Spiritual as Music: 22 Hours

Interviews, Music, Photos, Paintings, Video ... Featuring Kidd Jordan, Roger Lewis and Kirk Joseph, Leo Nocentelli, Sarah Elizabeth Charles, David Amram, William Parker, Germaine Bazzle, many more.

Thanks very much for readers’ responses to the songs, “A.I. Lover (Serves Users For Lunch)” and “Homeland Security”.

I wonder: Will A. I. shadow-ban when satire exposes A.I.-makers’ very sorry, personal limitations? After all, everything in Origin Information for A.I. owes to the humans who originate it. Consider leading icons of Tech. Consider the creative genius and empathic resources NOT evident in Facebook, Instagram, Google, YouTube, X, Neuralink, et cetera. Do any of these Tech manifestations show genius or empathy near Shakespeare’s, Einstein’s, or Billie Holliday’s? Therefore, we may suppose, the originators and promoters of A.I. have instructed A.I. to shadow-ban (secretively block access) to exposure of A.I.’s intrinsic shaping and shrinkage of human possiblilities.

By the way, here are two more Acronyms for A.I.: Agenda Instrument and Abnegation Institutionalized. I’m sure that you, out there through the Internet that we still can use for liberation, can illuminate the A.I. nonsense with beautiful and incisive Acronyms,

Enough ‘bout that silly though horrific A.I. !

On to the good and the great represented by musicians in the Spiritual as Music series of 22 Hours that feature Interviews, as well as many Tracks, Photos and Video in each Hour.

The Spiritual as Music Hours are audio and visual. They’re meant to be—say, hey, Montreal World’s Fair 1967—Multi-Media. You can hear subjects talk between selections of music—the audio for each Hour is on Bandcamp—while you view those aforesaid Photos and Link to Videos. We view the whole of the Series as a Resource and Pastime from which anyone, anywhere, with online access, can draw.

Maryse and I much enjoyed these great and good interview-subjects and all the music and culture that contact with them brought us. Remember: How much we all have to give!

Spiritual as Music

Hour 1 . Hour 2. Interviews with Kidd Jordan and with Roger Lewis and KirkJoseph of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band.  Music from Toots and the Maytals, Van Morrison, Cyril Neville, Zelia Barbosa, Hamid Drake, William Parker, and more.

Hours 3 and 4. Interview with Leo Nocentelli. Music from the Meters, Jimmy Smith, Smokey Johnson, Allen Toussaint, Grant Green, Barney Kessel, Idris Muhammad, and more. Listening Part One. Listening Part Two.

Hours 5 and 6 Interview with Sarah Elizabeth Charles and the then Christian Scott aTundé Adjuah at the 2017 Port-au-Prince International Jazz Festival. Music from Sarah and aTundé Adjuah and from Danilo Perez, Gonzalo Rubacala, John Coltrane Quartet, and more.

Hours 7 and 8 with Lolis Edward Elie amd His Fellow Champions, 1930-1963. A Five-Part Chronicle wth the Civil-Rights Activist and Attorney and with Artists whom he and his son Lolis Eric Elie especially admired and enjoyed.

Music from Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Jordan, Charlie and Dizzy and Miles, Chano Pozo, Clifford and Max and Sonny, Monk and J.C., Paul Robeson, Mahalia Jackson, Mingus, and more. Interview with Ruby Bridges. Listening Part One. Part Two. Part Three. Part Four. And Five.

Hour 9 Herlin Riley Plays for Powers of the Most High, Part One. Interview with Herlin. Music from him, Art Blakey, the Mass Choir, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Blind Boys of Alabama, TBC Brass Band, and more.

Hour 10 Part Two of the ‘Most High’ with Herlin. Music from him,  James Black, John Boudreaux. Earl Palmer, Aretha live, Ray Charles live, and more.

Hour 11 David Amram and the University of Hang-Out-Ology. Interview with David. Music from him with Ted Joans, Langston Hughes with Charles Mingus, from Monk, Dizzy, and a New Orleans’ Second-Line during World War II.

