
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.
Here are six tracks for freedownload that feature saxophonists blowing with lyrics. Three are Kidd and Oliver and Glenn.
1. 'Maybe You See Horses' with Roger Lewis, Herlin Riley
and Kirk Joseph of the Rivers Answer Moons band. A tribute to Kidd.
2. 'It Must Be Love (Word Come Down through Forbidden Radio'.
A tribute to Chuck Kinder and John Sinclair.
3. 'Boy Breaking on the Old Manhood'
With Kidd, Glenn, and Oliver 2022
Oliver Lake is a marvelous artist. He’s a painter and poet of astonishing evocations and collages as well as the creator of memorable, paths-making music with the World Saxophone Quartet (with Hamiet Bluiett, Julius Hemphill, and David Murray at the group’s outset); with the Trio of Andrew Cyrille, Reggie Workman, and himself; and with numerous, often
international collaborations. He’s given us over 30 albums as leader, including 1991's Virtual Reality / Total Escapism, their range a visionary's
and a devotee's (1) His website is a wonderland. (2)
Today, June 26, the Vision Festival (3) honors Oliver Lake with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Performances outdoors at La Plaza The Clemente (4) offer tremendous riches. They start at 4:00 and last past 9:00 in the New York City night. The forecast is for bee-you-ti-ful--mid-80's, calm sky.
Go there on 107 Suffolk if you can. Live-streaming is also available.
In 2014 I performed with Kidd Jordan, Oliver, Alvin Fielder, Darrell Lavigne and Brian Quezergue in that Spring’s benefit for Jackie Harris’ Louis Satchmo Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp. The show was May 1 in Chuck Perkins’ Café Istanbul during middle of the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. We worked with a poem of mine in tribute to another profound and visionary composer and saxophonist, Glenn Spearman. Oliver knew Glenn in 1970s’ Paris. Kidd knew Glenn from Glenn’s playing with Cecil Taylor, William Parker, Raphe Malik, and more.
Glenn—who left us due to colon cancer at age 51 in 1998—remains one of my closest, dearest and most inspiring collaborators, as this interview by Glenn Ito for All About Jazz tries to convey. (5)
None of the musicians had heard a word of the poem before we hit that night at Café Istanbul. Aristide Phillips recorded the performance with his Sony Pro. It can be seen between 9:45 and 22:00 of the YouTube compilation “Wings beyond Wings.”
Over the past month I’ve gone though the audio of this ‘Fanfare’
and adjusted volumes and done other editing second-by-second.
This assuredly obsessive process I call with a smile “the Fine-Tooth-Comber.” The FTC reference is to Ocean-wave surfing along with Pointillism. The process' intention always is to bring out the amazing sensitivity and prowess that can emerge among improvising musicians.
So, today, a Playlist offering to Kidd, Glenn and Oliver, accompanied by images, links and notes. You can hear the three tracks on Bandcamp.
1. “Fanfare’, a tribute to Glenn, live at Café Istanbul with Kidd, Oliver, Alvin, Darrell and Brian.
2. ‘About Reinaldo, Mourning and Outrage’, a poem with Kidd and Morikeba Kouyaté in tribute to Reinaldo Arana, co-founder in the middle 1980s of a pioneering Community Garden between Avenues B and C on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. ’About Reinaldo’ also got an Fine Tooth Comber process, so that the recording might better represent its subject, the AIDS victim Reinaldo, and Kidd’s and Morikeba’s artistry. “About Reinaldo, …’ is one track on my June 2022 album LOVE OVER WAR.
3. ‘The Skin She Bears’, recorded in 1995 at Guerilla Euphonics in Oakland, CA with Glenn Spearman, Donald Robinson and J. R. Routhier and with Josh Heller and Myles Boisen as engineers. ‘The Skin She Bears’ came to me whole, first thing in my last Saturday morning at New Orleans’ 1992
U. S. Olympic Track & Field Trials, pouring out as I awoke at Tom-and-Annette’s. Earlier that week of June 1992 I’d visited a friend from Detroit, Toni, and heard her accounts of how New Orleans in that Crack-invasion year had dealt her shocks unexpectedly beyond her study of Marie Laveau. ‘Somebody was murdered’ in Toni’s living-room. ‘The Skin She Bears’ is part of an unreleased album titled Flowers Smell Of Gasoline.
Today’s piece closes with a video-still (Maryse on the camera again!) of Kidd and his daughters Rachel and Stephanie breaking up at news that his monetrary award from JAMBAR ‘Organic Artisan Energy Bars’ is meant so that he “can go away to Brasil.”
And photos of Kidd receiving the so-deserved Proclamation by the City of New Orleans and its City Council that May 5, 2022. Now his birthday (87 in 2022) will forever be known as Kidd Jordan Day in New Orleans and the State of Louisiana. (Thank YOU, Oliver Thomas and Lena and Diedre of your Office.)






