'Hard Poetry, Too'

ACT 1
Andy O'Leary ** - 'Prolog'
Brian Blade Fellowship - 'Steadfast', from 'Perceptual' on Blue Note
Sekou Sundiata - ' Making Poems' , from 'longstoryshort' on righteous babe records

ACT 2
Al Young -' Lester Leaps In' , from 'Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like The Rivers' on Rhino Wordbeat
Lester Young - 'Sometimes I'm Happy' , from 'Jazz Masters 30' on Verve
Abbey Lincoln - 'The River' , from 'Talking To The Sun', on EJNA
Jeremy Steig - 'Howling For Judy' , from 'Legwork' on SolidState/Capital
Jackie McLean with Barbara Simmons reading - 'Soul' , from 'Bout Soul' on Capital

ACT 3
Mingus Big Band - 'Don't Let It Happen Here' , from 'Blues and Politics' on Dreyfus Jazz
Derek Walcott - 'Freedom Suite (for Sonny Rollins and Franz Kline) , from 'Our Souls Have Grown Deep Like The Rivers' on Rhino Wordbeat
Andy O'Leary ** - 'Trinity'

** Music by Coyote Poets of the Universe