Podcast appearances and mentions of rene marie

The venerable bastards have made it to their twelfth anniversary, so time to dress us in silk and pearls (if you weren't already in your fantasies).  While you attempt to scrub that hideous image from your minds, we'll mention that today's episode looks back to 2013, the origin year of the podcast, covering five releases from that epochal year we missed.  Can you guess who appears for the first time on the 'cast and exactly which ways he's oriented?  Dave Holland – PRISM; Robbie Williams – SWINGS BOTH WAYS; Alex Cline – FOR PEOPLE IN SORROW; Christine McBride – PEOPLE MUSIC; Rene Marie – I WANNA BE EVIL.

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Dave Hanson is an arranger, composer, and pianist who has written for a diverse range of artists and ensembles, including the Boston Pops (the Paul Winter “Evening at Pops” PBS National Broadcast), Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, Denver Brass, Boulder Brass, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Houston Symphony, USAF Falconaires, Al Hood, and Claude Sim. The Littleton, Colorado Symphony Orchestra recently performed the “Jazz Violin Concerto” Dave composed for Claude Sim. He is the co-leader, with Al Hood, of the H2 Big Band. The H2 Big Band has been featured in supportive and collaborative roles with Darius Rucker (“Hootie” of Hootie and the Blowfish fame), Veronica Swift, Rene Marie, Take 6, Jon Faddis, Kevin Mahogany, Curtis Stigers, Clint Holmes, and Allan Harris. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/backstagejazz/message

Mike Marlier has performed and recorded with countless artists and musicians, including Dave Grusin, Nelson Rangell, Benny Golson, Bobby Shew, Rob Mullins, the Neophonic Jazz Orchestra, Lee Ritenour, and Stanley Jordan. He is the staff drummer at the annual Conference on World Affairs at CU and Mile Hi Church in Lakewood. Marlier was the featured drummer at the Buddy Rich Memorial Concert presented by the Gift of Jazz in 2009 and presented a clinic and masterclass at a Gospel Chops seminar in Taipei, Taiwan, in 2014.  Eric Gunnison has worked extensively with trumpeter Ron Miles, with whom he has toured and recorded since 1997, including appearing as a clinician and pianist with Miles's quartet at the 1st Annual Thailand Jazz Conference and the Bangkok Jazz Festival in 2009. Gunnison has also been the pianist and a composer/arranger for the cooperative band Convergence, one of Denver's leading jazz ensembles, since 1991. In addition to releasing several recordings, Convergence hosts a monthly series of appearances with special guest jazz artists at Denver's premier jazz club Dazzle that, since February 2010, has featured Roberta Gambarini, Rene Marie, Randy Brecker, Jim McNeely, Chris Potter, Christian McBride, Wallace Roney, and Bobby Watson among others. The Eric Gunnison & Mike Marlier tribute to Chick Corea will take place on Wednesday, January 3. Showtime is 6:30 PM, with doors opening at 5:30 p.m. Tickets and more info: https://www.dazzledenver.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/backstagejazz/message

The first thing you will fall in love with in this episode is the voice of Rene Marie. Our intuitive and exquisite sister from Trinidad brings sacred wisdom with clarity and compassion in this lovely conversation about the WILD and the ETERNAL.    Rene Marie graduated from Spelman College with a B.A. in Psychology and an MBA from Anglia Ruskin University in England, with a specialty in innovation and entrepreneurship. She describes herself as a mystic, a witch, rogue Catholic, and loving wife of Dr. Sayida Peprah Wilson. She holds heritage from India, Caribbean Indigenous culture, and African descent.    My favorite word to describe Rene is YUMMY! To contact her please email: After you listen, be sure to check out our links to support this podcast (email list, join our Patreon, join our text community!) and our latest offering, HOLD US SACRED RETREATS, and sign up to join us in person in transformative Sharm El Sheikh. To watch these episodes visit our YouTube home, like, follow, subscribe, and turn on your notifications so you don't miss an episode!

