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Straight No Chaser
01:27
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Leapfrog
01:33
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#25
"leap frog"
for steve cannon
over the top
of everything
that's come before, & then
hunched down
for the future
to vault over your back,
lest we forget
that these are young men,
playful yet deep
with intelligence, bursting
with the joy of discovery
& their unparalleled virtuosity,
beautifully seasoned
in the history & practice
of their music
& sure enough determined
to move the music forward—
leap frog, leap
frog, bird & monk & dizzy
in the days before the second world war
—north rampart street
new orleans
december 10, 1996
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Relaxing With Lee
02:24
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#26
“relaxin’ with lee”
for andrew jones, larry hayden & henk botwinik
mr. lee bridges was around
for a very long time
& never a square,
he lived 77 years
& carried himself so humbly
all over the world
in his infinite hipness,
never at a loss
for a way to make it
through whatever troubles
might present themselves
& come out on top
with his dignity intact,
& his splendid wardrobe
& his beautiful smile,
always revealing
the radiant warmth
of his personality & hustling
his little books of poetry
& his memoirs
& his heartfelt performances,
relaxed & at home
wherever he went
with his hundreds of friends
who loved him so madly,
mr. lee bridges
was just about the sweetest man
you would ever want to meet,
from the ’40s & ’50s
when he followed the music
from detroit to new york city
& all the high points
in between, smoking reefers
with king pleasure & hanging out
with all the cats on the scene,
then making his way
across the ocean
in the early ’60s, smuggling hashish
from morocco & the orient
to paris & amsterdam
& reading his poems in the streets
& the coffeeshops & cafes,
mr.. lee bridges,
the cannabis poet,
a great American
& an exemplary human being
who graced our lives with love
like no one else on earth
& lives now forever in our hearts
—detroit
april 2005/
rochester ny
january 18, 2007
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Bloomdido
02:08
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Eronel
02:07
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My Melancholy Baby
03:21
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#24
“my melancholy baby”
for stevenson palfi
in the awful aftermath
of hurricane katrina,
amid the wreckage
of his city,
his neighborhood,
his home,
his painstaking work
& his life itself,
looking forward to nothing
but increasing pain
& suffering beyond measure
as far as he could see,
the relentless public indifference
to the fruits of his labors,
the bitter impossibility
of completing his allen toussaint film
already 15 years in the making,
songwriter: unknown,
pieced together in fits
& starts, when he could wheedle
enough bread for a shoot
or get a print made
or edit something together
so he could see it—money
he had to beg for
from people at arts agencies
who couldn’t stand him
& tried to ruin his life,
or people who dug his work
but never gave him enough cash
to make it all happen
the way it was supposed to,
this beautiful cat
with a big heart
& huge imagination, & a mind
that never stopped working,
the creator of “piano players
rarely ever play together”
starring professor longhair
& tuts washington
& the great toussaint,
documenter of emmanuel sayles
& papa john creach
& jabbo “junebug” jones,
employer of my daughter celia
& treasured friend & accomplice
ever since that day in 1982
when me & harry duncans
banged on his front door
on banks street
& begged him
to let us see “piano players”
& he showed it to us—
& that’s the way i’ll remember him, a guy who gave
& gave of what he had,
smiling through the pain
that wracked his body
& his heart, in love
with his work
& his daughter nell
& the music we all love—
always & forever,
brother stevenson palfi,
always in love with the music
—st. philip st, new orleans
december 30, 2005 >
february 22, 2006
rochester ny
january 19, 2007
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An Oscar For Treadwell
06:20
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Carolina Moon
11:58
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#38
“carolina moon”
for thelonious monk
just so each day
dawns again
& everything is new
all over—
were it not for you,
o great monk,
& your magic
ilk, it would
stay the same way
all the time, that
big fat stinky moon
just rotting in the sky
—renaissance centerbus stop,
detroit
september 27, 1982
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Mohawk (Instrumental)
02:11
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Leap Frog (Instrumental)
02:09
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Bloomdido (Instrumental)
02:53
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Eronel (Instrumental)
03:23
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John Sinclair Detroit, Michigan
"Sinclair is an iconic figure of ‘60s counterculture, famous for, among other things, having co-founded the anti-racist
White Panther Party"
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"John has taken the Blues, many Blues, many Blues singers, their words, their feeling, their lives, their conditions, the places and traces of where they was and is.
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