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Author-Poet Aberjhani gave 5 stars to: My Holy Bible for African-American Children, NIV
Author-Poet Aberjhani reviewed:
My Holy Bible for African-American Children, NIV
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 Works by Premier Artists Make Children's Bible Uniquely Collectible,This review is from: My Holy Bible for African-American Children, NIV (Hardcover)
"My Holy Bible for African-American Children" was edited by Cheryl and Wade Hudson, who have won national acclaim as the authors and publishers of their Just Us Books (designed for a young multicultural reading audience). It is recommended for children aged 7-10 and is the first title in Zondervan Publishing's planned ZonderKidz series. Like all children's and standard new international version Bibles, the language in this one has been simplified and made more accessible for modern young readers than that included in a standard King James edition. Moreover, it includes such strategically placed supplemental texts as lyrics for the classic hymn, "Wade in the Water," and an excerpt from Kirk Franklin's more modern gospel standard, "Stomp." A major plus for this Bible--and one that makes it uniquely collectible-- is the fact that it features the work of seven artists whose paintings bring to life both traditional biblical stories and empowering scenes from African-American history. The artists include: Pat Cummings, Nancy Devard, Shane Evans, Cathy Ann Johnson, Anna Rich, and Javaka Steptoe, and Michele Wood. Wood, the award-winning illustrator for the children's books Going Back Home: An Artist Returns to the South and I See the Rhythm, is represented by a half dozen richly painted illustrations in the new Bible ranging from images that combine Christian faith and hip hop culture to that of Civil War abolitionist Harriet Tubman leading escaped slaves across a river. More abstract works by the artist serve as color frames for additional writings about "The African-American Worship Experience" and for "Inspirational Quotes." by Aberjhani National African American Art Examiner and author of The Bridge of Silver Wings (Songs of the Angelic Gaze) |
Author-Poet Aberjhani gave 5 stars to: Trouble [Vinyl]
Author-Poet Aberjhani reviewed:
Trouble [Vinyl]
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Ray LaMontagne's TROUBLE Demonstrates Rare Musical Artistry,This review is from: Trouble [Vinyl] (Vinyl)
The rainforest-rawness of Ray LaMontagne's voice and the music he makes with it, accompanied by his guitar, is so unexpectedly honest and unpretentious that it's hard to imagine TROUBLE as an album that was "produced" at all. It sounds more as if the singer performed each of these 10 songs in their original inspired forms, giving himself with a complete lack of self-consciousness to the smoldering intensity of the opening track, "Trouble," and gently coaxing from strings and his voice the lyrical beauty of the last two songs, "Jolene," and "All the Wild Horses." LaMontagne is clearly what we like to call an American original. According to IMDB, his first name at birth was Raycharles, as in the late great singer's two names made into one, and LaMontagne seems to possess the same kind of private relationship with music that Charles' did, one that turned him into a public phenomenon. Whether listening to the story-telling artistry of "Narrow Escape" or the jaunty hopefulness in "Forever My Friend," we hear both LaMontagne's own uniquely styled delivery as well as the accumulated legacies of the great blues singers Robert Johnson and folk icons like Bob Dylan. What seems to make the music distinctly LaMontagne's, however, is his individual respect for the creative gift placed in his capable hands. He is as passionate a poet as he is a singer and two combined make a rare and beautiful kind of musical artistry. by Aberjhani author of ELEMENTAL: The Power of Illuminated Love and Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World |
Author-Poet Aberjhani gave 5 stars to: BLACKsummers'night (Amazon.com Exclusive Vinyl w/CD)
Author-Poet Aberjhani reviewed:
BLACKsummers'night (Amazon.com Exclusive Vinyl w/CD)
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The Nujazz New Millennium Soul of Maxwell's BLACKsummers'night,This review is from: BLACKsummers'night (Amazon.com Exclusive Vinyl w/CD) (Vinyl)
Upon its release the first week of July, "BLACKsummers'night" matched the success of Maxwell's 2001 CD, "Now," by debuting at number one on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart. (Reportedly, only Michael Jackson's "Number Ones" CD had more sales for the week but was not eligible for the chart.) This is possibly Maxwell's most ambitiously creative album since 1998's "Embrya." Many found that particular set of music too abstract in comparison to his mega-hit 1996 debut, "Maxwell's Urban Hang Suite," which established the artist as one of the pioneers of New Millennium Soul. "BLACKsummers'night," on CD and vinyl as in concert, has drawn and likely will continue to draw strong approval from the singer's fans and critics worldwide. Those critics who feel obligated to lean in the opposite direction may wonder out loud what the results might