Amiri Baraka
Everett Leroy Jones was born on 7 October 1934 in Newark, New Jersey, and later
adopted the name Amiri Baraka; he became an African-American poet, playwright,
and jazz critic. His musical work includes the 1972 release It's Nation Time on
Black Forum/Motown and New Music - New Poetry (1982) with David Murray and Steve
McCall, and he recorded with the New York Art Quartet. In 1968 he read his
poetry on Black & Beautiful – Soul & Madness by the Spirit House Movers, one of
three LPs issued on the Jihad label that year, which also included A Black Mass,
featuring Sun Ra. Baraka recei...
