FoodMusicJustice Archive
New Orleans Chuck Perkins helped me host Grevel Lindop on this trip to New Orleans in 2008.
Grevel returned the favor by hosting him in Manchester and arranging him to be part of Manchester’s big poetry festival. This led to him performing at London’s prestigious South Bank Centre on the same bill as Amiri Baraka.
Manchester and New Orleans have a DEEP connection.
Where do you think all that cotton went?
To the port of Liverpool and up the canal to the factories in Manchester. At one point, the UK produced 80% of the world’s finished cotton, an economic weapon which they used to subvert economies all over the world.
Why do you think Gandhi advised Indians “If you want freedom, turn the wheel.” This was not poetry or analogy. It was practical economic advice.
More info: https://www.mkgandhi.org/swadeshi_khadi/khadiquotes.htm
There was a third leg to this trifecta of misery: The factories of Manchester.
To describe them, poet John Blake coined the term the “satanic mills.”
Staffed by children because their hands could get in and out of the machinery, the suffering in these places was incalculable. The labor was essentially free as thousands of families impoverished by the loss of their hand weaving income gave their children up with the promise they’d become apprentices. It was not uncommon for children to be worked to death. Overseers were hired to walk the floors and literally whip children who flagged in their work.
During the Civil War, when shipments of cotton to the UK from New Orleans were blocked by Union forces, Manchester experienced a “cotton famine” and thousands lost their jobs. Despite this, the mill workers send a letter to Lincoln endorsing efforts to end slavery in the US. Details: https://areomagazine.com/2018/11/29/manchester-city-abraham-lincoln-true-sublime-heroism/
Inspired by the deep connections between New Orleans and Manchester, I made this short film.
The human spirit survived these assaults and these two communities separated by an ocean were united by music 100 years later.
– Ken McCarthy
FoodMusicJustice
Livestream, Video
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February 07, 2021
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Livestream, Video
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February 06, 2021
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June 05, 2020
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Livestream, Video
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Review:
This is the two hundred twentieth in a series of special Jazz on the Tube reviews of live stream performances.
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A major jazz bassist for the past 30 years and an important musical force in the Boston area, Bruce Gertz has taught at the Berklee College of Music since 1976.
He has a long resume of performances and recordings with major artists including Gary Burton, John Abercrombie, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Bill Frisell, Gil Evans, Jon Hendricks, Dave Brubeck and Joe Lovano among many others.
For his LiveStream of Feb. 6, 2021, Gertz formed a quartet with drummer Rafael Barata and two powerhouse tenor-saxophonists who also teach at Berklee: Jerry Bergonzi and George Garzone.
Bruce Gertz’s post bop originals inspire heated playing with an emphasis on spontaneity at swinging tempos.
Since Bergonzi and Garzone mostly play in the Boston area, this performance gives viewers from other areas a rare chance to see the two masterful saxophonists, both of whom are heard at their best.
-Scott Yanow
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February 06, 2021
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Henry Holloway’s
“Swing, Sing, and All That Jazz”
Posted: February 05, 2021
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Playlist:
1. I Can’t Believe That You’re In Love With Me…Hal McIntyre (1:06)
2. Autumn In New York…Hal McIntyre (3:55)
3. Free And Easy…Hal McIntyre (6:35)
4. Play A Simple Melody…Georgia Gibbs/Bob Crosby (10:37)
5. Someday You’ll Be Sorry…Warren Vache (13:47)
6. Swingin’ Down The Lane…Isham Jones (19:08)
7. Day In, Day Out…Terry Gibbs (22:59)
8. Too Close For Comfort…Terry Gibbs (26:10)
9. Seven Come Eleven…Buddy DeFranco (31:00)
10. Gonna Build A Mountain…Julia Mann (41:13)
11. Rosetta…Peter Plato (44:15)
12. In A Little Spanish Town…Jill Benson (47:03)
13. Green Dolphin Gumbai…Jim Galloway (50:06)
14. King Porter Stomp…Mart Rodger (54:53)
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