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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.
'Listen for the music that is there.'--
Matt Gonzalez, San Francisco, 2002,
in his Foreword to Don Paul's book
of poems and prose and songs, Flares.Â
"It was like a movie. I could see it all
happening as you said the words."--
Travis Hill / Trumpet Black, New Orleans,
February 2015, after he and I performed
with Mikayla Braun and Michael Ballard
and Matthew Shilling at Isabelle Jacopin's
salon in a benefit for Sticking Up For
Chidren.
with Matthew Shilling and Travis Hill / Trumpet Black at Isabelle Jacopin's salon for Sticking Up For Children,
New Orleans, February 2015./ Trumpet Black at Isabelle Jacopin's salon for Sticking Up For Children,
From a very young age--before I knew what they were--I've admired
Illuminated Manuscripts. Later, around age 15, I began to particularly
pore through William Blake and his 'Illuminated Books'.
I love those Manuscripts and Books' suggestive dimensions. The Illustrated Pages of the Booklet for TTWH, (Meld #1) are meant to be a 21st-century likeness of such Manuscripts and Books.
Oh, and the design-team of The Long Arms of Honus Paige is named to honor two of my favorite baseball-players, Honus Wagner and Satchel Paige. Both had the the arms of lanky giants. Both performed feats on the baseball field when only radio and word-of-mouth could record them. Both never let the chance of skin-tone color their respect for a player. They had pride AND humility, as Herlin Riley says should be the attributes a performer needs to excel and deliver.
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Many great players!
I had the pleasure of working with John Baker from 1988 into 2008. He and India Cooke share quickness and vocabulary, I think; their harmonies and rhythms fly off each other like pinwheels. In 1995 I had the honor, too, of producing India's Red-Handed album.
Oh, the Suspect Many bands! What a number I have to thank! Kenny Blackman, George Cremaschi, Dhyani Dharma, James Henry, Marty Holland, Jon Karr, and Joi Joi (Louise Robinson, Michelle Jacques and Darlene Spears) were each and all big parts of my immense good luck with musicians in the San Francisco Bay Area. Then I came to kindred fortune in New Orleans with Rivers of Dreams. In both places I was very fortunate with engineers: Peter Eckart, Doctor D, David Denny, Jon Karr, Rick G. Nelson, and David Farrell.
John Baker and India Cooke
Kidd Jordan and Morikeba Kouyaté are of course masters, steeped in musics and cultures since they were babies. The magic that they also share, intuiting and expressing words' intentions, is perhaps something beyond schooling. The song "Your Body Is A Nurturing ..." and its melodies came to me along Interstate 5 nearby Bakersfield, over a half-hour or so, in 1990. Dhyani Dharma made the song whole when we got together in San Francisco.Â
Kidd, Morikeba's and I recorded it for our Women Center Earth, Sea And Sky album at Rick G. Nelson's Marigny Recording Studio on July 24, 2014. The stills below are from video by Aristide Phillips. Aristide, born and raised in New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward, was then 21. and expressing words' intentions, is perhaps something beyond schooling. The song "Your Body Is A Nurturing ..." and its melodies came to me along Interstate 5 nearby Bakersfield, over a half-hour or so, in 1990. Dhyani Dharma made the song whole when we got together in San Francisco.
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