Testimony, A Tribute to Charlie Parker (eBook)

amp;lt;P>YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA is a professor and senior distinguished poet in the graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University. He is the author of twenty books of poetry.</P>

<P>Foreword – Sascha Feinstein<BR>PART ONE: JAZZ POEMS – Yusef Komunyakaa<BR>Rhythm Method<BR>Togetherness<BR>Twilight Seduction<BR>Woman, I Got the Blues<BR>Jasmine<BR>Gingkoes<BR>Tenebrae<BR>Canto Jondo<BR>Changes; or, Reveries at a Window Overlooking a Country Road, with Two Women Talking Blues in the Kitchen<BR>The Same Beat<BR>To Beauty<BR>Ignis Fatuus<BR>Pepper<BR>Satchmo, USA<BR>Nightbird<BR>Copacetic Mingus<BR>Gerry's Jazz<BR>Speed Ball<BR>February in Sydney<BR>The Plea<BR>Elegy for Thelonious<BR>Dolphy's Aviary<BR>Gutbucket<BR>Blue Light Lounge Sutra for the Performance Poets at Harold Park Hotel<BR>The Story of a Coat<BR>No-Good Blues<BR>Ode to the Saxophone<BR>Coda<BR>PART TWO: TESTIMONY – Yusef Komunyakaa and Sandy Evans<BR>THE LIBRETTO<BR>Yusef Komunyakaa's "Testimony" and the Humanity of Charlie Parker – Sascha Feinstein<BR>Survival Masks: An Interview with Yusef Komunyakaa – Sascha Feinstein<BR>Testimony – Yusef Komunyakaa<BR>THE MUSIC<BR>Testimony, The Ties that Bind – Miriam Zolin<BR>French Flowers Blooming: The Music for Testimony – Sandy Evans and Christopher Williams<BR>Composer/Musical Director's Notes – Sandy Evans<BR>Testimony, Songs and Musicians – Sandy Evans<BR>Australian Art Orchestra Performances – Paul Grabowsky<BR>Acknowledgments<BR>Contributors<BR>Selected Bibliography <BR>Selected Discography<BR>Testimony, The Recording</P>