By Amin Sharif
1 May 2003
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Miles Davis-A look at the
jazz life of the legendary trumpeter (on Bravo)
2 May 2003
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Documentary:
When I Fall in Love: The One and
Only Nat King Cole: The singer's solos and duets on his
1950's TV series. (on PBS)
The 20 sparkling full
length performances from The Nat King Cole Show featured on this
DVD prove what a consummate artist Cole was, whether singing in
his intimitable style or demonstrating his skills as a pianist.
The track listing includes many Cole faovrites such as "When I
Fall In Love", "Somewhere Along The Way", "Tenderly", "The
Christmas Song", "Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire" and of
course his signature tune "Mona Lisa". Several of the guests who
appeared on the show are also featured in duets with Nat
including Ella Fitzgerald, Sammy Davis, Jr., The Oscar Peterson
Trio, Johnny Mercer and the Mills Brothers. Between the songs
there are interviews with Nat King Cole's wife Maria, his three
daughters Natalie, Casey and Timolin, his brother Freddy, and
with Bob Henry, the producer/director of the original series.
The whole program is linked by narration from actor Dennis
Haysbert.
Track Listing: 1. When I
Fall In Love 2. Chicago 3. Just You, Just Me 4. Sweet Lorraine
(with the Oscar Peterson Trio) 5. Somewhere Along The Way (with
Sammy Davis, Jr.) 6. Caravan 7. I've Grown Accustomed To Her
Face 8. I'm In The Mood For Love 9. Zing Went The Strings Of My
Heart 10. Crazy Rhythm 11. Opus One (with the Mills Brothers)
12. It's Only A Paper Moon 13. Too Close For Comfort 14.
Tenderly 15. Mona Lisa 16. Almost Like Being In Love 17.
Blueberry Hill (with Billy Preston) 18. Save The Bones For Henry
Jones (with Johnny Mercer) 19. The Christmas Song 20. Sitting On
Top Of The World
3 May 2003
— Freedom: A History of US—A
Fatal Contradiction—Slavery, abolition movement;
Frederick Douglass; Abraham Lincoln. (on PBS)
10 May 2003
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Freedom: A History of US—A War to End Slavery-The Civil War; The Battle of Bull Run, Anitetam; Lincoln's assassination. (on PBS)
11May 2003
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Documentary:
Dancing To New Orleans—A musical journey proceeds along the back roads of Louisiana. (on
Bravo)
Having just 90 minutes to
cover the music of Louisiana in general and New Orleans in
particular might not seem sufficient, but director Michael
Murphy is up to the task in this entertaining documentary. The
subject is huge: this is, after all, the birthplace of jazz, the
spawning ground (with neighbor Mississippi) of the blues, the
home of zydeco king Clifton Chenier, the Neville Brothers, Jerry
Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, and countless others, and the melting
pot of African, European, and Caribbean cultures. But instead of
focusing on the big names (Louis Armstrong gets only a
perfunctory mention), the film spotlights (through interviews
and live footage) lesser-known contemporary talents like blues
guitarist John Campbell, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band,
songwriter-producer Allen Toussaint, a 12-year-old Cajun
fiddler, and a 91-year-old Dixieland trumpeter. There's plenty
of local color, what with sidebars about Louisiana's art,
culture, and religion, but it's the infectious music that makes
this one tasty gumbo. --Sam Graham
Whether you’re a long-time aficionado or a recent convert,
DANCING TO NEW ORLEANS will give you a great appreciation for
the amazing gumbo that is the music of Louisiana. More than any
other place, Louisiana has influenced the development of
American music.
17 May 2003
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Juba! The Masters of Tap
and Percussive Dance-Film clips and interviews reveal tap in
contemporary UP.SO. culture. (on PBS)
17 May 2003
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Freedom: A History of US—What is Freedom-Reconstruction after the Civil War. Plessy vs.
Ferguson; separate but equal. (on PBS)
17 May 2003
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Industry Insiders: Hip Hop:
A first hand account of the Hip Hop industry. (on MTV)
24 May 2003
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Freedom: A History of US—Whose Land Is This? Immigrants become targets of white
prejudice; massacre of the Indians. (on PBS)
29 May 2003
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Fascination's Rhythm-World of
Tap Dance (on Bravo)
31 May 2003
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Freedom: A History of US:
Working for Freedom-Labor Movement advocates of worker's right;
Susan B. Anthony. (on PBS)
31 May 2003
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Documentary:
Ku Klux Klan: A Secret
History-Members of the white-supremacist order cover themselves
with pointed hoods and sheets to remain anonymous while executing
acts and rituals. (on the History Channel)
Other
Programs
Movie—The Education of Sonny
Carson-an excellent biographical account of the early life of
the black activist. (on Showtime, Flix, and Black Stars-consult
local listings!
Movie—Malcolm X- Spike
Lee's best work-an account of the Black Nationalist and
African-American Muslim hero! (on BET)
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Super Rich: A Guide to Having it All
By Russell Simmons
Russell Simmons knows firsthand that
wealth is rooted in much more than the
stock
market. True wealth has more to do with
what's in your heart than what's in your
wallet. Using this knowledge, Simmons
became one of America's shrewdest
entrepreneurs, achieving a level of
success that most investors only dream
about. No matter how much material gain
he accumulated, he never stopped lending
a hand to those less fortunate. In
Super Rich, Simmons uses his rare
blend of spiritual savvy and
street-smart wisdom to offer a new
definition of wealth-and share timeless
principles for developing an unshakable
sense of self that can weather any
financial storm. As Simmons says, "Happy
can make you money, but money can't make
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The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected
Poems
By
Robert Hass
The Apple Trees at Olema includes
work from Robert Hass's first five books—Field
Guide,
Praise,
Human Wishes,
Sun Under Wood, and
Time and Materials—as well as a
substantial gathering of new poems,
including a suite of elegies, a series of
poems in the form of notebook musings on the
nature of storytelling, a suite of summer
lyrics, and two experiments in pure
narrative that meditate on personal
relations in a violent world and read like
small, luminous novellas. From the
beginning, his poems have seemed entirely
his own: a complex hybrid of the lyric line,
with an unwavering fidelity to human and
nonhuman nature, and formal variety and
surprise, and a syntax capable of thinking
through difficult things in ways that are
both perfectly ordinary and really unusual.
Over the years, he has added to these
qualities a range and a formal restlessness
that seem to come from a skeptical turn of
mind, an acute sense of the artifice of the
poem and of the complexity of the world of
lived experience that a poem tries to
apprehend. Hass's work is grounded in the
beauty of the physical world. His familiar
landscapes—San Francisco, the northern
California coast, the Sierra high
country—are vividly alive in his work. His
themes include art, the natural world,
desire, family life, the life between
lovers, the violence of history, and the
power and inherent limitations of language.
He is a poet who is trying to say, as fully
as he can, what it is like to be alive in
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The White Masters of the
World
From
The World and Africa, 1965
By W. E. B. Du Bois
W. E. B. Du Bois’
Arraignment and Indictment of White Civilization
(Fletcher)
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