My intention here is to offer a detailed but inevitably incomplete chronology of poetry and jazz. The focus is solely on the combination of the two art forms in performance, not on poetry about jazz ...

When most people think of jazz and poetry coming together, they immediately think of the jazz tradition of poems being read over a musical background, the famous image of the quintessential beatnik ...

Let’s play a word association game. What’s do you think when I say, “Kansas City?” Barbecue? The Royals? How about jazz? Now what about when I say “Jazz,” what do you think? It probably isn’t poetry.

Poet Philip Levine discovered jazz on the radio when he was a teenager. "Like any young person, I wanted to find an art form that the older people in my family would reject, naturally you know," he ...

Noa has always been fascinated by the intersection of music, language and race. This passion led her to study jazz poetry — a genre in which poetry’s rhythms and cadences merge seamlessly with musical ...

April is Jazz Appreciation Month, as well as National Poetry Month. This week's Take Five celebrates both art forms in the same place. Each of the five songs featured here was originally written as a ...

It's surprising to learn that Geoff Page has a love of jazz that goes even further back than his love of poetry. The Canberra Times poetry editor and long-time fixture on the Australian poetry ...

Poetry and jazz aren’t strange bedfellows. Amiri Baraka regularly performed with jazz accompaniment at Bohemian Caverns. Rarely has a collective of multiple poets and musicians taken to D.C. stages in ...

Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook's writings on redemption and renewal are getting a jazz treatment on a new CD entitled Ha'Orot. Rabbi Kook was the Land of Israel's first Ashkenazi chief rabbi and started ...

With a yearly gig at the Hot Times Community Arts & Music Festival, the Jazz Poetry Ensemble relishes the chance to join the eclectic gathering. Poet and trombone player Michael Vander Does views the ...