Who wrote Strange Fruit? Where did Time magazine place it on its list of best songs of the 20th Century? Is it poor taste to include a cover on an album titled Nostalgia?Join Stevie Nix as he answers all of these questions and more on this episode that looks at covers of arguably the most powerful song written in the past 100 years.WARNING: This episode contains traces of unimaginable racism.Featured artists [in alphabetical order]:Dee Dee Bridgewater Jeff BuckleyMary CoughlanAndra DayBarbara HendricksBillie HolidayJose JamesBettye LavetteAnnie LennoxRene MarieOheneRapsodyDiana RossNina SimoneKanye WestJosh WhiteHidden track: Blood On The Leaves [Kanye West]20 Songs: Best Of Song Sung New #1Join Stevie on Spotifywww.songsungnew.com

Welcome back to The Jazz Room with your host, Joan Watson Jones. This week will feature the conclusion of the two part interview with Rene Marie, who continues telling stories that inspired a selection of songs on her album "Songs of Red". Learn more about Rene here:  renemarie.com Find out more about host Joan Watson Jones here: https://www.joanwatsonjones.com

Time to take a load off once again by stopping into "The Jazz Room" for some sweet, sweet jazz and lively conversations with the cats that keep the genre swinging. This week, Host Joan Watson Jones talks with Rene Marie in the start of this two part interview. Rene shares her life stories that inspired the songs she wrote on her CD "Sound of Red"  Learn more at about Rene Marie: renemarie.com Find out more about Joan Watson Jones: https://www.joanwatsonjones.com

Live performances by Ranky Tanky, Susan Werner, Rene Marie & Experiment in Truth and The Sea The Sea.Recorded on 12/8/20 in Charleston, WV. Support is provided by Digital Relativity https://digitalrelativity.com

Do YOU have a tiny victory to share? Call the Tiny Victories Hotline: (323) 285-1675We want folks to share their tiny victories on our hotline because, frankly, we’ll assume we’re just talking into the void every week and nothing matters. Prove us wrong. Did you finally do that thing you were putting off? Tiny victory! Reconnect with someone you haven’t been in touch with for ages? Victory! We only ask that you try to keep messages to under a minute so we’re able to play it on the show.If you prefer, you can record a tiny victory on your phone and then email us the audio. Email: TinyVictories@maximumfun.orgHOW TO @ USTwitter@GetTinyPod@LAGurwitch@ImLauraHouse@Swish (producer Laura Swisher)Instagram@GetTinyPod

Which Bach composition inspired Blackbird? What prompted McCartney to write it? What was the song's sequel? Join Stevie Nix as he answers all these questions and more on this episode that listens to a Blackbird singing in the dead of night.WARNING: This episode contains traces of Bobby McFerrin.Featured artists [in alphabetical order]:Ellen AnderssonDionne FarrisJana Herzen & Charnett MoffettBettye LavetteLeft BoyRene MariePaul McCartneyBobby McFerrinFaith PillowFerdinand SarnitzThe Sisters LoveSylvesterSarah VaughanEddie VedderThe Dandy WarholsJohn, Paul, George & A Bit Of Ringo #1John, Paul, George & A Bit Of Ringo #220 Songs To Play If You're In A Bit Of A FlapPaul McCartney's best lyricsJoin Stevie on Spotify and Instagramwww.songsungnew.com

This week, I had the chance to interview the amazing pianist Kevin Bales. Kevin is a world-class pianist known for his work as a leader and in partnership with musicians such as Bunky Green, Rene Marie, Gordon Vernick, and Marcus Printup in addition to many others. In addition to his incredible skills as a performer, Kevin is also an accomplished educator. He maintains a thriving private teaching studio in Atlanta and has taught at Georgia State University since 2005 and at the University of North Florida before that. I really hope that you enjoy this wide-ranging conversation as much as I did! Thanks, as always, for listening. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/atljazznotes/message

Music starts at 12:48.For my son's graduation, I wanted to share a song that completely embodies my hopes and wishes for his future, and wish all our graduates or those embarking on a new journey or phase in life. The wisdom captured in the song by Rene Marie is brilliant, heartfelt, and moving. So well done that I had to give it go. All my best to you graduates, and all my love and respect to you, Rene Marie, for such a profound piece.

