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.

Author/creator Komunyakaa, Yusef author, librettist.
Other author Evans, Sandy, 1960- writer of added commentary.
Other author Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955 honouree.
Format Book
PublicationMiddletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2013]
Descriptionxi, 140 pages ; 24 cm + 2 audio discs (4 3/4 in.)
Subjects
Parker, Charlie, 1920-1955--Poetry.
American poetry--20th century.
Jazz--1991-2000.
Operas.

Uniform titlePoems. Selections
Contents Jazz poems, Yusef Komunyakaa. Rhythm method -- 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.
Contents Testimony, Yusef Komunyakaa and Sandy Evans. The libretto. Yusef Komunyakaa's "Testimony" and the humanity of Charlie Parker / Sascha Feinstein -- 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.
Contents CD: Testimony overture -- 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.
General notePoetry 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.
General notePerformance on accompanying CD recorded August 1999.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and discography.
LCCN 2013026568
ISBN9780819574299 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0819574295 (cloth : alk. paper)

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