trade, Trade versus Art,
Brain, Brain versus Heart;
Oh, the earthiness of these hard-hearted times,
When clinking dollars, and jingling dimes,
Drown all the finer music of the soul.
Life as an Octopus with but this creed,
That all the world was made to serve his greed;
Trade has spread out his mighty myriad claw,
And drawn into his foul polluted maw,
The brightest and the best,
Well nigh,
Has he drained dry,
The sacred fount of Truth;
And if, forsooth,
He has left yet some struggling streams from it to go,
He has contaminated so their flow,
That Truth, scarce is it true.
Poor Art with struggling gasp,
Lies strangled, dying in his mighty grasp;
He locks his grimy fingers ’bout her snowy throat so tender.
Is there no power to rescue her, protect, defend her?
Shall Art be left to perish?
Shall all the images her shrines cherish
Be left to this iconoclast, to vulgar Trade?
Oh, that mankind had less of Brain and more of Heart,
Oh, that the world had less of Trade and more of Art;
Then would there be less grinding down the poor,
Then would men learn to love each other more;
For Trade stalks like a giant through the land,
Bearing aloft the rich in his high hand,
While down beneath his mighty ponderous tread,
He crushes those who cry for daily bread.
Genre
Blues & Classical & Experimental & Jazz & Poetry & Literature
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Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments |
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Wayne Shorter | Infant Eyes | Speak No Evil | Blue Note | |
Miles Davis | Limbo | Sorcerer | Columbia | |
Nina Simone | Just Say I Love Him | Forbidden Fruit | Colpix | |
Nina Simone | Blue Prelude | The Amazing Nina Simone | Colpix | |
Duke Ellington | N.Y. City Blues | Monologue | CBS - France | |
Duke Ellington | Hy 'A Sue | Monologue | CBS - France | |
Duke Ellington featuring Lil Greenwood | Walkin' & Singin' The Blues | Primpin' For The Prom | CBS - France | |
Airbreak | ||||
Bobby Bland | Black Night | Ain't Nothin' You Can Do | Duke | |
Nina Simone | Theme From In The Middle Of The Night | The Amazing Nina Simone | Colpix | |
Wayne Shorter | Face Of The Deep | The All Seeing Eye | Blue Note | |
Carmen McRae | The Shadow Of Your Smile | Alfie | Mainstream | |
Carmen McRae | The Music That Makes Me Dance | Alfie | Mainstream | |
Hank Mobley | Uh Huh | Workout | Blue Note | |
Hank Mobley | The Breakdown | Roll Call | Blue Note | |
Airbreak | ||||
Ella Fitzgerald | You Do Something To Me | Sings The Cole Porter Songbook | Verve | |
Ella Fitzgerald | All Through The Night | Sings The Cole Porter Songbook | Verve | |
Ella Fitzgerald | Love For Sale | Sings The Cole Porter Songbook | Verve | |
Dexter Gordon | Love For Sale | Go | Blue Note | |
Ornette Coleman | Good Old Days | The Empty Foxhole | Blue Note | |
Ornette Coleman | Zig Zag | The Empty Foxhole | Blue Note | |
Airbreak | ||||
Teddy Edwards & Howard McGhee | Up There | Together Again! | Contemporary | |
Phineas Newborn, Jr. | Juicy Lucy | A World Of Piano | Contemporary | |
King Pleasure | No Not Much | Golden Days | Hi-Fi Jazz | |
King Pleasure | Don't Get Scared | Mr. Jazz | United Artists | |
King Pleasure | Jumpin' With Symphony Sid | King Pleasure | Prestige | |
Art Farmer | Wildwood | Art Farmer Septet Plays The Arrangements & Compositions Of Gigi Gryce & Quincy Jones | Prestige | |
Art Farmer | Evening In Casablanca | Art Farmer Quintet featuring Gigi Gryce | Prestige | |
Airbreak | ||||
Eric Dolphy & Booker Little | Fire Waltz | Eric Dolphy At The 5 Spot Vol. 1 | New Jazz | |
Airbreak | ||||
John Coltrane | Naima | Live At The Village Vanguard Again! | Impulse |