New Day Jazz
Justin Desmangles
Joining me in conversation this afternoon in the 5 o'clock hour, poet, composer, Janice Lowe. A co-founder of the Dark Room Collective, Ms. Lowe's most recent collection of poetry is Leaving CLE: poems of nomadic dispersal (Miami University Press, 2016).
She is also the author of the chapbook SWAM (Belladonna Series). Her poems have been published in Callaloo, American Poetry Review, In the Tradition, and The Hat; they have also appeared on a digital album with Drew Gardner’s Poetics Orchestra. Her essays have appeared in Sing the Sun Up and The Cleveland Neighborhood Guidebook.
“Leaving CLE is a beautiful document of eccentric return. A collection of unforecast surprise, it keeps giving home away, disbursing and dispersing hard, pleasurable weather like a new kind of lake effect. Cleveland is Brooklyn is Chicago and elsewhere,
everywhere in a set of absolute specificities, upSouth, back east, out and out. There’s a black cosmology of “difference without separation” of which Denise Ferreira da Silva, sociologist, speaks. Janice A. Lowe, poet, sings it so hard, makes her air such an irreducible element of the general air, that you couldn’t get away from it if you tried, which is fine, because that’s the last thing you’ll want. Her sound, her time, is everything you do.”
—Fred Moten
“The magic trick is that Lowe makes you feel through all the flux there is something unshakable at center. Words untangle and recombine, then land with stunning clarity. A stealth memoir emerges as Lowe turns an ode to family and city into music.”
—Rachel Sheinkin
“In Leaving CLE, Janice Lowe’s debut collection, she imagines poems as scores for socially-charged lyric and performative possibility. These poems explore the psychic and material spaces and traces of Cleveland and other cities through forms that leap off the page. Lowe transforms life’s arcs into song: ‘Sing back to me bright as Sunday’—and she does.”
—John Keene
Genre
Jazz
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Sunday 11/06/2016 @ 3:00PM - 6:00PM
| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nina Simone | My Sweet Lord / Today is a Killer | Emergency Ward | RCA | c. 1972 |
| Jimi Hendrix | Who Knows | Band of Gypsys | Capitol | January 1, 1970 |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Art Ensemble of Chicago | Dreaming of the Master | Nice Guys | ECM | c. 1979 |
| Ntozake Shange (Laurie Carlos) | sorry | for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf | Buddha | c. 1976 |
| Esther Phillips | I'm Gettin' Long Alright | Confessin' the Blues | Atlantic | c. 1976 |
| Esther Phillips | I Wonder | Confessin' the Blues | Atlantic | c. 1976 |
| Jayne Cortez | You Know | Unsubmissive Blues | Bola Press | c. 1980 |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Funkadelic | Music for My Mother | Funkadelic | Westbound | c. 1970 |
| Richard Pryor | Bicentennial Nigger | Bicentennial Nigger | Warner Brothers | c. 1976 |
| Jimi Hendrix | The Star-Spangled Banner | Woodstock | Cotillion | August 1969 |
| Sun Ra | The Truth About Planet Earth | The Space Age is Here to Stay | Modern Harmonic | c. 1978 |
| Sun Ra | Nuclear War | The Space Age is Here to Stay | Modern Harmonic | c. 1983 |
| Sly and the Family Stone | If You Want Me to Stay | Fresh | Epic | c. 1973 |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Gil-Scott Heron | Lady Day and John Coltrane | The Revolution Will Not Be Televised | Flying Dutchman | c. 1974 |
| Ron Carter | Uptwon Conversation | Uptwon Conversation | Embryo | October 1969 |
| Ron Carter | Ten Strings | Uptwon Conversation | Embryo | October 1969 |
| Ron Carter | Half a Row | Uptwon Conversation | Embryo | October 1969 |
| Airbreak | ||||
| Herbie Hancock | Jack Rabbit | Inventions and Dimensions | Blue Note | August 30, 1963 |
| Janice Lowe in Conversation with Justin Desmangles | Janice Lowe in Conversation with Justin Desmangles | Janice Lowe in Conversation with Justin Desmangles | Janice Lowe in Conversation with Justin Desmangles | Janice Lowe in Conversation with Justin Desmangles |
| Abbey Lincoln | My Way | Live In Misty | Kiva (Japan) | c. 1973 |
| Abbey Lincoln | Japanese Dream | Live In Misty | Kiva (Japan) | c. 1973 |
| Abbey Lincoln | Rainbow | Live In Misty | Kiva (Japan) | c. 1973 |