This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! 1. ADRSA Founding Director, Iya Dr. Funlayo E. Wood-Menzies and Gilbert Kobina Bouhairie, Founder of The God Box Foundation, join us to talk about the Film Fridays kick off Friday, May 15, 2020 at 8 pm est. https://www.facebook.com/AfricanDiasporicRSA 2.Quest for Democracy is May 18, 2020 https://prisonerswithchildren.ourpowerbase.net/2020DQ4DOrgRSVP We are joined by London Croudy, Elder Freeman Fellow in COMMUNICATIONS and Succatti Shaw, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, STAFF ORGANIZER/HOUSING. 3. Rene Marie rebroadcast  

How does jazz speak to the tumult of today? Can a song change a mind? Is improvisation a political act? A frank discussion about what musicians can communicate in the face of social and political unrest, and how these times affect the course of and context for our culture. Moderator: Larry Blumenfeld (Wall Street Journal). Panelists: Vijay Iyer, Rene Marie, Arturo O'Farrill.

1. Ahjamu Umi, joins us to talk about African Liberation Day 2019. He has been an organizer for the All African Peoples Revolutionary Party since 1984.  He has organized for the party on three continents and the Caribbean.  He has a Masters Degree in Econ/Political Science and he has authored/published four books including the recently released political thriller "The Paradox Principles." 2. We speak to Carol Leigh, founder and director and Jovelyn Richards re: Sex Workers Film Festival 20th Anniversary.  http://www.sexworkerfest.com/events.html Jovelyn D. Richards is an international performance artist, writer, film and theater director and radio host for Pacifica radio KPFA 94.1 3. Rene Marie interview from June 29, 2011 (excerpt). 4. Nambi E. Kelly's "Jazz" at MTC through Wed.-Sunday, May 19. She and C. Kelly Wright (Violet/Country Violet) join us to talk about the work.  

It's all female vocalists this time, and the conversations about sultriness get pretty deep - when they aren't painfully shallow. Rene Marie – VERTIGO; Sophie Milman – MAKE SOMEONE HAPPY; Monica Zetterlund with the Bill Evans Trio – WALTZ FOR DEBBIE; Cecile McLoren Salvant – DREAMS AND DAGGERS.

Grammy-nominated jazz vocalist and songwriter Rene Marie has a perfect metaphor for how to spark creativity: "I think the creative bent is a shy little animal that only comes out when it's safe, when it feels that it's going to be heard or listened to. At least that's the way it is for me. If I ignore it, then it just goes back under its rock, but if I feed it, encourage it, play with it, acknowledge it, 'Hey, little guy!' then it comes back out more and more." In 1997, when she was in her early 40s, she returned to her musical career. Over the past 20 years, she has made numerous recordings and stage performances including at the Morris Graves Museum, brought here by the Redwood Jazz Alliance . She's this week's guest on Chronologically Gifted talking about her creative process and creativity in later life.

This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay! San Francisco's own bluesy, soulful singer and guitarist Quinn DeVeaux blends New Orleans soul and early blues with contagious dance rhythms. DeVeaux has been thrilling lovers of rollicking early R&B, and a good time, for years. Quinn DeVeaux, who opens the 80th Annual Stern Grove Concert season with Kool and the Gang, on Sunday, June 25, has according to one reviewer, "the smoothest yet dirty spank you voice we've heard in decades. With all the style and subtlety of the great soul/blues singers of the earth bound golden days. His honest and telling delivery grabs you and paints a story on the wall of your mind where you'll long to stay and admire the view" (artist website). 2. Rene Marie archived interview, June 29, 2011.  Music: Meklit & Quinn; Mark Lomax; Rene Marie

This week on THE JANUS ADAMS SHOW – wrapped up and tied in a bow - readings from my new book due out later this week: “SEDIDDY: Stories of History, Heritage, Hope, and Seeing Red.” And, there's more: the music of Roberta Flack, Edwin Hawkins, Rene Marie, Les McCann, and Catherine Russell. Hear the show live on WJFF – www.wjffradio.com Saturdays at 4pm. Subscribe to our podcast (uploaded weekly on Mondays) at: soundcloud.com/janusadams/ The Janus Adams Show, a weekly public radio program and podcast, is “a show about race – every race – and courage.”™ To learn more about the show and join the conversation, visit us at: JanusAdams.com.

