| Description |
xi, 140 pages ; 24 cm + 2 audio discs (4 3/4 in.) |
| Note |
Poetry and commentary, featuring Komunyakaa's long paean to Charlie Parker and a two-CD set of the jazz opera that uses this poem as a libretto. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and discography. |
| Contents |
Jazz poems, Yusef Komunyakaa. Rhythm method -- Togherness -- Twilight seduction -- Woman, I got the blues -- Jasmine -- Gingkoes -- Tenebrae -- Cante Jondo -- Changes; or, Reveries at a window overlooking a country road, with two women talking blues in the kitchen -- The same beat -- To beauty -- Ignis Fatuus -- Pepper -- Satchmo, USA -- Nightbird -- Copacetic Mingus -- Gerry's jazz -- Speed ball -- February in Sydney -- The plea -- Elegy for Thelonious -- Dolphy's aviary -- Gutbucket -- Blue Light Lounge sutra for the performance poets at Harold Park Hotel -- The story of a coat -- No-good blues -- Ode to the saxophone -- Coda. |
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Testimony, Yusef Komunyakaa and Sandy Evans. The libretto. Yusef Komunyakaa's "Testimony" and the humanity of Charlie Parker / Sascha Feinstein -- Survival masks : an interview with Yusef Komunyakaa / Sascha Feinstein -- Testimony / Yusef Komunyakaa -- The music. Testimony, the ties that bind / Miriam Zolin -- French flowers blooming : the music for Testimony / Sandy Evans and Christopher Williams -- Composer/musical director's notes / Sandy Evans -- Testimony, songs and musicians / Sandy Evans -- Australian Art Orchestra performances / Paul Grabowsky. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955., honouree.
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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| ISBN |
9780819574299 cloth alkaline paper |
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0819574295 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780819573827 (ebook) |
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