As a student/scholar, I mark the transition of Amiri Baraka by holding his family in prayer and holding his work close. Listen to my new mix ‘In The Tradition: Amiri Baraka’ for sounds from Baraka’s biography & immense body of work.  jalylah

In The Tradition: Amiri Baraka

TRACK LISTING

“When I’m Called Home” Rodney Kendrick / “In the Tradition” (excerpted) Amiri Baraka + E. Ethelbert Miller

“I’ll Get Along Somehow” Larry Darnell / “Baraka Reminisces” Amiri Baraka + E. Ethelbert Miller

“The Honeydripper” Joe Liggins

“I Love Music” The O’Jays / “I Love Music” Amiri Baraka

“Ogunde” John Coltrane

“Hey, Buddy Bolden” Nina Simone

“So What” (Live at the 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival) / “The Dance” Amiri Baraka

“Black Dada Nihilismus” Amiri Baraka + New York Art Quartet

“I’m A Happy Cowboy” Herb Jeffries

“ Way Out West” Sonny Rollins / “Bronze Buckaroo” Amiri Baraka

“Long As You’re Living” Abbey Lincoln

“Black Art” Amiri Baraka + Sonny Murray

“Wailers” Amiri Baraka + David Murray

“Something In The Way Of Things (In Town)” Amiri Baraka + The Roots

“I’m So Proud / Ya He Yey Ya” Amiri Baraka + William Parker

“I Plan To Stay A Believer” Curtis Mayfield / “Thank You” E. Ethelbert Miller

“In The Tradition,” Baraka’s comments on Larry Darnell, and poet/scholar E. Ethelbert Miller’s appreciation of Baraka were excerpted from Miller’s interview of Amiri Baraka on the 1998 edition of HoCoPoLitSo’s The Writing Life, which can be viewed on YouTube here.

Photo Credit: Chester Higgins Jr.