“Tipping on the Tightrope”: Dr. Karinn Glover, MD This week on THE JANUS ADAMS SHOW, our guest is Psychiatrist and Mindfulness Coach, Dr. Karinn Glover, MD. "I dig for information about how people got through challenges – especially oppression" says Dr. Karinn Glover, MD. "Because, the more I feel like everything we're facing is new; the more I'm reminded that it is not. For people who have had traumatic experiences, I help them to figure out their story; to put together their narrative, because putting experiences to words is healing." Featured: James Baldwin, Dr. Claude Steele, Rene Marie, and Janelle Monae's "Tightrope." Hear the show live on WJFF – www.wjffradio.com Saturdays at 4pm. Subscribe to our podcast (uploaded weekly on Mondays) at: https://soundcloud.com/janusadams/ The Janus Adams Show, a weekly public radio program and podcast, is “a show about race – every race – and courage.”™ Learn more about the show and join the conversation at: JanusAdams.com.

“Tipping on the Tightrope”: Dr. Karinn Glover, MD This week on THE JANUS ADAMS SHOW, our guest is Psychiatrist and Mindfulness Coach, Dr. Karinn Glover, MD. "I dig for information about how people got through challenges – especially oppression" says Dr. Karinn Glover, MD. "Because, the more I feel like everything we're facing is new; the more I'm reminded that it is not. For people who have had traumatic experiences, I help them to figure out their story; to put together their narrative, because putting experiences to words is healing." Featured: James Baldwin, Dr. Claude Steele, Rene Marie, and Janelle Monae's "Tightrope." Hear the show live on WJFF – www.wjffradio.com Saturdays at 4pm. Subscribe to our podcast (uploaded weekly on Mondays) at: https://soundcloud.com/janusadams/ The Janus Adams Show, a weekly public radio program and podcast, is “a show about race – every race – and courage.”™ Learn more about the show and join the conversation at: JanusAdams.com.

World Footprints will walk in the footprints of two socially-conscious guests--a Grammy-nominated singer whose musical talents led her to change her life and live her passion, and we'll welcome back a good friend whose efforts are savings one of the most graceful and beautiful big cats on our planet. Rene Marie is a Grammy-nominated singer, actress and writer who uses her energetic and dynamic voice to raise awareness about social issues. Inspired by iconic entertainer - Eartha Kitt - Rene has released a tribute album honoring Eartha Kitt, an inspiring artist who helped changed America's landscape for the better. Rene also uses her voice to shine attention on important issues in America. Next we welcome back Dr. Laurie Marker, founder of The Cheetah Conservation Fund. The cheetah is one of the oldest and most majestic animals in the world and is fighting to survive. While it's taken four million years for the species to develop, it has only taken 100 years for mankind to bring the cheetah to the brink of extinction. Dr. Laurie Marker has made it her life's mission to reverse that trend. As the founder of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, Dr. Marker and her team are ensuring that the cheetach is here for the ages.

This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!  1. From the archives: "Grateful" -- Victoria Theodore (4/26/2013) This is a black arts and culture site. We will be exploring the African Diaspora via the writing, performance, both musical and theatrical (film and stage), as well as the visual arts of Africans in the Diaspora and those influenced by these aesthetic forms of expression. I am interested in the political and social ramifications of art on society, specifically movements supported by these artists and their forebearers. It is my claim that the artists are the true revolutionaries, their work honest and filled with raw unedited passion. They are our true heroes. Ashay!  1. From the archives: "Grateful" -- Victoria Theodore (4/26/2013) 2. From the archives: Rhodessa Jones speaks about her solo performance: "SHE" (2013 at Brava). 3. Velina Brown joins us to talk about "Schooled," SF Mime Troupe's 2016 Summer Season opening July 2-3, 1:30 p.m. in Berkeley at Cedar Rose Park and 7/4 Dolores Park in San Francisco. Music: Zion Trinity's Elegba Opening Prayer; Victoria Theodore's "Grateful," Rene Marie's Star Spangled Banner/Lift Every Voice   

