The Music
Located in: Harry’s Cosmic Milk Bottle
From: “The Rabbi’s Basement Tapes” of Harry Smith
The Band of Light: Live “Under the Volcano” (2005)
Water Drumming (Baka of Cameroun)
Passover with the Last Abulafia Rabbi
Monk: “Nutty” (1958, Five Spot) / “Misterioso” (1948)
Three songs of Shel Silverstein for Children of All Ages:
1. / 2. / 3.
South Africa: Shona Story Song (The Hare and the Tortoise)
Lena Horne (1945): “Indeed I Do”
19 Versions of “Barbra Allen” (only the first is hyperlinked here)
James Joyce, John Cage and Eric Malone
“Kindling Wood” : The original story and the song from the Georgia Coast Islands
Feel good guitars from Southern Africa in the 1950s: I. / II.
“Jegog” (Bamboo Gamelan)
Monk: “(I Don’t Stand) A Ghost of a Chance With You” (1957)
Sacred Music of Kurdistan. Example 1. Example 2.
Songs & Sounds of the Parchman Prison Farm 1 / 2 / 3
Shel Silverstin :: After you’ve been having steak for a long time, beans taste just fine”
http://harveybialy.org/files/Basement_Tapes_3.mp3
“Nothing” from the Fugs first LP, recorded by Harry Smith, 1965
From “The Hotel Breslin Tapes” :: Swiss Alps / Gabon Rain Forest
NY Art Quartet with Amiri Baraka (35th Reunion): “Seek Light At Once”
Amiri Baraka (1976) “Dope”
Steve Turre : “Straight, No Chaser” on “Conch” (Lincoln Center, 4 Dec. 2003)
Located in: Mandarin Seal 7
Min Xiao Fen on the Chinese pipa: Monk’s “Ask Me Now” (Lincoln Center, 6 Dec. 2003)
Jack Spicer : “Imaginary Elegies I-IV”, and other poems (KPFA, ca. 1963)
Nicole Peyrafitte : “Song (Autumn Festival)” of Gerrit Lansing
Ed Sanders: “High-Tech Heraclitus” / “Tropei, Tropei, Tropei”
Atrium Musica de Madrid : “First Delphic Hymn to Apollo”
The Incantations of Charles Stein : No. 1 / No. 2 / No. 3
The songs of Paulina Wellensberg-Olsson :
Flower Maid
Little Dead Girl
Milk Honey Chloride
Moma
White Milk
Why Father Why
The madness of Gary Hill : Madness Of The Brain
Mikhail Horowitz : “Bird Lives”
Excerpts from a recording of an Ifa Ceremony (Ile-Ilfe, 1975)
Twins 77 (Live in Tokyo, 1989): A menage of traditional and modern Yoruba melodies
Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach (“Straight Ahead”, 1961): “When Malindy Sings”
“Death’s Gonna Straighten All You Members When He Comes”
Mitote:
Selections from “Calacalacas” : Track 1 / 8 / 17 / 32
From “La Geografatura”: “Sonidos al Buen Dia”
Live, Cafe Buba (9 July 2005)“Sonidos al Buen Dia” / “Anticonstitucionalisimamente no cabe en diccionarios” / “Joauima” / “Ileaye”
Banda Elastica from “Maquizcoatl”:
“El Ritmo” /
“Nepanolli”/“Espejismo”
Looking East: A Suite in Three Parts (Raphe Malik Quartet, Boston Vision Festival, October 1999.
Fractals from Part One.
Personnel: Raphe Malik: b-flat and c trumpets; Sabir Mateen: tenor and alto saxophones, flute, b-flat clarinet, alto clarinet; Larry Roland: bass; Cody Moffett: drums.
Billy Bang solo from :: Commandment (For the Sculpture of Alain Kirili) (No More No. 5 USA cd NYC, the loft of Alain Kirili and Ariane Lopez-Huici 3/30/97)
Mitote Jazz :: Live el Museo La Casona, 8.10.05 Better Get Hit in Your Soul
Marcos Miranda and Guillermo Gonzalez :: Homage to Albert / Homage to Rhasaan
Hernan Hecht and Jarry Singla :: Bemsha Swing(s)
More for Monk
Codaryl “Cody” Moffett et al. :: Evidence from Evidence
with Ravi Coltrane, Kenny Drew Jr., Kenny Garrett, Charnett Moffett, Antoine Roney, Wallace Roney
Marcos Miranda and Huitzilin Sanchez :: Evidence from Evidencias
Marcos Miranda and Pavel Sandoval :: Bemsha Swing from En casa de Nur
Tootie Heath solo, Live Lincoln Center, 5 Dec 2003, Friday the 13th (18 min tambourine and traps)
Dizzy Gillespie : “Swing Low Sweet Cadillac”
Codaryl Moffett (“My Favorite Things”): “Jambalaya_Suite” / “Simone”
“Ornette Coleman Trio at the Golden Circle” : “Faces and Places”
Louis Armstrong’s Birthday Music, 2005 Includes: “The Saint Louis Blues”: w/Bessie Smith, NYC 14 Jan. 1925 / “Heebies Jeebies”: Kid Ory (tb), Johnny Dodds (cl), Lil Hardin-Armstrong (p), Johnny St. Cyr (bjo), Chicago, 26 Feb. 1926 (The first recorded scat). / “Cornet Chop Suey”: (as above) / “Hotter Than That”: Kid Ory (tb), Johnny Dodds (cl), Lil Hardin-Armstrong (p), Johnny St. Cyr (bjo), Lonnie Johnson (g), Chicago, 13 Dec. 1927 / “Weather Bird”: Earl Hines, Chicago, 5 Dec. 1928 / “West End Blues”: Fred Robinson (tb), Jimmy Strong (cl, ts), Earl Hines (p), Mancy Carr (bjo), Zutty Singleton (dr), Chicago 28 June 1928
The Complete Recordings of Louis Armstrong and Bessie Smith
Charnett Moffett (Lincoln Center, 4 Dec. 2003): “Monk in Mind”
Charnett Moffett Quartet, Live at Sweet Rhythms, NYC, 19.05.04. Charnett Moffett, bass, Codaryl Moffett, drums, Mondre Moffett, trumpet, Scott Brown, piano.
Ibibio dance music (recorded in Calabar, Nigeria, 1981)
Ibibio cradle songs (recorded in Ile-Ife, Nigeria 1977)
Babatunde Olatunji, WKCR Memorial Broadcast, 10 April 2003.
Juan Luis Guerra, Ojala Que llueva Cafe / Ojala Que llueva Cafe with Attila
Located in: The Book of the Book
Billie Holiday: Chronological recordings of Nice Work
Billie Holiday: Comes Love