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RISE: A creative jazz celebration of African roots



LOS ANGELES, California
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Member Since11/24/2005
Band Websitehttp://www.geocities.com/pucho11.geo/RISEplaylists.html
Band MembersMark Maxwell ("your humble facilitator of the sounds of the creator") - host

Omar Pie - assistant

Ollie Bivens - monthly co-host

Steve Buchanan - consultant, sound source, and occasional guest host

YOU - inspiration

Influences

and INSPIRATION:


5th Street Dicks Coffee House


A Tribe Called Quest


Aesop


Africa


Ramona Afrika


Muhammad Ali


As Serious As Your Life


Dr. Molefi Kete Asante

Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM)


Ella Baker


Amiri Baraka


Romare Bearden


Harry Belafonte


Steve Biko


Black Artists Group (BAG)


Black Arts Movement (BAM)


Black Jazz Records


Black Panther Party


Blues People


Aura Bogado

Brass


Anthony Browder


James Brown

Samuel Brown


Steve Buchannon


Amilcar Cabral


Stokely Carmichael


John W. Carlos and Tommy C. Smith


Fidel Castro


Cesar Chavez


Hugo Chavez


Noam Chomsky


Jesus Christ


Dr. John Henrik Clarke


Kelan Phil Cohran



Alice & John Coltrane


Kamau Daaood


Angela Davis


Frederick Douglas


W.E.B. Du Bois


Dr. Michael Eric Dyson


Ralph Ellison


ESP-Disk'


Marcus Garvey


Siddhartha Gautama


Mahatma Ghandi


Giant Step


Amy Goodman


George W. Goodman


Che Guevara


Thich Nhat Hahn

(with respect to the Plum Village Practice Center)


Alex Haley


Fannie Lou Hamer


Chairman Fred Hampton


Fred Hampton, Jr.


Billy Higgins

Joe Hill

Lou Hill

Hip Hop


Carl Holland

Carrie C. Holland; William Holland


bell hooks

Howling Monk


Langston Hughes



Hurricane Katrina

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Zora Neal Hurston


Ifa


Imhotep


Brian Jackson


George Jackson


Mahalia Jackson


Mumia Abu Jamal


Maulana Karenga


Jomo Kenyatta


Tsehaie Kidane


Martin Luther King, Jr.


Sonali Kolhatkar


Kool Herc


Toussaint L'Ouverture


Byard Lancaster


Congresswoman Barbara Lee


Bill Lee


Spike Lee


Leimert Park


Los Angeles Uprising (1992)


Patrice Lumumba


Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney


Al-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X)


Bob Marley


Beatrice C. Maxwell


Felicia Maxwell


Miles Malik Maxwell


Curtis Mayfield

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Charles Mingus

Nature


Carlos Nino


Kwame Nkrumah


Pacifica Radio


Rosa Parks


The People


Sidney Poitier


Margaret Prescod


Sun Ra


Phil Ranelin


Max Roach


Paul Robeson


Randall Robinson


Arundhati Roy


Gil Scott-Heron


Adele Sebastian


Assata Shakur

Beverly Smith


Songs Of The Unsung : The Musical and Social Journey of Horace Tapscott


The Soul Children


Space

Strata Records


Strata-East Records


Horace Tapscott


Bingwa Thomas


Tribe Records


Dwight Trible


Sojourner Truth


Harriet Tubman


Kwame Ture


Lao Tzu

U.G.M.A.A.

