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Montage of a Dream Deferred is a book-length poem suite published by Langston Hughes in 1951. Its jazz poetry style focuses on scenes over the course of a 24-hour period in Harlem (a neighborhood of New York City) and its mostly African-American inhabitants. [1] The original edition was 75 pages long and comprised 91 individually titled poems ...
Kenneth Patchen (December 13, 1911 – January 8, 1972) was an American poet and novelist.He experimented with different forms of writing and incorporated painting, drawing, and jazz music into his works, which have been compared with those of William Blake and Walt Whitman.
Theodore Joans (July 4, 1928 – April 25, 2003) was an American beatnik, surrealist, [1] painter, filmmaker, collageist, [2] jazz poet and jazz trumpeter who spent long periods of time in Paris [3] while also traveling through Africa. His complex body of work stands at the intersection of several avant-garde artistic streams.
Bob Kaufman. Robert Garnell Kaufman (April 18, 1925 – January 12, 1986) was an American Beat poet and surrealist as well as a jazz performance artist and satirist. [1] In France, where his poetry had a large following, he was known as the Black American Rimbaud. [2]
Jayne Cortez (May 10, 1934 [1] – December 28, 2012) was an African-American poet, activist, small press publisher and spoken-word performance artist. [2] Her writing is part of the canon of the Black Arts Movement. She was married to jazz saxophonist Ornette Coleman from 1954 to 1964, and their son is jazz drummer Denardo Coleman.
Jazz poetry has been defined as poetry that "demonstrates jazz -like rhythm or the feel of improvisation" [1] and also as poetry that takes jazz music, musicians, or the jazz milieu as its subject. [2] Some critics consider it a distinct genre though others consider the term to be merely descriptive.
978-0-8112-0041-7. OCLC. 284358. A Coney Island of the Mind is a collection of poetry by Lawrence Ferlinghetti originally published in 1958. It contains some of Ferlinghetti's most famous poems, such as “I Am Waiting” and “Junkman's Obbligato”, which were created for jazz accompaniment. There are approximately a million copies in print ...
Just Friends" is a popular song that has become a jazz standard. The song was written in 1931 by John Klenner with lyrics by Sam M. Lewis . Although introduced by Red McKenzie and His Orchestra in October 1931, it first became a hit when singer Russ Columbo performed it with Leonard Joy ’s Orchestra in 1932.