Links to "Jazz on a Summer's Day", Cole Williams' "Dear Love", and an Interview and Music with Idris Muhammad ... Anti-WEF Tonics for Autumn 2023!
Three Beauties ... such as the WEF's Agenda for Leaving Us 'Nothing' by 2030 Would Forever Take Away from Our Future
October 1, 2023
Thanks, all, for the responses! And may ‘On Guard for the Liberty of Mankind’ conference TODAY make the ‘Turn’ that it’s portended.
Here for this Sunday are:
Link to a sublime (Maryse and I think) documentary by Bert Stern and Aram Avakian. drawing from a-glow performances and audiences at the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival. “JAZZ ON A SUMMER’S DAY”.
There was a whole ‘nother America a-borning then. There’s an even more multifarious America a-borning now … sure to surprise Robot-Masters of Davos and Geneva, the City of London, Wall Street, et cetera et cetera.
Link to the gifted creator COLE WILLIAMS’ song and video “DEAR LOVE”. Plenty to hear and see about Cole when you click on over to Ur1Light.com.
Link to an INTERVIEW-AND-MUSIC with IDRIS MUHAMMAD that Maryse led over New Orleans’ WWOZ in February 2013.
Idris Muhammad was born and named Leo Morris in New Orleans, 1939. He was both precocious and schooled by master drummers of his community—Paul Barbarin, John Boudreaux, Smokey Johnson, …. He always had a special feel—drive through the kick-drum’s bass like a Black Indians’ march and chant, sensitivity through the high-hat and inventions like the breath of a Dry Cleaners’ press. He began to record and tour with Sam Cooke when age 18. He’s the most sampled drummer in history and present on more than 500 YouTube videos. His touch helps hits by Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions and by Roberta Flack and albums led by Grant Green and Pharaoh Sanders and Ahmad Jamal. His own albums as leader (Black Rhythm Revolution, Peace and Rhythm, Power of Soul, Make It Count, …) contribute immensely to pleasures available when harmonies of Jazz meet syncopations of Funk and, yes, Disco. Fusion flows with roots like Idris’!
We were very lucky to know Idris over the last 18 months or so of his life (he passed in July 2014). Thanks again to David Murray and then Kidd Jordan for pointing me toward Idris. Every time I pass his apartment along Carrolton, Uptown, I feel from that central window his ever-charming tones and his golden kind of light.
You can hear Idris talk about: the log-drum from Senegal that surprised him when he was music-director for the musical “Hair” in New York City; pilgrimages to Mecca and how much he loved brown bread in the Sudan; “running the streets” of New Orleans with Aaron Neville; the “butter” of ease that was Grant Green and the sunshine from Curtis Mayfield; how much love from his father and mother meant to him; how when age 9 he peed in the bushes of his neighborhood watch-lady under her very hawkish and astonished eyes; and and how glad he is to be “back home.”
You can hear 47 minutes of Idris’s warm voice and lovely spirit and keen, keen intelligence and humor during this in-studio interview with Maryse Philippe Déjean over New Orleans’ WWOZ on February 20, 2013. Tracks in snippets on the session were expertly edited by Maryse’s colleague Russell Shelton.
Idris log-drum, featured on the track “New Orleans” from Make It Count, on stage during a 2011 tribute at Loyola University that was organized by Donald Harrison Jr.
Idris and me during the February 20, 2013 session with Maryse, Rick Wilkof and photographer Bill Insley.
ENDNOTES and URLS
1. https://doctorsappeal.com/conferens2023/
2. https://www.ur1light.com/jazz-summer-s-day-dear-love
3. https://www.ur1light.com/jazz-summer-s-day-dear-love
4. https://www.wwoz.org/695-memoriam-idris-muhammad