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Title: The Circuitous Path of Jazz in the 20th Century: Fusing Music, Dance


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The Circuitous Path of Jazz in the 20th Century
Fusing Music, Dance African-American Poetry
  • AXIOM ASUNDER
  • Four Episodes for Jazz Orchestra, Narrator,
  • Dance Company Choir
  • __________________
  • Composed Orchestrated by Buzz Jones ASCAP
  • Poetry by Langston Hughes

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Langston Hughes (1902-1967)
  • Hughes came of age as a poet and novelist
  • during the Harlem Renaissance. He cites Walt
  • Whitman, Carl Sandburg, Claude McKay, Paul
  • Laurence Dunbar as early influences. Several of
  • his masterful works include The Weary Blues
    (1926),
  • The Ways of White Folks (1934), as the lyricist
    for
  • Kurt Weills Street Scene (1947), and two auto-
  • biographical volumes - The Big Sea (1940) and I
  • Wonder As I Wander (1956). Arnold Rampersad
  • notes his art was firmly rooted in race pride
    and
  • race feeling even as he cherished his freedom as
  • an artist. Langston Hughes was passionate about
  • jazz. He wrote convincingly about the art form
    and
  • the musicians who risked so much to bare their
    souls.

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NOCCA New Orleans Center for Creative Arts
Riverfront
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Episode 1 OCEANS APART
  • Elegua was a god
  • worshiped by the
  • Yoruba people of West
  • Africa. The music is
  • based on the Afro-Cuban
  • folkloric style of Bembe
  • and the Clave rhythm.
  • POETRY - Negro Poem (1)

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Episode 1 OCEANS APART
  • Cape Roca speaks to three rhythmic grooves that
    evolved in South America, Latin America and the
    Caribbean Bossa Nova, Calypso, and Mambo.
  • POETRY - Our Land Caribbean Sunset

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Episode 2 NORTHERN TANGENTS
  • Konkomba literally means poor mans brass band.
    A solemn chorale springs to life as the Second
    Line percussion beat propels a New Orleans
    funeral procession. The Dixieland combo focuses
    on collective improvisation while the dancers
    interpret the story.
  • POETRY
  • As
    Befits A Man

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Episode 2 NORTHERN TANGENTS
  • Red Dawn Blues is a gut bucket 12 bar blues
    tune featuring a solo vocalist and the band
    singing the refrain. Chicago was a hotbed of
    activity for emerging jazz voices in the 1920s
    such as Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines.

  • POETRY
  • Saturday Night

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Episode 2 NORTHERN TANGENTS
  • 18th and Vine pays tribute to Bennie Moten and
    Count Basie. Southwest of Chicago lay Kansas
    City and a collection of jazz clubs located at
    18th and Vine Streets. Swing dancing ruled the
    day in the 1930s as territory bands crisscrossed
    the country serving up hot rhythms for dancers
    of all ages.
  • POETRY
    Boogie 1 am
    Gone Boy

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Episode 3 COAST TO COAST
  • Lenox Avenue at Midnight is a sultry ballad
    featuring alto saxophone supported by a broad
    palette of nocturnal colors. Hughes poetry
    transports us to Harlem roof-tops where the moon
    is shining and the night sky is blue.
  • POETRY
  • Lenox Ave Midnight
    Harlem Night
    Song

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Episode 3 COAST TO COAST
  • In the1940s, jazz players began to push to
    boundaries of conventional swing music and Bebop
    was the result. Dig and Be Dug is a bop tune
    for septet that you would have heard at Mintons
    Playhouse pyrotechnics and virtuosic solos
    abound.
  • POETRY Jazzonia
  • Motto

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Episode 3 COAST TO COAST
  • Silver Rain is a passacaglia
  • and fugue in triple meter. Cool
  • and Third Stream jazz began to
  • surface on both coasts by the
  • early 1950s. Smoother textures,
  • less angular melodic lines and
  • use of classical forms defined
  • the music as a reaction to Bebop.
  • POETRY
  • In Time of Silver Rain

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Episode 4 GROOVE MACHINE
  • Lulu was a madam who organized
  • the most notorious brothel in New
  • Orleans Red-Light District of Storyville
  • at the turn of the 20th century. A reprise
  • of the Afro-funk motive and a free jazz
  • section leads directly to the finale.
  • Poetry Afro-American Fragment

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Episode 4 GROOVE MACHINE
  • Text for The Old Tan Path is taken from the Old
    Testament books of Isaiah and Daniel. The dancers
    join the orchestra and choir for a joyous gospel
    shout.
  • POETRY-Tambourines

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AXIOM ASUNDER


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