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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.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center CD 11614
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Van Pelt Library PS3561.O455 T36 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Komunyakaa, Yusef.
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--20th century.
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 140 pages ; 24 cm + 2 audio discs (4 3/4 in.)
- Place of Publication:
- Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2013]
- Contents:
- Contents of CD:
- Part I
- 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
- Part II
- Addie's boy
- Pree's funeral song
- Barrow street
- Moose the mooche
- A soft touch for strings
- Baroness pannonica
- Testimony finale
- Testimony coda.
- Participant:
- Bernie McGann, alto saxophone; Sandy Evans, tenor saxophone; Casey Greene, baritone saxophone; Paul Cutlan, bass clarinet; Warwick Alder, trumpet; Bob Coassin, trumpet; James Greening, trombone, pocket trumpet; John Rodgers, violin; Alister Spence, piano, keyboards; Lloyd swanton, bass; Hamish Stuart, drums; Michael Edward-Stevens, spoken words; Dave Brewer, guitar; Chuck Yates, piano; Jonathan Zwartz, bass; Alan Turnbull, drums; Kristen Cornwell, vocals; Jeremy Sawkins, guitar; Kate Swadling, vocals; Kurt Elling, vocals; Laurence Hobgood, piano; Jackie Orszaczky, vocals; Tina Harrod, vocals; Toni Allayialis, vocals; Fabian Hevia, drums, percussion; Tanya Sparke, vocals; Pamela Knowles, vocals; Lacjlan Doley, organ; Joe "Bebop" Lane, vocals; Michele Morgan, vocals; Steve Elphick, bass; Simon Barker, drums; Lily Dior, vocals.
- 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.
- Includes bibliographical references and discography.
- Recorded 1999, Studio 227, ABC Ultimo (Sydney).
- Compact discs.
- ISBN:
- 9780819574299
- 0819574295
- OCLC:
- 840463203
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