Collaborations: Jazz and Poetry

October 14th, 2012 at 3:00pm
Past Event

This roundtable will examine jazz poetry as a written form that engages with the improvisatory, blues-based qualities of jazz, and how poetry can reflect, respond to, and collaborate with musical expression.

What is jazz poetry? How can words, inert objects, be used to convey this blues-based, improvisatory, aural form? What is a jazz-related piece of writing? Is it merely "about" jazz, or does it do something more? How do poems respond to jazz in all its musical and cultural overtones? How are written art forms able to convey an oral form? Where is jazz-related poetry going? In addition to Porter playing on his own, he and Singer will demonstrate the collaborative process with Porter improvising on the piano while Singer reads his poetry.

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Participants

Lewis Porter

Professor of Music, Rutgers University

Lewis Porter (Lewisporter.com), long known as a jazz educator and author of books, including the most celebrated volume on John Coltrane, is also very active as a jazz pianist, keyboardist, and composer. Known for a free and open attitude, he contributes to many types of musical situations. Dr. Porter has appeared in concert internationally with such... read more! »

Sean Singer

Poet

Sean Singer‘s first book, Discography, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, selected by W.S. Merwin, and the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. He has also published two chapbooks, Passportand Keep Right On Playing Through the Mirror Over the Water, both with Beard of Bees Press, and is the recipient... read more! »