All About Jazz review by Martin Gladu |
Musical settings of poetry remain rare in jazz. Pianist Ketil Björnstad's accessible readings of John Donne's metaphysical poems and bassist Steve Swallow's longtime affair with Robert Creeley have re... Posted by Sam Sadigursky on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:20:00 PST |
Time Out New York review by Steve Smith |
The notion of combining poetry and jazz calls to mind the decades-old image of a beret-bedecked, goateed beatnik reciting verse over smoky bop figures. That model may have worked for Jack Kerouac and ... Posted by Sam Sadigursky on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 07:01:00 PST |