Aristide Phillips' video-still, May 1, 2014, Café Istanbul and benefit for
for the Louis Satchmo Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp.
Aristide again, May 1 2014.
Aristide AGAIN--montage of video-stills from the July 24, 2014 session by Kidd,
Morikeba and me for our album Women Center Earth, Sea And Sky at New Orleans
and Rick G. Nelson's Marigny Studio.


Glenn and I in the Xala band with Donald Robinson, J.R. Routhier and
Myles Boisen at San Francisco's Elbo Room, 1995. Photo by the painter
Gina Jacupke.
Rachel Jordan, Kidd, and Stephanie Jordan react to news of Kidd's prospective
trip to Brasil. The wonderful experiment of JAMBAR 'Organic Artisan Energy Bars'
are in the lower forefront, along with JAMBAR's check to Kidd. Video-still from
Maryse Philippe Déjean.


Rick Lopez's 'Sessionography' for Glenn is here.

Kidd receiving the Proclamation of his now-perpetual Day among family, friends
and members of New Orleans' City Council. Photo from Diedre Pierce of Oliver
Thomas' office.

1. https://www.allmusic.com/artist/oliver-lake-mn0000398491/discography
2. https://www.oliverlake.net/art/
3. https://www.artsforart.org/vision.html
4. https://www.theclementecenter.org/about-1
5. https://www.allaboutjazz.com/artist-platform-producer-don-paul-don-paul-by-aaj-staf
Earlier--April 2022--Page about Kidd
Anticipating his May 5 Day
1. Interview of Kidd, concerning Fred Anderson, by Joseph Chonto on his YouTube Channel, Some Real Music.
Check out the respectful sympathy and astute inquiries of Joseph Chonto and the down-to-earth eloquence of Kidd. 18:49--"Every hit is memorable with Fred." Fred Anderson, master musician, educator, club-owner, passed in 2010.
LINKS


2. Interview with Kidd by Ted Panken.


Journalist and broadcaster Ted Panken interviewed Kidd in 2002.
What I learned from this talk partly led to my conceiving the 'Make Your Own Shoes and Fly' project with a would-be GALLOP Sextet of Kidd, Alex de Grassi, Hamid Drake, William Parker, Paul Plimley, and me. Kidd's talk about growing up on the southwest Louisiana Prairie amid new electric Blues and Zydeco, late 1940s into 1950s, and then his studying both Charlie Parker and eastern European composers, brought a lot to mind. The nearest that 'Make Your Own Shoes and Fly' has come to performance is the 'Seventh Sun' concert at the New Orleans Jazz Museum on November 1, 2019. A summary of the project is below.
Another great photo by Michael Wilderman on Bill Shoemaker's vastly informative website Point of Departure.

3. Pages about the 'Seventh Sun' Concert in tribute to Kidd. See appreciations by William Parker, Patricia Nicholson Parker, Dutch Keplet, Randy Fertel, Cyril Neville, Jackie Harris, T.R. Johnson, Larry Blumenfeld, and Darrell Lavigne.

A web-page from the tab for 'Seventh Sun' and Kidd at stickinguprforchildren.com
4. The elegant and extensive KiddJordan.com website.
Rachel Jordan, violinist and one of four professional musicians among
Kidd's and Edvidge's seven children, spearheaded the assembly of an extensive and elegant website.

Bill Shoemaker and Michael Wilderman are paired by their excellence and
their dedication. They're like Oliver. They're like Kidd and Fred--so pleased
when they could play together. They're like ...
Kidd Jordan and Fred Anderson in a photo by Michael Wilderman
from Bill Shoemaker's website Point of Departure.


These reside on We Are Revolutions & You Are Here to Shine website and convey more to see and hear.
7. Over 25 further Links to audio, video and print about Kidd.

After 'Fanfare' on May 1, 2014.
One more time: Rick Lopez's sessionographies for Glenn;
for William Parker; for Sam Rivers; for Marilyn Crispell; and several more. Rick is a champion who deserves support.
