#paul laurence dunbar chambers

[jazzandother-blog]

Remebering Paul Chambers on his birthday !!

Paul Chambers in Manhattan on the way to the Whims of Chambers recording session, 21 September, 1956.

Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers, Jr. (April 22, 1935 – January 4, 1969) was a jazz double bassist.

A fixture of rhythm sections during the 1950s and 1960s, his importance in the development of jazz bass can be measured not only by the length and breadth of his work in this short period but also his impeccable time and intonation, and virtuosic improvisations.

He was also known for his bowed solos.

Chambers recorded some dozen albums as a leader or co-leader, and prolifically as a sideman notably as the anchor of trumpeter Miles Davis's "first great quintet" (1955-63) and with pianist Wynton Kelly (1963-68).

Photo by © Francis Wolff

Source: www.facebook.com/TheWorldOfJazz

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Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers, Jr. (22 de abril de 1935 - 4 de enero de 1969) fue un contrabajista de jazz.

Un fijo de las secciones rítmicas durante las décadas de 1950 y 1960, su importancia en el desarrollo del bajo de jazz puede medirse no sólo por la longitud y amplitud de su obra en este corto periodo, sino también por su impecable compás y entonación, y sus virtuosas improvisaciones.

También era conocido por sus solos de arco.

Chambers grabó una docena de álbumes como líder o colíder, y fue muy prolífico como músico de acompañamiento, sobre todo como ancla del "primer gran quinteto" del trompetista Miles Davis (1955-63) y con el pianista Wynton Kelly (1963-68).Chambers recorded some dozen albums as a leader or co-leader, and prolifically as a sideman notably as the anchor of trumpeter Miles Davis's "first great quintet" (1955-63) and with pianist Wynton Kelly (1963-68).

#jazz #paul chambers #bass #bassist

[projazznet]

Rememebering Paul Laurence Dunbar Chambers Jr. (April 22, 1935 – January 4, 1969)

Paul Chambers – Bass on Top

Bass on Top is an album by American jazz bassist Paul Chambers recorded in 1957 and released on the Blue Note label. Paul Chambers – bass Hank Jones – piano Kenny Burrell – guitar Art Taylor – drums

#paulchambers #bass #jazzlegend #projazznet

[poetrywithbrian]

POETRY LIST FROM BRIAN P: This list is made up of English language “lyric” poems by poets from what would become or is now the United States of America. They are in a random arrangement, not alphabetical or chronological. Allow them to play off each other in a variety of ways. Each poet is represented by only one poem.

May Swenson, The Centaur

Archibald MacLeish, Ars Poetica

Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Chambered Nautilus

Lucille Clifton, The Lost Baby Poem

Hart Crane, Voyages

H.D. Elegy and Choros

Wallace Stevens, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Amy Lowell, The Garden by Moonlight

N. Scott Momaday, The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee

Francis Scott Key, Defense of Fort M’Henry

Langston Hughes, The Negro Speaks of Rivers

Adrienne Rich, Diving into the Wreck

Robert Hayden, Letter from Phyllis Wheatley

Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A-Changin’

James Dickey, Cherrylog Road

Chen Chen, I Invite My Parents to a Dinner Party

Joy Harjo, She Had Some Horses

Bonnie Larson Staiger, Grassland

Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

e.e. cummings, “anyone lived in a pretty how town”

Carl Sandburg, Chicago

James Russell Lowell, The Present Crisis

Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Snowstorm

Robert Lowell, For the Union Dead

Tommy Pico, I See the Fire that Burns Inside You

Emily Dickinson, “I started early – took my dog””

