Amiri Baraka - Digging Max (At Seventy Five, All the Way Live!) lyrics

Max is the highest The outest, the Largest, the greatest, The fastest, the hippest, The all the way past which There cannot be When we say MAX, that's what We mean, hip always Clean. That's our word For Artist, Djali, Nzuri Ngoma, Señor Congero, Leader, Mwalimu, Scientist of Sound, Sonic Designer, Trappist Definer, Composer, Revolutionary Democrat, Bird's Black Injun Engine, Brownie's Other Half, Abbey's Djeli-ya-Graph Who baked the Western industrial singing machine Into temperatures of syncopated beyondness Out Sharp Mean Papa Joe's Successor Philly Joe's Confessor AT's mentor, Roy Haynes' Inventor, Steve McCall's Trainer, Ask Buhainia. Jimmy Cobb, Elvin or Klook Or even Sunny Murray, when he aint in a hurry, Milford is down and Roy Brooks Is one of his cooks. Tony Williams, Jack DeJohnette, Andrew Cyrille can tell you or youngish Pheeroan, Beaver and Blackwell and my man, Dennis Charles. They'll run it down, ask them the next time they in town. Ask any or all of the rhythm'n. Shadow cd tell you, so could Shelly Manne, Chico Hamilton, Rashid knows, Joe Chambers, Billy Hart. Eddie Crawford From Newark has split, but he and Eddie Gladden could speak on it. Mtume, if he will. Big Black can speak. Let Tito Puente run it down, He and Max been tight since they were babies in this town. Frankie Dunlop cd tell you and he speak a long time. Pretty Purdy is hip. Max hit with Duke at Eighteen. He played with Benny Carter when he first made the scene. Dig the heavy learning that went with that. Newk knows, And McCoy. CT could agree. Hey, ask me or Archie or Michael Carvin Percy Heath, Jackie Mc are all hip to the Max Attack. Barry Harris can tell you. You in touch with Monk or Bird? Ask Bud if you see him, You know he know, even after the cops Beat him Un Poco Loco. I mean you can ask Pharaoh or David Or Dizzy, when he come out of hiding, it's a trick Diz just outta sight. I heard Con Alma and Diz and Max in Paris, just the other night. But ask anybody conscious, who Max Roach be. Miles certainly knew And Coltrane too. All the cats who know the science of Drum, know where our Last dispensation come from. That's why we call him, MAX, the ultimate The Furthest Star. The eternal Internal, the visible invisible, the message From afar. All Hail, MAX, from On to Dignataria to Serious and even beyond! He is the mighty SCARAB, Immortal as our music, world without end. Great artist Universal Teacher, and for any Digger One of our deepest friends! Hey, MAX! MAX! MAX!