tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post8941533251074606284..comments2023-08-29T02:42:23.063-05:00Comments on ¡Bemsha SWING!: Jonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post-47675101231512813452008-10-09T15:56:00.000-05:002008-10-09T15:56:00.000-05:00I agree generally, no good poems about jazz. I do...I agree generally, no good poems about jazz. I do like Amiri Baraka's poems though. I heard him read a poem about Miles Davis after Miles died. I really liked it. <BR/><BR/>What's worse: all the terrible lyrics in jazz tunes over the past few decades.Tom Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14211378281642641041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post-12667899673652054062008-10-08T11:01:00.000-05:002008-10-08T11:01:00.000-05:00I never thought of TDLD as "about" jazz. No more ...I never thought of TDLD as "about" jazz. No more than his poems for James Dean or Lana Turner is about the movies. They are about a particular kind of "celebrity" and the libinidal investment we make in it. <BR/><BR/>As far as Mackey, I was just sent some review copies from New Directions and will be putting up some responses as part of the 9,000 book project.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post-45888310573615626162008-10-08T10:57:00.000-05:002008-10-08T10:57:00.000-05:00Would you count something like "The Day Lady Died"...Would you count something like "The Day Lady Died" as "poetry about jazz"?<BR/><BR/>And what do you think about things like Baraka's "AM/TRAK," or Nate Mackey's jazz-inflected work? Just curious.Kasey Mohammadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13353259413006470925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post-7874117758495195422008-10-08T09:45:00.000-05:002008-10-08T09:45:00.000-05:00That's not quite it. I love earlier swing players...That's not quite it. I love earlier swing players. Lionel Hampton and Chu Berry, Teddy Wilson. Earl Hines. I think the problem is more a difference in attitude.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3759353.post-83861223981338732182008-10-08T02:10:00.000-05:002008-10-08T02:10:00.000-05:00J.,Carruth's jazz ended around 1940; except, of co...J.,<BR/><BR/>Carruth's jazz ended around 1940; except, of course, for that which he played himself. Yr taste seems to pick up around then.<BR/><BR/>So it goes....zbklynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17274558436519817745noreply@blogger.com