poetry

Kip Hanrahan | Paul Haines | Darn It! | American Clavé

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…Darn it! Strings together an outrageous number of artists performing one after another in a polyglot line that stretches from Paul Bley’s solo piano ‘Threats That Matter’ through funky dance numbers by Greg ‘Iron Man’ Tate to a duet by trombonist Roswell Rudd and Canadian poetry Paul Haines, ‘Etait Dans La Nuit.’ Even its beautiful package, designed by artist / film maker / musician Michael Snow (who also contributes a lovely piano piece) enforces the compilation’s linearity, unfolding into a long accordion of personnel and poetry… Darn it! Overcomes stylistic impediments successfully, reveling in the way Haines’ terse writing can endure so many different kinds of interpretation.” — John Corbett, Downbeat Continue reading →

Ute Kaiser | Achim Tang | Maria Ammann | Prosa, Gedichte, Briefe von Margarete Steffin | Nemu Records

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Die Mehrzahl von Steffins Gedichten – und Brechts Antwortgedichte – sind Sonette. Eine traditionsreiche und anspruchsvolle Form, die Mühe macht und Können verlangt. Steffin und Brecht haben sich ihre Sonette gegenseitig korrigiert. In diesem pfleglichen Umgang mit der literarischen Produktion des Anderen fand die gegenseitige Gewogenheit einen in der Literatur einzigartigen Ausdruck. — Robert Cohen, New York Continue reading →

Erika Dagnino | Narcéte | Slam Productions

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The quartet we are about to hear presents us with the most unusual of outfits — unusual not so much in its aim to link poetry with jazz music (or vice-versa, if you wish), hardly anything new, as for the peculiar path it takes in reaching such goal: namely, a gradual and thoughtful testing process of the project through different «live» situations. Give credit for it to the friendship and mutual regard among the artists. Haslam and Waterman go back a long time, same as Pastor and Dagnino; plus, this was not the first time Haslam and Pastor, Dagnino and Haslam have worked together. Credit is also due to a shared interest in «music and poetry», following a tradition of long standing in both Italy and Great Britain. — Gennaro Fucile Continue reading →

Steve Dalachinsky | Matthew Shipp | Lorna Lentini | Logos and Language: A Post-Jazz Metaphorical Dialog | RogueArt Jazz

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Steve Dalachinsky, poet, and Lorna Lentini, photographer, both know Matthew Shipp, musician, since he arrived in New York in the late 80’s. “Logos and Language: a Post-Jazz Metaphorical Dialogue” is made up of dialogues between Steve and Matthew, Steve’s poems (written while listening to Matthew Shipp), Matthew’s writings and Lorna’s photographs. Shipp’s music as seen from the inside by three major artists. It definitely creates a unique book that on its own, is not just a book about Shipp but as Shipp himself would agree, a book that encompasses the entire Cosmos. Continue reading →

Alexandre Pierrepont | Mike Ladd | Maison Hantee | RogueArt Jazz

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On one level, both music and poetry are very much the same, that being sound – at least the spoken word would be. Here in “Haunted House” is a sound design or shape being put forth with multiple meanings psychoacoustically, linguistically, musically that I can only say very little about in terms of meaning, since ultimately it’s meaning will be with each individual who experiences this work. This rhythmic engagement between these two art forms create a third reality of sound gestures and events that collide and integrate. Yet knowing these facts it still does not allow me to analyze or describe exactly what “Haunted House” is. Hopefully this experience will be a catalyst at some level for good. — Henri Threadgill, excerpts from the liner notes Continue reading →

Steve Dalachinsky | Jacques Bisceglia | Reaching Into The Unknown | RogueArt Jazz

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An exceptional book, 440 pages, 180 photographs, 140 poems, a 45 year trip within a unique musical period, from Duke Elligton to William Parker to John Coltrane,Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Albert Ayler, Cecil Taylor, Ornette Coleman, Anthony Braxton, Derek Bayley, Sun Ra, Don Cherry, L’Art Ensemble of Chicago, Joëlle Léandre, Roscoe Mitchell, Max Roach, George Lewis, Archie Shepp, L’Instant Composer Orchestra, Ted Joans, Betty Carter, Hamid Drake, Roland Kirk, Abbey Lincoln, Amiri Baraka, Matthew Shipp, Art Blakey, Steve Lacy, Evan Parker, John Zorn, James Blood Ulmer, David Murray and tens of other great musicans… Continue reading →

Howard McCord Reads at the Anasazi Fields Winery Placitas. NM | Vox Audio

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Howard’s most recent books are The Complete Poems of Howard McCord (Bloody Twins Press 2002), The Man Who Walked to the Moon, A Novella ( 1 (McPherson 1997) and Walking to Extremes (McPherson 2008). This reading was part of the 2011 Duende Reading Series. Recorded in Placitas, NM October 30, 2011. Edited by Bruce Holsapple. Cover photo by James M. Gay Jr. Copyright c 2011 Howard McCord and Vox Audio P.O. Box 594 Magdalena, NM 87825 Continue reading →