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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.
"Bobee" is Roger Hayward Lewis Jr., Roger's first-born son. How the child elicited the nickname "Bobee" is lost somewhere in the mists. Bobee joined the U.S. Marine Corps Rserve as a teen-ager (see photo below). After his stint, early 1980s, he returned to New Orleans, got married, and began college. He was diagnosed with osteoporosis. Doctors and Hospitals in Houston couldn't help. Bobee passed away at age 22.
That his father wrote such an exuberant yet serene tune about
Bobee is testament both their characters. The band that Roger co-founded with Gregory Davis, Kevin Harris, Charles Joseph,
Kirk Joseph, Benny Jones, and Efrem Townes in 1977, the genres-fusing, paths-makings Dirty Dozen Brass Band, recorded "Song for Bobee" on their New Orleans album, produced by Scott Billington for Columbia Records, in 1990.
The 2021-2022 version leads with Herlin Riley's polyrhythms and Kirk Joseph's deeply complementing bassline through his sousaphone. Roger's alto, baritone and tenor saxophones in their harmonies and melodies send something like an embrace of unspoken tenderness across the decades.
Classic Title
Roger Lewis, Herlin Riley, Kirk Joseph and I recorded the tracks that make up Roger's ALRIGHT! on August 3, 2021 and January 31, 2022. Michael Torregano Jr. joined them on the latter date. Rick G. Nelson was engineer in his Marigny Studio of New Orleans on August 3. Adam Keil was engineer on January 31. O We all knew that we were tracking for Roger's début album as leader.
Seven decades! His first professional gig as a saxophonist at age 15 in 1955. The Dew Drop Inn, the Royal Peacock, .... Backing Little Richard, Ray Charles, Etta James, Willie Tee, Irma Thomas, ....
Studying with Willie Metcalf and Kidd Jordan.... Shedding on the road with Fats Domino. Lee Allen, Herbert Hardesty, Carl LeBlanc, .... Shedding, shedding, shedding always with Frederic Kemp.... Co-founding the Dirty Dozen Brass Band 44, 45 years ago.... From The Glass House to Montreux. Clubs and beach with Dizzy Gillespie.... Mari, Mari, ... Playing out five nights a week when home and Second-Lines on Sunday.... "So many times,
I don't know how I played that!"
Roger Lewis alto, baritone, soprano
saxophones
Herlin Riley drums-set
Kirk Joseph sousaphone
Listen on Bandcamp
"Bobee (What A Spirit Walks That Way)" is Track #1 from Roger Lewis' album ALRIGHT! "Bobee ..." is among the 11 Cascading Singles to be released by Irresistible / Revolutionary Records
on Bandcamp in the Spring of 2022.
CASCADING SINGLES
APRIL 5
"Get Your JAM On!"
Don Paul and Rivers Answer Moons
(Don Paul, Roger Lewis, Herlin Riley, Kirk Joseph,
Michael Torregano Jr., Mario Abney, and guest Erica Falls)
"Bobee (What A Spirit Walks That Way")
Roger Lewis.
(Roger Lewis, Herlin Riley, Kirk Joseph)
APRIL 12
"Love Over War, Every Time We Play"
Don Paul and Rivers Answer Moons
with guest Erica Falls
APRIL 19
"Little Things"
Roger Lewis.
(Roger Lewis, Herlin Riley, Kirk Joseph)
APRIL 26
"Glory Glory Glory Is For Us All"
Don Paul and Rivers Answer Moons
with guest Erica Falls
MAY 3
"Maybe You See Horses"
Roger Lewis.
(Roger Lewis, Herlin Riley, Kirk Joseph)
Roger Lewis, David "Fathead" Newman, Frederic Kemp
Roger, James Moody, Dizzy Gillespie, Nice, FR, 1990.
Roger with great-grandchildren ... "I've always been the oldest dude in the Band."
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