Jazz Poetry & Other Reasons - Opus One: The Beat Goes On July 9, 2010

Jazz and Poetry & Other Reasons – Opus One: The Beat Goes On

Written and read by Portland author Robert Briggs, offers a unique window into the history of the Beat movement and the growth of freedom in American culture as Briggs gives a poetic insight into why, in 2010, the Beat continues to haunt the American mind, and why

“jazz is to music what poetry is to knowing.”

Accompanied by jazz musicians J. Stuart Fessant on sax, Tim DuRoche on drums with Andre St. James on bass.
This provocative wedding of jazz and poetry that began back in the 1930s, continues to capture and haunt the popular imagination and offer listeners freedom and inspiration from mundane concerns.