Bridge City #BAM
Sunday: 2pm – 4pm
Sunday: 2pm – 4pm
Bridge City #BAM
Sunday: 2pm – 4pm
#BAM = Black American Music
“The Black American Music Movement is about setting straight what has been knocked out of alignment by mislabeling and marketing strategies.” – Nicholas Payton
The importance of Black American Music on our country, and by extension the world, cannot be overstated. Join me, Cyrus Nabipoor, for Bridge City #BAM, where we explore and celebrate music by, and inspired by, Black American Artists.
In examining the history of American music one finds it has always been pioneered, by and large, by Black culture. Additionally, a consistent pattern exists in which credit and control are taken from Black artists. The hijacked music is minstrelized, commodified and repackaged in order to fit inside the capitalist structure of Western colonial society.
This is not a Jazz show. To paraphrase Nicholas Payton, Jazz is just a four-letter word. Instead we explore a wide variety of Black American Music and in doing so begin to understand the ancestral lineage which connects them.
Hosted by Cyrus Nabipoor
Email: cyrus@prp.fm
Recent Playlists
Feb. 28, 2021
Long Term Goals | George Colligan |
Wet Plastic | Sheers |
Sheep | Noah Young |
Wildman | Cha Wa |
Chunk | Jeff Coffin |
Caution | KAYTRANADA |
Letter 2 U | BJ the Chicago Kid |
Tell Everybody | Herbie Hancock |
Sussudio | Phil Collins |
Secret Rendevous | George Duke |
Bring On The Night / When the World Is Running You Down | Sting |
Feb. 14, 2021
Dedicated To You | John Coltrane |
SO Very Hard to Go | Tower Of Power |
A Long Walk | Jill Scott |
Practical Arrangement | Kurt Elling |
Colour My World | Chicago |
When You Get Back | Jon Cleary |
What’s New | Ahmad Jamal Trio |
Y Miss Me If U Don’t Have 2 | Nicholas Payton |
Butterflies | Michael Jackson |
Move Love | Robert GLasper |
A Love Supreme – Pt. I – Acknowledgement | John Coltrane |
Walmart | Tank and the Bangas |
You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman | Aretha Franklin |
My CHerie Amour | Stevie Wonder |
Wake Up Alone | Amy WInehouse |
Let’s Stay Together | Al Green |
These Arms of Mine | Otis Redding |
Love On Top | Beyonce |
So Far To Go | J Dilla |
A Case of You | Joni Mitchell |
Solitude | Nina Simone |
You’re Everything | Chick Corea |
In A Sentimental Mood | Duke Ellington |
Am I Expecting Too Much | Allen Toussaint |
Betray My Heart | D’Angelo |
Bridge Over Troubled Water | Simon & Garfunkel |
Feb. 7, 2021
Laugh Track | Thankusomuch |
Absolutions | Noah Young |
Gimme Some | Betty Shirley with the Red Organ Trio |
Rev. | Machado Mijiga |
Destroy All Bacteria | Thom Nook |
Epistemicidal | Mike Gamble |
Dirty Rainbow | Slurgeon |
Magic Soup | Frank Irwin Quintet |
Strange | Xavier Molina |
The Water Thief | Alex Massa |
Go Down Moses | Archie Shepp , Jason Moran |
I Need You To Intro | Tobe Nwigwe |
Jockin | Tobe Nwigwe |
Try Jesus | Tobe Nwigwe |
Jan. 31, 2021
Whoa Hey! | Barra Brown |
Beatrice | Damian Erskine |
Rise | Cory Henry |
Demons | Yano |
You’re the One | Yano |
Angelica | Ellis Marsalis |
Swinging at The Haven | Ellis Marsalis |
Beautiful Old Ladies | Ellis Marsalis |
Nostalgic Impressions | The Marsalis Family |
Nichol | Greaterkind |
Better Ways | S.E.M. |
We R Here | Corydrums |
Fighting | Brown Branch |
Jan. 24, 2021
I Want You | Erykah Badu |
You Got Me | The Roots |
Free | Goodie Mob |
Hardgroove | The RH Factor |
How Much A Dollar Cost – Live | R+R=NOW |
Don’t Dog the Source – Instrumental | Jeremy Pelt |
Vartha | Joel Ross |
79rs Bout to Blow | 79rs Gang |
I Ain’t Gonna Stand For It | Stevie Wonder |
Same Old Story | Stevie Wonder |
Have A Talk With God | Stevie Wonder |