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Ron Carter and Danny Simmons have announced the release of The Brown Beatnik Tomes – Live at BRIC House, a new album to be released on June 7, 2019, via Blue Note.
The Brown Beatnik Tomes sees the pairing of jazz bassist Ron Carter with poet Danny Simmons. Ron Carter’s career highlights include playing in Miles Davis‘ Second Great Quintet and over 2,200 sessions to his name, making him the Guinness-certified most-recorded jazz bassist in history. Danny Simmons, is the Tony-winning cofounder of Def Poetry Jam, a novelist, poet, gallerist, and painter.
“I was trying to imagine myself as a Beat Generation poet in the ’50s,” says Simmons, “and how my concerns would be a bit different from Lawrence Ferlinghetti‘s or Allen Ginsberg‘s. In a way, the beatniks romanticized black people. They were hip, but they didn’t really see the plight. That scene largely was about the Negro experience but didn’t have the Negro in it.”
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