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billy woods – GOLLIWOG

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It speaks to the plethora of racist caricatures and epithets which proliferated in the United States that the golliwog rag doll with its black skin, frizzy hair and blood-red lips has been described by the Jim Crow Museum as the 'least known' of the group. That certainly wasn't the case when I grew up in England, where the golliwog...

Tracks of the Week 25.03.23

Tracks of the Week
Partially inspired by dialogue from Edward O. Bland's seminal 1959 documentary The Cry of Jazz, which intersperses performances by Sun Ra and a series of conversations on the nature of jazz by a group of intellectuals in a club with scenes of life from black neighbourhoods in Chicago, this week the composer and clarinetist Angel Bat Dawid orchestrates a...

Tracks of the Week 28.01.23

Tracks of the Week
Inspired by her mentor Ran Blake upon her arrival from Mumbai at the end of the seventies, the vocalist Christine Correa with Sam Newsome on soprano saxophone, Andrew Boudreau on piano, Kim Cass on bass, and Michael Sarin on drums takes up the clarion calls and defiant tones of Abbey Lincoln, Max Roach, and Oscar Brown Jr. who at...