Jazz Fan Looks Back

Cortez, Jayne

ISBN 10: 1931236097 / ISBN 13: 9781931236096

Verlag: Hanging Loose Press, 2002

Paperback Book. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LACV.1931236097.G

Inhaltsangabe:

Poetry. African American Studies. "If you haven't read Jayne Cortez you're missing some of the best that life has to offer. Here is always a compelling voice of fire and freedom. Her surrealism-the hottest on record. If you think you're a revolutionary, read Jayne Cortez and you'll be ten times more revolutionary"-Franklin Rosemont, Surrealism. Noted performer and poet Cortez is the author of twelve books of poems, among them Scarification and Mouth on Paper, and has performed her poetry with music on nine recordings. Her awards include the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation of the Arts, the International African Festival Award, the American Book Award, and the Langston Hughes Award. Her latest CD recordings with her band The Firespitters are Taking the Blues Back Home and Find Your Voice. "Jayne Cortez understands beter than most how to make spoken words and images swing and rock"-Gene Seymour, Newsday.

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JAZZ FAN LOOKS BACK
By Jayne Cortez

Hanging Loose Press

Copyright © 2002 Jayne Cortez.
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 1-931236-09-7

Contents

Tapping..............................................................9Bright Brown Summer.................................................11How Long Has Trane Been Gone........................................13The Road............................................................16Theodore............................................................173 Day New York Blues................................................20Opening Act.........................................................21Solo Finger Solo....................................................23Rose Solitude.......................................................25If the Drum Is a Woman..............................................27Into This Time......................................................28Cobra Club..........................................................31I See Chano Pozo....................................................32You Know............................................................35Drying Spit Blues...................................................37Atelogo.............................................................39Helen...............................................................40No Simple Explanations..............................................41Chocolate...........................................................44Ribs & Jazz Fest....................................................46Drums Everywhere Drums..............................................47Grinding Vibrato....................................................52Jazz Fan Looks Back.................................................54About Flyin' Home...................................................55Samba Is Power......................................................57Talk to Me..........................................................59I Got the Blue-Ooze.................................................60Sonny's Carnival....................................................61Howling.............................................................62A Miles Davis Trumpet...............................................63So What.............................................................66Music Flying........................................................67Endangered Species List Blues.......................................68Bumblebee, You Saw Big Mama.........................................69Maintain Control....................................................71Mr. Louie...........................................................74Musical Employment..................................................75Photo Op Blues......................................................76Strike Up the Band..................................................77The Revolutionary Orchestra.........................................78The Guitars I Used to Know..........................................79Fina Leone..........................................................82Why Not.............................................................83Last Night..........................................................85Taking the Blues Back Home..........................................86Tearing up the Cathedral............................................88Find Your Own Voice.................................................89After Hours.........................................................90Sunny Side of the Page..............................................91What's Happening....................................................93Somewhere a Woman Is Singing........................................95Pastel Room.........................................................96Make Ifa............................................................97I Wake Up Early.....................................................98Betty..............................................................100Johnny Blowing & Pointing His Machete..............................101Hemphill Tonight...................................................102House of Rubber 92.................................................103Cartooning Whenever the Music Starts...............................104Deadly Radiation Blues.............................................105New York New York..................................................107Blues Bop for Diz..................................................108Leave That Song Alone..............................................110What's Your Take...................................................111Keys to the City...................................................113The Mambo Lesson...................................................115

Excerpt

    TAPPING

    (For Baby Laurence and Other Tap Dancers)

When i pat this floor
        with my tap

when i slide on air
        and fill this horn intimate with
the rhythm of my two drums

        when i cross kick
scissor locomotive

        take four for nothing
four we're gone

when the solidarity of my yoruba turns
joins these vibrato feet
        in a Johnny Hodges lick
a chorus of insistent Charlie Parker riffs

        when i stretch out for a chromatic split
together with my double X
        converging in a quartet of circles

when i dance my spine in a slouch
        slur my lyrics with a heel slide
arch these insteps in free time

        when i drop my knees
when i fold my hands
        when i decorate this atmosphere
with a Lester Young leap and
        enclose my hip-like snake repetitions
in a chanting proverb
        of the freeze

i'm gonna spotlite my boogie
        in a Coltrane yelp

echo my push in a Coleman Hawkins whine

i'm gonna frog my hunch in a Duke Ellington strut

quarter-stroke my rattle
        like an Albert Ayler cry

i'm gonna accent my march in a Satchmo pitch

triple my grind in a Ma Rainey blues

i'm gonna steal no steps

i'm gonna pay my dues

i'm gonna 1 2 3

        and let the people in the apple
go hmmmp hmmmp hmmmp

    BRIGHT BROWN SUMMER

Lord Nelson
Star dusted on
Santa Barbara
in Max's free-town

You and Lord
preacher Brown
stroking prayer bells
as you ate the...

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Jazz Fan Looks Back
Verlag: Hanging Loose Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2002
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: good