Unity


United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA)


Universal Zulu Nation


Congresswoman Maxine Waters


Watts Uprising


Cornel West


Stanley "Tookie" Williams


Dr. Amos Wilson


August Wilson


The World Stage


Richard Wright


Zapatismo


Howard Zinn

Sounds Like

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8 BOLD SOULS

NASAR ABADEY & SUPERNOVA


FUASI ABDUL-KHALIQ

IDRIS ACKAMOOR


GEORGE ADAMS

CANNONBALL ADDERLEY; NAT ADDERLEY; HAROLD ALEXANDER; ALI PLAYS THE BLUES / FEAT. ROYAL BLUE


RASHIED ALI

THURMAN ALLEN QUINTET; ALMANAC; BARRY ALTSCHUL; GENE AMMONS


CURTIS AMY

DWIGHT ANDREWS; MAYA ANGELOU; LOUIS ARMSTRONG; HORACEE ARNOLD; ROSCOE MITCHELL ART ENSEMBLE


ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO


DOROTHY ASHBY

MULATU ASTATQE; ARCHIE SHEPP ATTICA BLUES BIG BAND


THE AWAKENING

ROY AYERS


ALBERT AYLER

B SHARP JAZZ QUARTET


BILLY BANG

AMIRI BARAKA; GATO BARBIERI; KENNY BARRON


GARY BARTZ

COUNT BASIE


GHASEM BATAMUNTU

ALVIN BATISTE; GEORGE BENSON


JOHN BETSCH SOCIETY

ANDY BEY; FARUQ Z. BEY; GARY BIAS


BIG BLACK

WALTER BISHOP, JR.


BLACK NOTE

BLACK UNITY TRIO


LOU BLACKBURN

CINDY BLACKMAN


ART BLAKEY

PAUL BLEY


BLACK ARTHUR BLYTHE

WILLIE BOBO; GREG BOBULINSKI; JOSEPH BONNER; DOLLAR BRAND; THE BRASS COMPANY; LESTER BOWIE'S BRASS FANTASY; ROY BROOKS


TINA BROOKS


BROTHER AH

EVERETT BROWN JR.; OSCAR BROWN, JR.


