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James Semark

Relevance: 100% Posted on: 03.04.2014

James Semark departed this earthly plane sometime during the first week of December, 2010, his death due to a possible heart attack or possible complications from an allergic reaction to antibiotics, something we will never know as an autopsy was never done. The coroner’s office explained it as “death by natural causes.” He was found alone at home with the front door left unlocked, perhaps to not trouble anyone by having to break it down. His body was discovered by the Ferndale police several days after he died. James Semark was a poet, musician/composer, cosmic communicator, organizer and creative spirit […]

Detroit Amsterdam Junction by James Semark

Relevance: 40.864421450483% Posted on: 19.05.2014

[…]St. Ferndale, MI 48220 (USA) The editorial above was found on a disk in the estate of James Semark. It’s unknown if this was published on the old DAW site that James set up in 2004. With many works by Semark lost after his death, the preservation of his writing has been an important ongoing project of the […]

James Semark Memorial with Robert Thibodeau

Relevance: 33.472474234561% Posted on: 08.02.2016

James Semark (1940-2010) memorial held at Book Beat 5.04.11: James Semark Memorial Robert Thibodeau was a friend to James Semark and is the owner of the Mayflower […]

Harold McKinney Interview by James Semark

Relevance: 33.472474234561% Posted on: 10.05.2014

[…]of 1965, two active participants (and students) of the jazz movement, Harold McKinney and James Semark, met and discussed its developments of the last thirteen years. This study is a result of that discussion. This study is also the beginning of a vast research project, which will attempt to seek correlative information, initiated by the Artists’ Workshop Society. Of the initial organization, McKinney has this to say: “Kenny Burrell formed a group – it must have been in the latter part of ‘53 that they formed this group – it was composed of Kenny, Paul Chambers, Hindal Butts, and myself. […]

James Semark – Urban Revitalization’s Second Wind

Relevance: 31.62448743058% Posted on: 06.11.2004

James Semark - Urban Revitalization’s Second Wind

[…]and networked with each other. The development of one such center might go like this: James Semark, Detroit 6/11/2004 [It is uncertain if this article was published on the 2004 DAW website. It was found in the papers of James […]

Night Vision Express : James Semark

Relevance: 29.7765006266% Posted on: 26.05.2014

Night Vision Express : James Semark

[Night Vision Express was printed Jan. 1, 1966 AWS Press, edition of 500 copies. The following are sample pages, from one of the most creative, deep and Acid-laced AWS press books] INTRODUCTION I pain and suffering: result of ignorance of eternal values I have nothing new to say. Just the “same old song” rehashed over and over again: “If one looks absent-mindedly at a candle the flame appears immobile. We know, however, that nothing is immobile within its apparently defined contours, The flame is recreated every instant; and, during its continual ﬂux, the ﬂame feeds on thousands of millions of […]

Flip-outs for Children by James Semark

Relevance: 29.7765006266% Posted on: 20.05.2014

[…]try it. go ahead. try it. just let go. Source: James Semark, WORK/ 1 […]

James Semark – A Metaphor for Charles Moore

Relevance: 29.7765006266% Posted on: 15.01.2004

I believe this about Detroit: if everything would be taken away from the community – the cement, the steel, factories, automobiles, assembly lines, etc. – what would remain would be a form of supercharged cultural expression – music like what was made in the Artists Workshop four decades ago. For those who were not there when the sound was alive, I can best describe it in three aspects: – Dynamic – high-energy. The music blew you away every time you encountered it. – Unique. The music bore the stamp of “we invented it.” – Warmth and depth. A feeling, a […]

James Semark: A Second Chance

Relevance: 29.7765006266% Posted on: 10.05.2014

James Semark: A Second Chance

[…]and growth factor in the revitalization of Detroit (and, not to say the least, the planet). James Semark, Detroit […]

John Coltrane Rhythm Ballad for All by James Semark

Relevance: 29.7765006266% Posted on: 22.05.2014

The John Coltrane Rhythm Ballad for All recorded Nov. 22, 1964 at the Artists Workshop: James Semark voice, John Dana: bass, Danny Spencer : percussion, Charles Moore: horn. James pioneered a type of early proto-rap form that he called the rhythm ballads. These late 50s and early 60s compositions were “investigative verse” works; tripped-out epic poems set to music that undertook the study and description of jazz legends John Coltrane, Charlie Parker and even a judgment day “jazz-poem in heaven” of Edmund Zwingy, an imaginary be-bop star. He began to put the ballads to syncopated sound beats around 1964, inspired […]