Celebrating Al Young - Pt. 2

Al Young (photo: B. Hall)

August 22, 2023. Further celebrating the great Al Young. Today, the second in a Fund Drive series remembering Al Young, onetime poet laureate of California. The writer, poet, singer, teacher, musicologist and self-described bluesman passed away in 2021 but friends assembled this summer in Berkeley to remember him. Today’s edited highlights begin with another recording of Al himself, followed by an appreciation by the legendary Ishmael Reed, and more music from the legendary jazz duo Tuck & Patti. Play loud! For more on Al, check out his landmark collection, Something About the Blues, and see this excellent appreciation at the online newspaper Berkeleyside.

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