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At 09:06 AM 4/17/98 -0700, you wrote:
>Since no one's mentioned Sekou Sundiata and the 'Blue Oneness of Dreams'
>I thought that I'd go on record as recommending him for those who like,
>or might be interested, in 'spoken word' recordings. As Cartmann would
>say "Kick Ass!".
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>klc
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Devi [SMTP:rdevraj@bom3.vsnl.net.in]
> Sent: Friday, April 17, 1998 12:44 AM
> To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
> Subject: RE: Kind of Hip-Hop
>
>
>
> denise johnson wrote:
>
> As to the Last Poets and Gil
> Scott Heron being the 'firsts'....I dunno know about that. What
>about the
> Beat poets of the 50s and 60s......they were speaking over
>Coltrane,
> Davis, Monk and others.......AJ has been around a long
>time.....just that
> no one was calling it that then....
>
>
> That sounds really interesting. I've been listening to
>kerouac/kicks joy
> darkness and William Burroughs with Material/Bill Laswell and I
>guess i'm
> all geared up for a Beat season this summer. Any suggestions
>about what I
> should listen to next? Any recent spoken word+jazz I should
>check out as
> well?
>
> BTW, I really like the Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron, and this
>group called
> 'Watts Prophets' are often mentioned in the same breath. Anyone
>heard of
> them?
>
>
> Devi
>