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Geoff Goodman: Jazz + Haiku

Read "Jazz + Haiku" reviewed by Chris Mosey


On the face of it jazz and haiku wouldn't seem to have a great deal in common: jazz, born in the brothels of New Orleans at the close of the 19th century; haiku, an offshoot of age-old Japanese Zen Buddhism, seeking answers to the meaning of life in the quiet life and a pithy observation of nature. Yet, as he lurched from one dive to another in Storyville, might not Jelly Roll Morton, on occasion, have gazed ...

Album Review

Geoff Goodman: Jazz + Haiku

Read "Jazz + Haiku" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


Jazz + Haiku è un lungo flusso di note e ritmi delicati, quasi lounge, come una lunga pergamena che si sta srotolando per mostrare gli ideogrammi di piccoli quadri, piccole e minuscole descrizioni poetiche, “una porta mezza aperta" in un tempo “psicologico" ben preciso ma evidentemente fuori dalla storia. E' Matsuo Basho, il più importante e famoso autore di haiku, l'autore principale i cui testi vengono tradotti e poi cantati nell'album alternativamente in inglese e giapponese. Ed ecco che si ...


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