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Black Man (feat. Donald Brown, II)

from The Poets Are Gathering by Benjamin Boone

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Donald Brown, II, aka “Mi$ta Enz,” is the son of veteran jazz pianist Donald Brown (who produced and performs on this album). He was featured on Kenny Garrett's album "Do Your Dance."

Inside scoop: this was recorded remotely - trading tracks back and forth between Knoxville (brown), Fresno (Boone) and Germany (Poetzsch and Castillo)

INSIDE SCOOP - Boone was in a NYC studio with DONALD BROWN and KENNY GARRETT when Garrett first got Donald Brown II's rap track to WHEAT GRASS SHOT, which appeared on Garrett's album (produced by Donald Brown senior) "Do Your Dance"

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From the Liner Notes:

This album is so up-to-the-minute-ripped-from-the-front-page in its content to seem as if it were pulled together only a day or two before you open the package. Yet Boone began recording these tracks as far back as 2017, not even a half-year into the Donald Trump administration when many of the roiling, insurgent energies against racism, both “casual” and institutional, were beginning their rise to contemporary peak. The most recent session, “Black Man”was recorded little more than a month after George Floyd’s death, the vocals blend synthesizers, Boone’s soprano saxophone and Stefan Poetzsch’s violin to send a boiling tempest of free-style, hard-core grievance, by turns scalding and funny, against systemic racism and how hard it is to maintain one’s sense of self: “I’m a son / I’m a Father / But really / Why do I even bother / Proven my humanity / I’m losin’ my sanity… They ain’t tryin’ to listen / Nah / They listenin’ to Hannity…”

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from The Poets Are Gathering, released October 16, 2020
Donald Brown, II (p/rap/synth), Benjamin Boone (ss/synth), Stefan Poetzsch (vln), Donald Brown (synth), Alberto Díaz Castillo (synth)

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Benjamin Boone Fresno, California

Benjamin Boone is a jazz saxophonist, composer, professor, and U.S. Fulbright Scholar to Ireland (2022-23), Ghana (2017-18) and the Republic of Moldova (2006). His Origin Records album THE POETRY OF JAZZ was #3 "Best Album of 2018" in the 83rd Annual Downbeat Readers Poll and featured on NPR's All Things Considered, The Paris Review, and many others. Websites: BenjaminBoone.com & OriginArts.com ... more

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