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Monk In Orbit
04:07
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Humphf
03:48
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#2
"humphf"
for big red
they say monk
couldn't play the music. they say,
monk, he limited
by his own vision
& just can't play right. monk,
he too weird. his music
don't sound right, and he gets up
& dances
while he's playing,
like a jackleg preacher
at a revival meeting
in an old tent in north carolina.
they say monk sound too much
like a whorehouse piano player
from some pre-harlem ghett o
stuffed with back-woods renegades
& sporting women & gamblers,
street-level intellectuals. they say
monk, what is that shit
you trying to play, you just can't
do it that way,
you too way out baby,
that stuff ain't you. & monk
in his infinite knowledge
& wisdom, shoots a grin
from behind the piano,
wiggles his ass on the stool,
lays down another few bars
of utter genius,
turns it over to the tenor player
& rises to dance beside the piano,
some more of that old north carolina boogaloo
—oak park, mi
may 30, 1984
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4. |
Double Dealing
03:42
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5. |
My Buddy
05:47
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"my buddy"
for henry normile
marcus belgrave
standing outside the church
in that tan trench coat,
snowflakes dropping softly
into the up-turned bell
of his golden horn,
sending up some beautiful music
into the celestial ears
of our beloved pal,
literally blasted away
just days ago
by shotgun shells
through the neck, but now
surely resting his weary ass
on a cloudly bed
full of gorgeous angels
busily ministering to his every need
according to his personal creed:
"cocaine,
pussy,
& lobster,
in that order"
o henry, you fucking
candy bar of a man,
you sweet motherfucker,
i can see the big grin
that lights up your angelic face,
digging the lovely sounds of marcus
now as always,
in heaven
as it was on earth,
forever & ever,
amen—my man, afucking men
—snug harbor
frenchmen street, new orleans
september 15, 1993/
french quarter
new orleans
september 15, 1995
after dr. john,
"my buddy"
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6. |
Just Don't Say No
00:29
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7. |
Sunnyland Train
10:44
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8. |
Hellhound On My Trail
12:07
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9. |
Louisiana Blues
07:34
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10. |
History 101
08:00
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11. |
Homage To John Coltrane
08:19
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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.
--Amiri Baraka.
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John Sinclair recommends:
Mobile Homeland
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John Sinclair with a Detroit All-Star line up.
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MONK’S DREAM JOHN SINCLAIR & PLANET D NONET
by Planet D Nonet wsg John Sinclair
John live with The Planet D Nonet playing Thelonious Monk.
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John Sinclair And Youth change the musical landscape.
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