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The Sunday Poem is published weekly, and strives to include the poet reading their work.
Mary K O’Melveny reads her poem at its conclusion.
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Dirk Neven, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Listening to Life’s Sound Tracks With Terence Oliver Blanchard
Let’s celebrate that Contemporary Cat
and his celestial trumpet! Each day his
musical genius vibrates, accelerates, elevates.
Raised by his dad to listen to opera. Played
piano and trumpet at eight years old. Simply
Stated, nobody doubted tributes were on the way.
Artist in residence at Monk Institute. NEA
Jazz Master. Grammy Awards. Oscar Nominations.
Toured with Hampton. Hancock. Harrison. Shorter.
McCoy Tyner. Jazz Messengers. E-Collective.
Columbia, Concord records. SONY Classics.
The Billie Holliday Songbook. Wandering Moon.
Blue Note’s Breathless, Bounce, Flow, Magnetic.
Sideman. Teacher. Bandleader. Opera, movie
score composer. Visiting scholar – Berklee,
Loyola, UCLA, SF Jazz. From JazzFest heights
to Broadway lights. From intimate movie halls
to opera’s grandest ballroom stages: Fire Shut
Up In My Bones, Champion. Lyric Opera Chicago,
St. Louis Opera Theatre, Met New York. He’s helped
teach about heroes, shared secrets, exposed truths:
Black KKKlansman. Inside Man; Mo Better Blues;
Miracle of St. Anna; A Tale of God’s Will: A Requiem;
Red Tails; Streetcar; 25th Hour; Malcom X; Eve’s Bayou.
Even Disney’s Princess and the Frog. And still,
he’s just as happy playing Chickee Wah Wah,
Snug Harbor, Maple Leaf Bar, Spotted Cat.
So much more to hear, to learn. Let’s Get Lost.
Pay attention everybody. Do the Right Thing.
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Listen to Mary K O’Melveny read her poem
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Mary K O’Melveny, retired labor rights lawyer, lives with her wife near Woodstock, NY. Mary became a fan of Jazz as a very young girl listening to Louis Armstrong and Lester Young on her grandparents’ Victrola record player. Mary’s award-nominated poetry appears in many print and on-line literary journals, anthologies and national blog sites. Mary has authored three poetry collections. Her just-released fourth book, Flight Patterns, is available by clicking here
Click here to read If You Want to Go to Heaven, Follow a Songbird – Mary K O’Melveny’s album of poetry and music, published by Jerry Jazz Musician
Click here to visit her web site
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Listen to Terrence Blanchard play “The Water,” from his 2007 album, A Tale Of God’s Will (A Requiem For Katrina) [Universal Music Group]
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