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

Read "What Is The Beautiful?" reviewed by Raul d'Gama Rose


Poetry has always been the libretto of jazz music. Even before epic works of the late Gil Scott Heron like “H2O Gate Blues" or “Winter in America" (which inspired the nations of rap and hip-hop), there was Langston Hughes with bassist Charles Mingus on Weary Blues (Verve, 1958), the great Amiri Baraka, and A.B. Spellman. Then ...

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

Read "What Is the Beautiful?" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff


La figura di Kenneth Patchen (1911-1972), poeta,autore di novelle e disegnatore americano, ha fornito l'ispirazione e gli spunti per What Is the Beautiful?. Il disco è stato scritto e concepito dal quintetto di Hollenbeck in occasione delle celebrazioni dei cento anni dalla nascita di questo particolarissimo esponente della cultura statunitense, organizzate dall'Università di Rochester nel settembre ...

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

Read "What Is the Beautiful?" reviewed by Troy Collins


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 ...


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