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James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 [1] – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that ...
Miles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a roughly five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major ...
0-571-19472-9. Birthday Letters is a 1998 poetry collection by English poet and children's writer Ted Hughes. Released only months before Hughes' death, the collection won multiple prestigious literary awards, including the Whitbread Book of the Year, the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection, and the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry in 1999. [1]
Cecil Percival Taylor (March 25, 1929 – April 5, 2018) [1] [2] [3] was an American pianist and poet. [4] [5] Taylor was classically trained and was one of the pioneers of free jazz. His music is characterized by an energetic, physical approach, resulting in complex improvisation often involving tone clusters and intricate polyrhythms.
Jazz poetry. 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.
John invited Judy to visit the UK, and she did – a few months later, in January 2005. The trip coincided with Judy’s birthday. “I thought, ‘It’s no good being in the UK in the winter ...
PoemJazz. PoemJazz is an album by poet, essayist, literary critic, translator and America's 39th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress Robert Pinsky, and Grammy-Award -winning pianist, composer, and arranger Laurence Hobgood . Released by Circumstantial Productions in 2012, the album was produced by Richard Connolly and ...
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