Jazz goes to war

[White Lightning]

I was thinking of writing a short piece about Jazz and war:

I was thinking about enlisted Jazz such as during WWII (I'm referring to both the Army Bands and the propaganda music that was recorded during that period)

I was thinking about Jazz in the cold war era - State dept. tours

However, I don't want to neglect the Anti-War Jazz. Naturally, I was thinking LMO. I was also thinking about the 2 Vietnam albums by Billy Bang as an aftermath and also about our very own Gilad Atzmon. I was also thinking about Jon Jang's work, especially his "Tiananmen" and "Barbed Wire"

Then I ran out of ideas and I turned to you guys for help.

Any other significant anti war Jazz albums/songs were created? Do you know of any on-line articles about anti war Jazz? Is there a "Jazz Guernica"?

If not - why not? Why there aren't any more Anti War protest in Jazz? What about Iraq? Bosnia? Rwanda? More anti Vietnam protest?

Thanks!

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Freddie Roach - "Johnny's coming home no more" from the album "Mocha motion".

MG

[JSngry]

[(BB)]

Mingus ~ Oh Lord Don't Let Them Drop That Atomic Bomb On Me ~ OH YEAH

[WD45]

Beirut musician/blogger records improv to bombs falling.

Link to the piece, on bass clarinet.

Wow.

Edited July 23, 2006 by WD45

[ghost of miles]

I"m not sure it's really an "anti-war" jazz album--more of an "anti-fascism or capitalist wars" theme, maybe--but this is one of the first things that came to mind:

I haven't heard Haden's contemporary revival of this collective, but my understanding is that he invoked political themes on it. I also think that Dave Douglas posited one of his recent CDs as a protest against the invasion of Iraq.

Re: state department tours, I have to shamelessly plug the Night Lights program that I did. (May do a sequel if/when I find the Benny Goodman Soviet Union album; I'd also be doing an interview with Penny von Eschen, author of Satchmo Blows Up the World).

[White Lightning]

I"m not sure it's really an "anti-war" jazz album--more of an "anti-fascism or capitalist wars" theme, maybe--but this is one of the first things that came to mind:

I haven't heard Haden's contemporary revival of this collective, but my understanding is that he invoked political themes on it. I also think that Dave Douglas posited one of his recent CDs as a protest against the invasion of Iraq.

Re: state department tours, I have to shamelessly plug the Night Lights program that I did. (May do a sequel if/when I find the Benny Goodman Soviet Union album; I'd also be doing an interview with Penny von Eschen, author of Satchmo Blows Up the World).

Ghost, I instantly thought of that Haden-Bley album when considering to write the Anti-War piece. I refered to the Liberation Music Orchestra as "LMO" in my initial post.

If you're still looking for that Goodman in the Soviet Union album, email me.

Barak

[ghost of miles]

Oh man, I should've caught that! Direct link to State Dpt. program: Jazz Goes to the Cold War

[ghost of miles]

Another--Grant Green's "Cease the Bombing" (composed by Earl Neal Creque, off Green's album CARRYIN' ON, and also included on that MELLOW anthology that Blue Note put out last year).

[ghost of miles]

Not sure how "jazzy" it really is, but Louis Armstrong recorded a version of "Give Peace a Chance" in 1970 for the LOUIS & FRIENDS album.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

Another--Grant Green's "Cease the Bombing" (composed by Earl Neal Creque, off Green's album CARRYIN' ON, and also included on that MELLOW anthology that Blue Note put out last year).

Creque also recorded it on his album for Cobblestone, either shortly before or shortly after GG's version.

MG