Yaphet Kotto's lost album 'The Almanac Of Enoch Shadobee'
Oct 30, 2020 22:25:00 GMT
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Post by petrolino on Oct 30, 2020 22:25:00 GMT
Here's a rare cut from Yaphet Kotto's aborted album, 'The Almanac Of Enoch Shadobee' (announced in September 1967 by the Mus-Art Corporation Of America), recorded for trumpeter Hugh Masakela and record producer Stewart Levine's music label, Chisa Records. They called Kotto the revolutionary ...
"Liz White’s Othello was the first film version of Shakespeare’s tragedy that starred a Black man and remains the only Shakespearean film directed by a Black woman. The film adapts Shakespeare’s tragedy to the 1960s, using an all-Black cast and crew (including music by Hugh Masekela) to reimagine the play in a way that addressed colorism in the Black community, Afrocentrism, and the Black Power Movement. Yaphet Kotto plays an African Othello whose dark skin and traditional dress set him apart from the light-skinned and sophisticated New Yorkers whose social world he enters. Scholar Peter Donaldson argues that this essential change makes the play more viable as tragedy. “Because Othello is close, ethnically, to the rest of the cast without really being one of them, the eruption of mistrust and rage is especially poignant: in rejecting Othello, the ‘Venetians’ are rejecting a part of themselves, a link to their origins; and in falling prey to suspicion, Othello too denies the claims of consanguinity and disavows a shared history.” And Courtney Lehmann argues that “by focusing on the (mis)treatment of women in Othello, White links their struggle to the double displacement of black women within the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement.” Filmed between 1962 and 1966 at White’s Shearer Summer Theatre at Oak Bluffs, a historic Black community on Martha’s Vineyard, but unseen until 1980 and seldom thereafter, White’s radical reimagining of Shakespeare’s text is essential viewing.
Othello courtesy of the Reserve Film and Video Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Othello has been preserved with funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Post-screening discussion with Honey Crawford (UChicago), James Vincent Meredith (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), and Ron OJ Parson (Court Theatre)."
Othello courtesy of the Reserve Film and Video Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Othello has been preserved with funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Post-screening discussion with Honey Crawford (UChicago), James Vincent Meredith (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), and Ron OJ Parson (Court Theatre)."
- The University Of Chicago
Pam Grier & Yaphet Kotto promote Arthur Marks' 'Friday Foster' (1975)
'Have You Ever Seen The Blues / Have You Dug His Scene' - Yaphet Kotto
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Yaphet Kotto in William Wyler's final film 'The Liberation Of L.B. Jones' (1970)
Anthony Quinn & Yaphet Kotto in Barry Shear's 'Across 110th Street' (1972)
Joyce Van Patten & Yaphet Kotto in Larry Cohen's 'Bone' (1972)
Yaphet Kotto in Jonathan Kaplan's 'Truck Turner' (1974)
Yaphet Kotto in Milton Katselas' 'Report To The Commissioner' (1975)
Yaphet Kotto, Harvey Keitel & Richard Pryor in Paul Schrader's 'Blue Collar' (1978)
'Ugly Beauty' - Thelonious Monk
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'Homicide : Life On The Street'
'Don't Be Afraid The Clown's Afraid Too' - Charles Mingus
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