Jazz, jive and jam: the poetry of Langston Hughes
Langston Hughes, poet afroamericano and illustrious representative of the literary movement called “Harlem Renaissance”, charismatic figure of American literature and leftist political activist, has perfected a literary genre called “jazz poetry” that reflects the rhythms, vitality and the frenzy of jazz instrumental. His poems, which often reflect the feelings and content and sometimes the structure metric the blues speak of life, activities, problems and dreams of the black community of Harlem.
(V.testi poems with translation margin) Del jazz and Hughes was the blues great supporter considering highest expression of culture afroamericana. Music and words alternate and sometimes overlap following the different atmospheres in his poems a second preferred by the same poet then resumed from Jack Kerouac and the Beat Generation. The title of the poem ends then indulged in a “jam session”, when aggregation collective lived by himself and present in its verses. (Listens to music)
Poetry and jazz
Jam session at the end of the evening
Bruce Boreham: voice reciting
Luigi Liani: coordinator and animator
Oscar Marchioni: piano
Marco Milelli: clarinet
Guido Torelli: contrabass
Massimo Del Rio: battery
The event was repeated in December 1999 to trivial Padua with the sponsorship of the Project Youth Social Services of the City of Padua
The individual proposals music then had luck single.
Jazz, Jive and Jam was implemented with steam and then at the S. Margherita in Venice Ca ‘Foscari poetry in May 2000
From New Orleans to Harlem was carried out at the Festival Euromeet in August 2000 in Venice, Campiello Pisani and Montecchio. (Listens to music)
In 2001, the project Jazz and languages took part in the Festival Jazz & Image at Villa Celimontana and Rome with the inaugural concert and an exhibition of watercolors by the painter / guitarist of New Orleans Tony Green (see pictures)