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    Featuring the complete text of chapters 1 – 5 from Hear Me Talkin’ To Ya: The Story of Jazz As Told By the Men Who Made It, a 1955 book by Nat Shapiro and Nat Hentoff

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    Robin D.G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original

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    She didn’t dance to the music; she danced with it. The melody wrapped his arms around her and the chords ran ivory fingers through her curls. Harmony whispered in her ear and she laughed at all his jokes. She twirled up and down scales with him, the hem of her skirt swirling a single syncopated beat behind her.

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faulkner Literature

Poetry by Andrew H. Oerke

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ELEGY FOR HART, IN THE KEY OF CRANE

The pipe-organ sea on-drones a dirge for you
as it will for the last whale’s final soundings.
Deep in the ocean’s heart, Hart has found a home.

Before his final voyage, from the shore he watched
the breakers as they slipped each blow, master
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zambo Literature

Poetry by Renee Zambo

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MY GRANDMOTHER’S WAR

“It was the war”
She said,
As she laid her head
On the pillow next
To my father’s bed
In a raspy voice
From her cigarettes.
How she loved all that –
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frankd Literature

Poetry by Frank De Canio

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Naming of Hops
(July 30, 2009)

Today there will be naming of hops.
Today they’ll have a beer outside
the oval office of the White House.
Likewise our planet rotates with an oval orbit
around the sun of no determinate God,
whose purity and innocence informs
the white bars on the American flag.
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jonw Literature

Poetry by Jon Wesick

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JUST ANOTHER PUNK ROCKER WRITING ABOUT JAZZ

They must have materialized at the open mike
out of carbon and nitrogen in the air,
those poets you’d never see in a jazz club.
A guy in Roman-helmet-like Mohawk
reads three-chord rhymes about Mingus,
an MC in Phat Farm jeans
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