Terry Currier, owner of the famous record store Music Millennium in Portland, sits in as guest c0-host to spin cuts from Brandee Younger (from her Wax & Wane CD) and Rene Marie (from her upcoming The Sound of Red CD).  Terry and Lee then riff on the state of the record store and on the vinyl revival,including Record Store Day, which Terry founded many years ago to promote record-buying. This episode sponsored by ECM Records.

Singer/actress/author Gloria Loring joins World Footprints to talk about her music collaboration with son, R&B artist Robin Thicke, travel and her book, "Coincidence is God's Way of Remaining Anonymous".  Gloria also dishes on her life past life as Liz Chandler on daytime's Days of our Lives. Jazz artist Rene Marie credits many women, including Eartha Kitt, for her life's direction and musical influences.  After her abusive husband of 23 years gave her an ultimatum to quit singing or leave--she chose to leave and begin her professional music career at the age of 42.  Rene reflects on her life journey and how a trip to Germany helped her recognize humanity's common bonds. According to Rockin' Dopsie, Jr., a person who doesn't feel the rhythm of Zydeco has no soul.  We revisit an interview we did with Dopsie, Jr., aka the "Mick Jagger of the Marsh", during one of our many broadcasts from New Orleans' French Quarter Festival. You'll also hear what Rio de Janeiro is doing to prepare for the Olympics and what the area has to offer to travelers at all other times. For additional resources visit this showpage on WorldFootprints.com.

Over the last fifteen years, vocalist and songwriter Rene Marie has risen to international and popular acclaim by sticking to her guns. As you’ll hear, Rene has fought hard to be where she is and it’s paying off. She was nominated for the 2014 “Best Jazz Vocal Album” Grammy award for “I Wanna Be Evil” […]

Co-host Rene Marie returns to listen and discuss two new great vocal jazz albums from Kurt Elling ("Passion World") and Dee Dee Bridgewater ("Dee Dee's Feathers").  The two very happily married hosts then riff on the institution of marriage.  This episode sponsored by The Jazz Cruise.

Co-host Rene Marie returns to check out Cassandra Wilson's latest album "Coming Forth By Day" and listen to her version of "Strange Fruit" on that recording as well as on her earlier "New Moon Daughter" album for Blue Note. Rene and Lee riff on the recent events in Charleston, how the President is viewed by different people, the public display of the Confederate flag, the ubiquity of guns and violence and the many facets of racism.  This episode is sponsored by the Newport Jazz Festival.

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World Footprints will walk in the footprints of two socially-conscious guests--a Grammy-nominated singer whose musical talents led her to change her life and live her passion, and we'll welcome back a good friend whose efforts are savings one of the most graceful and beautiful big cats on our planet. Rene Marie is a Grammy-nominated singer, actress and writer who uses her energetic and dynamic voice to raise awareness about social issues.  Inspired by iconic entertainer - Eartha Kitt - Rene has released a tribute album honoring Eartha Kitt, an inspiring artist who helped changed America's landscape for the better.  Rene also uses her voice to shine attention on important issues in America. Next we welcome back Dr. Laurie Marker, founder of The Cheetah Conservation Fund.  The cheetah is one of the oldest and most majestic animals in the world and is fighting to survive.  While it's taken four million years for the species to develop, it has only taken 100 years for mankind to bring the cheetah to the brink of extinction.  Dr. Laurie Marker has made it her life's mission to reverse that trend.  As the founder of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, Dr. Marker and her team are ensuring that the cheetach is here for the ages. 

