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Title: Kamau Daáood & David Ornette Cherry
START DATE: 5/26/2005
START TIME: 7:00 PM
Duration: 2 Hours
Location: downtown, central, hollywood, northeast
Location Details:
Los Angeles Central Library
Mark Taper Auditorium
Fifth & Flower Streets,
Downtown Los Angeles, California
Event Topic:
Event Type: music event
Contact Name: Los Angeles Public Library
Contact Email:
Contact Phone:
DESCRIPTION:
A Free Event



A mythic figure in the Southern California arts scene, Kamau Da?ood is a performance poet, educator, and community arts activist who is widely acknowledged as a major driving force behind Los Angeles? black cultural renaissance. He is the author of two chapbooks, and the widely acclaimed spoken word album Leimert Park, named after the thriving Los Angeles community that is fast becoming the west coast?s black cultural mecca. The Language of Saxophones will be Da?ood?s first book, a long-awaited selection from a lifetime of poetry.

Da?ood has a long history of cultural work in the Los Angeles area. Born and raised in Los Angeles, the multi-talented artist was instrumental in transforming Leimert Park into the cultural center it is today. In 1989, he and master jazz drummer Billy Higgins teamed up with a handful of artists to establish the World Stage. Under Da?ood?s and Billy?s leadership this store-front performance gallery became Los Angeles? black creative epicenter. The park is now home to a wealth of performance spaces, studios, galleries, shops, and restaurants, and is widely viewed as the symbol of Los Angeles? rebirth. Less than a decade later, Da?ood?s reputation has grown to that of a folk hero. The author of two chapbooks of poetry, Ascension and Liberator of the Spirit, his work is featured in Ten Contemporary American Poets. An award-winning documentary film about his life, appropriately titled Life Is a Saxophone, premiered in 1985. He has been a guest artist on several recordings, including the spoken word compilation Jazz Speaks and B Sharp Jazz Quartet?s Searching for the One. Da?ood has taught at California State University Northridge and at Otis Art Institute for Parson School of Design, and was honored by the USC Master of Professional Writing Program for his accomplishments as a writer.

Da?ood developed his literary skills as a young member of the legendary Watts Writer?s Workshop. His tenure as a ?word musician? with the Pan African People?s Arkestra, under the direction of Horace Tapscott, helped to shape his bebop-flavored poetic approach. A veteran of hundreds of readings, Da?ood developed an underground following in west coast performance circles, where he has been known to bring an audience to its feet. His readings have brought him to podiums with Gil Scott Heron, The Last Poets, Amiri Baraka, and Sonia Sanchez, and have taken him as far away as Egypt and Somalia.

Cherry was born the same year Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry recorded their first album, Something Else. The ambient music streaming through his childhood was generated by the early collaborations of his dad, Don, with Coleman and the musicians who visited his parents? Mariposa Avenue home in Los Angeles.

Cherry studied music composition at Bishop College in Dallas and concentrated on World Music? at California Institute of the Arts. He spent summers attending the Creative Music Studio at Woodstock, New York. These summer experiences gave him the space to compose and create music with Trilock Gurtu, Olatunji, Jai Deva, and Foday Musa Suso, and to explore the relationship of jazz and music from other cultures. While jazz remains both the root and sustenance of his sound, he often incorporates the sounds of the world in what he calls ?multi-kulti? music. His background includes performances with Don Cherry, Ed Blackwell, Charlie Haden, Billy Higgins, Nana Vasconcelos, Olatunji, Carlos Ward, Jim Pepper, Collin Walcott, Wadada Leo Smith, and Justo Almario. Cherry?s instruments are keyboards, melodica, and wood flute.

To register go online to:

http://www.lfla.org/aloud/may_june05/index.html

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