MARION BROWN

BOBBY BRYANT; BOBBY BRYANT, JR.; RAY BRYANT


BUILD AN ARK

DAVE BURRELL; KENNY BURRELL; JAKI BYARD; DONALD BYRD; DON BYRON; BILLY "C"; GEORGE CABLES; HADLEY CALIMAN; RED CALLENDER


ROY CAMPBELL

CANDIDO; DOUG CARN


BETTY CARTER

JAMES CARTER; MICHAEL CARVIN; MARC CARY; THE TEDDY CHARLES NEW DIRECTIONS QUARTET


DAVID ORNETTE CHERRY


DON CHERRY


F. VATTEL CHERRY

CHICAGO UNDERGROUND TRIO; BILLY CHILDS


CURTIS CLARK

KENNY CLARKE; STANELY CLARKE; ALEX CLINE; PHILIP COHRAN AND THE ARTISTIC HERITAGE ENSEMBLE; GEORGE COLEMAN


ORNETTE COLEMAN

STEVE COLEMAN; JOHNNY COLES

RAY COLLINS


ALICE COLTRANE


JOHN COLTRANE

RAVI COLTRANE; COMPOSERS WORKSHOP ENSEMBLE; NORMAN CONNORS; CONTEMPORARY JAZZ QUINTET; JUNIOR COOK; CHICK COREA


JAYNE CORTEZ

JACKIE McLEAN AND THE COSMIC BROTHERHOOD; THE COSMIC TWINS; KENNY COX AND THE CONTEMPORARY JAZZ QUINTET


STANLEY COWELL

CREATIVE ARTS ENSEMBLE; SONNY CRISS AND HIS ORCHESTRA


TED CURSON

KING CURTIS; ANDREW CYRILLE


DA LION FEAT. LEON MOBLEY

KAMAU DAAOOD; ANTHONY DAVIS


DR. ART DAVIS

CHARLES DAVIS


MILES DAVIS


NATHAN DAVIS

RICHARD DAVIS


ERNEST DAWKINS NEW HORIZONS ENSEMBLE

JACK DE JOHNETTE; THE DESCENDENTS OF MIKE AND PHOEBE


DWIGHT DICKERSON

WALT DICKERSON


ERIC DOLPHY

KENNY DORHAM; KENNY DREW; KENO DUKE/CONTEMPORARIES


JOHNNY DYANI

CHARLES EARLAND; CLEAVLAND EATON; MARTY EHRLICH; EITHER ORCHESTRA


KAHIL EL 'ZABAR

DUKE ELLINGTON; BOB REID/THE EMERGENCY SOUND; BOB EMRY; EQUAL INTEREST


BOOKER ERVIN


ETHNIC HERITAGE ENSEMBLE

KEVIN EUBANKS; BILL EVANS; GIL EVANS; AVERY SHARPE EXTENDED FAMILY III; JON FADDIS


FAMILY OF PERCUSSION

SHAMEK FARRAH


DALE FIELDER

JIMMY FORREST


SONNY FORTUNE

THE FOURTH WAY; BILLY PARKER'S FOURTH WORLD


HENRY "THE SKIPPER" FRANKLIN

CHICO FREEMAN; CURTIS FULLER; FUNK INC.; CARLOS GARNETT


EDDIE GALE


STANTON DAVIS' GHETTO MYSTICISM

DIZZY GILLESPIE; NIKKI GIOVANNI; EGBERTO GISMONTI


BABS GONZALEZ

DEXTER GORDON; JOHN GORDON; THE GOW-DOW EXPERIENCE


RICHARD GRANT

AL GREY; WARDELL GRAY


GRANT GREEN

DICK GRIFFIN; JOHNNY GRIFFIN


HENRY GRIMES

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GRIOT GALAXY

EARL AND CARL GRUBBS; BOB GUTHRIE QUARTET; CHARLIE HADEN; JIM HALL; CHICO HAMILTON


DOUG HAMMOND

HERBIE HANCOCK; JOHN HANDY; HAR-YOU PERCUSSION GROUP; BILL HARDMAN; RUFUS HARLEY


BILLY HARPER

BILLIE HARRIS; EDDIE HARRIS; THE UNHEARD HERB HARRIS


PETER J. HARRIS

STEFON HARRIS; WENDELL HARRISON; BILLY HART; JOHNNY HARTMAN


HAMPTON HAWES

LOUIS HAYES; ROLAND HAYNES; ROY HAYNES; THE HEATH BROTHERS; ALBERT HEATH; JIMMY HEATH; PERCY HEATH; JOE HENDERSON


KARLTON HESTER AND THE CONTEMPORARY JAZZ ART MOVEMENT

JOHN HICKS


BILLY HIGGINS
;

ANDREW HILL


LINDA HILL

BILLIE HOLIDAY; DAVE HOLLAND; RICHARD "GROOVE" HOLMES; SHIRLEY HORN


FRED HOUN & THE AFRO-ASIAN MUSIC ENSEMBLE

OWEN HOWARD; MICHAEL HOWELL; FREDDIE HUBBARD; LANGSTON HUGHES; HUMAN ARTS ENSEMBLE; BOBBY HUTCHERSON; ABDULLAH IBRAHIM; SOLOMON ILORI AND HIS AFRO-DRUM ENSEMBLE; THE INFINITI PROJECT


WELDON IRVINE

VIJAY IYER; MICHAEL GREGORY JACKSON; MILT JACKSON; AHMAD JAMAL


KHAN JAMAL

KEITH JARRETT; JAZZ CONTEMPORARIES; JAZZ CRUSADERS; JAZZ SYMPHONICS; EDDIE JEFFERSON; JOHN JENKINS; LEROY JENKINS; BRUCE JOHNSON


GEORGE V. JOHNSON, JR.

