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Jazz is a limited-edition art book by Henri Matisse, featuring 20 prints of vibrant and poetic cut-paper collages. It was created in 1947, when Matisse was bedridden and could not paint or sculpt, and reflects his memories of circuses, travels, and life themes.
A book-length poem suite by Langston Hughes that depicts Harlem life in jazz style and explores the theme of the "dream deferred". The poem is divided into five sections, each representing a different time of day, and uses montage, boogie-woogie, bop and bebop as motifs.
Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972) was an American poet and novelist who experimented with different forms of writing and incorporated painting, drawing, and jazz music into his works. He was a pacifist, a San Francisco Renaissance and Beat Generation influence, and a pioneer of the picture poem genre.
Jazz is a 2006 picture book by Walter Dean Myers, illustrated by Christopher Myers. The picture book is a collection of illustrations and rhyming text celebrating the roots of Jazz music. Synopsis
Joni Mitchell was born on November 7, 1943, in Fort Macleod, Alberta, Canada. She is a influential and award-winning artist who blended folk, pop, jazz, and other genres in her music and painting.
In his book Digitopia Blues – Race, Technology and the American Voice, poet and saxophonist John Sobol argues that jazz was a transformative vehicle for African-American self-empowerment whose dominant characteristic and purpose was a search for mastery of a language of power, undertaken by a historically enslaved oral people denied access to words of power.
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation, and has many subgenres and regional scenes.
A Gentle Reminder. Jazz took to social media to share a body-positivity message for all her followers. “Every body is beautiful ️ To look at someone’s body and say ‘this is not beautiful ...