Jazz and Poetry - Part 1

This is a big month for performances. I've had two very successful ones already, the first was a reading and panel discussion with three other poets, and the other a collaborative, multiphonic, poetic response to artwork that I've posted about in this blog several times.

The next in my schedule is a jazz and poetry event at a neighborhood cafe and restaurant. This is a reprise of a reprise of an event, which makes it kind of a chorus (in musical terms). The players keep changing but the feel is the same: swinging jazzy music, and words that inspire or interact with the notes.

The musicians are stellar - some of Santa Fe's best. The other poet is a man who grew up with New York's jazz scene, in the pocket of the beat poets. He's still very much there - in those small clubs with those large words. He is a wanna-be drummer with a deeply resonant voice.

I'm the fifth person in the group. I bring something different: dark words and a quietly powerful sound.