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"Out There A Minute" with Micheal Akutagawa (archive)

Jazz Program
Sunday, April 21, 2019 | 10:00 to 12:00 | Jazz Program

Artist Song Album Label Comments
Rubyana St. James Infirmary (excerpt) Sapphire + Red The 2019 National Poetry Month "Jazz & Poetry" Show --
Baby Gramps "Uncontrovertable Facts" Same Ol' Timorously Poem written with a single vowel --
Elbow Starlings The Seldom Seen Tip of the DJ cap to Dr. Timothy Searls for the "assist" --
Rahsaan Roland Kirk If I Loved You Does Your House Have Lions?
(Dame) Judi Dench Sonnet 116 ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds") Shakespeare Exits & Entrances : A Celebration in Words & Music
Charlie Barnet Afternoon of a Moax (Shake, Rattle, n' Roll) Swing & Sweat Happy Birthday, Mr. "Shake-scene" --
Abdullah Ibrahim Prelude for "Coltrane" Senzo
Read by a member of The Marlowe Society Sonnet 128 ("How oft when thou, my music, music play'st") Shakespeare: The Sonnets
A3 Woke Up This Morning Exit on Coldharbor Lane
Bill Frisell Pithecanthropus Erectus (album version) Hal Willner Presents Weird Nightmare: Meditations on Mingus
Charles Mingus Love Chant The Notorious Bettie Page OST
Donna Loren Shakin' All Over Love It Away
Martin Denny Hello, Young Lovers Exotica III
Michael Sheen "O she doth teach the torches to bright" (from "Romeo & Juliet") Be Thou Persuaded - Living in a Shakespearean World
Two Dollar Pistols All I Can Think of Is YOU You Ruined Everything
David Fiuczyniski The Star-crossed Lovers Jazzpunk
Andy Griffith "Togetherness: A Love Poem" This Here
Amir El Saffar Two Rivers Ensemble Love Poem Crisis
Arthur Brown Spontaneous Apple Creation The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Poemfone Caller Poemfone Message -- "3:38 PM, I loved it" Poemfone: New Word Order
Read (in Middle English) by Neville Coghill "The Prologue" Chaucer, "The Canterbury Tales"
Iswhat?! Pilgrimage The Life We Chose Includes "live" human beat-boxing --
Ben Watt Aubade Pillows & Prayers, Vol. 3
Kenneth Patchen "As frothing wounds of roses" (poem) Kenneth Patchen Reads His Love Poems Smithsonian Folkways
"Herman Munster" Herman Munster Reads His Poem Cool Daddy-O : 60s Beatnik Songs
Paltan Blues Band La Balila ("Terraplane Blues") Tuta Stanote, Vol. 1 - I blues di Robert Johnson
Read by a member of The Marlowe Society Sonnet 130 ("My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun") A Selection from the Sonnets, Vol. 3
Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band (Searching for a) Heart of Gold Black Velvet
Albert Finney, as Mercutio "O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you" (from "Romeo & Juliet") Be Thou Persuaded - Living in a Shakespearean World
Adam Rudolph Evanescent Symmetries Beyond the Sky
Read by Robert Elston "Petit the Poet", from Edgar Lee Masters, "Spoon River Anthology" Spoon River Anthology (original Broadway cast recording)
Themselves Death of a Thespian Them
Leonard Nimoy Everybody's Talking Spaced Out Universal
Rubyana St. James Infirmary Chartreuse s/r