HAROLD JOHNSON


HOWARD JOHNSON AND GRAVITY

J.J. JOHNSON; LAMONT JOHNSON; RUDOLPH JOHNSON; ELVIN JONES; RODNEY JONES; SAM JONES; WILLIE JONES III; CLIFFORD JORDAN; JUJU


ED KELLY

RICKEY KELLY; ROBIN KENYATTA; CALVIN KEYS; RAHSAAN ROLAND KIRK; DADISI KOMOLAFE; PAT LABARBERA


BYARD LANCASTER

THE LAST POETS; YUSEF LATEEF


AZAR LAWRENCE

HUBERT LAWS; PRINCE LAWSHA; JAMES LEARY; BILL LEE; O'DONEL LEVY; BILL LEWIS; RAMSEY LEWIS; TONY WILLIAMS LIFETIME; KIRK LIGHTSEY; ABBEY LINCOLN; BOOKER LITTLE; THE LITTLETON BROTHERS


CHARLES LLOYD

GIUSEPPI LOGAN; JOE LOVANO; FRANK LOWE; REGGIE LUCAS; CARMEN LUNDY; JOHNNY LYTLE; M'BOOM; CECIL McBEE; LES McCANN; FREDDIE McCOY; BROTHER JACK McDUFF; HOWARD McGHEE


KEN McINTYRE


HAROLD McKINNEY


JACKIE McLEAN

LLOYD McNEIL; MARIAN McPARTLAND; CARMEN McRAE; HAROLD MABERN JR.; MACHITO; MICHAEL WHITE'S MAGIC MUSIC COMPANY


MAIA

RENE MARIE; BRANFORD MARSALIS; MILTON MARSH; OWEN MARSHALL; HUGH MASEKELA


CAL MASSEY

SABIR MATEEN; BOBBY MATOS AFRO-LATIN ENSEMBLE; MAULAWI


BENNIE MAUPIN

MYRA MELFORD; AMINA CLAUDINE MEYERS; CHARLES MINGUS; ROBERTO MIGUEL MIRANDA; BLUE MITCHELL


NICOLE MITCHELL

MIXED BAG; HANK MOBLEY; THE MODERN JAZZ QUARTET; THE CHARLES MOFFETT FAMILY; MOMBASA; T. S. MONK; THELONIOUS MONK; MONK MONTGOMERY; WES MONTGOMERY; JAMES MOODY


JASON MORAN

LEE MORGAN


NATE MORGAN


BUTCH MORRIS

CHARLES OWENS' MOTHERLODE; PAUL MOTIAN & THE E.B.B.B.; ADAM RUDOLPH'S MOVING PICTURES; FAMOUDOU DON MOYE; MTUME


DAWAN MUHAMMAD

DAVID MURRAY; ONAJE MURRAY & P.S. ISLAND


CHARLES TOLLIVER'S MUSIC INC.

BERT MYRICK; NAJITE AND THE OGUN PROPHECY; MORRIS NANTON; BOBBY NAUGHTON UNITS; FATS NAVARRO; OLIVER NELSON; THE NEW CHAMBER JAZZ ORCHESTRA; THE NEW YORK BASS VIOLIN CHOIR; DAVID NEWMAN; JAMES NEWTON

HERBIE NICHOLS

NOW CREATIVE ARTS JAZZ ENSEMBLE; GARY BARTZ NTU TROOP; NY5; OLATUNJI; OLD AND NEW DREAMS; GRASSELLA OLIPHANT QUARTETTE; THE OPENERS; ANTHONY ORTEGA; COUNT OSSIE AND THE MYSTIC REVELATION OF RASTAFARI


HAROLD OUSLEY

OUT OF THE BLUE; CHARLES OWENS; JIMMY OWENS; NATHEN PAGE


PAN-AFRIKAN PEOPLES ARKESTRA

CHARLIE PARKER; ERROL PARKER


JEFF PARKER

LEON PARKER


WILLIAM PARKER

HORACE PARLAN; LONGINEU PARSONS; KELLEE PATTERSON; JOHN PATTON; CECIL PAYNE; DUKE PEARSON


CHARLI PERSIP

HOUSTON PERSON; MARVIN "HANNIBAL" PETERSON; OSCAR PETERSON QUARTET; PIANO CHOIR


LONNIE PLAXICO

KING PLEASURE; ROY PORTER; POSITIVE FORCE W/ADE OLATUNJI; BUD POWELL; ROLAND PRINCE


DUDU PUKWANA

DON PULLEN; FLORA PURIM; THE PYRAMIDS; QUARTETTE TRES BIEN; IKE QUEBEC; ALVIN QUEEN;


