Results for "Jazz Poetry"

Sébastien Hugue

Born: November 4, 1996

Sébastien Hugue is both an electric and an acoustic bass player. Born in France in 1996, he started to play the bass at the age of thirteen. He first practiced rock n’ roll music in Dijon, his hometown in France where he met Michel Thévenard, a bass teacher that taught him a « proper » technique to play the electric bass. Within this program of three years, he discovered Jaco Pastorius, Mark King, Richard Bona, Cliff Burton (first bass player of Metallica) and his taste was of course mainly orientated into rock and metal music. In the meantime in highschool, he started a rock/fusion band called Muphin

Left Wall Balcony

by Mike Jurkovic
August 1, 2026

Pinwheel Pete   on cowbell   was a  philharmonic    all his own    His tones  like a fishwife's  virgin murmurs   rush the front rows then the left wall balcony   w/a  wave of    clarion richness  only Pete conjures in concert    On stage  his ...

Learning to Listen (for Faruq)

by Marc Beaudin
June 6, 2026

“Listen to the reed and how it tells a tale, complaining of separation" --from Mathnawi by Rumi translated by Faruq Z. Bey (1942--2012) With dusk descending on Marcus Garvey Park suffused w/ the tones and stones of Harlem surrounded suddenly from within by your music Having heard ...

Adrian Varady

Born: December 8, 2001

Born on December 8, 2001, into a Hungarian Roma family in Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia, Adrian Varady has emerged as a powerful and distinctive voice in contemporary jazz. Raised in a deeply musical environment, his artistic journey began at the age of eight when his father gifted him a keyboard. While this marked his first step into music, it was the drums that soon became his true voice.

Largely self-taught and driven by curiosity and instinct, Adrian developed his craft on a small blue sparkle drum kit, immersing himself in listening, imitation, and experimentation from an early age. His exceptional musical awareness quickly became evident, and at just nine years old, he won his first concert performance at a jazz festival in Frankfurt — an early sign of the remarkable path ahead.

Subway Music

by George Wallace
December 13, 2025

The subway is full of high driving music tonight -- round eyed men & women jazzified in the hot wet tunnel --eyes flashing hips moving in & out of the crowd moving in & out like a slide trombone --at 14th street it's the  flyaway boys from the foothills of North Carolina playing some gospel  banjo--next stop West 4th St--cool, some very ...

New Jazz Haiku

by Mike Jurkovic
December 7, 2025

two bricks from Trane's Dix Hills holds the blues basic blues of woman of man whipping wild car chase bass drums sax breaks script dancers scatter bing bang boom hip and full of head space starburst arpeggios run wild eighty ...

Requiem Improvisation #2 After Charles Lloyd – Kindred Spirits (From The Lobero)

by Roger Aplon
October 25, 2025

Here Take my hand We'll suggest a moment To remember Was it that place among the stars you used to recall As if It were Just-around-the-corner Maybe An affair Left a fracture Too sharp To heal Quickly if-at-all Don't be tempted Follow close-by Don't ever Be Easily Dismissed ...

Head Chart

by Mike Jurkovic
May 24, 2025

As rain falls on Gethsemane angels on the highway crew fix the roads in heaven Sing acapella big band Head chart Blue Trane Hoist a shot head for home Headlong into the headwinds Sans the dismal river The smoke dust sky

Miles Runs The Voodoo Down

by Ronald Bremner
April 5, 2025

Miles boils his bitches brew in a night of worlds much blacker than black His demons and angels let out slack for pharaohs dancing into the true Miles runs the voodoo down and serves it up with the taste of free for those whose spirits would otherwise drown without such wild, mad ...

A Little Rain In Arkansas

by George Wallace
April 5, 2025

Professor fear & his longhair piano sat on the bandstand he was just about to play some boogie-woogie when somebody fresh from pontchartrain with a three-piece suit walked in--did you see that thing go down, bartender? Walked right in & the door slapped shut tight as a tornado behind him  a man in a three piece suit ...