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How lucky we are to know GREAT COMPANY!
Above, I'm a happy fella with Madame Marie-Marthe Balin Franck Paul in Little Haiti, Miami, January of 2023. after Maryse and I brought computers and JAMBARS for students in Haiti. Photo by Maryse.
Mme. Franck Paul, Maryse's aunt, now 87, is founder and Principal of College Canapé-Vert in Port-au-Prince. Click to visit our Partners in education at stickingupforchildren.com. Again, many are those who do good ... without an iota of A.I.!
Leftward, lights are strung about a Live Oak in New Orleans City Park by a Park volunteer, Christmas-time of 2022. We make these freely adorned lights Symbol for the TRACK-A-DAY feature that's staring on July 30. 2023. Over 100 songs and poems for music have come to me since 1988. What better can I do than give back from the brilliance that partner musicians have delivered?
First track offered on the Sticking Up For Children (SUFC, don't-cha-know?) Jukebox is "Bobee (What A Spirit Walks That Way)" from Roger Lewis' album ALRIGHT!. We start with three excerpts from Roger, Herlin Riley and Kirk Joseph of the Rivers Answer Moons band and then. come Wednesday July 2, "Bobee ..." with Herlin and me on vocals.
Happy as we may be to enjoy great families and friends, wherever we live, we know by now, July of 2023, that we, the working-class and middle-class people of the world, are under Global
Attack. Those Corporations that lack conscience (the 100 Strategic Partners of the World Economic Forum for prime examples) have embarked from 9/11/01 into " 'COVID-19' " forward
on programs to use Big Lies and 21st-century technologies (technologies that are our classes' inventions) to reduce our freedoms more into mass enslavement or mass 'Sudden Death Syndrome'. Our genius, however, rebels and re-arises with irresistible compassion and creativity. My pieces in the Flipping the Script blog over on the WeAreRevolutions website and pieces on the Stands the Human Being blog and Substack are offerings that combine with many, many--millions unto billions--who REALLY 'Improve' humanity through their insights and resistance.
ALBUMS. Three from I/R Records are among the top 25 Jazz albums charted by Roots Music
ReportS for the year 2022. Listen on Bandcamp and Download in full fidelity there.
The World Economic Forum and its 100 Strategic
Partners among especially exploitative Corporations of the Neo-Colonial world are waging a War Against Humanity that has accelerated over the past four years under covers of " 'COVID' " and " 'Climate Change' ". Call it the WEF WAH for short.
The series of WEF Files profiles, offered here through my Stands the Human Being blog and Substack presents leading Agenda Contributors to the WEF as extremely driven and energetic individuals ... who have become pathological imbeciles in their services to the WEF's global Techno-Fascism, the WEF's 21st-century 'New World Order' of enslavement by Banks of the Northern Hemisphere.
Among the profiled are J. Michael Evans of Ali Baba (and once of Goldman Sachs), Helen Hai of Binance and the United Nations, and more obvious subjects such as Bill Gates, Chrystia Freeland, and Justin Trudeau.
"Prosecute 'Em!", cataloging crimes against masses of
humans during our " 'COVID-19' " era, is part of my
'Stands the Human Being' blog and Substack.
You are one / Light among / Many Lights, / Ever-changing, / Invaluable, / And meant to shine / Ev'ry moment of our lives.
Track-a-Week
"Get Your JAM On!"
Don Paul & Rivers Answer Moons
with very, very special guest Erica Falls
We recorded "Get Your JAM On!" on February 1, 2022 in Rick G. Nelson's Marigny Studio of New Orleans with Adam Kiel as engineer. We being Roger Lewis saxophones, Herlin Riley drums-set, Kirk Joseph sousaphone, and Michael Torregano Jr. (Teezy B) keyboards, and me as voice. You can check us out on a page at stickingupforchildren.com. You can hear the first minute of our " ... JAM ..." below, following the Fine Tooth Comber of this month. So sweet to my ears--the band, the Herlin-and-Kirk groove, Erica's voice. Mario Abney's trumpet, Roger's multiple saxophones, ...
1 _Bumping the JAM_, 0-00 to 1-00, Sept. 16, 2023Don Paul & Rivers Answer Moons with Erica Falls
00:00 / 01:01
Roger added more saxophone with his overdubs at the Marigny later that month.
Erica Falls added her voice in March at David Farrell's studio on the West Bank of New Orleans. David and I then mixed and mastered the track into April and it came out on the LOVE OVER WAR album during June and July.
The album was very lucky in the responses it received and "Get Your JAM On!" appeard to especially excite
DJs. The album reached #1 Jazz on the WZRD of Chicago and WODU of Norfolk, VA. Reviewer Dick Metcalf's sentence about " ... JAM On!" made me smile.
'Some of the most superbly creative, funky fun you'll ever hear', he wrote.
" ... JAM ..." worked due to the musicians' and the overall love that went into it, I think. A new energy-bar inspired the tune and its lyrics. JAMBAR is an 'Organic Artisan Energy Bar', created by nutritrionist and athlete and Power Bar founder Jennifer Maxwell. Jennifer is a friend since the San Francisco Bay Area in the latter 1980s and her genuine philanthropy has supported Sticking Up For Children since 2014.
JAMBAR has donated more than 3000 Bars to students
in Haiti since its first batch through Sticking Up For Children to our partners College Canapé-Vert and the EFE School and FEPE orphanage of Port-au-Prince and the Youpi Youpi School of Cayes Jacmel.
