"Black Fish Jazz" genre: Spoken Word
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	Diem Jones is a poet, arts administrator and musician living in Oakland California. His own poetry can be found in Sufi Warrior, A Collection of Words (Juke Box Press). As a renowned photographer, Jones authored #1 Bimini Road, a photo history of George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic in the 1970’s. The Executive Director of The Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation and coordinator of the Voices Writers Workshops (U of San Francisco), focused on writers-of-color, Jones has also served as Administrative Director of East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Saint Mary’s College, National Director of WritersCorps and Co-Director of Associated Writing Programs.
	CD: Black Fish Jazz   Label: Sufi Warrior Entertainment Credits: prouduced by Fladimir MS Woo & George Clinton
	Story Behind the Song Black Fish Jazz will have a profound impact on poetry, music and spoken word worlds. “Spoken Song is the only way I can express what I am performing here. The music and the words are in dialect with each other as I strip our realities down to the bare bones. It’s a new form for the new revolution,” Jones says.. Using the form he invented, Spoken Song, Jones established a new art expression for a voice taking on the new world, in the new century. Collaborating with some of the world’s most significant musicians, Jones speaks the truth about corruption, deception and redemption, with sounds from Jazz, rock, funk, and other provocative combinations. Featured musicians include: George Clinton, Tony Kahlife, David Lee Spradley, Frank Colon, Krushadelic, Douglas Ewart, JD Parran, Bernard Wray, Lowell Rojon and Ed Tywoniak. The collaborations yielded a powerful combination of Jones’ lyrical insistence with the drive of the music, composed particularly for his spoken songs. Lyrics Black Fish Jazz 4:46 Words/Lyrics �2002 Diem Jones Holy hippopotumous Let’s get to the bottom of this!!! Hey Yooud! We call this Black Fish Jazz: Three Parts, Three Ingredients; Black Fish Jazz Now Let’s put a THREE on it! Black is the color that represents the absorbtion of ALL… Black is everything, Black is perfection… …ain’t nobody BLACK, but everybody is trying to be– or at least trying to be or claiming to be partially BLACK! …still, ain’t nobody Black! Fish like the Ank and the Crucifix represent some level of holiness… Ank you and Fish can swim too!! …if you don’t want to smell fishy, or have fishy breath– DON’T EAT THE FISH! Ooops..too late? Well, you shouldn’tubitfish… If you didn’t want to be holy, Then why’d you read the good book? Another Fishy Conspiracy!!! Jazz is the only original North American Art Form…and Jazz used to be noted as an African American invention, but now even this is being challenged!!! Another Fishy Conspiracy!!! Jazz is ours and Jazzy steps are needed to dance through the bowels of deceit and lies that line our streets and smellavisions. Black Fish

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