SUN RA


SUN RA ARKESTRA

HUGH RAGIN; LOUIS RAMIREZ AND HIS ORCHESTRA; PHIL RANELIN; FRED RAULSTON; VI REDD; RUFUS REID; STEVE REID


DERF REKLAW

REVOLUTIONARY ENSEMBLE; LARRY RIDLEY; KAHIL EL 'ZABAR'S RITUAL TRIO


SAM RIVERS

MAX ROACH; SONNY ROLLINS; WILLIAM ROPER


MICHELE ROSEWOMAN

RENEE ROSNES


CHARLES ROUSE

GONZALO RUBALCABA TRIO; ADAM RUDOLPH; ROSWELL RUDD; PATRICE RUSHEN; GENE RUSSELL; GEORGE RUSSELL; DAVID SANCHEZ


PHAROAH SANDERS

SAM SANDERS AND VISIONS; MONGO SANTAMARIA; SANTANA; SHIRLEY SCOTT; GIL SCOTT-HERON; ADELE SEBASTIAN


MICHAEL SESSION

JAMIL SHABAKA; SHADOW VIGNETTES; AVERY SHARPE; JESSE SHARPS; SONNY SHARROCK; WOODY SHAW


ARCHIE SHEPP


MATTHEW SHIPP

WAYNE SHORTER; HORACE SILVER; ARTIE SIMMONS AND THE JAZZ SAMARITANS; NORMAN SIMMONS QUINTET


SONNY SIMMONS

NINA SIMONE; PETE LA ROCA SIMS; CHRISTY SMITH; JIMMY SMITH


WADADA LEO SMITH

LONNIE SMITH; LONNIE LISTON SMITH; SONELIUS SMITH; ROY PORTER SOUND MACHINE


JOSHUA SPEIGELMAN


SPIRIT OF LIFE ENSEMBLE


STICKS AND STONES

SONNY STITT; STONE ALLIANCE; BILLY STRAYHORN; JOHN STUBBLEFIELD


MONETTE SUDLER

CHARLES SULLIVAN


SUPERNOVA

BILLY BANG'S SURVIVAL ENSEMBLE; SWEET BABY J'AI; JUDE SWIFT;


HORACE TAPSCOTT


TAUMBU INTERNATIONAL ORCHESTRA


CECIL TAYLOR

JOHN TCHICAI; PATRICK CRESS TELEPATHY; BUDDY TERRY

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LEON THOMAS

CHESTER THOMPSON; LUCKY THOMPSON; MALACHI THOMPSON; HENRY THREADGILL AND MAKE A MOVE; BOBBY TIMMONS; HIDEAKI TOKUNAGA

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CHARLES TOLLIVER


DWIGHT TRIBLE

MARK TURNER; STEVE TURRE; STANELY TURRENTINE


CHARLES TYLER

McCOY TYNER; ROY AYERS UBIQUITY; UJAAMA FEAT. NATE MORGAN; UKUUNKI; UNITY; RAY VEGA LATIN JAZZ SEXTET; HAROLD VICK; LEROY VINNEGAR; THE VISITORS


WABERI

ABDUL WADUD; MAL WALDRON


WALI AND THE AFRO CARAVAN

VINCE WALLACE; CEDAR WALTON


DAVID S. WARE

CHESTER WASHINGTON; GROVER WASHINGTON, JR.


