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Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

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Online Re-Broadcast: THE PUBLIC’S NOT READY FOR YOU YET: A Cricket Radio Show

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Presented in partnership with Blank Forms and dublab

“The Cricket will be distributed free to musicians’ unions, clubs, jazz publications, record companies, schools, and will deal, as we said, with ALL OF OUR MUSIC.”

Tune in to seven hours of music, readings, and interviews celebrating the publication of The Cricket: Black Music in Evolution, 1968–69 by Blank Forms—a reprint of the vanguard forum for Black music criticism edited by Amiri Baraka, A. B. Spellman, and Larry Neal. Blank Forms hosted a day-long radio show on October 2, 2022 at their Clinton Hill office and simultaneously broadcasted the program online at The Word is Change and Playground Annex in Brooklyn and Cafe OTO in London. Hosts Lawrence Kumpf and Ciarán Finlayson opened the show with a recording of Spellman reading in celebration of Cecil Taylor at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2016, and hosted conversations with artist’s working in The Cricket’s tradition, including documentarian Steve Rowland, writer Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, and the artist-duo Black Mass Publishing.

The show featured records both popular and rare, surveying the era’s Black self-publishing initiatives: Baraka’s Jihad Productions, Sun Ra’s Saturn Records, Milford Graves and Don Pullen’s Self-Reliance Program, Rashid Ali’s Survival Records, John Coltrane’s Coltrane Recording Corporation, and Charles Tolliver and Stanley Cowell’s Strata-East. It also delved into recordings savaged by The Cricket’s contributors, as well as those praised by its essayists (contra the mainstream jazz press), and revisited tracks made by the soul and folk musicians with whom the jazzers were politically and spiritually aligned—Julius Lester, James Brown, and Otis Redding. One section explored the “multi-sided concept of time” offered by drummers Graves, Ali, and Beaver Harris; another examined the music and writing of Jimmy Stewart—author of “Just Intonation and the New Revolutionary Black Music”—perhaps The Cricket’s most mysterious contributor. The show closes with a performance by Brooklyn-based poet Monique Ngozi Nri and long-time trumpeter in the Sun Ra Arkestra Ahmed Abdullah.

Many thanks to Blank Forms and dublab for their partnership and collaboration in this re-broadcast presentation on the occasion of Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency at ICA LA (February 11–May 14, 2023).
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