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Jazz Lines Spoken

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Label: gmk publishing
Released: 2023
Duration: 00:19:55
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Tracks

Sweet Jazz O'Mine, Misterioso, All Blues, It Was A Very Good Year, The Song, The Melody, The Dream Is You, Jazz Haiku, Cookin' at the Continental, Centerpiece, Countdown, Lush Life, What a Wonderful World, Opus De Funk, Question and Answer, Reunion, Let's Face the Music and Dance

Personnel

Steve Yeager

composer / conductor

Gloria Krolak

author

Album Description

“You can’t copyright the title to a song and jazz writer Gloria Krolak makes maximum use of that fact with her book Jazz Lines…free verse in the key of jazz,” wrote Tony {{Mottola}}, long-time editor of Jersey Jazz, the journal of the New Jersey Jazz Society, in his review of Jazz Lines. “The author has collected more than 1000 titles of jazz standards and thematically combined them into verses that evoke the spirit, moods and rhythms of jazz.” Krolak and composer/vibraphonist Steve Yeager have chosen 15 of her verses from the book, set them to music and recorded them on Jazz Lines Spoken. Yeager sets the mood while Krolak gives the poems their voice. Adding cleverness to ingenuity, the book and CD make a perfect duo. Jazz Lines, the book, was originally published in 2018, receiving recognition from W. Royal Stokes as “most significant for members of the Jazz Journalists Association to know of.” Stokes is a founding member of the organization. Vibraphonist Anthony Smith found it “erudite and playful,” and Denise Friday of Local Life, SC magazine wrote, “The poems will stir memories of your favorite songs, while the images will bring the musical experience to life.” Jazz Lines Spoken is available at http://gloriajazz.com. It is included free with the purchase of Jazz Lines, the book, and may be purchased singly, $10.

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