. The vocal by Cynda Williams, the alternate “Acapulco version” of “Harlem Blues,” from Spike Lee‘s Mo’ Better Blues. Original music by the Branford Marsalis Quartet and Terence Blanchard. This version substitutes strings. Video by MultiplicityMe2. Related articles 2012 Detroit Jazz Festival Announces Star-Studded Lineup (theurbanflux.com) Branford Marsalis goes green, finds his roots (mnn.com)
Hemingway & Gellhorn’s Follies d’Amour
. Do you do politics, but live for art? Do art, but live for politics? Don’t tell me. Share it with your confessor. Or your bartender. We saw the Kennedy Center & Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim‘s Follies, minus Bernadette Peters, at the Ahmanson on Sunday. Theater tickets were still costing more than an ounce […]
Eating Poetry (XXXV) – Gay Chaps At The Bar
. The earlier meaning of the word, and so poignant here. From her first collection of poetry, A Street in Bronzeville, 1945 – originally published in Poetry, November 1944 – and its closing sequence of twelve off-rhyme sonnets. Gay Chaps At The Bar by Gwendolyn Brooks …and guys I knew in the States, young officers, return from […]
A Prayer for the Dead
. The poet Stewart Kestenbaum, who lives in Maine, lost his brother Howard in the World Trade Center towers on 9/11. A Prayer for the Dead The light snow started late last night and continued all night long while I slept and could hear it occasionally enter my sleep, where I dreamed my brother was […]
How We Lived On It (50) – The Daughters
. Music: Tim Story, “The Daughers,” from Shadowplay. Art: Elizabeth Colomba Related articles Being In and Out of Time (sadredearth.com) How We Lived On It (49) – The First Hippie (sadredearth.com) Jazz Is: 38 – “Nature Boy” (sadredearth.com) Eating Poetry (XXXIV) – Time Is the Fire (sadredearth.com)