SALIM WASHINGTON & RBA

TYRONE WASHINGTON; ERIC WATSON; ROBERT WATSON; ERNIE WATTS; BEN WEBSTER; DAVID WERTMAN; RANDY WESTON


NEDRA WHEELER

ANDREW WHITE


MICHAEL WHITE

AL WILLIAMS QUINTET PLUS ONE


TONY WILLIAMS

BUSTER WILLIAMS


MARY LOU WILLIAMS TRIO

LARRY WILLIS


GERALD WILSON ORCHESTRA

JACK WILSON


JOE LEE WILSON

JOHN WOOD; WORLD SAXOPHONE QUARTET


FRANK WRIGHT

MALIK YAQUB; YESTERDAY'S NEW QUINTET


LARRY YOUNG


LESTER YOUNG

HENRY THREADGILL'S ZOOID

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Feb 15 2009 2:28 PM

TELEMAGICA 2009, "ALIGNMENT: The Joining of The Tribes"
June 5-7
3 days/2 nights
www. myspace. com/telemagica
Jazz Break

Jazz Break



Jan 15 2009 6:26 PM

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We value every new jazz "friend" we find.
So, we appreciate your add very much.

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It's our exclusive jazz promotion blog.
We know how important it is to get
your name and your music out everywhere.
We have placed over 1,500 musicians into
over 250 jazz playlists. Each day hundreds
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playlists. These people are music buyers.
If you have a CD to sell or just want more
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link(s) on this site ... today!

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Thanks to the music, we are all connected!


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Poetess Maria

Maria Gornell



Dec 29 2008 7:59 PM

(After the rain)

You played 'After the rain'

Told me jazz was your lover

Could I be your mistress?



I imagined sea's of tear ducts

Flowing in rhythm with pain

Releasing a thousand words

Lodged inside a man eager

To explode with passion,

Finding a heart beat kin

To his own..



In every note I paused

Understanding clearly

'killing me softly with his song'

Then I dreamt we were flying

Through ancient fertile forest

Gracefully soaring golden eagles

Searching for that feral note.



Reaching towards interstellar space

You pace yourself in mathematical

Languages of ancient lost love

Finding reasoning beyond earth

Man even race;

As you tap into forefathers epiphany

Raging hypnotically crushing demons

Awakening dead senses to flourish.



I remember the rain

Mingled with sounds

Of free jazz elevating

My spirit to far off plains

As my pen my only outlet

Releases a burning desire

To simply soar into space..



Dedicated to Coltrane and Matt Lavelle

© 2008 Maria Gornell.
Consciouscienz

Consciouscienz



Dec 29 2008 9:36 AM



happy holidays
Liliflor Art

Liliflor Art



Dec 10 2008 2:44 AM

art music event culture craft
art music event culture craft
nailah

nailah



Dec 6 2008 5:53 PM

Hey Brothah...We're performing TOMORROW AFTERNOON (Dec. 7th, 3pm) at the Jazz Bakery, in Josslyn Luckett's series, Come Sunday - Jazz On the Sacred Side. Join us...it'll be a lovely way to spend a Sunday afternoon.

mike vague and thatgirl75

mike vague and thatgirl75



Nov 22 2008 12:06 AM

thatgirl75 has a NEW eBay $ 6.75 Soul 45 Auction, Up And Going Now!
FUNK NORTHERN POPCORN BALLADS MOD DANCERS RAW R&B vintage pressings
At last the auction that was supposed to be up in September is now on ebay!
There are several hundred new items we haven't listed before and almost all have NO RESERVES.
No point in any more hype, have a look. . . there are several hundred sound clips for you to enjoy!
All the best,
Mike and Michelle

Here' s your link:thatgirl75 on ebay..

Thanks again, and have fun!
FEEDBACKFUNK @ ITUNES!!! funky solutions lp

FEEDBACKFUNK @ ITUNES!!! funky solutions lp



Nov 21 2008 10:19 AM

RISE
THANX
PEACE
FBF

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