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TONGUES ON FIRE, A Tribute To The Black Panthers
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« TONGUES ON FIRE »
A musical project inspired by the revolutionary art of Emory Douglas, the brilliant draftsman and Minister of Culture of the Black Panther Party.
PARIS (Feburary 6th 2010) – 3D Family & Sons d’hiver will present one of the most expected event of the beginning of this new decade : “ Tongues On Fire, A Tribute To The Black Panthers”. This Great event will not only display the revolutionnary art of Emory Douglas but will also highlight the efficacity… Continue
Introduce
« TONGUES ON FIRE »
A musical project inspired by the revolutionary art of Emory Douglas, the brilliant draftsman and Minister of Culture of the Black Panther Party.
PARIS (Feburary 6th 2010) – 3D Family & Sons d’hiver will present one of the most expected event of the beginning of this new decade : “ Tongues On Fire, A Tribute To The Black Panthers”. This Great event will not only display the revolutionnary art of Emory Douglas but will also highlight the efficacity… Continue
Posted on February 1, 2010 at 12:50pm —
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TONGUES ON FIRE, A Tribute To The Black Panthers
Video teaser of the project: Tongues on Fire
A musical project inspired by the revolutionary art of Emory Douglas, the brilliant draftsman and Minister of Culture of the Black Panther Party.
The concept behind this project is to highlight the efficacity of the visual, oratorical and musical arts as means of communicating ideas. Taking their inspiration from the works of Emory Douglas, Umar Bin Hassan and Abiodun Oyewole, the charismatic members of The Last Poets, have written 8 powerful poems reflecting in depth the past and today’s cultural and political agenda. As he reflected on these verses, David Murray has composed 8 melodies that will be used as the core basis on which the music will be built on and performed by the different bands collaborating on the project such as Living Colour and The Roots for instance.
The show will also include a screening of 180 art works of Emory Douglas which will be graphically mixed by the video editor, Doctor L accordingly to the mood of the performances on stage. This interaction between different forms of arts, inspired from one another, opens a new energetic vision of the legacy left by the African American activism by making visible the productivity of what has been created before.
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- David Murray, the music composer
"Be Bop and shut up! An impossible task for the young David, at the time of the free jazz and civil rights movements, the last adventure of the end of century jazzman. Impossible, too, for the son of Holly Roller parents, discovering the Negro spiritual style in the time of Coltrane and during Ayler's best period, not to be political right down to his tenor-playing fingertips. David Murray, now in his fifties, has 130 albums to his name and contributions to around a hundred other recordings as a guest artist behind him.
At the end of the 1990's, David Murray was referred to in terms of fusion, of world music, and even of Pan-Africanism, ever since he took on a backwards tour through the Caribbean and the 'little' Americas, via South Africa and Senegal. Before setting off on this journey, David Murray jumped the gun somewhat for a jazz musician. Born in Oakland, he grew up in Berkeley and studied with Catherine Murray (his mother, an organist), Bobby Bradford, Arthur Blythe, Stanley Crouch and many others until the 2nd March 1975 when he left Ponoma College in Southern California for New York, which he made his base.
In New York, he met many new musicians and musical styles: Anthony Braxton, Don Cherry, Julius Hemphill ... Within Ted Daniels' Energy Band, he also met Hamiett Bluiett, Olu Dara, Lester Bowie and Frank Lowe. In 1976, after a first European tour, David Murray set up one of his mythical groups, the World Saxophone Quartet with Oliver Lake, Hamiett Bluiett and Julius Hemphill. From Jerry Garcia to Max Roach, via Randy Weston and Elvin Jones, David Murray continued working with ever more artists and making ever more recordings. From 1978 onwards, he entered into a period of intense creativity, one flexible grouping of musicians following on from another.
At the same time, he was writing film music ('W Dubois', 1989, 'Dernier Stade', 1996 and 'Karmen Gaye' in 2000), working with the 'Urban Bush Women' dance company ('Crossing Into Our Promise Land' in 1998) and regularly working with Joseph Papp of the New York Public Theatre ('Photograph', 1978 and 'Spell Number' in 1979) and with Bob Thiele, founder of Impulse and Red Baron, who became his producer in 1988 and signed him with Columbia. Thiele produced six of his albums on Red Baron up until his death in 1997.
David Murray also likes rearranging the works of great composers, as in his project 'The Obscure Works of Duke Ellington' in 1997 (arranged for a big band and a 25-piece string orchestra) or his orchestration of a Paul Gonzales solo 'Tribute to Paul Gonzales' in 1990 (with the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra). More recently, using an octet and 12 strings, he updated the classics of Nat King Cole's Hispanic songbook with 'Cole in Spanish' in 2009.
In addition to this, he has written two operas: 'The Blackamoor of Peter the Great' in 2004 for strings and voices, based on a selection of twenty poems by Pushkin, and 'The Sysiphus Revue', his 2008 bop opera sung by a gospel choir on an Amiri Baraka libretto.
In 2006, his Black Saint Quartet was reborn with 'Sacred Ground', on which Cassandra Wilson can notably be heard. The compositions on this album pay tribute to one of his most auspicious periods with the mythical Italian label Black Saint, and to the republishing of this entire catalogue in digital format on the major digital download sites. This work was moreover followed by the rediscovery of 26 rare tracks recorded on the DIW label, which are now available exclusively for downloading on Emusic, and are a good way for fans to get the measure of the scale of a career which already is dizzying.
In 2010 he will be back out on tour with the Gwo Ka Masters. After giving 200 concerts all around the world during their last tour (2005), the group will set off again to promote their fourth album, 'The Devil Tried to Kill Me', recorded in 2007 at the mythical Deb's Studio in Pointe-à-Pitre with the great Taj Mahal.
At 54 years of age, David Murray has a rosy future ahead of him, and a successful past behind him and, since a glimpse of this exceptional career with a very promising future was felt to be essential, several directors have brought his musical career to the screen, in 'Speaking in Tongues', a saga which follows him for ten years from 1978 to 1988 or in 'Jazzman', in 1997. In 2007, Arte produced 'Saxophone Man', in a reference to the title of the Stanley Croutch play written at the time of Pomona College: a year's filming from New York to Pointe-à-Pitre, via Oakland and Paris, a year of images which reflect the David Murray of today, a citizen of the world.
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