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Steve Dalachinsky

Steve Dalachinsky is a legendary New York downtown poet. He is active in the free jazz scene. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He has been writing poetry for many years and has worked with such musicians as William Parker, Susie Ibarra, Matthew Shipp, Roy Campbell, Daniel Carter, Sabir Mateen, Mat Maneri, Federico Ughi, Loren Mazzacane Connors, Rob Brown, Tim Barnes, and Jim O'Rourke. He has appeared at most of the Vision Festivals, an Avant-Jazz festival involving many of these musicians. He also appears often at the Knitting Factory, a unique live music club in Tribeca. He currently lives in Manhattan with his wife, painter and poet Yuko Otomo. His most recent book is "The Final Nite & Other Poems:Complete Notes From A Charles Gayle Notebook 1987-2006" (Ugly Duckling Press, 2006), a compendium of poetry written while watching saxophonist Charles Gayle perform throughout New York City in that time period. Other publications include "Trial and Error in Paris" from Loudmouth Collective Press and "Quicksand" from Isis Press. His spoken word albums include Incomplete Directions, I thought it was the end of the world and then the end of the world happened again with Federico Ughi, Phenomena of Interference with Matthew Shipp, and Thin Air with Loren Connors Source: Steve Dalachinsky

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Steve Dalachinsky / Joelle Leandre: The Bill Has Been Paid

Read "The Bill Has Been Paid" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


The verbal-musical match between American beat poet Steve Dalachinsky, who describes himself as one that was born “right after the last big war and managed to survive lots of little wars," and French double master Joëlle Léandre is unique and untimely. Dalachinsky's poetry focuses on his musical experiences and meditations on musicians--as a spectator or collaborator, or as an active player in a musical scene (for example with Matthew Shipp or Charles Gayle)--ones that transform him into a more conscious, ...

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Book Review

Steve Dalachinsky: Weaving Poetry with Jazz

Read "Steve Dalachinsky: Weaving Poetry with Jazz" reviewed by Florence Wetzel


Poet Steve Dalachinsky occupies a unique place in the jazz firmament. Actually, he occupies several places: he writes poetry inspired by jazz, he performs and records with jazz musicians and he has supplied liner notes for numerous artists including multi-intrumentalist Anthony Braxton, drummer Rashied Ali and pianist Matthew Shipp. Dalachinsky is an avid supporter of the music, one of those people who needs jazz like they need air. In fact, if you go hear avant-garde music in New York City ...

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Steve Dalachinsky & Matthew Shipp: Phenomena of Interference

Read "Phenomena of Interference" reviewed by Eyal Hareuveni


The sort-of-official bio of downtown New York poet Steve Dalachinsky describes him as being born “sometime after the last Big War and before lots of useless little wars." And maybe, as such, his poetry lacks the revolutionary agitation of Amiri Baraka (for example, on the William Parker Ensemble's yet to be officially released Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield) or the spiritual cosmology of David Budbill (A Prayer for a Suffering World, Boxholder, 2003)--or the theatricality of Rinde Eckert (Jerry Granelli's ...

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Steve Dalachinsky: Incomplete Directions

Read "Incomplete Directions" reviewed by Micah Holmquist


Poet Steve Dalachinsky has the type of voice that those of us who don’t live in New York City often associate with denizens of that metropolis. It produces words in a deliberate and matter of fact fashion with inflections that are equally restrained and pronounced. Dalachinsky never raises his voice much as he recites lines like "love is a criminal that offers me/food while/draining my bones of their marrow." Phrases that could be angry, appear as if they are the ...

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Steve Dalachinsky & Joe McPhee Thurs., Nov. 16 at Cornelia Street Cafe

Steve Dalachinsky & Joe McPhee Thurs., Nov. 16 at Cornelia Street Cafe

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services

CORNELIA STREET CAFE 29 Cornelia Street, NYC, New York 212-989-9319 http://www.corneliastreetcafe.com between West 4th and Bleecker Sts, Greenwich Village 1 Subway to Sheridan Square; A, C, E, B, D, V, F to West 4th St.

GOLDA SOLOMON “The Medicine Woman of Jazz" with PO'JAZZ Downstairs at The Cornelia Street Cafe

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16th, 6-8 PM featuring STEVE DALACHINSKY, poet JOE McPHEE, saxophones ...

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