Rene Marie's tribute to Eartha Kitt, "I Wanna Be Evil" at the Cabaret at the Columbia Club, JCC's Director of Arts & Education, Lev Rothenberg talks about the 16th annual Ann Katz Festival of Books and Arts, and Dance Kaleidoscope dancer Liberty Harris has announced her retirement.

World Footprints will walk in the footprints of two socially-conscious guests--an entertainer whose musical talkents led her to change her life to live her passion, and we'll welcome back a good friend whose efforts are savings one of the most graceful and beautiful big cats on our planet. Rene Marie is a singer, actress and writer who uses her energetic and dynamic voice to raise awareness about social issues.  Inspired by iconic entertainer - Eartha Kitt - Rene has released a tribute album honoring Eartha Kitt, an inspiring artist who helped changed America's landscape for the better.  Rene also uses her voice to shine attention on important issues in America. The cheetach is one of the oldest and most majestic animals in the world and is fighting to survive.  While it's taken four million years for the species to develop, it has only taken 100 years for mankind to bring the cheetah to the brink of extinction.  Dr. Laurie Marker has made it her life's mission to reverse that trend.  As the founder of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, Dr. Marker and her team are ensuring that the cheetach is here for the ages.

World Footprints will walk in the footprints of two socially-conscious guests--an entertainer whose musical talkents led her to change her life to live her passion, and we'll welcome back a good friend whose efforts are savings one of the most graceful and beautiful big cats on our planet. Rene Marie is a singer, actress and writer who uses her energetic and dynamic voice to raise awareness about social issues.  Inspired by iconic entertainer - Eartha Kitt - Rene has released a tribute album honoring Eartha Kitt, an inspiring artist who helped changed America's landscape for the better.  Rene also uses her voice to shine attention on important issues in America. The cheetach is one of the oldest and most majestic animals in the world and is fighting to survive.  While it's taken four million years for the species to develop, it has only taken 100 years for mankind to bring the cheetah to the brink of extinction.  Dr. Laurie Marker has made it her life's mission to reverse that trend.  As the founder of the Cheetah Conservation Fund, Dr. Marker and her team are ensuring that the cheetach is here for the ages.

We rebroadcast an archival interview with Wadada Leo Smith speaking about 10 Freedom Summers, a musical survey of the Civil Rights Movement. At the time of the interview it wasn't available. Now it is. Rene Marie speaks about Voices of My Beautiful County from an interview broadcast taped on June 29, 2011. Music: Wadada Leo Smith's "Spirtual Light," "Don't You Remember"; The Pyramids's "What the World Needs Now"; Robert Glasper's "Butterfly" from Double Booked; Rene Marie selections  from Voices of My Beautiful Country. 

We open the show today, which is dedicated to freedom fighter, Mrs. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (Feb. 4, 1913-Oct. 24, 2006) with an interview with scholar and Parks biographer, Jeanne Theoharis, Ph.D., a professor at Brooklyn College, CUNY NY.  Her new book, The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks, comes on the 100th year of Mrs. Parks's life. Dr. Theoharis is the author and coauthor of six books and numerous articles on the black freedom struggle and the contemporary politics of race in the United States. We open with Lift Ev'ry Voice/Star Spangled Banner by Rene Marie and Rosa Parks speaking Oct. 16, 1995 at the Million Man March. Note the interesting coincidence of her departure from this realm is also in October. We close the program with an interview with Larry Americ Allen, playwright whose The Expulsion of Malcolm X opens this evening at the Southside Theatre at Ft. Mason Ctr., Bldg. D, 3rd Floor, for a month long run Friday-Saturday, 8 p.m., Sundays, 3 p.m. April 12-May 5, 2013. Call (510) 213-0401 or brownpapertickets.com

JT editor Evan Haga sits in for Rene Marie, who is in NYC recording her new album. Evan previews new albums from Marc Ribot & Ceramic Dog and Colin Stetson, both of which owe as much to rock as jazz.  Lee riffs on how the alt-rock community seems indifferent to jazz and improvisational music.  This episode sponsored by DC Jazz Festival.

