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George Gruntz/Allen Ginsberg: Cosmopolitan Greetings
by William Grim
This album is a recording of a live performance of George Gruntz's so-called jazz opera Cosmopolitan Greetings, with texts taken from selected poems written by Allen Ginsberg. There is a bit of confusion here because Ginsberg's last volume of published poetry was also called Cosmopolitan Greetings ; however, the poems used for the opera come not from the book of the same name, but Ginsberg's earlier work.
The opera is supposed to be an impressionistic overview of the ...
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