(featuring the art of Jennylynd James) The Sunday Poem “Jazz Within Me” by Jerrice Baptiste Book Excerpt “Chick” Webb was one of the first virtuoso drummers in jazz and an innovative bandleader dubbed the “Savoy King,” who reigned at Harlem’s world-famous Savoy Ballroom.
Like all previous volumes, the beauty of this edition is not solely evident in the general excellence of the published works it also rests in the hearts of the individuals from diverse backgrounds who possess a mutual desire to reveal their life experiences and interactions with the music, its character, and its culture. In This Issue The Spring, 2023 collection of jazz poetry is the 14th edition published on Jerry Jazz Musician since the fall of 2019, when the concept was initiated.
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He lives and teaches in Seattle, Washington. He has been nominated twice for a Pushcart and Best of the Net and received the Leslie Hunt Memorial Prize in Poetry. He is a regular contributor to Mythaixs, an online journal, where in addition to his fiction and essays, his interviews with notable writers, artists and musicians such as Daniel Wallace (Big Fish), Darcy Steinke (Suicide Blond, Flash Count Diary) and Tim Reynolds (T3 and The Dave Matthews Band) have been popular contributions. His work has appeared in several anthologies as well as journals such as The Chicago Quarterly Review, Poetry International, The Galway Review, Bitter Oleander, Chiron, Louisiana Literature, Slipstream, as well Spanish translations of work (translated by Maria Del Castillo Sucerquia) in La Cabra Montes.
ĭouglas Cole has published six collections of poetry and The White Field, winner of the American Fiction Award. Listen to the 2020 recording of “From Paris With Love” from Melody Gardo’t album Sunset in the Blue. Listen to the poet read “The Ghost Note” This note that is not the note we expected or wanted,īut the one we received, the blue note, the grace note. This note that points, this note that brings us close, It’s Plato’s realm of the forms: perfect chair, perfect justice, So I rate us on our splendid failure to do the impossible.” “All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection, What’s possible, but still in the space of that note, It’s about “maybe one day I will see you…” what’s missing, It’s about “drink to life as if there is no end.” The song is not about success, not about happiness,Īchieving a goal, receiving the wish. The story is of longing, the way we reach and try. The slow, melancholy shuffle of the song begins,Īnd the poet tells her story. It holds there, going back and forth, but then, In that bright, predictable soundscape…nope. In a way that makes your heart sink a little. It’s not a simple C, not C-sharp flat, but off Instead, when the last note comes sliding in, Or expects to hear, that remains unclear. If I’m right, it’s F to F-sharp,Ī-sharp to C, and then a C-sharp your mind hears The note you almost hear and would expect,ĭoesn’t come. One step, two step, three, four…but the last note, Towards which the strings rise, climbing up, To Melody Gardot’s “From Paris with Love,” There’s a note at the end of the introduction “The Ghost Note” arises from the poet listening to “From Paris With Love” from Melody Gardot’s 2020 album Sunset in the Blue (pictured)
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Trading Fours with Douglas Cole is an occasional series of the writer’s poetic interpretations of jazz recordings and film
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