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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.
That great resource, the LOUISIANA
MUSIC FACTORY in New Orleans, now stocks all three albums of mine from 2020-2021--WOMEN and MUSIC (Meld #1) and COMPASSION, Poems and Drums and The Time We Have (Meld #1) Each comes with a 12-page Booklet of Lyrics and Images. You can also buy them online from the LMF--louisianamusicfactory.com.
You can also listen and--if you like--
download and buy on BANDCAMP.
WOMEN and MUSIC (Meld #2)
Booklet--Lyrics and Images
That great resource, the LOUISIANA
MUSIC FACTORY in New Orleans, now stocks all three albums of mine from 2020-2021--WOMEN and MUSIC (Meld #1) and COMPASSION, Poems and Drums and The Time We Have (Meld #1) Each comes with a 12-page Booklet of Lyrics and Images. You can also buy them online from the LMF--louisianamusicfactory.com.
You can also listen and--if you like--
download and buy on BANDCAMP.
Detail from painting by Edgar Brierre. Detail from avocado leaf.
Morikeba Kouyaté, Kidd Jordan, and me in stills from videography by Aristide Phillps on
July 24, 2014, Marigny Recording Studio, New Orleans.
Paulita Maxwell, for sure.
Billy Bonney
(Billy the Kid), perhaps.
Laura on our Buick, Matadero Creek bridge
by Chuck's-and-Janet's house among the
Redwoods, Palo Alto, 1973. Photo by Hunt Hawkins.
Charles Neville.
A scene supposed of 19th-century Samana.
Hortencia, Carnaval.
Reno circa 1956.
Jackie Wilson, Dancers, Shindig.
Rick G. Nelson, Roger Lewis, DP with Cisco Bradley's biography of William Parker,, Herlin Riley
and Kirk Joseph at Marigny Recording Studio, August 2021, after Herlin led us to finding a new language. Photo by Maryse Philippe Déjean.
Hamid, Kidd, DP, Alex (a GALLOP Quartet) in our session for Melissa Gregory Rue's
"Live Out Loud" feature documentary, June 2018. Photo by Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee.
Melissa Gregory Rue.
The GALLOP Trio at SPACE Theater, Ukiah, CA in a benefit
co-sponsored by Frey Vineyards. The 'Still Light' poem is about one of three homeless film-makers profiled in Melissa's "Live
Out Loud."
with Dhyani Dharma, San Franciso's Mission District, 2004,
recording the album Poems From Flares. Photo by the painter Julig.
with Stanley and O.C. and our house of Structural Concrete Inegrated Panels, (SCIPs),
New Orleans' Upper 9th Ward, under 'Sky of huge billiows and blue', June 2007.
Nick Benoit.
Michael Torregano Jr.
Mario Abney is a drummer, too.
John and Chuck, whose October birthdays inspired the
'Word Come Down ... It Must Be Love' poem in 2012.
Collage of stills from video by Aristide of the sessionwith Kidd and Morikeba
that brought us the album Women Center Earth, Sea, And Sky.
Three great musicians, Herlin, Roger and Kirk by the New Orleans Jazz Museum with drawing by writer Larry Blumenfeld of Kidd Jordan. Kidd plays on five tracks and is the inspiration for a sixth track. 'Maybe You See Horses' of the 16 that make up WOMEN and MUSIC, Meld 2/
Trying to get at something--photo by Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee in the session
with Alex, Hamid and Kidd for Melissa's "Live Out Loud."
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