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Originally Posted by Chris O'Carroll
The Beats often read to jazz accompaniment ...
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I’ve looked for “jazz poetry,” and more often than not what I find—whether it’s Langston or the Beats—is poetry
and jazz, each doing their own thing rather than dancing in a clinch. Ruby Dee, though, is the real deal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVRzeTWP9Fk. Anything else like this you could put me on to? And where are those mesmerizing “With Ossie and Ruby” shows? Forty years later, the vibes of those readings are still in me.