jazz poet ID question

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I downloaded this concert by Air from soulseek (that's Henry Threadgill, Fred Hopkins, and Steve McCall, not those French synth nerds, you savages) and it turns out they're backing up a guy reading poetry. I have no idea who, and wwould like to find out.

Here's the tracklist, the date of the concert is March 20, 1982

Zoodoo (Dead Things)
Bad News
I Love Music (for John Coltrane)
Against Bourgeois Art
Afro-American Lyric
Wailers (for Larry Neal and Bob Marley)
Am Trak -(for John coltrane)
Class Struggle in Music
Announcement and Outro

whoops! Haha, I guess it'll probably say in that last track. Well, just in case it doesn't, I'll post this thread anyway.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 9 July 2005 02:01 (twenty years ago)

Did you try google?

― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 9 July 2005 02:03 (twenty years ago)

That makes way too much sense for me to think of it.

brb

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 9 July 2005 02:03 (twenty years ago)

I can't read French, but this page

http://www.citizenjazz.com/article3456276.html

seems to indicate that it's Amiri Baraka.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 9 July 2005 02:07 (twenty years ago)

The last track doesn't say whose poeting all over this stuff.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 9 July 2005 03:09 (twenty years ago)

Those do sound like they'd be Baraka titles, especially "Zoodoo" and "Against Bourgeois Art"

― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 9 July 2005 03:45 (twenty years ago)

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