The tune and many of its lyrics and riffs was another shower-song. 'Get Your Jam On' already was JAMBAR's
trademarked slogan. I wanted to create with Rivers Answer Moons a track useful to JAMBAR... A jingle, maybe... So, one day--January 26, 2022 to be "pree-cise"--while I was in the shower after bicycling the slogan became a melodic and rhythmic hook. Onto that hook jumped more lyrics and consequent riffs. The whole frame evolved into my notebook in about 15 minutes, as with "Live Out Loud" for Melissa Gregory Rue's documentary in 2018 and with many other songs before and since.
Jennifer and JAMBAR were a particualr inspiration. I wanted to express how truly "darn good" the Bars are; how helpful they are to athletes' and everyday people's health and performance; and how JAMBAR's 'Purpose' with 19 Partners in Music (mostly Music-Education) and Active Living really is to make folks OPTIMAL as people and creators.
And so ... Let's get to the music--all of it immeasurably enhanced by Michael, Herlin, Kirk and Roger from my simple frame. This September I've gone through " ... JAM ..." second-by-second in a process that I call Fine Tooth Comber, or FTC. What's this Fine Tooth Comber do eggsackly? Groom with a hard-wire brush, is he? Rider on a wave? Wh'all, No. FTC begins with opening a Track in the Audacity freeware. The process then listens. Listens and listens. Then begins to adjust volumes in the Stereo or Mono channels ... so that what's happening among players and between players and vocalists can be more heard ... because musicians such as those here (Rivers Answer Moons) are consistently HAPPENING ... responding to content and nuance ... and so is an artist such as Erica consistently responding with her instrument.
I hope that you love what comes out!
You can hear all of " ... JAM ..." and nine of its Part over on Bandcamp. Streaming there plays the Tracks at 128 megabytes per second (mbps). Downloading them gives your ears and brain over 10-fold MORE in information and--for Maryse and me--worlds more of musicality. Or--THUMBS UP!--"JAM On!"--you can simply listen to Parts here and presumably through my 'Stands the Human Being' on Substack.
1 _Bumping the JAM_, 0-00 to 1-00, Sept. 16, 2023Don Paul & Rivers Answer Moons with Erica Falls
00:00 / 01:01
2 _Get Your JAM a Deh-de--de-de-Dah JAM On 1-00 to 1-27Artist Name
00:00 / 00:27
3 Hey Now, Nobody Dances Like You Can Walk, 1-27 to 2-00Don Paul & Rivers Answer Moons with Erica Falls
00:00 / 00:32
A
Get Your Jam On / Get Your Jam On
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B
You over there have a flair for that
You right here have a flare for this
Nobody dances like you can walk
Nobody draws like you can see
4 Goin' Strong, Goin' Long ... Black, White, Yellow, Red, Brown, Olive-Blue and in-BetweeDon Paul & Rivers Answer Moons with Erica Falls
00:00 / 00:42
C
You're goin' strong / You're goin' long
God and Gods are in our blood
God and Gods made all skin-tones
Black White Yellow Red Brown
Olive Blue And In-Between
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5 Hey now Hey now ... James Joyce Yes. Yes Yes Spake the Light Some Know As Oliver Lake 2-Don Paul & Rivers Answer Moons with Erica Falls
00:00 / 00:50
A
Get Your Jam On / Get Your Jam On
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D
Hey Now Hey Now Did-a-Wop-a-Nay
Hey Now Hey Now Wash-a-Tub-und-Bake
Hey Now Hey Now James Joyce Yes Yes Yes
Hey Now Hey Now Spake the Light some know
as Oliver Lake
6 JAM On! JAM On! JAM On! 3-29 to 3-58Don Paul & Rivers Answer Moons with Erica Falls
00:00 / 00:29
7 Our Genius Can Create So Much Fun God and Gods Love the Gifts in All Skintones 3-59 to 4Don Paul & Rivers Answer Moons with Erica Falls
00:00 / 00:34
C
Goin' strong / Goin' Long
JAM on! JAM on! JAM On!
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E
Our genius can create so much fun
God and Gods are in our blood
Worlds unbound those Hands
and our minds have grown
God and Gods love the gifts in all skin-tones
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Black White Yellow Red Brown
Olive Blue And In-Between
8 Nobody Draws Like You Can See 4-30 to 5-01Don Paul & Rivers Answer Moons with Erica Falls
00:00 / 00:31
B
You over there have a flair for that
You right here have a flare for this
Nobody dances like you can walk
Nobody draws like you can see
9 Get Your JAM On 3-40 Mile Double-Lovin' Marathon 4-55 to 5-28Don Paul & Rivers Answer Moons with Erica Falls
00:00 / 00:33
A
Get Your Jam On / Get Your Jam On
Get your Blam'ma Ham'ma Gram'ma Bop this Whip
Your Sky's-No-Limit-Triple-Back-Flip
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Your 3:40-Mile-Double-Lovin'-Marathon
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Your Cheops-Michaelangelo-Tu-Fu-'n-Li-Po
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Your Badda-a-Dah-Bad-Ah-Gnash-a-Gosh-
A-Grosh-und-Groan-a-Wah-Whoop
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Your JAM On! Your JAM On!
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JAM On! JAM On! JAM On!
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