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“Ornette Coleman” by Warren Goodson

 

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so listen:

………………these names follow me
miles mingus dolphy bird trane
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The Physics of Jazz

Magical men, each
…………….the other’s doppleganger
Coltrane & Pharoah

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“In a Silent Way”

when the music ends
I can hear the singing start
crickets bullfrog moon

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by Bill Siegel

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Five miniatures

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my feet beat street
drummer just behind beat
where oh where is Philly Joe Jones

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wind whispers song of grief
its version of
Ben Webster’s sorrowful solos

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Buddy Rich on drums
hands and arms ablaze
raises crowd in jubilation

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every breeze every flower
every wild stream’s power
nature’s symphony

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all day all night wind rain shake
house polyrhythmic dance
of roof walls floor
Elvin Jones thunders round us
gone he lives on in wild storm

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by Michael L. Newell

 

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A Holiday Mirage

Billie, oh Billie!
Your voice is a satin mirage
in the deep blue sea
plumbing the depths.

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by R. Bremner

 

 

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Ornette Coleman’s Question

Imagine if entire realities could burst into being,
fully formed like perfect rows of grain—the same
way an artist’s sweat dissolves into air, is subsumed
by clouds that grow pregnant and explode: this torrent
of water soaking the soil; a ceaseless, restorative cycle.

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by Sean Murphy

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Warren Goodson is an artist whose work is driven by his appreciation for Black culture.  He lives in Saxapahaw, North Carolina.  

Click here to visit his website

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Bill Siegel lives in the Boston MA area, and writes both prose and poetry to express his love of jazz. Bill’s work appears in Indigenous Pop: Native American Music from Jazz to Hip Hop (Univ of Arizona Press, 2016); AllAboutJazz.com; inmotionmagazine.com; International Poetry Review; Brilliant Corners; Blue Mesa Review: Cruzando Fronteras (Crossing Borders); and other publications. He also created and manages jimpepperlives.wordpress.com, a collection of articles, poetry and news celebrating the work of the late saxophonist, Jim Pepper.

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Michael L. Newell has had six books published in the past three years: Meditation of an Old Man Standing on a Bridge; Each Step a Discovery; Wandering; Diddley-Bop-She-Bop; Making My Peace and The Harry Poems (newly published). He currently lives in Florida.

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R. Bremner has been writing since the 1960’s. He appeared in 1979’s first issue of Passaic Review, along with Allen Ginsberg and Rich Quatrone. International Poetry Review, Oleander Review, Paterson Literary Review, Red Wheelbarrow, and.Shot Glass Journal.are a few of the journals he has been in. Ron has won Honorable Mention in the Allen Ginsberg Awards, and has published six print books, including.Ektomorphic(Presa Press), and thirteen eBooks.

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Sean Murphy has appeared on NPR’s “All Things Considered” as well as in USA Today, The New York Times, The Huffington Post, and AdAge. A long-time columnist for PopMatters, his work has also appeared in Salon, The Village Voice, Washington City Paper, The Good Men Project, Memoir Magazine, and others. He has twice been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and his chapbook, The Blackened Blues, is now available from Finishing Line Press. To learn more, visit seanmurphy.net

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Listen to the 1958 recording of Ornette Coleman playing “The Disguise” [Universal]

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Click here for information about how to submit your poetry

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