#jazz writing

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Benny Golson Interviewed

Valerie Wilmer’s interview with Benny Golson in the February 24, 1966 Down Beat catches Benny in a transitional period in his life, when he shifted emphasis from jazz to composing and arranging for commercial record dates, television and film. As time went on, he dove deeper into that world, but finally came full circle back to jazz as a saxophonist and writer in the ‘90s. Benny is a remarkable man with a great vocabulary and a chronic postcard writer. As Bruce Lundvall used to say, when I get a card from Benny, I reach for the dictionary.

-Michael Cuscuna

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Cannonball Adderley on the Young Lions

A former music teacher, Cannonball Adderley was famous for his engaging and informative introductions to music on the bandstand with his own quintet/sextet. Steven Cerra reprints Cannon’s liner notes from the Vee Jay album The Young Lions, which was featured in Mosaic's The Complete Vee Jay Lee Morgan & Wayne Shorter Sessions set. He was just as fascinating and articulate in print as in front of a mic. A shame he didn’t write more.

-Michael Cuscuna

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2004

Dan Morgenstern "Living With Jazz" & Gary Giddins "Weather Bird" (from 2004)

Or, Lessons in How to Write About Jazz

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"Tenorman," by Jack Kerouac

short jazz poem by the Beat writer

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Glenn North, the inaugural Poet Laureate of the 18th and Vine Historic Jazz District, shares passages from his 2015 book City of Song (re-released in 2019 by Spartan Press). Excerpted from the Kansas City Public Library's 2017 program, To Make a Poet Black and Bid Him Sing, the Cave Canem fellow, community organizer, and winner of the Charlotte Street Foundation's Generative Performing Artist Award discusses his involvement in youth poetry workshops and shares his experience as a black poet. North also talks about his collaboration with jazz musician Bobby Watson to create the musical spoken word CD, Check Cashing Day. Find us on Apple Podcasts and Stitcher or stream the full show on our website.

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Ralph J. Gleason and the Beat Movement (Part 7)

Ralph J. Gleason and the Beat Movement (Part 7)

Far from Aesthetically Satisfactory: Gleason’s Critique of Jazz Poetry This series of posts explores eminent music writer Ralph Gleason’s contributions to the Beat Movement, from its precursors in the 1930s to its blossoming in the 1950s.  Part 6 examined his important role in the recording and release of the album, Poetry Readings in the Cellar, which remains the best-known document of the…

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Ralph J. Gleason and the Beat Movement (Part 5)

Ralph J. Gleason and the Beat Movement (Part 5)

A Fascinating Experiment to Watch: Ralph Gleason’s Introduction to Jazz Poetry This is the fifth in a series of posts on how music writer Ralph Gleason contributed to the Beat Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Part 5 examines Gleason’s key role in the San Francisco jazz poetry movement of the mid-1950s.

  Though The Cellarwas just one of many smoky hole-in-the-wall hot spots that comprised…

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Ralph J. Gleason and the Beat Movement (Part 4)

Ralph J. Gleason and the Beat Movement (Part 4)

Go! Go! Go! The San Francisco Beat Scene Takes Off   

The fourth in a series of posts on music writer Ralph Gleason’s contribution to the Beat Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. Part 4 explores the movement’s expansion to San Francisco in the early 1950s after Gleason moved there to become music columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle.    

  San Francisco was experiencing electrifying change…

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