New Day Jazz
Justin Desmangles
This afternoon on New Day Jazz, in the 5 o'clock hour, we will be listening to the third lecture from Sun Ra's class, Black Man in the Universe, from the Spring Semester 1971, at the University of California, Berkeley.
Listed below are the books assigned by Sun Ra for his lecture course, African-American Studies 198: The Black Man in the Universe.
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Radix
Alexander Hislop: Two Babylons
The Theosophical works of Madame Blavatsky
The Book of Oahspe
Henry Dumas: Ark of Bones
Henry Dumas: Poetry for My People eds. Hale Charfield & Eugene Redmond, Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press 1971
Black Fire: An Anthology of Afro-American Writing, eds. Leroi Jones & Larry Neal, New York: William Morrow 1968
David Livingston: Missionary Travels
Theodore P. Ford: God Wills the Negro
Rutledge: God's Children
Stylus, vol. 13, no. 1 (Spring 1971), Temple University
John S. Wilson: Jazz. Where It Came From, Where It's At, United States Information Agency
Yosef A. A. Ben-Jochannan: Black Man of the Nile and His Family, Alkibu Ian Books 1972
Constantin Francois de Chasseboeuf, Comte de Volney: The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires, and the Law of Nature, London: Pioneer Press 1921
The Source Book of Man's Life and Death (Ra's description; = The King James Bible)
Pjotr Demianovitch Ouspensky: A New Model of the Universe. Principles of the Psychological Method in Its Application to Problems of Science, Religion and Art, New York: Knopf 1956
Frederick Bodmer: The Loom of Language. An Approach to the Mastery of Many Languages, ed. Lancelot Hogben, New York: Norton & Co. 1944
Blackie's Etymology
Genre
Blues & Classical & Experimental & Jazz & Poetry & Literature
Missed the Show?
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johnny Dunn | Dunn's Cornet Blues | Steppin' on the Gas | New World Records | |
| Charlie Johnson | The Boy in the Boat | Sweet and Low Blues | New World Records | |
| James P. Johnson | What Is This Thing Called Love | Jive at Five | New World Records | |
| Sidney Bechet | What Is This Thing Called Love | Jive at Five | New World Records | |
| Billie Holiday | I Can't Get Started | When Malindy Sings | New World Records | |
| Johnny Hodges | Passion Flower | Jive at Five | New World Records | |
| Cab Calloway | Ebony Silhouette | Jammin' for the Jackpot | New World Records | |
| Coleman Hawkins | Body & Soul | Jive at Five | New World Records | |
| Serge Chaloff | Body & Soul | Introspection | New World Records | |
| Airbreak | ||||
| James P. Johnson | Mule Walk | A Decade of Jazz 1939-1949 | Blue Note | |
| Edmund Hall | Seein' Red | A Decade of Jazz 1939-1949 | Blue Note | |
| Meade Lux Lewis | Honky Tonk Train Blues | A Decade of Jazz 1939-1949 | Blue Note | |
| Edmund Hall | Profoundly Blue | A Decade of Jazz 1939-1949 | Blue Note | |
| Sidney Bechet | Summertime | A Decade of Jazz 1939-1949 | Blue Note | |
| Bud Powell | A Night in Tunisia | A Decade of Jazz 1949-1959 | Blue Note | |
| Horace Silver | Senor Blues | A Decade of Jazz 1949-1959 | Blue Note | |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Gigi Gryce | Nica's Tempo | Thelonious Monk and Herbie Nichols | Savoy | |
| Hampton Hawes | Jumpin' Jacque | Black California | Savoy | |
| Art Pepper | Surf Ride | Black California | Savoy | |
| Herbie Nichols | 'S Wonderful | Thelonious Monk and Herbie Nichols | Savoy | |
| Herbie Nichols | Nichols and Dimes | Thelonious Monk and Herbie Nichols | Savoy | |
| Helen Humes | Helen's Advice | Black California | Savoy | |
| Helen Humes | Knockin' Myself Out | Black California | Savoy | |
| Dizzy Gillespie | The Champ | The Historic Savoy Sessions | Savoy | |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Sun Ra | Astro Black (excerpt) | Astro Black | Impulse | |
| Sun Ra | African-American Studies 198: The Black Man in the Universe | Spring Semester 1971 | University of California, Berkeley | |
| Walt Dickerson & Sun Ra | Astro (excerpt) | Visions | Steeplchase | |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Horace Parlan | U.M.M.G. | Like Someone in Love | Steeplechase | |