be if Maxwell chose one day to channel some of the intensity of his romantic compositions into a collection of songs dealing with serious social and political issues? Such an effort, some critics might wager, could produce a modern version of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On," or Club Nouveau's undervalued classic, "Listen to the Message." Speculations to the side, the nine songs on "BLACKsummers'night" stand better than well enough in their own right. The set opens with the trip-hoppish and uniquely Maxwellian groove titled "Bad Habits," a song that seems to place listeners at the brink of a break-up that moves back and forth between barely controllable ecstasy and overwhelming regrettable sorrow: "This is the highest cost, take you and make you off/ Love you and leave you lost, will you forgive me..." The erotic angst grows even deeper in the second song, "Cold," in which we hear the first overt hint to the meaning of the album's title: "As God as my witness, my summer's gone frigid, my summer's gone frigid/ I know you can hear this." The third track is the immensely popular "Pretty Wings," which spent a month at the top of the singles' chart, and a snippet of which Maxwell first introduced on the web in 2008. "Pretty Wings" lends strong support to the singer's statements in recent interviews where he asserts that he matured a great deal while out of the public spotlight for the past eight years. At a time when too many people resort to violence or stalkerish behavior at the end of a difficult relationship, the singer croons with altruistic serenity: "If I can't have you let love set you free/ To fly yo' pretty wings around..." Each of the first eight songs is a stand-out with vocals that are more powerful than ever. They take listeners through an odyssey of love lost, love discovered anew, and then explored straight through to the burning screaming hilt. The ninth track is a jaunty instrumental appropriately titled Phoenix Rise, courtesy of Maxwell's creative alter ego Musze, that provides the perfect punctuation to the entire set. A major component of the Maxwell's success from the beginning has been a spiritual quality within his music that enhanced its appeal to no small degree. It was easily evident throughout the Embrya CD, and in his cover of Kate Bush's "This Woman's Work." On BLACKsummers'night, the spirituality comes through most dynamically in "Help Somebody" and "Playing Possum." The former drives its point home with the echoing plea, "Give a little mo-o-o-o-o-o-orrrrrrrre!" and this chilling request: "If you see the future, ask it if I'm there,/ Ask him if I'm there/ Ask it to tell you, did I ever make a stand..." Moreover, while the title of "Playing Possum" may sound lighthearted, it is performed as a tearful elegy that calls for a loved one to "Come back from the dead" and ends with the final weeping sob of "Yeeeeeeaaaahhhhhh..." The CD throughout is flavored heavily tastes of nujazz, the distinct smooth sounds of what the world embraces as neosoul, and elements of world music. For this, in an interview on [....], Maxwell acknowledged his band members: "I made this album and these albums with the assistance of so many great people. Musicians on this album are at the top of their game. To be in that zone or that place where you're just making music because you really love it... you can tell the difference I think." by Aberjhani co-author of ELEMENTAL: The Power of Illuminated Love and Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (Facts on File Library of American History) |
Author-Poet Aberjhani gave 5 stars to: Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Author-Poet Aberjhani reviewed:
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
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Three Reasons to Celebrate Woody Allen: Vicky Cristina Barcelona,This review is from: Vicky Cristina Barcelona (DVD)
The idea of naïve innocent Americans abroad in the world and preyed upon by charming seductive Europeans is a favorite theme in classic works by cosmopolitan novelist Henry James. Celebrated director and writer Woody Allen, whose greatest hits include such notable movies as Annie Hall (1977), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), and Mighty Aphrodite (1995) gives that theme a very modern, humane, and somewhat wicked twist in Vicky Cristina Barcelona. He accomplishes that entertaining feat with a stellar cast featuring Rebecca Hall as Vicky, Scarlett Johansson as Cristina, Javier Bardem as Juan Antonio, and Penelope Cruz in her Academy Award-winning role as Maria Elena. Woody Allen is a film master of complex character studies and social entanglements that lend themselves to philosophically absurd interpretations. Through his quirky brilliant perspective and the film's laid-back narration by Christopher Evan Welch, we meet best friends Vicky and Cristina. Two beautiful talented young women at crossroads in their lives, Vicky has recently received her master's degree in the somewhat improbable subject of Catalonia and is preparing to get married. The more free-spirited Cristina is a budding filmmaker who recently completed a twelve-minute short about "why love is so hard to define," and