Songs in support of the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpZTtaWqxsQ&fmt=22"]Better Git It in Your Soul Charles Mingus[/ame]


^ From the 1959 album ‘Mingus Ah Um’
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO0AtOE_RtQ&fmt=22"]Adagio ma non troppo Charles Mingus[/ame]


^ From the 1972 album ‘Let My Children Hear Music’ – composition by Charles Mingus, transcribed for orchestra by Hub Miller, and orchestrated by Alan Raph
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heVcGt7qWns&fmt=22"]Work Song Charles Mingus Quintet[/ame]


^ Live at Café Bohemia, NYC, 1955 – Charles Mingus, bass; featuring Eddie Bert, trombone; George Barrow, tenor saxophone; Mal Waldron, piano; and Willie Jones, drums (rightly famous drummer Max Roach, BTW, only on another song, ‘Percussion Discussion’)
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^_^ Not to be confused with…


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuN_xec7jEs&fmt=22"]Work Song (by Nat Adderley)[/ame]


^ With Julian ‘Cannonball’ Adderley, alto saxophone; Nat Adderley, cornet; Joe Zawinul, piano; Sam Jones, bass; Louis Hayes, drums – live in Lugano, March 24, 1963
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A couple, few more versions of the song above…


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeI1uabumwo&fmt=22"]Work Song The Animals[/ame]


^ With Eric Burdon, 1965
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiSr1CsliTM&fmt=22"]Work Song The Butterfield Blues Band[/ame]


^ From the 1966 album ‘East↔West’ – with Paul Butterfield, harmonica; Mike Bloomfield and Elvin Bishop, guitars; Mark Naftalin, organ; and veteran, blues/jazz session men, Jerome Arnold, bass, and Billy Davenport, drums
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^ Editorial aside to the PR cretins at WMG: Fuck You!


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X_dh2kHpkM&fmt=22"]Work Song Robben Ford[/ame]


^ With brothers Mark Ford (harmonica) and Patrick Ford (drums), live at Mendocino College (CA), 2003
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^_^ Which song is also not to be confused with the jazz standard by Thelonious Monk, as done, for just one example, by…


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nap6u5LyvCo&fmt=22"]Work Chris Spedding and Peter Frampton[/ame]
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^ Or this more recent song on one of my favorite albums from the last couple of years – by the French band The Bewitched Hands…


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOgYcVfqUE0&fmt=22"]Work The Bewitched Hands[/ame]
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SZa60ZDZa4&fmt=22"]Work The Bewitched Hands[/ame]


^ On a ‘FaitsDivers’ acoustic session for campus Radio Dijon – during ‘TGV GeNeRiQ’ festival, 2010
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The following three posts are in reference to another one I just made in the 'Occupy Together' thread, also in this forum…


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l92oYK3t78k&fmt=22"]Compared to What? Gene McDaniels[/ame]


^ RIP Eugene McDaniels (1935–2011) – from the 2000 independent film Girlfight (written and directed by then-first-time filmmaker Karyn Kusama)
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzvlivbptXk&fmt=22"]Compared to What? Les McCann/Eddie Harris[/ame]


^ Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival, 1969 – with Benny Bailey and Leroy Vinnegar
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^_^ Oh, yeah, have I mentioned lately…?

Fuck You, WMG!


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjPRKtcKRRo&fmt=22"]Compared to What? John Legend/The Roots[/ame]


^ On AMEX Unstaged, September 23, 2010 – directed by Spike Lee
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cuc_JQ-4JCE&fmt=22"]We’re Living in Bad Conditions Lloyd Price[/ame]


RIP Lloyd Price, as well as Les McCann, Eddie Harris, Charles Mingus, the Adderleys… everyone else I may have left out…
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoD5-E27jiA&fmt=22"]A Real Mother for Ya Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson[/ame]


^ RIP Don Cornelius (as well as Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson, who died much too young)
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRrFWp4DUho&fmt=22"]Mercy, Mercy, Mercy ‘Cannonball’ Adderley[/ame]
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8q6sR6yZCE&fmt=22"]Birdland Weather Report[/ame]


^ Live in Offenbach, Germany, 1978 – Joe Zawinal, keyboards; Wayne Shorter, reeds; Jaco Pastorius, bass; and Peter Erskine, drums
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^ RIP Joe Zawinal and Jaco Pastorius

(Jeez, that easily could get to be tedious, as well as depressing…)

But, for now, here are a couple more songs by the Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra – from their (kind of appropriately-named, considering the above) 1983 album ‘Ballad of the Fallen’…


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS6kkGYJHKc&fmt=22"]The People United Will Never Be Defeated[/ame]
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAWV2yMKFq4&fmt=22"]Not in Our Name Charlie Haden LMO[/ame]
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One more song…


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRooq30BCTM&fmt=22"]Rabo de nube (by Silvio Rodríguez)[/ame]


^ ‘Tail of a Cloud’ (or as Charlie says, ‘Tornado’) – Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra, live in Hamburg, 1991
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