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01. AMINA BARAKA & THE RED MICROPHONE - Time Step
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02. AMINA BARAKA & THE RED MICROPHONE - The Spirit of Billy Bang
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03. AMINA BARAKA & THE RED MICROPHONE - The Things I Love
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04. AMINA BARAKA & THE RED MICROPHONE - Jayne Cortez
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05. AMINA BARAKA & THE RED MICROPHONE - Afro American Child
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06. AMINA BARAKA & THE RED MICROPHONE - For Margaret Walker Alexander
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07. AMINA BARAKA & THE RED MICROPHONE - Real Dreams
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08. AMINA BARAKA & THE RED MICROPHONE - Talking Drum
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09. AMINA BARAKA & THE RED MICROPHONE - The Fascist
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ARTIST
BARAKA & THE RED MICROPHONE, AMINA
TITLE
Amina Baraka & The Red Microphone
FORMAT
CD
LABEL
ESP-DISK
CATALOG #
ESPDISK 5021CD
ESPDISK 5021CD
GENRE
JAZZ
RELEASE DATE
6/30/2017
Amina Baraka
speaks truth and spits fire when she reads her poetry. She is a warm and friendly person, but keeps a metal shovel by her front door in case of trespassers. She is a devoted Communist. She is vast, she contains multitudes. After decades in the shadow of her late husband, poet and playwright
Amiri Baraka
, Amina is about to raise her profile in the company of
The Red Microphone
, four musicians who are fellow fighters in the struggle for equality for all. Not that she hasn't been getting her poetry published all those years, but, generally, poets who add music to the mix can transcend category boundaries and reach more listeners. And this is some powerful music, inside/outside jazz, created in the moment, but occasionally building on a composition by group member
Rocco John Iacovone
, the cadences of Baraka's words intertwining with the rhythms of the music to become more than the sum of its parts.
All words by Amina Baraka. All music collectively improvised by The Red Microphone except: the music of "Timestep", written as "Travelin' Thru" by Rocco John Iacovone, with quote of "L'Internationale" by
Pierre Degeyter
; the music of "The Spirit of Billy Bang", written by
Laurie Towers
; the music of "The Things I Love", written as "Blue Nights" by Rocco John Iacovone; the music of "Talking Drum", written by
John Pietaro
.
Personnel: Amina Baraka - words, lead vocals; The Red Microphone is:
Ras Moshe Burnett
- tenor saxophone, flute, percussion; Rocco John Iacovone - curved soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, piano; John Pietaro - musical direction, drums, percussion; Laurie Towers - bass guitar.
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