Rhodessa Jones joins us to talk about her latest work, The Resurrection of SHE opening at Brava Theatre where she is the current Artist in Residence March 28-April 7, 2013. Ms. Jones is Co-Artistic Director of the critically acclaimed San Francisco performance company Cultural Odyssey. An actress, teacher, singer, and writer, Jones is also the founder and director of the Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women. On January 29, 2013 San Francisco Mayor Lee presented the 2013 Mayor's Art Award to Rhodessa Jones for her “lifetime of artistic achievement and enduring commitment to the role of the arts in civic life”. Rhodessa was selected as an "ARTS ENVOY" by the U.S. Department of State, Educational and Cultural Affairs Bureau in June/July 2012. She received grant support to journey to South Africa to continue her work in collaboration with Urban Voices Festival inside the Naturena Women's Prison in Johannesburg, South Africa and then journey on to participate in the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, South Africa. She has received many awards for her work including a United States Artist Fellowship to support her work in 2007, an Honorary Doctorate from California College of the Arts, a San Francisco Bay Guardian GOLDIE Lifetime Achievement Award, an Otto Rene Castillo Award for Political Theater, and a San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Award.  Visit www.brava.org Music: Meklit Hadero's Walls, Ruthie Foster's Truth; Rene Marie's Just My Imagination.

Miles Davis! JT publisher Lee Mergner and singer Rene Marie preview new music from the box set Miles Davis Quintet Live in Europe 1969 on Sony/Legacy, featuring the "lost quintet" of Miles, Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter, Dave Holland and Jack DeJohnette.  Rene and Lee talk about how the Bitches Brew album changed their lives and they also riff on Miles' legacy - from music to fashion and beyond.

What to the American Slave is the 4th of July? Frederick Douglass asked over 100 years ago, a question still pertinent today. We play Malcolm X: Afro-American Lesson Part 1; followed by Rene Marie, singing from Voices of a New America "Lift Ev'ry Voice/Star Spangled Banner. Tim Wise follows speaking about his latest book, Dear White America (3/21/2012). We then replay an interview with Susan Heyward, who speaks about her role in the David Mamet's play RACE at ACT-SF last season, 2011. There are echoes of Scottsboro Boys in Mamet's RACE, as well as jurist, Anita Hill. In this case, it is a black woman who accuses a rich white man of rape, he then goes to a prominent firm to see if its attorneys can make the charges and case disappear. It is actress, Susan Heyward's character, a new attorney at this firm and its first woman, a woman who doesn't play by the rules, which makes it very clear that justice, often based on the client and victim's race, will not be a factor on her watch (to her career's detriment, at least at that firm). A black woman attorney and a black woman victim. RACE looks at the artificial separation between justice and race and juxtaposes these two phenomena with differing outcomes. Can or should, or how does an attorney keep herself from empathizing with a victim who reminds her of herself? Is justice ever compromised by empathy? Black women are never the victim in popular lore; however, RACE raises this issue as does ACT's current play The Scottsboro Boys.Music: Slavemasters from Africa with Fury: Africa Rise. Our closing piece is a clip of an interview with Robert King with Dr. Terry Kupers re: Slavery in US Prisons. I think I found this on the angola3.org blog. Music: "Drum Solo" from Voices of a New America. Music: UMOJA "Our Problem to Solve" and Novalima: "Liberta."

CK Ladzekpo (Co-Artistic Director of the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival), Emiko Susilo (Director of Gamelan Sekar Jaya), Nestor Ruiz (Artistic Director of El Tunante) and Kristina Ramsey (Dancer with Las Que Son Son) open the show's first hour. Our next guest is Arisa White, whose debut collection, Hurrah's Nest, is this year's winner of the San Francisco Book Festival Award for poetry. We close with  devorah major, former San Francisco Poet Laureate, who will speak about Incantations by the Bahia a free poetry reading tonight, June 1, 2012, 7:30 p.m., at the Luggage Gallery, 1007 Market Street, in San Francisco  featuring a stellar lineup of poets who will speak about the 1970s, a time of burgeoning voices from silenced communities of color: African American, Latino, Indigenous, Asian/Pacific Islanders. Featured music: Rene Marie's "Just My Imagination," Sweet Honey in the Rock, Umoja Our "Problem to Solve" & "Yesterday's Lettuce," Wunmi "Oya-O."

