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Kenneth Patchen

Steve Swell: Astonishments

by John Pietaro
April 20, 2021

Among the trombonists of New York's downtown scene, or uptown for that matter, no one even comes close to Steve Swell. His level of artistry, ability to create within any sonic cloud, compositional strengths and sheer fortitude set a new standard decades ago. Deemed a veteran of the new music that tore up the 1970s and ...

The Rebel Café: Sex, Race and Politics in Cold War America's Nightclub Underground

by Duncan Heining
January 27, 2020

The Rebel Café: Sex, Race and Politics in Cold War America's Nightclub Underground Stephen R. Duncan 336 Pages ISBN: # 1421426331 John Hopkins University Press 2018 Stephen R. Duncan's The Rebel Café is both a voyage of rediscovery and a forensic re-examination of an important period in American cultural ...

Benjamin Boone: The Poetry of Jazz

by Duncan Heining
October 27, 2018

Lenny Bruce might have skewered it with his skit, “Psychopathia Sexualis." Mike Myers' mildly misogynist poet might have parodied it in the movie I Married an Axe Murderer (1993). It has been dismissed as a late-fifties fad associated with the Beats. And, yet, the desire of poets and jazz musicians to combine their art forms has ...

Presenting Problem

by Duncan Heining
January 30, 2018

Jazz often appears to exist within its own cultural and artistic paradigm, isolated from other arts and in its own discreet musical corner. Worse still from the perspective of those who would hope to make a living from it, it often seems that more people want to play the music than listen to it or, more ...

The Claudia Quintet + 1 featuring Kurt Elling and Theo Bleckmann: What Is the Beautiful?

by Troy Collins
October 5, 2011

Jazz and poetry have a longstanding relationship that precedes the postwar experiments of the Beats, dating back to the Harlem Renaissance. As with any artistic collaboration, the cooperative efforts of improvising musicians and poets have yielded mixed results over the years. One of the first artists to successfully explore this territory (with John Cage and Charles ...

Reads With Jazz In Canada

By Kenneth Patchen

Label: Locust Music
Released: 2004
Track listing: Four Blues Poems: 1. There's A Place; They Won't Let You In There; A Sigh Is Little Altered; The Lonesome Boy Blues; Four Song Poems: The Everlasting Contenders; Do i Not Deal With Angels; The Sea Is Awash With Roses; Not Many Kingdoms Left; As I Opened The Window; Glory, Glory.

Reads Jazz In Canada

By Kenneth Patchen

Label: Music Mecca
Released: 2004

Kenneth Patchen: Reads With Jazz In Canada

by Mark Corroto
October 7, 2004

Funny how poet Kenneth Patchen's message is even more poignant today, two generations down the road. His antiwar pacifism was eclipsed by the overindulgent “beat generation" poets, who claimed him as a father, then quickly chose to become his prodigal sons. His message of love, blurred by their self-obsession, has come around again. Patchen's words for ...

Reads With Jazz In Canada

By Kenneth Patchen

Label: Music Mecca
Released: 1960