Hear works considering the plight of young Black men, in music for Michael Brown by trumpeter Keyon Harrold, in tribute to Emmett Till by Wadada Leo Smith, and by Joseph C. Phillips Jr. Listen to work by trumpeter, composer, & collaborator Keyon Harrold from his 2017 album The Mugician, called “MB Lament”, which pays tribute to Michael Brown and the rest of the youth in Ferguson, MO, especially those affected by inequality and injustice (Legacy Recordings Press Release.) Then hear music in tribute to Emmett Till from trumpeter/composer Wadada Leo Smith, from his “spiritually charged opus inspired by the struggle for African-American freedom and equality before the law”, called Ten Freedom Summers, (Bandcamp liner notes.) There’s music by Joseph C. Phillips Jr. and his ensemble Numinous from his mono-opera 'The Grey Land', which chronicles a single Black mother and her son. Phillips wrote the libretto an uses additional text from Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, author Isaac Butler, Abolitionist Frederick Douglas, and from Mothers of the Movement, founded in 2013 by Black mothers. Hear the choral lament, “The People Get Tired of Dying” as well as ‘the talk’ set as a work called “Don’t”. Listen to songwriter, bandleader, multi-instrumentalist, and scholar Rhiannon Giddens with percussionist Francesco Turrisi in a version of songwriter Oscar Brown, Jr.'s black pride lullaby "Brown Baby” first interpreted by Nina Simone. There’s also music from collaborative supergroup, Our Native Daughters, who are Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Allison Russell and Leyla McCalla, banjo-players all, who tell the stories of the dark American institution of slavery and its legacy. Plus, hear a work from the Art Ensemble of Chicago, specifically about the first Black officer to have served and died in the Revolutionary War for the Crown of England in a colonial expansion war. And more. - Caryn Havlik Program #4711, Ballad For The Black Man (First aired 2/3/23) ARTIST: Keyon HarroldWORK: MB Lament [1:07]RECORDING: The MugicianSOURCE: Legacy RecordingsINFO: Available at AppleMusic, Amazon.com, Spotify, YouTube Music ARTIST: World Saxophone QuartetWORK: David Murray: Ballad for the Black Man [5:32]RECORDING: New Sounds Liv, 3/8/90SOURCE: The work appears on 'Metamophosis', released on Nonesuch RecordsINFO: nonesuch.com ARTIST: Keyon HarroldWORK: MB Lament [5:04]RECORDING: The MugicianSOURCE: Legacy RecordingsINFO: Available at AppleMusic, Amazon.com, Spotify, YouTube Music ARTIST: Rebecca L Hargrove, soprano; Joseph C. Phillips Jr. and NuminousWORK: Joseph C. Phillips Jr.: The People Get Tired of Dying [3:37]RECORDING: The Grey LandSOURCE: New Amsterdam Records INFO: numinous.bandcamp.com | newamrecords.com ARTIST: Rebecca L Hargrove, soprano; Joseph C. Phillips Jr. and NuminousWORK: Joseph C. Phillips Jr.: Don't [3:44]RECORDING: The Grey LandSOURCE: New Amsterdam Records INFO: numinous.bandcamp.com | newamrecords.com ARTIST: Art Ensemble of ChicagoWORK: Prayer For Jimbo Kwesi [9:47]RECORDING: The Third DecadeSOURCE: ECM RecordsINFO: https://ecmrecords.com ARTIST: Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco TurrisiWORK: Brown Baby [5:08]RECORDING: there is no OtherSOURCE: Nonesuch RecordsINFO: nonesuch.com ARTIST: Our Native DaughtersWORK: Mama's Cryin' Long [2:11]RECORDING: Songs of Our Native DaughtersSOURCE: Smithsonian Folkways SFW40232INFO: folkways.si.edu ARTIST: Wadada Leo SmithWORK: Emmett Till- Defiant, Fearless [6:27]RECORDING: Ten Freedom SummersSOURCE: Cuneiform RecordsINFO: cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com
Hear works considering the plight of young Black men, in music for Michael Brown by trumpeter Keyon Harrold, in tribute to Emmett Till by Wadada Leo Smith, and by Joseph C. Phillips Jr.
