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Testimony, a tribute to Charlie Parker : with new and selected jazz poems, Yusef Komunyakaa ; including the complete Australian Broadcasting Corporation audio recording with music by Sandy Evans ; commentaries by Sandy Evans, Sascha Feinstein, Paul Grabowsky, Christopher Williams, and Miriam Zolin ; project editor, Victoria Stahl

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Testimony, a tribute to Charlie Parker : with new and selected jazz poems, Yusef Komunyakaa ; including the complete Australian Broadcasting Corporation audio recording with music by Sandy Evans ; commentaries by Sandy Evans, Sascha Feinstein, Paul Grabowsky, Christopher Williams, and Miriam Zolin ; project editor, Victoria Stahl

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and discography

Illustrations

portraits

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Testimony

Nature of contents

discographiesbibliography

Oclc number

840463203

Responsibility statement

Yusef Komunyakaa ; including the complete Australian Broadcasting Corporation audio recording with music by Sandy Evans ; commentaries by Sandy Evans, Sascha Feinstein, Paul Grabowsky, Christopher Williams, and Miriam Zolin ; project editor, Victoria Stahl

Sub title

a tribute to Charlie Parker : with new and selected jazz poems

Summary

Presents the author's homage to Charlie Parker, plus twenty-eight additional jazz poems, along with interviews and essays

Table Of Contents

Foreword / Sascha Feinstein -- Part 1: Jazz poems / Yusef Komunyakaa. Rhythm method -- Togetherness -- Twilight seduction -- Woman, I got the blues -- Jasmine -- Gingkoes -- Tenebrae -- Cante Jondo -- Changes, or, Reveries at a window overlooking a country road, with two women talking blues in the kitchen -- The same beat -- To beauty -- Ignis Fatuus -- Pepper -- Satchmo, USA -- Nightbird -- Copacetic Mingus -- Gerry's jazz -- Speed ball -- February in Sydney -- The plea -- Elegy for Thelonious -- Dolphy's aviary -- Gutbucket -- Blue Light Lounge sutra for the performance poets at Harold Park Hotel -- The story of a coat -- No-good blues -- Ode to the saxophone -- Coda -- Part 2: Testimony / Yusef Komunyakaa and Sandy Evans. The libretto: Yusef Komunyakaa's "Testimony" and the humanity of Charlie Parker / Sascha Feinstein ; Survival masks: an interview with Yusef Komunyakaa / Sascha Feinstein ; Testimony / Yusef Komunyakaa -- The music: Testimony, the ties that bind / Miriam Zolin ; French flowers blooming: the music for Testimony / Sandy Evans and Christopher Williams ; Composer/musical director's notes / Sandy Evans -- Testimony, songs and musicians / Sandy Evans -- Australian Art Orchestra performances / Paul GrabowskyCD contents: Testimony, part 1. Testimony overture (2:06) -- Boxcars (4:06) -- Chicken shack, part 1 (2:08) -- Chicken shack, part 2 (4:20) -- Purple dress (8:44) -- Deep South (5:03) -- A day like today (4:52) -- Abel and Cain (6:31) -- Black cockatoo (7:11) -- Camarillo, part 1 (3:45) -- Camarillo, part 2 (3:58) -- Testimony, part 2. Addie's boy (4:46) -- Pree's funeral song (6:10) -- Barrow Street (4:50) -- Moose the Mooche (5:01) -- A soft touch for strings (10:38) -- Baroness Pannonica (7:28) -- Testimony finale (1:59) -- Testimony coda (1:46)

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