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Adrian Varady
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Born on December 8, 2001, into a Hungarian Roma family in Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia, Adrian Varady has emerged as a powerful and distinctive voice in contemporary jazz. Raised in a deeply musical environment, his artistic journey began at the age of eight when his father gifted him a keyboard. While this marked his first step into music, it was the drums that soon became his true voice.
Largely self-taught and driven by curiosity and instinct, Adrian developed his craft on a small blue sparkle drum kit, immersing himself in listening, imitation, and experimentation from an early age. His exceptional musical awareness quickly became evident, and at just nine years old, he won his first concert performance at a jazz festival in Frankfurt — an early sign of the remarkable path ahead.
Subway Music
by George Wallace
The subway is full of high driving music tonight -- round eyed men & women jazzified in the hot wet tunnel --eyes flashing hips moving in & out of the crowd moving in & out like a slide trombone --at 14th street it's the flyaway boys from the foothills of North Carolina playing some gospel banjo--next stop West 4th St--cool, some very ...
New Jazz Haiku
by Mike Jurkovic
two bricks from Trane's Dix Hills holds the blues basic blues of woman of man whipping wild car chase bass drums sax breaks script dancers scatter bing bang boom hip and full of head space starburst arpeggios run wild eighty ...
Requiem Improvisation #2 After Charles Lloyd – Kindred Spirits (From The Lobero)
by Roger Aplon
Here Take my hand We'll suggest a moment To remember Was it that place among the stars you used to recall As if It were Just-around-the-corner Maybe An affair Left a fracture Too sharp To heal Quickly if-at-all Don't be tempted Follow close-by Don't ever Be Easily Dismissed ...
Head Chart
by Mike Jurkovic
As rain falls on Gethsemane angels on the highway crew fix the roads in heaven Sing acapella big band Head chart Blue Trane Hoist a shot head for home Headlong into the headwinds Sans the dismal river The smoke dust sky
Miles Runs The Voodoo Down
by Ronald Bremner
Miles boils his bitches brew in a night of worlds much blacker than black His demons and angels let out slack for pharaohs dancing into the true Miles runs the voodoo down and serves it up with the taste of free for those whose spirits would otherwise drown without such wild, mad ...
A Little Rain In Arkansas
by George Wallace
Professor fear & his longhair piano sat on the bandstand he was just about to play some boogie-woogie when somebody fresh from pontchartrain with a three-piece suit walked in--did you see that thing go down, bartender? Walked right in & the door slapped shut tight as a tornado behind him a man in a three piece suit ...
6jazzhaiku
by Mike Jurkovic
Mingus and the moon over Mohonk the myths the mountain melodies in small rooms without windows the high humor of comrades lost in jazz crescent moon hangs low above brooklyn saxophone blues a sad guitar Trane blowing truth to every corner of the ...
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Gwen Sampé
Gwen Sampé is a jazz singer for whom the art of improvising is an integral and indispensable part of her musical soundscape. Born into a family of singers in Houston, Texas her approach to jazz singing is rooted in the past yet unapologetically modern.
Nurtured on John Coltrane and Betty Carter, she brings surprise and daring to her performances. Her artistic background is rich and diverse. As well performing on the jazz circuit, she has also performed in, and directed, contemporary jazz inflected mixed media theatre pieces, including a self-produced one woman show, “From the Fields to the Concert Hall,” first performed in Italy.
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Robert Pinsky
Robert Pinsky has performed as a spoken word artist with musicians including Mino Cinélu, Catherine Bent, Bobby Bradford, Laurence Hobgood, Vijay Iyer, Josh Ritter, Stan Strickland and Bruce Springsteen. He is the only member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters to have appeared on The Simpsons and The Colbert Report. His albums with Laurence Hobgood are PoemJazz (2012) and House Hour: PoemJazz II (2015).
“What has six arms, an enormous appetite, and roams over the earth devouring experience with omnivorous reverence? The poet Robert Pinsky, that's who. In The Want Bone, Pinsky invents a poetic mode all his own, a magisterial, probing, curious, wandering semi-omniscient intelligence--like, that's right, the Eye of God— gathering and recording data into some divine record . . ."—Tony Hoagland
