Testimony, a tribute to Charlie Parker
Komunyakaa, Yusef.
Testimony, a tribute to Charlie Parker with new and selected jazz poems / [electronic resource] : Yusef Komunyakaa ; Including the complete Australian Broadcasting Corporation audio recording with music by Sandy Evans ; commentaries by Sandy Evans, Sascha Feinstein, Paul Grabowsky, Christopher Williams, and Miriam Zolin ; project editor Victoria Stahl. - Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2013] - 1 online resource (xi, 140 pages :) illustrations ; - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-132).
Boxcars -- Chicken shack, part 1 -- Chicken shack, part 2 -- Purple dress -- Deep South -- A day like today -- Abel and Cain -- Black cockatoo -- Camarillo, part 1 -- Camarillo, part 2 -- Addie's boy -- Pree's funeral -- Barrow Street -- Moose the Mooche -- A soft touch for strings -- Baroness Pannonica -- Testimony finale -- Testimony coda. CD: $t Testimony overture -- Yusef Komunyakaa's "Testimony" and the humanity of Charlie Parker / Survival masks : an interview with Yusef Komunyakaa / Testimony / Testimony, the ties that bind / French flowers blooming : the music for Testimony / Composer/musical director's notes / Testimony, songs and musicians / Australian Art Orchestra performances / Sascha Feinstein -- Sascha Feinstein -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Miriam Zolin -- Sandy Evans and Christopher Williams -- Sandy Evans -- Sandy Evans -- Paul Grabowsky. Testimony, Yusef Komunyakaa and Sandy Evans. The libretto. The music. Rhythm method -- Togetherness -- 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. Jazz poems, Yusef Komunyakaa.
9780819574930 0819574937
American poetry--20th century.
Electronic books.
PS3561.O455 / T36 2013
811/.54
Testimony, a tribute to Charlie Parker with new and selected jazz poems / [electronic resource] : Yusef Komunyakaa ; Including the complete Australian Broadcasting Corporation audio recording with music by Sandy Evans ; commentaries by Sandy Evans, Sascha Feinstein, Paul Grabowsky, Christopher Williams, and Miriam Zolin ; project editor Victoria Stahl. - Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2013] - 1 online resource (xi, 140 pages :) illustrations ; - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-132).
Boxcars -- Chicken shack, part 1 -- Chicken shack, part 2 -- Purple dress -- Deep South -- A day like today -- Abel and Cain -- Black cockatoo -- Camarillo, part 1 -- Camarillo, part 2 -- Addie's boy -- Pree's funeral -- Barrow Street -- Moose the Mooche -- A soft touch for strings -- Baroness Pannonica -- Testimony finale -- Testimony coda. CD: $t Testimony overture -- Yusef Komunyakaa's "Testimony" and the humanity of Charlie Parker / Survival masks : an interview with Yusef Komunyakaa / Testimony / Testimony, the ties that bind / French flowers blooming : the music for Testimony / Composer/musical director's notes / Testimony, songs and musicians / Australian Art Orchestra performances / Sascha Feinstein -- Sascha Feinstein -- Yusef Komunyakaa -- Miriam Zolin -- Sandy Evans and Christopher Williams -- Sandy Evans -- Sandy Evans -- Paul Grabowsky. Testimony, Yusef Komunyakaa and Sandy Evans. The libretto. The music. Rhythm method -- Togetherness -- 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. Jazz poems, Yusef Komunyakaa.
9780819574930 0819574937
American poetry--20th century.
Electronic books.
PS3561.O455 / T36 2013
811/.54