FATTENING BLOGS FOR SNAKES

Sunday, March 7, 2021

Full Moon Night

Steven Pratt - Fattening Blogs For Snakes 2021. (A Project of the John Sinclair Foundation) www.johnsinclair.us ------ radiofreeamsterdam.org

Thelonious: A Book Of Monk--Volume One

<a href="https://johnsinclair.bandcamp.com/album/thelonious-a-book-of-monk-volume-one">Thelonious: A Book Of Monk--Volume One by John Sinclair</a>

"This unique tribute to pianist Thelonious Monk contains no music. It is poet John Sinclair's ode to the life and times of Monk, intertwined with the poet's personal musings on how these compositions relate to his own life.--All Music.

Produced For – Big Chief Productions
Produced For – BarKubCo Music Inc.
Phonographic Copyright (p) – New Alliance Records
Copyright (c) – John Sinclair (2)
Recorded At – Chez Flames

Executive-Producer – Harvey Robert Kubernik
Producer – John Sinclair / Keith Keller
Recorded By – Keith Keller

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Tuesday, November 3, 2020

JOHN SINCLAIR 2020 PRODUCTS

JOHN SINCLAIR 2020 PRODUCTS

@ May 22, 2020

(Detroit)—Poet/author/bandleader John Sinclair will release a plethora of new literary

and recording projects with a variety of publishers and record outlets in 2020.

First to appear will be a 2 nd edition of Sinclair’s ground-breaking blues poetry book

Fattening Frogs For Snakes: Delta Sound Suite, initially published by Dennis

Formento at the Surregional Press in New Orleans in 2002. The new edition will be

published by Horner Books in Flint, Michigan.

FFFS will be followed by a 2 nd printing of the U.S. edition of It’s All Good: A John

Sinclair Reader by Horner Books in Flint, accompanied by the first U.S.Hardbound

Edition of It’s All Good, also from Horner Books. Both FFFS and It’s All Good sold out

their first editions.

FFFS will also be honored in the fall with the release of a 4-LP box set of the poet’s

recording of the four sections of the text with ensembles from New Orleans, Detroit and

Mississippi, accompanied in the box set by the new printing of the book of Fattening

Frogs For Snakes: Delta Sound Suite. This major project has been undertaken by

Jett Plastic Recordings of Detroit.

Cary Loren at BookBeat in Oak Park is completing his reissue series of Sinclair’s four

publications by the Detroit Artists Workshop Press in 1965-67 with the release of a

facsimile edition of FIRE MUSIC: a record, Sinclair’s second book of poetry originally

issued in 1966.

Sinclair’s long-awaited jazz work in verse dedicated to the music and life of pianist

Thelonious monk, always know: a book of monk, volumes 1 & 2 will be issued in 2020

by the Trembling Pillow Press of New Orleans), who have earlier published his

collection Song of Praise: Homage to John Coltrane. “I’m hoping the publication of

the first half of this work, started in 1982, will inspire me to go ahead and compose the

rest of the poems for volumes 3 & 4,” Sinclair chuckled.

Finally, RJ Spangler & the Planet D Nonet will issue a double LP recording of the Nonet

with John Sinclair reciting verses from always know: a book of monk with music

comprising entirely of Monk compositions performed by the nine-piece orchestra led by

RJ Spangler & James O’Donnell.

These products are released under the auspices of the John Sinclair Foundation, with

representation by Ben Horner of Horner Books in Flint. Please contat Ben for further

information: chefbmoney @ gmail.com

BOOKS

always know: a book of monk, volumes 1 & 2 (Trembling Pillow Press, New Orleans)

Fattening Frogs For Snakes: Delta Sound Suite, 2nd edition (Horner Books, Flint)

It’s All Good: A John Sinclair Reader, U.S. Edition, 2nd printing (Horner Books, Flint)

It’s All Good: A John Sinclair Reader, U.S.Hardbound Edition (Horner Books, Flint)

FIRE MUSIC: a record, facsimile edition of Artists Workshop Press 1966 edition (Book

Beat, Oak Park)

RECORDINGS

Fattening Frogs For Snakes: Delta Sound Suite Box Set (4 LPs + Book) (Jett Plastic

Recordings)

Monk Suite with the Planet D Nonet “Live” at the Scarab Club (RJ Spangler label)

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Monday, October 5, 2020

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 875 - BLACKBIRDS

Episode 875 is coming from Radio Free Amsterdam’s Detroit headquarters in the Cass Corridor with a program centered on the great Detroit singer Bettye LaVette and her brand new album for Verve Records called Blackbirds, a tribute to great singers of yore like Billie Holiday, Ruth Brown, Della Reece, Nancy Wilson, Dinah Washington and others, interspersed with pieces of conversation between Bettye and the editors of Big City Rhythm & Blues magazine, Robert Jr. Whitall & Sugar Mae Owens. The musical program concludes with a number from her previous album, I’ve Got My Own Hell To Raise.

The John Sinclair Foundation Presents

BLACKBIRDS