Reed, Ishmael, 1938-

  • Democracy Now! September 13, 1998

    Report on the Report |Report on the Report The first hour, guests are Ishmael Reed and Barbara Ehrenreich. Second hour guests are Progressive Magazine Washington editor Ruth Coniff and U.C. Berkeley political science professor Michael Rogin, author of BOOK: RONALD REAGAN, THE MOVIE: AND OTHER EPISODES OF POLITICAL DEMONOLOGY and BOOK: BLACKFACE, WHITE NOISE: JEWISH…

  • Miles Davis, New York to Paris and back : 1945-1956.

    Documentary on the life, development, and influences on Miles Davis. Includes words and music by: Roy Porter, Andrew White, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Walter Bishop, Clayton Riley, Gerry Mulligan, Prophet Jennings, Ira Gitler, Dan Morgenstern, Walter Davis Jr., Art Davis, Martin Williams, Ishmael Reed, Art Farmer, Dizzy Gillespie.|MILES DAVIS, NEW YORK TO PARIS AND BACK…

  • Miles Davis, the early years : 1926-1946.

    Documentary on the life, development, and influences on Miles Davis. Includes words and music by: Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Eddie Randle, Raleigh McDonald, Red Bonner, Millard Curtis, John Conyers, Clayton Riley, Ishmael Reed, Prophet Jennings, Quincy Troupe, Lewis Porter, Wayen Shorter.|MILES DAVIS, THE EARLY YEARS : 1926-1946. – SERIES: Miles Davis radio project| no. 1…

  • American Writers Congress.

    A conference on writing, publishing, and censorship. Program moderated by Chris Koch and Richard Elman. |r.1. David Black, Ethelbert Miller, Valerie Minor, Leslie Gorse. Victor Navasky and Michael Ferris on censorship (56 min.). — r.2. Jules Feiffer, Ring Lardner, Jr., Gloria Steinem, Jose Iglesia, June Jordan (85 min.). — r.3. Ishamel Reed (30 min.).

  • The Last Days of Louisiana Red / Ishmael Reed ; directed by Francesco Newman.

    Reed’s radio adaptation of part of his recent novel.

  • Conversation with Ishmael Reed

    Eleanor Sully talks with Ishmael Reed, author of “The Free-Lance Pallbearers” and “Yellow Back Radio Broke Down,” about his own work in relation to the tradition of black writing in America. Possibly first aired during Sully’s “New Writers” series on KPFA.

  • KPFA poetry festival (1977) / recorded by Randy Thom and Doug Maisel.

    KPFA Poetry Festival May 14, 1977. From the folio: “On Saturday, May 14, U.C.’s S.U.P.E.R.B. Productions will present what will be the biggest poetry reading staged in the Bay Area since the Vietnam era, and perhaps the biggest ever. And all on behalf of raising funds for KPFA! KPFA and Pacifica have long been an…