Hour 12 David brings up “Soul” stuff. Music from Itzhak Perlman, a Muzzein's call to prayer, the University Choir of Dublin, Los Munequitos de Matanzas, James P. Johnson, Bud Powell, the Cinematic Orchestra with Jack Kerouac reading from 'This Railroad Earth', and much more.

Hour 13 '“Never enough beauty” with David and orchestral and small-group Tracks from him, Pete Seeger, Dick and Mimi Farina, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Young Timbaleros of Habana, Calixto and Yulien Oviedo, and many more.

Hour 14 with Lil Hardin Armstrong and compositions of hers for Joe Oliver's Creole Jazz Band and Louis Armstrong's Hot Five and Hot Seven and her own Swing Orchestra, as well as Tracks by Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Mary Lou Williams (three), and Alice Coltrane.

Hour 15 with William Parker's insights and memories and music from his In Order to Survive and Raining on the Moon and Essences of Ellington., featuring Kidd Jordan, as well as Duke's Orchestra at Newport in 1956. Early on, two excerpts from Fannie Lou Hamer, the woman of fire and courage who inspired William and many others.

Hour 16 with William and Stan's Hat Flapping in the Wind, soundtrack excerpts from "The 400 Blows", "Alphaville", and 1965's "Alfie" (Sonny Rollins, Oliver Nelson), his own "Station", and how playing with Cecil Taylor was always about getting "all the way into the heart and the soul of the sound.

Hour 17 with William Parker and Stan's Hat Flapping in the Wind, Jermeel Moondoc, Billy Higgins, William in duets with Hamid Drake and Milford Graves and Patricia Nicholson Parker, as well as Raphé Malik and Jimmy Lyons, Glenn Spearman and Lisle Ellis, and--again--Raining on the Moon.

Hour 18,   '​Venezuela, New Century' Music from Susana Baca, the Bolivarian Youth Orchestra, Inti Illimani, Patricio Manns, Camerata Criolla, and Mercedes Sosa and Joan Baez singing Violeta Parra's 'Gracias a La Vida'. Links to videos and voices, including President Nicolas Maduro, Minister of Foreign Affairs Jorge Arreaza, interviewers Max Blumenthal, Sharmini Peries, Anya Parampil, and Rachel Boothrotd Rojas, and poet Gina Pacaldo. Especially: Voices from markets and streets of Venezuela. “I am poor and Black and I’m never going to be a slave again.”

Hour 19.  '​​Germaine Bazzle, Part One ' The great musician, singer and educator GERMAINE BAZZLE talks about her life from the 1930s' 7th Ward onward. Music also from Bunk Johnson, Sidney Bechet, Ella Fitzgerald, Chick Webb, Charlie, Dizzy, Max and Miles, and from J. J. Johnson, Woody Herman's Third Herd, Stan Getz, Carmen McRae, June Christy, and the Mills Brothers.

Hour 20. Germaine Bazzle, Part Two' presents GERMAINE with two bands and the New Orleans Contemporeary Arts Center Orchestra. Also, Tracks from Alvin "Red" Tyler, Roy Montrell, Porgy Jones, the Ornette Coleman Quartet of 1960 and 1961. Germaine again says much that’s apt, poetic and revelatory.

Hour 21. Germaine Bazzle, Part Three. Remembering New Orleans from the 1960s into 2018. Audio, video reels, and Tracks from Johnny Adams, Betty Carter, Geri Allen, George French, Lady BJ, and Erykah Badu.

Hour 22 Workers' Day Special. Tracks from Blind Willie Johnson; Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer; Bob Marley & the Wailers; Laura Nyro; Cyndi Lauper singing Joni Mitchell; Langston Hughes reading two of his poems; the Pharaoh Sanders Quartet of 1987; Anya Parampil with Tucker Carlson on May Day 2019; John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars; Don Paul and Cacri Jazz; Los Bunkers; Boukman Eksperyans; and Tennsessee Williams reading Hart Crane's 'To Brooklyn Bridge.'