Amiri Baraka Discography

[jazzyepi]

Hi all - please take a look at a new website dedicated to Amiri Baraka's recorded work at www.amirimusic.com. Additions and suggestions are most welcome. Thanks- Marc

[clifford_thornton]

Nice start.

Should note "ESP M/S 1004" for the NY Art Quartet 1964 recording.

There is also another NY Art Quartet recording on DIW on which Baraka reads, "35th Reunion." I don't have it so can't confirm the catalog number.

[jazzyepi]

Thanks, I added the info to the ESP release. The DIW is on there under June 1999. I saw the group a little later, pretty amazing.

[MartyJazz]

Hi all - please take a look at a new website dedicated to Amiri Baraka's recorded work at www.amirimusic.com. Additions and suggestions are most welcome. Thanks- Marc

Back in '80, I taped a half hour broadcast off an FM station in NYC, possibly WKCR, in which Baraka gives a stirring recitation of 5 or 6 of his poems. Great stuff! Gotta transfer it to CD-R. Around that time, I also got to see him perform, and that's the right word, some of his material at a club in the Village. Also have the India Navigation LP with David Murray & Steve McCall backing him. Baraka is controversial but well worth digging if one's ears are open.

[AllenLowe]

let's not forget his masterwork: "Get the Jews out of the World Trade Center."

[danasgoodstuff]

Yes, we all know LeRoi (good enuf for his mom, good enuf for me) went off the deep end a long time ago, but he did some good work before (and after?) he did. anyone here know anything about the unissued don Ayler album he produced/recorded?