is now trying to determine which direction her life should take next. Barcelona, one of Spain's most beautiful cities, provides the perfect cultural retreat--rich as it is with history, poetry, music, and the art of Antonio Gaudi and Joan Miro--where they hope to gain some inspired perspective before moving on with the next chapter in their lives. The women's planned idyll seems both innocent and sophisticated enough until they meet the calmly intense painter Juan Antonio Gonzalo. In less than five minutes after meeting them, even before learning their names, Juan Antonio invites Vicky and Cristina to fly with him for the weekend to a small town called Oviedo where, he proposes, "I'll show you around the city, we'll eat well, we'll make love." Vicky is shocked by this proposal while Cristina is intrigued. Both ultimately accept the offer for different reasons and the weekend concludes with some surprising results. After Cristina is sidelined by an inflamed ulcer, the cautious Vicky finds herself more intimately involved with Juan Antonio than probably any engaged woman should be with a man other than her fiancé. The threesome get their romantic priorities in order when Vicky's fiancé Doug (Chris Messina) comes to Barcelona; and Cristina ends up moving in with Juan Antonio. All seems to progress as it morally should when Juan Antonio's ex-wife Maria Elena re-enters his life like a storm whirling in from the desert. Surely it testifies to the magnitude of Penelope Cruz's dramatic gifts that she is physically absent from almost the entire first half of the film and then practically dominates the second half with her captivating portrayal of Maria Elena. Though Juan Antonio and she are officially divorced, he feels obligated to take her in following an attempted suicide. As a character, Maria Elena is a cluster of contradictions and paradoxes, part madwoman and part genius, insufferable enfant terrible and seductive beauty. To her, it makes sense when she confesses to searching through Cristina's personal items to make sure she had nothing that could harm her, Vicky, and to be certain as well that she is "the right one" for her ex-husband. Nor does she see anything incongruous about her assessment of her relationship with Juan Antonio: "Our love will last forever but it just doesn't work." Oddly, she seems less prone to jealousy than she is to impatience with artistic mediocrity. According to her, Juan Antonio "stole everything from me, his whole style." Yet she screams at him with the exasperation of a dedicated mentor, "Do you realize what it is like for me to realize you will never reach your full potential?!" Her eventual acceptance of Cristina goes a lot further than tolerance and she actually throws a tantrum when Cristina decides it is time for her to move on. Vicky and Cristina's involvement with Juan Antonio and Maria Elena at first seems like exactly the kind of slightly taboo, and very neurotic adventure that both women might desire for a temporary diversion. But with such a volatile mixture of characters all hungry to experience life's most pleasurable and daring possibilities, something disastrous is bound to happen. And it does. Just when any number of critics had started to proclaim the end of Woody Allen's career as a filmmaker of any real consequence, Vicky Cristina Barcelona shows him right at the top of his ingenious game with some very strong hints of more great work to come. by Author-Poet Aberjhani co-author of ELEMENTAL: The Power of Illuminated Love and Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (Facts on File Library of American History) |
Author-Poet Aberjhani gave 5 stars to: Dream Reachers
Author-Poet Aberjhani reviewed:
Dream Reachers
4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
Blessed by the Company of Dream Reachers,This review is from: Dream Reachers (Paperback)
I've been lucky enough and survived long enough to share pages, via such outlets as anthologies and magazines, with some fairly extraordinary company, including luminous folks like Amiri Baraka, Pearl Cleage, Sean "Puffy" Combs, the singer Maxwell, Eugene Redmond, Kalamu ya Salaam, Susan L. Taylor , John Edgar Wideman, Tiger Woods, and quite a few others I greatly admire and respect. But if someone had given me 100 chances to guess that an interview profile of me was destined to occupy pages in the same book as profiles of Hollywood icon Clint Eastwood and political powerhouse Ted Kennedy, I'm pretty sure I would have missed that particular target every single time. If they had then given me clues in the form of actual names, I likely would have smiled at the sweetness of their naiveté and gently hugged them for beings so kind to an ever-striving author like me.In the end, however, the error would have been mine because Dream Reachers, the surprising new book by Betty Dravis and Chase Von, does indeed serve as literary host to this author and certified legends like Eastwood and Kennedy. What makes Dravis and Von's book work so well is the wide spectrum of personalities and eras presented in their very entertaining book, with Dravis drawing on early-career encounters to showcase a number of bonafide stars and political heavyweights-- while also