New Day Jazz
Justin Desmangles
How will it go, crumbling earthquake, towering inferno, juggernaut, volcano, smashup,
in reality, other than the feverish nearreal fantasy of the capitalist flunky film hacks
tho they sense its reality breathing a quake inferno scar on their throat even snorts of
100% pure cocaine cant cancel the cold cut of impending death to this society. On all the
screens of america, the joint blows up every hour and a half for two dollars an fifty cents.
They have taken the niggers out to lunch, for a minute, made us partners nigger Charlie) or
surrogates (boss nigger) for their horror. But just as superafrikan mobutu cannot leop
ardskinhat his
way out of responsibility for lumumba’s death, nor even with his incredible billions
rockefeller
cannot even save his pale ho’s titties in the crushing weight of
things as they really are.
How will it go, does it reach you, getting up, sitting on the side
of the bed, getting ready to go to work. Hypnotized by the ma-
chine, and the cement floor, the jungle treachery of
trying
to survive with no money in a money world, of making the boss
100,000 for every 200
dollars
you get, and then having his brother get you for the rent, and if
you want to buy the car
you
helped build, your downpayment paid for it, the rest goes to buy
his old lady a foam
rubber
rhinestone set of boobies for special occasions when kissinger
drunkenly fumbles with her blouse, forgetting himself.
If you don’t like it, what you gonna do about it. That was the
question we asked each
other, &
still right regularly need to ask. You don't like it? Whatcha
gonna do, about it??
The real terror of nature is humanity enraged, the true
technicolor spectacle that
hollywood
cant record. They cant even show you how you look when you
go to work, or when you
come back.
They cant even show you thinking or demanding the new so-
cialist reality, its the ultimate
tidal
wave. When all over the planet, men and women, with heat in
their hands, demand that
society
be planned to include the lives and self determination of all the
people ever to live. That is the scalding scenario with a cast of
just under two billion that they dare not even whisper. Its called,
“We Want It All . . . The Whole World!”
from Transbluesency: The Selected Poems of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones, 1961-1995
Copyright © 1995 by Amiri Baraka.
Genre
Blues & Classical & Experimental & Jazz & Poetry & Literature
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Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments |
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James Baldwin | excerpt from The Struggle | The Struggle | Buddha | |
Betty Carter | I Could Write a Book | The Audience with Betty Carter | Bet-Car | |
Maya Angelou | My Man | The Poetry of Maya Angelou | Perception | |
Maya Angelou | Faces | The Poetry of Maya Angelou | Perception | |
John Coltrane | Mr. Knight | Coltrane Plays the Blues | Atlantic | |
Claude McKay | If We Must Die | Anthology of Negro Poets | Folkways | |
Amiri Baraka | Dope | Before Columbus Foundation Poets | Folkways | |
Airbreak | ||||
Malcolm X | excerpt from The Last Message | The Last Message | Charisma | |
Thelonious Monk | Bye-Ya | Thelonious Monk Trio | Prestige | |
Ishmael Reed | Judas | Conjure | Pangea | |
John Coltrane | Satellite (How High the Moon) | Coltrane's Sound | Atlantic | |
Amiri Baraka (Moses Gunn) | Preface to a 20 Volume Suicide Note | A Hand Is On the Gate | Verve-Folkways | |
Budd Johnson | The Message (Memories of Lester Part 2) | Budd Johnson & the 4 Brass Giants | Riverside | |
Audre Lorde | Harriet | A Sign / I Was Not Alone | Out & Out Books | |
Woody Shaw | Tapscott's Blues | The Moontrane | Muse | |
Amiri Baraka (Ellen Holly) | The End of Man is His Beauty | A Hand In On the Gate | Verve-Folkways | |
Tommy Flanagan | Ugly Beauty | Thelonica | Enja | |
Airbreak | ||||
Kenneth Patchen | The Lions of Fire | Kenneth Patchen Reads His Poetry | Folkways | |
Lester Bowie | Mirage | Rope-A-Dope | Muse | |
Sam Rivers | Helix | Inventions & Dimensions | Blue Note | |
Eldridge Cleaver | excerpt from Dig! | Dig! | More | |
Andrew Hill | Without Malice | One Pluse One | Blue Note Re-issue Series | |
Eric Doplhy | Tenderly | Far Cry | New Jazz (Prestige) | |
Airbreak | ||||
Paul Laurence Dunbar (Cicely Tyson) | We Wear the Mask | A Hand is On the Gate | Verve-Folkways | |
Richard Pryor | Bicentennial Nigger | Bicentennial Nigger | Warner Brothers | |
Charles Mingus | (Soul Fusion) Freewoman and Oh, This Freedom's Slave Cries | The Black Saint & the Sinner Lady | Impulse | |
Edward Kamau Brathwaite | The Cabin | Rights of Passage | Argo (U.K.) | |
Eddie Lang & Lonnie Johnson | Blue Minor Stomp | 50 Years of Jazz Guitar | Columbia | |
Airbreak | ||||
James Baldwin | excerpt from The Struggle | The Struggle | Buddha | |
Gwendolyn Brooks | The Preacher Ruminates Behind the Sermon | Anthology of Negro Poetry | Verve-Folkways | |
Gwendolyn Brooks | The Children of the Poor: Sonnet 2 | Anthology of Negro Poetry | Verve-Folkways | |
Duke Ellington | Arabesque Cookie (Arabian Dance) | The Nutcracker Suite | Columbia | |
Duke Ellington | Morning Mood | Swinging Suites by Edward E. and Edward G. | Columbia | |
Duke Ellington | In the Hall of the Mountain King | Swinging Suites by Edward E. and Edward G. | Columbia | |
Airbreak | ||||
Art Ensemble of Chicago | Dreaming of the Master | Nice Guys | ECM |