Corridor of Uncertainty Radio - Spoken Word Special by Muchomacho on Mixcloud
Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
On Flying
Dutchman records, as was the drummer Bernard Purdie on this poet classic
Last Poets – It’s a Trip
Last Poets
were formed in 1968 at Marcus Garvey Park in East Harlem.
There
is a road in Brixton Market called Marcus Garvey Way , just
off the Atlantic Road.
The Clash
released a track called Guns of Brixton
and also this
sung / spoken word classic..
The Clash – The Magnificent Seven
Magnificent
7" was written round a bassline, laid down by Norman Watt-Roy of the
Blockheads.
Ian Dury – Reasons to be Cheerful (pt3)
August
7 1979 Ian Dury played Hammersmith Odeon supported by this legendary UK
reggae wordsmith.
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Di Eagle An' Di Bear
Dennis
Bovell worked extensively with Linton Kwesi Johnson over many years.
He set up
his own Sound System "Jah Sufferer" when living in London ,as did
another
big name, Jazzie B, from1977 , bringing the Jamaican Sound System
culture to
London for the second generation West Indian people & kickin off
the
warehuse party scene . This
explains what Jazzie B & the later name changed system Soul II Soul were
all about.
Sol II Soul - Jazzie's Groove
So, seeing as "Jazzy's Groove" samples JB,
may I present to you:
James Brown – King Heroin
"My mother was rushed from a James Brown
concert in order to give birth to me," says 26-year-old
lyricist-musician-poet-actor Saul Williams.
Saul Williams - Grippo
Saul
Williams was voted Grand Slam champion of the Nuyorican Poets.
Nuyorican
Soul was an album by Kenny Dope & Louis Vega.
Among
their extensive remix work ,they have featured on the Verve Remixed series.
Also remixing on
those albums were the Jazz Collective UFO....
United Future Organization - Loud Minority
UFO appeared on the album, "Stolen Moments: Red
Hot + Cool"
from which comes this ABSOLUTE cracking psychedelic
Jazz number, from Alice Coltrane:
Alice Coltrane - a love supreme
John Coltrane featured on Milestones with Miles Davis,
(one of the great band lineups). Here's a vocal version of the albums
title track
Mark Murphy - Milestones
His tribute to the legendary Sunday session
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