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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.
‘The sides of Paul’s artistry only get more pronounced from there [”Get Your JAM ON!”], with the following tracks providing a stage for his musical skill as well as his gifts as a poet…. On “Glory, Glory, Glory is For Us All,” Paul and his band, Rivers Answer Moons, turn their mix of jazz and poetry into a kind of reverie ... Everyone shines in their own way on this track, and no one is left in the shadows.... I believe the most striking attribute of Love Over War is its diversity.’
“Alright!” is a jazz album that spans a breadth of musical influences. …
“Carrying The Saxophones”
A range of saxophones play a hearty bluesy motif, that shines with a touch of Gospel. The horns’ lines are smooth and full, allowing listeners to appreciate the qualities of each type. The mood here is not just of cacophonous risk-taking; instead, full ideas bloom in the completion of each measure.
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The sound and the rhythm are danceable, but there's no denyng the art of what
Lewis is doing.'
June 9, DAVID JOHNSON explores LOVE OVER WAR and plays "Get Your JAM On!"
and "Bobee (What A Spirit Walks That Way" with the Rivers Answer Moons band (Roger Lewis, Herlin Riley, Kirk Joseph, Mario Abney and Michael Torregano Jr.) and 'About Reinaldo, Mourning and Outrage' with Kidd Jordan and Morikeba Kouyaté.
'ALRIGHT! represents not so much a debut, but another cornerstone in a career that is as long, storied, and resplendent as a stone cathedral window…. Lewis shines yet again, adding another jewel in a chest of musical avenues that have already made him such a legend in the canon of New Orleans jazz.’
‘The sides of Paul’s artistry only get more pronounced from there (”Get Your JAM ON!”], with the following tracks providing a stage for his musical skill as well as his gifts as a poet….
I believe the most striking attribute of LOVE OVER WAR is its diversity.’
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