T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men

Louise Gluck, The Wild Iris

Anonymous, Swing Low, Sweet Chariot

Gary Snyder, The Bath

Gwendolyn Brooks, We Real Cool

James Whitcomb Riley, L’il Orphant Annie

James Merrill, The Victor Dog

James Welch, Harlem, Montana: Just Off the Reservation

Frank O’Hara, Why I Am Not a Painter

John Ashbery, Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

William Carlos Williams, XXII, from Spring and All, The Red Wheelbarrow

Tupac Shakur, Changes

George Oppen, Five Poems about Poetry

Robert Bly, Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter

Edwin Arlington Robinson, Mr. Flood’s Party

Richard Wright, Between the World and Me

John Greenleaf Whittier, Snowbound: A Winter’s Idyl

Phyllis Wheatley, His Excellency General Washington

Walt Whitman, When lilacs last by the dooryard bloom’d

Patricia Smith, The Stuff of Astounding: A Poem for Juneteenth

Edgar Allen Poe, The Raven

R.W. Wilson, Poemable

Marianne Moore, The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing

Julia Ward Howe, Battle Hymn of the Republic

Sylvia Plath, Tulips

Patricia Smith, The Stuff of Astounding: A Poem for Juneteenth

Thomas McGrath, A Coal Fire in Winter

Growing Concern Poetry Collective, Come to Me Open

Denise Lajimodiere, Dragonfly Dance

Edward Taylor, Housewifery

Jay Wright, Benjamin Banneker Sends His “Almanac” to Thomas Jefferson

Allen Ginsberg, Howl

David Solheim, In Moonlight

William Stafford, At the Bomb Testing Site

Ronald Johnson, Letters to Walt Whitman

Marge Piercy, To Be of Use

Mary Oliver, The Wild Geese

Wendell Berry, The Peace of Wild Things

W.H. Auden, Epitaph on a Tyrant

Richard Blanco, On Today

Timothy Murphy, Mortal Stakes

Lauryn Hill, Lost One

Don J. Lee/Haki Madhubuti, A Poem to Complement Other Poems

Louise Erdrich, The Strange People

Jericho Brown, Psalm 150

John Berryman, 11 Addresses to the Lord

Thomas Merton, Love Winter When the Plant Says Nothing

Anne Bradstreet, Before the Birth of One of Her Children

Frances E. W. Harper, Learning to Read

Randall Jarrell, Mail Call, and the children’s book “The Bat Poet”

Herman Melville, The Maldive Shark

Gertrude Stein, How She Bowed to Her Brother

Anne Sexton, In Celebration of My Uterus

Theodore Roethke, In a Dark Time

Edna St. Vincent Millay, “What lips my lips have kissed, and where and why”

Stephen Crane, A Man Saw a Ball of Gold

Robert Penn Warren, The Moonlight’s Dream

Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Colored Band

Henry David Thoreau, “The moon now rises to her absolute rule”

Emma Lazarus. The New Colossus

Sugar Hill Gang, Rapper’s Delight

Allen Tate, Ode to the Confederate Dead

Muriel Rukeyser, Ballad of Orange and Grape

Elizabeth Bishop, Sestina, “September rain falls on the house”

Judy Grahn, The Common Woman Poems (complete)

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, I Am Waiting

May Sarton, The Gift of Thyme

George Moses Horton, On Liberty and Slavery

Ezra Pound, The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter

Robinson Jeffers, Hurt Hawks

James Weldon Johnson, The Creation

Sherman Alexie, Sonnet, with Pride

Kenneth Koch, In Love With You

Jupiter Hammon, An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley

A.R. Ammons, The Brook Has Worked Out the Prominence of a Bend

Anonymous, Go Down, Moses

Yusef Komunyakaa. Facing It

W.S. Merwin, After the Alphabets

Richard Wilbur, A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Day Is Done

Natalie Diaz, My Brother at 3 AM

Maya Angelou, On the Pulse of Morning

Raymond Roseliep, The Morning Glory

Rita Dove, Dawn Revisted

#class 3

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Lush Life (Billy Strayhorn cover) by John Coltrane from the compilation In a Sentimental Mood and Greatest Hits

#music #jazz #john coltrane #john william coltrane #billy strayhorn #william thomas strayhorn #donald byrd #donaldson toussaint l'ouverture byrd ii #rudolph van gelder #rudy van gelder #red garland #william mckinley garland #william mckinley garland jr. #louis hayes #paul chambers #paul laurence dunbar chambers #paul laurence dunbar chambers jr.

[weirdletter]

The Valancourt Book of ​Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories: Volume Four, edited by Christopher Philippo, Valancourt Books, 2020. Info: valancourtbooks.com.

A Valancourt Yuletide tradition returns, this time with rare 19th-century tales from U.S. newspapers and magazines. The Christmas ghost story tradition is usually associated with Charles Dickens and Victorian England, but-apparently unknown to historians and scholars-Christmas ghost stories were extremely widespread and popular in 19th-century America as well, frequently appearing in newspapers and magazines during the holiday season. From legends of old New Orleans and strange happenings on the plains of Iowa and the Dakota Territory to weird doings in early Puerto Rico and ghostly events in Gold Rush-era San Francisco, the tales collected here reveal a forgotten Christmas ghost story tradition in a bygone America that is both familiar and oddly foreign. This collection features eighteen stories and nine poems, including entries by women and African American writers, plus extra bonus material and an introduction by Christopher Philippo. “He turned and beheld a low black figure, with a body no higher than his knees, with a prodigious head, in the brow of which was set a single eye of green flame like a shining emerald, and with hands and arms of supernatural length.” — J. H. Ingraham, “The Green Huntsman; or, The Haunted Villa” “The latch lifted​, the door swung open​-and then​-my God! what a spectacle! Through the open door there stepped a figure, not of Mrs. Hayden, not of her corpse, not of death, but a thousand times more horrible​, a thing of corruption, decay, of worms and rottenness.” — Anonymous, “Worse than a Ghost Story”

