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Author:

Komunyakaa, Yusef, librettist. librettist.

Title:

Testimony, a tribute to Charlie Parker : with new and selected jazz poems / Yusef Komunyakaa ; including the complete Australian Broadcasting Corporation audio recording with music by Sandy Evans ; commentaries by Sandy Evans, Sascha Feinstein, Paul Grabowsky, Christopher Williams, and Miriam Zolin ; project editor, Victoria Stahl.

Publisher:

Wesleyan University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xi, 140 pages ; 24 cm + 2 audio discs (4 3/4 in.)

Subject:

Parker, Charlie,--1920-1955--Poetry.
American poetry--20th century.
Jazz--1991-2000.
Operas.
American poetry.
1900 - 1999

Other Authors:

Evans, Sandy, 1960- writer of added commentary.
Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955, honouree.
Evans, Sandy, 1960- Testimony.

Other Titles:

Poems. Selections

Notes:

Poetry and commentary, featuring Komunyakaa's long paean to Charlie Parker and a two-CD set of the jazz opera that uses this poem as a libretto. Performance on accompanying CD recorded August 1999. Includes bibliographical references and discography.

Contents:

Jazz poems, Yusef Komunyakaa. Coda. Togetherness -- Twilight seduction -- Woman, I got the blues -- Jasmine -- Gingkoes -- Tenebrae -- Cante Jondo -- Changes; or, Reveries at a window overlooking a country road, with two women talking blues in the kitchen -- The same beat -- To beauty -- Ignis Fatuus -- Pepper -- Satchmo, USA -- Nightbird -- Copacetic Mingus -- Gerry's jazz -- Speed ball -- February in Sydney -- The plea -- Elegy for Thelonious -- Dolphy's aviary -- Gutbucket -- Blue Light Lounge sutra for the performance poets at Harold Park Hotel -- The story of a coat -- No-good blues -- Ode to the saxophone -- Coda.
The music. The libretto. Australian Art Orchestra performances / Paul Grabowsky. Survival masks : an interview with Yusef Komunyakaa / Sascha Feinstein -- Testimony / Yusef Komunyakaa -- The music. Testimony, the ties that bind / Miriam Zolin -- French flowers blooming : the music for Testimony / Sandy Evans and Christopher Williams -- Composer/musical director's notes / Sandy Evans -- Testimony, songs and musicians / Sandy Evans -- Australian Art Orchestra performances / Paul Grabowsky.
CD: Testimony coda. Boxcars -- Chicken shack, part 1 -- Chicken shack, part 2 -- Purple dress -- Deep South -- A day like today -- Abel and Cain -- Black cockatoo -- Camarillo, part 1 -- Camarillo, part 2 -- Addie's boy -- Pree's funeral -- Barrow Street -- Moose the Mooche -- A soft touch for strings -- Baroness Pannonica -- Testimony finale -- Testimony coda.

ISBN:

0819574295 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780819574299 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)840463203

LCCN:

2013026568

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

GAAX314 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Peosta (Peosta)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)