Listen to work by trumpeter, composer, & collaborator Keyon Harrold from his 2017 album The Mugician, called “MB Lament”, which pays tribute to Michael Brown and the rest of the youth in Ferguson, MO, especially those affected by inequality and injustice (Legacy Recordings Press Release.) Then hear music in tribute to Emmett Till from trumpeter/composer Wadada Leo Smith, from his “spiritually charged opus inspired by the struggle for African-American freedom and equality before the law”, called Ten Freedom Summers, (Bandcamp liner notes.)
There’s music by Joseph C. Phillips Jr. and his ensemble Numinous from his mono-opera 'The Grey Land', which chronicles a single Black mother and her son. Phillips wrote the libretto an uses additional text from Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, author Isaac Butler, Abolitionist Frederick Douglas, and from Mothers of the Movement, founded in 2013 by Black mothers. Hear the choral lament, “The People Get Tired of Dying” as well as ‘the talk’ set as a work called “Don’t”.
Listen to songwriter, bandleader, multi-instrumentalist, and scholar Rhiannon Giddens with percussionist Francesco Turrisi in a version of songwriter Oscar Brown, Jr.'s black pride lullaby "Brown Baby” first interpreted by Nina Simone. There’s also music from collaborative supergroup, Our Native Daughters, who are Rhiannon Giddens, Amythyst Kiah, Allison Russell and Leyla McCalla, banjo-players all, who tell the stories of the dark American institution of slavery and its legacy. Plus, hear a work from the Art Ensemble of Chicago, specifically about the first Black officer to have served and died in the Revolutionary War for the Crown of England in a colonial expansion war. And more. - Caryn Havlik
Program #4711, Ballad For The Black Man (First aired 2/3/23)
ARTIST: Keyon HarroldWORK: MB Lament [1:07]RECORDING: The MugicianSOURCE: Legacy RecordingsINFO: Available at AppleMusic, Amazon.com, Spotify, YouTube Music
ARTIST: World Saxophone QuartetWORK: David Murray: Ballad for the Black Man [5:32]RECORDING: New Sounds Liv, 3/8/90SOURCE: The work appears on 'Metamophosis', released on Nonesuch RecordsINFO: nonesuch.com
ARTIST: Keyon HarroldWORK: MB Lament [5:04]RECORDING: The MugicianSOURCE: Legacy RecordingsINFO: Available at AppleMusic, Amazon.com, Spotify, YouTube Music
ARTIST: Rebecca L Hargrove, soprano; Joseph C. Phillips Jr. and NuminousWORK: Joseph C. Phillips Jr.: The People Get Tired of Dying [3:37]RECORDING: The Grey LandSOURCE: New Amsterdam Records INFO: numinous.bandcamp.com | newamrecords.com
ARTIST: Rebecca L Hargrove, soprano; Joseph C. Phillips Jr. and NuminousWORK: Joseph C. Phillips Jr.: Don't [3:44]RECORDING: The Grey LandSOURCE: New Amsterdam Records INFO: numinous.bandcamp.com | newamrecords.com
ARTIST: Art Ensemble of ChicagoWORK: Prayer For Jimbo Kwesi [9:47]RECORDING: The Third DecadeSOURCE: ECM RecordsINFO: https://ecmrecords.com
ARTIST: Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco TurrisiWORK: Brown Baby [5:08]RECORDING: there is no OtherSOURCE: Nonesuch RecordsINFO: nonesuch.com
ARTIST: Our Native DaughtersWORK: Mama's Cryin' Long [2:11]RECORDING: Songs of Our Native DaughtersSOURCE: Smithsonian Folkways SFW40232INFO: folkways.si.edu
ARTIST: Wadada Leo SmithWORK: Emmett Till- Defiant, Fearless [6:27]RECORDING: Ten Freedom SummersSOURCE: Cuneiform RecordsINFO: cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com