Contents: Introduction – Christopher Philippo The Green Huntsman (1841) – Joseph Holt Ingraham Burt Pringle and the “Bellesnickle” (1853) – Bill Bramble Worse Than a Ghost Story  (1857) – Anonymous The Christmas Ghost  (1857) – Lucy A. Randall The Frozen Husband  (1869)  – Frank Ibberson Jervis A Sworn Statement (1881) – Emma Frances Dawson The Snow Flower of the Sierras (1884) – Anonymous The Devil’s Christmas  (1885) – Julian Hawthorne Harlakenden’s Christmas (1887) – Thomas Wentworth Higginson The Ghostly Christmas Gift (1887)  – F.H. Brunell The Blizzard (1888) – Luke Sharp Warned by the Wire (1895) – Louis Glass Poor Jack (1892) – H.C. Dodge Christmas Wolves (1897) – Pierre-Barthélemy Gheusi The Werwolves (1898) – Henry Beaugrand The Haunted Oak (1900) – Paul Laurence Dunbar The Anarchist’s Christmas (1901) – Anonymous Camel Bells (1903) – Hezekiah Butterworth The Ravings  (1903) – Anonymous Out of the Depths  (1904) – Robert W. Chambers Old Nick and Saint Nick (1906) – Wallace Irwin The Cremation of Sam McGee (1907) – Robert W. Service Xmas (1908) – Amorel Sterne A Cubist Christmas (1913) – Kate Masterson Desuetude: A Ghost Story (1914) – Anonymous The Christmas Ghost (1915) – Anna Alice Chapin Merry Christmas  (1917) – Stephen Leacock

#book #anthology #ghost stories #supernatural fiction #weird fiction #dark christmas #christmas anthology #victorian christmas ghost stories

[blackkudos]

Adolphus Hailstork

Adolphus Hailstork (born Adolphus Cunningham Hailstork III, April 17, 1941) is an American composer and educator. He grew up in Albany, New York, where he studied violin, piano, organ, and voice.

Hailstork was born in Rochester, New York, and obtained a BA from Howard University studying with Mark Fax, master's degree from the Manhattan School of Music studying with Vittorio Giannini and David Diamond, and a doctorate in music composition from Michigan State University in 1971, studying with H. Owen Reed. He also studied at The American Institute at Fontainebleau with Nadia Boulanger.

He has served as professor at Youngstown State University in Ohio, as well as professor of music and Composer-in-Residence at Virginia's Norfolk State University. He is currently a professor of music and Composer-in-Residence at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

Hailstork is of African American ancestry and his works blend musical ideas from both the African American and European traditions.

Hailstork's awards include a Fulbright fellowship (1987). In 1992 he was named a Cultural Laureate of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Old Dominion University maintains the Adolphus Hailstork Collection, in the special collections area of the F. Ludwig Diehn Composers Room, in the Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Center. In 1999, he was awarded the Brock Commission from the American Choral Directors Association. Hailstork is published by Theodore Presser Company and Carl Fischer Music.

Selected works

Works for Solo Instruments

2 Scherzos for solo piano

Bassoon Set for solo bassoon

Eight Variations On “Shalom Chaverim” for solo piano

Five Friends for solo piano

Flute Set for solo flute

Four Preludes for solo harp

Ignis Fatuus (Mysterious Fires) for solo piano

Piano Sonata No. 2 for solo piano

Piano Sonata No. 3 for solo piano

The Surprising Thing Is for solo violin

Theme and Variations on "Draw the Sacred Circle Closer" for solo Cello

Three Smiles for Tracy for solo clarinet

Trio Sonata for solo piano

Two Studies on Chant Melodies" for solo organ

Variations for solo trumpet

Works for Chamber Ensemble

American Fanfare for 3Tpt. 4Hn. 3Tbn. Tu. 3Perc. Timp.

