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Jazz & Poetry

By Ludovico Granvassu | Mondo Jazz
August 8, 2018
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The best of jazz is aural poetry. The best of poetry swings and grooves. So it's not surprising that jazz and poetry have had a long and fruitful synergy.

We decided to explore intriguing collaborations between jazz musicians and poets, from the icons of the Beat Generation to Amiri Baraka, from Federico Garcia Lorca to Emily Dickinson. And we'll celebrate a poet of the jazz trumpet, Tomasz Stanko, which has left us too soon.

Happy listening!

Playlist

Ben Allison

bass, acoustic
b.1966

" data-original-title="" title="">Ben Allison "Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" from Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill) (self-released) 0:00

Tomasz Stańko

trumpet
1942 - 2018

" data-original-title="" title="">Tomasz Stańko Septet "Svantetic" from Litania (ECM) 0:17

Host speaks 11:08

Matt Wilson

drums
b.1964

" data-original-title="" title="">Matt Wilson "Anywhere and Everywhere People" from Honey and Salt (Palmetto) 13:47

Roy Nathanson

saxophone
b.1951

" data-original-title="" title="">Roy Nathanson "By the Page" from Sotto voce (AUM Fidelity) 17:40

Andrew Cyrille

drums
b.1939

" data-original-title="" title="">Andrew Cyrille "Kaddish" from The Declaration of Musical Independence (ECM) 22:03

Host speaks 27:10

Allen Ginsberg

" data-original-title="" title="">Allen Ginsberg "Gregory Corso's Story" from The Lion for Real (Mercury) 30:01

Allen Ginsberg "Stanzas: Written at Night in Radio City" from The Lion for Real (Mercury) 32:15

Cornershop "When the Light Appears Boy" from When I Was Born for the 7th Time (Expanded Edition) (Luaka Bop) 37:21

William S. Burroughs "The Last Words of Dutch Schultz (This Is Insane)" from Spare Ass Annie (Island) 39:59

Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen

" data-original-title="" title="">Jack Kerouac & Steve Allen "Jack Kerouac Reads On the Road" from On the Road (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Ryko) 42:23

Host speaks 44:38

Mark Murphy

vocals
1932 - 2015

" data-original-title="" title="">Mark Murphy "Parker's Mood" from Bop For Kerouac (Muse) 47:25

Kip Hanrahan

producer

" data-original-title="" title="">Kip Hanrahan "Untitled II" from Music For The Texts Of Ishmael Reed (American Clave) 51:53

Ralph Alessi

trumpet
b.1963

" data-original-title="" title="">Ralph Alessi "I Am a Cowboy in the Boat of Ra" from This Against That (RKM Music) 55:30

Piri Thomas "Born Anew At Each A.M." from Every Child Is Born a Poet (American Clave) 57:23

William Parker

bass
b.1952

" data-original-title="" title="">William Parker "Freddie's Dead" from The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield -Live in Rome (RAI Trade) 59:41

Alexis Cuadrado

bass
b.1971

" data-original-title="" title="">Alexis Cuadrado "Terra Incognita" from Poetica (Sunnyside) 1:09:31

Host speaks 1:13:22

Steve Lacy

saxophone, soprano
1934 - 2004

" data-original-title="" title="">Steve Lacy "Utah" from Momentum (Novus) 1:18:21

Frank Carlberg

composer / conductor

" data-original-title="" title="">Frank Carlberg "No Way & Now" from The Crazy Woman (Accurate) 1:25:20

Jane Ira Bloom

saxophone, soprano

" data-original-title="" title="">Jane Ira Bloom "Big Bill (with Narration)" from Wild Lines: Improvising Emily Dickinson (Outline) 1:29:09

Susanne Abbuehl

vocals
b.1970

" data-original-title="" title="">Susanne Abbuehl "This and My Heart (var.)" from The Gift (ECM) 1:34:13

Host speaks 1:38:27

Julia Hulsmann

piano
b.1968

" data-original-title="" title="">Julia Hulsmann Quartet &

Theo Bleckmann

vocals

" data-original-title="" title="">Theo Bleckmann "Beat! Beat! Drums!" from A Clear Midnight / Kurt Weill and America (ECM) 1:41:48

Caoutchouc "La leyenda del tiempo" from Caoutchouc Plays García Lorca (Timeless) 1:46:01

Massimo Altomare &

Stefano Bollani

piano
b.1972

" data-original-title="" title="">Stefano Bollani "Il Giorno ad Urlapicchio" from Gnosi delle Fanfole (Mercury) 1:54:40

Ornella Vanoni "La voglia la pazzia" from La Voglia (CGD) 1:57:51

Host speaks 2:00:41

Jack Kerouac "Washington D.C. Blues" from Reads "On the Road" (Ryko) 2:04:00

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