Rebroadcast of interview with Rene Marie followed by an interview with A'Lelia Bundles, president of the Madam Walker/A'Lelia Walker Family Archives and author of On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling biography of her great-great-grandmother. After a 30-year career as an executive and Emmy award winning producer with NBC News and ABC News, she now devotes her time to writing and serving on nonprofit boards. She is president and chair of the board of the Foundation for the National Archives and a trustee of Columbia University. She is joined by Sheryl Grant, president, 100 Black Women, to talk about the 14th Annual Madam CJ Walker Awards Luncheon, Friday, March 23, 2012 in SF, CA http://www.onehundredblackwomen.com/ Verna Brooks & Patricia Van Hook join us to talk about the Third Annual Girls Day Out, March 31, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Kingdom Builders Christian Fellowship, 7272 MacArthur Blvd., Oakland. For information call (510) 823-3665. We close with a conversation with the artistic director and co-founder of Dimensions Dance Theatre, Deborah Vaughn, and guest choreographers: Latanya D. Tigner & Isaura Oliveria. Down the Congo Line part 1, debuts April 14, 2012, 8 p.m. at the Malonga Casquelourde Center for the Arts, 1428 Alice Street, Oakland. For tickets visit brownpapertickets or dimensionsdance.org (510) 465-3363. Tomorrow Dimensions Extensions, the youth program, performs their annual concert, Saturday, March 17, 7 p.m., same location. Ticket sales will go toward travel expenses, etc., for dancers who would like to attend workshops here and abroad. Music: Rene Marie, Juan de Dios Ramos Morejon's RAICES PROFUNDAS, Novalima.  

Aya de Leon joins us to talk about the 20th Anniversary of June Jordan's Poetry for the People, this weekend at UC Berkeley.  While we wait for Aya to join us, we play an interview with Rene Marie, recorded in June last year. We open with her arrangement of "Just My Imagination" from Songs of My Beautiful Nation. 

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Kheven Lee LaGrone, curator, I Am America:  Black Genealogy Through the Eye of An Artist, November 5, 2011 through February 2, 2012 at the San Francisco's Main Public Library's African American Center. A genealogists/artists reception will take place on Sunday, November 20, 2011 from 1 pm to 2 pm. A program follows from 2 pm to 3 pm in the Latino Hispanic Room.  Participating artists: Alice Beasley (quiltmaker); Inez Brown (mixed media); Karen Oyekanmi (doll maker); Makeda Rashidi (painter); Malik Seneferu (painter); Marion Coleman (quiltmaker); Morrie Turner (cartoonist); Nate Creekmore (cartoonist); Nena St. Louis (sculptor); Nicka Smith (mixed media); Orlonda Uffre (painter); TaSin Sabir (mixed media); Tomye (mixed media) We close with a conversation with members of Umoja:Damu Sudi Alii (piano) and Muhammad Bilal Hanif (alto & soprano saxophones): Dance of the Kalahari: In Memorium Concert.at the 57th Street Gallery, in Oakland, Sunday, Nov. 20, 2011, 2-5:30 PM, featuring besides Damu & M.B. Hanif, Larry Douglas (trumpet & flugelhorn), Mali Vincent Williams (bass), Willie G (vocals) and others. The ensemble is honoring the memory of founding members: Kenneth Byrd (flutist) & Kamau Seitu (drums). There will be free food at the event.  Admission is $10.00 per person. Music featured: Umoja: Blessings & Dance of the Kalahari; Rene Marie's Lift Ev'ry Voice.  An archived interview with Lavinia Currier, OKA director, opens the show. She speaks about her latest film, in theatres Oct. 28, 2011. OKA is the story of the Bayaka people in Central West Africa and an ethnomusicologist Larry Whitmore, who falls in love with the people and culture. Visit http://okamovie.com/