American Landscape for string duet

Armegeddon for organ and two percussion

As Falling Leaves

Baroque Suite for violin and piano

The Blue Bag for clarinet and piano

Consort Piece for septet

Divertimento for violin and viola

Evensong for violin and cello

Fanfare on Amazing Grace for brass quintet, timpani, and organ

Fantasy Piece for viola and piano

Guest Suite for four hands on one piano

I Am Only One for SATB choir

John Henry's Big (Man vs. Machine) for trombone and piano

Little Diversions for Lord Byron's Court for two violins or string duet

Sanctum for clarinet and piano or viola and piano

A Simple Caprice for clarinet and piano

Sonata for trumpet and piano

Sonata for two pianos

Springtime for Elephants for two tubas

String Quartet No. 1

String Quartet No. 2 - Variations on "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot"

Three Meditations for viola and organ

Two by Two for horn and trombone

Variations on a Guyanese Folk Song for violin and piano

Ventriloquist Acts of God for soprano and piano

Violin Concerto for violin and piano

Who is Sylvia? For Coloratura Soprano, Violin, and Piano

Works for Chorus and Orchestra

Break Forth for Chorus and Orchestra

Crispus Attucks - American Patriot for mezzo, tenor, bass-bariton, large chorus, and orchestra

Done Made My Vow for narrator, soloists, mixed chorus, and orchestra

EarthRise (A Song of Healing) for two choirs and orchestra

Four Spirituals for two sopranos, mixed chorus and orchestra

The Gift of the Magi A “Choral Ballet” for dancers, chamber orchestra and children's chorus

I will lift up mine eyes, cantata for tenor, choir, and orchestra

Serenade “To Hearts Which Near Each Other Move” for SATB choir and orchestra

Songs of Innocence for three soloists, chorus and orchestra

Within Our Gates for solo soprano, solo tenor, SATB chorus and string orchestra

Works for Wind Ensemble

American Guernica

Works for Orchestra

An American Port of Call

Baroque Suite for String Orchestra (with optional Harpsichord)

Church Street Serenade for String Orchestra

Essay for Strings

Fanfare on Amazing Grace for Orchestra

Hercules"

Intrada

Lachrymosa: 1919

Sonata for Trumpet (or Clarinet) and String Orchestra

Symphony No. 3

Three Spirituals

Two Romances for Viola and Chamber Orchestra

Violin Concerto

Operas

Joshua’s Boots an Opera in one Act

Paul Laurence Dunbar: Common Ground An Operatic Theaterpiece

Rise for Freedom: The John P. Parker Story

#04/17

[myhappywonderlandblog]

Christmas in the Heart

By Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1872 – 1906

  The snow lies deep upon the ground,

And winter’s brightness all around

Decks bravely out the forest sere,

With jewels of the brave old year.

The coasting crowd upon the hill

With some new spirit seems to thrill;

And all the temple bells achime.

Ring out the glee of Christmas time.

  In happy homes the brown oak-bough

Vies with the red-gemmed holly now;

And here and there, like pearls, there show

The berries of the mistletoe.

A sprig upon the chandelier

Says to the maidens, “Come not here!”

Even the pauper of the earth

Some kindly gift has cheered to mirth!

  Within his chamber, dim and cold,

There sits a grasping miser old.

He has no thought save one of gain,—

To grind and gather and grasp and drain.

A peal of bells, a merry shout

Assail his ear: he gazes out

Upon a world to him all gray,

And snarls, “Why, this is Christmas Day!”

  No, man of ice,—for shame, for shame!

For “Christmas Day” is no mere name.

No, not for you this ringing cheer,

This festal season of the year.

And not for you the chime of bells

From holy temple rolls and swells.

In day and deed he has no part—

Who holds not Christmas in his heart!

  Paul Laurence Dunbar, born in 1872 and the author of numerous collections of poetry and prose, was one of the first African American poets to gain national recognition.

  Merry Christmas Everyone!

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Christmas Poem: Christmas in the Heart By Paul Laurence Dunbar Christmas in the Heart By Paul Laurence Dunbar, 1872 - 1906 The snow lies deep upon the ground,

#christmas #po #poem

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Blue in Green by Miles Davis from the album Kind of Blue

#music #jazz #miles davis #miles dewey davis #john coltrane #bill evans #miles dewey davis iii #john william coltrane #william john evans #paul chambers #jimmy cobb #paul laurence dunbar chambers jr. #wilbur james cobb #paul laurence dunbar chambers

[nofatclips]

So What by Miles Davis from The Sound of Miles Davis directed by Jack Smight

#music #miles davis #jazz #miles dewey davis iii #miles dewey davis #paul chambers #jimmy cobb #wilbur james cobb #john coltrane #john william coltrane #gil evans #wynton kelly #wynton charles kelly #video #robert herridge #jack smight #paul laurence dunbar chambers #ian ernest gilmore green #paul laurence dunbar chambers jr.