December 14, 2004
To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES
Amiri Baraka, Amina Baraka and Blue Ark will perform at the Bowery Poetry Club
Amiri Baraka, the father of Contemporary African American Literatureand the greatest performing poet of our time comes home to the Bowery!
Sat Dec 18 8pm $12/$8 students (at door only)
Tix at www.virtuous.com
BLUE ARK: THE WORD SHIP featuring AMINA & AMIRI BARAKA w/ Rahman Herbie Morgan, Tenor; Dwight West, Vocal, Wilber Morris, Bass; DD Jackson, piano; Pheeroan Aklaff, drums.
Amina & Amiri Baraka are internationally known poets, and among the best in the word-music genre (Real Song, Enja 94; Amiri is on REUNION w/ NYART QUINTET release Feb 2000, and recently on CDs with David Murray (Fo Deuk Revue), Hugh Ragin (An Afternoon In Harlem)). Dwight West is a down and going tenor voice in the tradition of Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder, now doing Duke Ellington's wonderful ouerve. Wilber Morris has played with the best known new musicians extant, including David Murray, Dennis Charles, Sunny Murray, Cecil Taylor, &c. D.D. Jackson's wonderful new album is SO FAR (RCA). He is a leader of the new wave of ticklers. Pheeroan Aklaff is the acknowledged heavyweight of the younger drummers. He has played with Oliver Lake, David Murray, Cecil Taylor, Muhal Abrams, &c.
Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (Bleecker-Houston) 212-614-0505
“What the hell is going on here?"
To: Listings/Critics/Features From: JAZZ PROMO SERVICES
Amiri Baraka, Amina Baraka and Blue Ark will perform at the Bowery Poetry Club
Amiri Baraka, the father of Contemporary African American Literatureand the greatest performing poet of our time comes home to the Bowery!
Sat Dec 18 8pm $12/$8 students (at door only)
Tix at www.virtuous.com
BLUE ARK: THE WORD SHIP featuring AMINA & AMIRI BARAKA w/ Rahman Herbie Morgan, Tenor; Dwight West, Vocal, Wilber Morris, Bass; DD Jackson, piano; Pheeroan Aklaff, drums.
Amina & Amiri Baraka are internationally known poets, and among the best in the word-music genre (Real Song, Enja 94; Amiri is on REUNION w/ NYART QUINTET release Feb 2000, and recently on CDs with David Murray (Fo Deuk Revue), Hugh Ragin (An Afternoon In Harlem)). Dwight West is a down and going tenor voice in the tradition of Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder, now doing Duke Ellington's wonderful ouerve. Wilber Morris has played with the best known new musicians extant, including David Murray, Dennis Charles, Sunny Murray, Cecil Taylor, &c. D.D. Jackson's wonderful new album is SO FAR (RCA). He is a leader of the new wave of ticklers. Pheeroan Aklaff is the acknowledged heavyweight of the younger drummers. He has played with Oliver Lake, David Murray, Cecil Taylor, Muhal Abrams, &c.
Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery (Bleecker-Houston) 212-614-0505
“What the hell is going on here?"
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