employing along with Von more recent interviews with "legends in the making." Among the latter are actress/singer Kiara Hunter, entertainment reporter Crystal Myrick, nujazz singer Nhojj, country music star Tanya Tucker, and several dozen more dream chasers who managed to transform hope and determination into measures of achievement and fulfillment. Hopefully, the greater part of my measure is still ahead of me and not behind. The different voices, diverse perspectives, and varied nature of individuals' journeys presented in Dream Reachers make the book as fun as it is inspiring. Here, in closing, is an excerpt from my chat with Chase Von: Chase: How did your time spent in the military [U.S. Air Force] enhance your writing? Aberjhani: Thank you for that question! My time in the military marked my beginnings as a professional writer. I was very fortunate in that I was able to serve as a military journalist/editor with the base public affairs office. And the thing about being a journalist with a weekly deadline in the military is that you learn how to write whether inspired by a particular muse or not. You know there's a job to be done and an entire base population counting on you to get it done because they need the information you're providing--so you do it, period. Chase Von: Your list of awards is astounding! Your name is listed in a byline besides the great W.E.B. Du Bois himself! You have also won the Best Poet and Spoken Word Artist in the 2006 Connect Savannah Readers' Poll. The Poet of The Month January 2007 at THE WRITING FORUM. You're the recipient of the Irene Tromble McAlister Literary Prize! The "Critic's Pick" for "Best Savannah Author" in the CREATIVE LOAFING Entertainment Magazine's "Best of Savannah Year 2000" poll. And you have also been selected for inclusion in CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS (published by Gale), which since 1962 has been the most authoritative reference on World Authors! Did I miss any, and do these things just happen with you putting yourself out there? Or do you have to enter into contests and win to be recognized? Aberjhani: I don't enter literary contests because I tend not to win them [laughs]. The awards that have come my way--including the CHOICE Academic Title and Best History Book awards--have all been bestowed by people and organizations who decided that my work provided something valuable for the reading public and for that reason deserved greater recognition. But I have to tell you that I received my greatest award when I gave a presentation for the Poetry Society of Georgia. It's the oldest literary organization in the state and many of its members at that time were senior poets who used to joke about needing `new blood' to stay alive, so they were happy when I was an active younger member. Anyway, after my presentation, I got a standing ovation which by itself was deeply moving. But then this one poet (the great Patricia Robinson King) who at the time I think was almost 80, sitting in the front row, looked at me and said, "I don't usually stand because these old legs of mine make it difficult, but I'm going to stand for you." I shook my head and said, "Oh please don't," because she used a walker and I knew it was painful for her. She couldn't clap her hands because she was holding onto her walker but that great poet insisted on standing and nodding to acknowledge her approval of my work. I cried over that for a year. Aberjhani author of Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance (Facts on File Library of American History) and The American Poet Who Went Home Again |
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1. Membership at CTI is free and open to all those interested in either the production or appreciation of the creative arts, to include literature, visual art, dance, music, film, spiritual theory, the social sciences, philosophy, general humanities, scientific inquiry, education in general, and other disciplines intended to enhance the quality of life for all humanity.
2. Materials posted by Members of CTI are their sole responsibility and not that of CTI management or any other member of the CTI site.
3. While recognizing that the work of creative artists is often controversial by its very nature, CTI prohibits and discourages the posting of any overtly obscene and intentionally inflammatory material. These include overt pornography, racist diatribes, religious slander, and any postings promoting discrimination against or the oppression of other human beings.
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With the visit to Lebanon by the leaders of Saudi Arabia and Syria, today could perhaps be a "historic day" for the Middle Eastern country, helping to consolidate stability, a senior United Nations official said today.UN rushing aid to flood-stricken areas of north-western DR Congo
United Nations agencies are providing urgent assistance to areas of north-western Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) after devastating floods, which have destroyed nearly 300 homes and left an estimated 1,500 people homeless.UN agency to begin training electoral observers ahead of Solomon Islands polls
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