017 – Looking Back at Jazz Poetry

We’re LOOKING BACK at Jazz Poetry.

Jazz Poetry has celebrated the fusion of music and language for over 18 years.  Musicians and poets are brought together by City of Asylum to experiment, collaborate, connect and to express themselves freely, yielding performances greater than their parts . Over the years, Jazz Poetry has featured hundreds of artists from hundreds of countries.

This episode is really special, an opportunity to dig through performances from the City of Asylum archive 2011-2019. Unless you were sitting in the audience at the COA tent, or Alphabet City, at any of these performances,  you’ve never heard these before. We’re really excited to share.

We’ll open with a performance by Sonia Sanchez from 2011. Then we’ll follow up with the incredible medley featuring Justin Philip Reed, Ilya Kaminsky,  Jenny Johnson, and Yusef Komunyakaa. All the music, the amazing jazz, is brought to you by Jazz Poetry musical director Oliver Lake and various musicians he’s recruited to join him across the years.

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Many thanks to Luis Alfonso for the music in this episode. Image credit to City of Asylum.

Thanks for listening!