Word: soule
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arts series of which Bland's film is a part include Dizzie Gillespie, a 1959 Les Blank production, and John Jeremy's Jazz Is Our Religion. Jeremy's 1970 film supports Bland's thesis that even when a black musician plays from his roots he blows his soul "through a white man's machine." But the work is most notable for some fine stills of the conditions and communities that breed jazz as well as a scattering of poetic jazz talk by Langston Hughes...
...suggestions, in the eyes of the American people, would constitute much of the "leadership" and "action" that the President rightly said they yearn for. Even within the Administration, some officials found it hard to muster more than faint praise for the end product of so much public and private soul searching. Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns, who favored more wage-price jawboning and a bigger public service employment program than Ford proposed, said, "It is a well-balanced program. Whether it goes far enough as a whole or in individual directions is a complicated question that members of Congress...
...novel owes its title partly to a blistering chili pepper sauce. It marks the return of an earlier Reed hero, Papa LaBas, the great black shamus. To white readers, he is soul's answer to Sherlock Holmes. To Reed, he is torchkeeper of "HooDoo," the 19th century AfroAmerican folk religion and business that dealt in magic cures, spells and charms...
...novel Reed calls this savory cultural mess of lore and history "the Gumbo"-after the unique and varied Creole dish. But Reed's Gumbo is strongly metaphorical rather than explicitly edible, a sort of royal soul food manufactured at the Solid Gumbo Works by a black capitalist named Ed Yellings. The plot, full of violence, intrigue and high-speed travel, turns on whether the Gumbo Works will be controlled by LaBas' forces of good and healing magic (Gumbo can cure heroin addiction) or the perversion of the ancient mysteries led by the Louisiana Red Corp. and its sinister...
...ensuing decades have brought lean years for Brico, who has labored in obscurity. She has fed her artistic soul on the scant fare of four or five concerts a year with the Denver Businessmen's Orchestra--and has fed her body by teaching piano. But if one waits long enough, the worm will sometimes turn. Twenty-odd years ago, one Judy Collins, age 10, landed in Brico's lap for piano lessons. Today, Collins is in a position to return part of the gift of this most gifted woman. She and Jill Godmilow have produced a documentary on Brico...