Abstract: Selected Table of Contents Ai - Archangel The Man with the Saxophone Samuel Allen - I Say, Mr. A. Baron James Ashanti - Just Another Gig Alvin Aubert - Bessie Bessie Smith's Funeral Houston A. Baker, Jr. - Tobacco Warehouse Blues Of Walter White's Father in the Rain Paul Beatty - Sitting on Other People's Cars John Berryman - Dream Song 68 Gwendolyn Brooks - Queen of the Blues The Sundays of Satin-legs Smith The Third Sermon on the Warpland Arthur Brown - The Assassination of Charlie Parker Callin Buddy Bolden Christopher Buckley - Nostalgia Playing for Time Michael Castro - Blew It Richard Cecil - Richard's Blues Karen Chase - What You Can't See Jane Cooper - Wanda's Blues Hart Crane - For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen Stanley Crouch - The Revelation Up On the Spoon E. E. Cummings - [god pity me whom(god distinctly has)] Thulani N. Davis - C. T. at the 5 Spot C. T.'s Variation Rogue & Jar Diane Di Prima - I Ching Notes on the Art of Memory Mark Doty - Almost Blue Rita Dove - Canary Henry Dumas - Concentration Camp Blues Listen to the Sound of My Horn Dave Etter - Monk's Dream Stuffy Turkey Well You Needn't Mari Evans - Boss Communication Sarah Webster Fabio - For Louis Armstrong, A Ju-Ju William Ford - Of Miles Davis Nikki Giovanni - Genie in a Jar Sam Greenlee - Memorial for Trane Joy Harjo - Bird Healing Animal Strange Fruit Michael S. Harper - Bandstand A Narrative of the Life and Times of John Coltrane: Ply By Himself DeBose Heyward - Jasbo Brown Edward Hirsch - Art Pepper Richard Hugo - My Buddy T. R. Hummer - Poem In the Shape of a Saxophone Angela Jackson - Billie in Silk Make/n My Music Ohnedaruth Richard Jackson - Shadows David Jauss - After the End of the World Black Orchid Lance Jeffers - How High the Moon Nina Simone June Jordan - October 23, 1983 Robert Kelly - Newark Ode to Language Keorapetse Kgositsile - Acknowledgement For Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers Yusef Komunyakaa - Speed Ball Twilight Seduction Vachel Lindsay - The Jazz of This Hotel Naomi Long Madgett - Echoes Plea for My Heart's Sake William Matthews - The Buddy Bolden Cylinder Mingus At the Showplace Michael McClure - For Monk Thomas McGrath - Guiffre's Nightmusic Jazz at the Intergalactic Nightclub James McKean - Fater Listening to Jack Teagarden... Sandra McPherson - The Ability to Make a Face like a Spider While Singing Blues: Junior Wells Some Metaphysics of Junior Wells Suspension: Junior Wells on a Small stage in a Converted Barn David Meltzer - 17:II:82 18:VI:82 Adrian Mitchell - From Rich Uneasy America to My Friend Christopher Logue Mwatabu Okantah - Afreeka Brass Southern Road Ron Overton - Blues inC Dudley Randall - Langston Blues Carolyn M. Rodgers - We Dance Like Ella Riffs Written for Love of an Ascension-Coltrane Muriel Rukeyser - Bunk Johnson Blowing Homage to Literature Ntozake Shange - Elegance in the Extreme Charles Simic - Crepescule With Nellie A. B. Spellman - John's Music Kill Him John Coltrane Lorenzo Thomas - Historiography Askia Muhammad Toure - JuJu O Lord of Light! A Mystic Sage Returns to Realms of Eternity Derek Walcott - Blues The Glory Trumpeter Tom Weatherly - Mud River Shango Times Ron Welburn - Ben Webster: Did You Call Her Today? Bones and Drums Gonsalves Miller Williams - The Death of Chet Baker Yevgeny Yevtushenko - Saints of Jazz Satchmo Al Young - Dance of the Infidels Lester Leaps In Paul Zimmer - But Bird Sitting With Lester Biographical Notes and Statements of Poetics Music Appendix Acknowledgments
Publication Year: 1996
Publication Date: 1996-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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