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Jazz Ready: 15 Minutes (more or less) of Unexpected Pleasure.
By La Sirena MagdalenaArts
Jazz Ready: 15 Minutes (more or less) of Unexpected Pleasure. episodes
- Episode 101. S2. Derek Bermel, Composer and Clarinetist. A Passionate Embrace of Inspiration.
Academy Award winner and two time Grammy nominee, Derek Bermel, shares work inspired by painter, Jacob Lawrence (1917-2020). Performed by the Albany Symphony Orchestra.
16 min - Jazz Ready. Episode 100! A Soul Drenching Celebration with Gizelxanth Rodriguez; Ben Barson;Caridad De La Luz,aka La Bruja; Nejma Nefertiti. Your Host: Magdalena Gómez.
This double episode features these four world class artists intersecting, collaborating, in this global and intergenerational Legacy of Jazz Ready! Jazz Ready brings you OOAK listening experiences.
31 min - Episode 99: Barbara A. Holland, Poet (1925-1988)
Thanks to the exceptional work and love for poets of Brett Rutherford and Poet's Press, we can hold Holland's earlier work in our hands. www.poetspress.org
10 min - Episode 98: Magdalena Gómez, Poet. The Last Cable Car of Ireland.
When the people and the land welcome us, and we accept, we can be at home anywhere.
11 min - Episode 97: Angelo Geter, Poet Laureate of Rock Hill, South Carolina.
Geter's poem as also heard on poets.org.
7 min - Episode 96: D. Dina Friedman. Poet, Author, Professor. Witness at the Border. Witness at Homestead.
A devoted and relentless activist and highly accomplished writer, D.Dina Friedman is a witness to the treatment of immigrants and asylum seekers at the U.S. border between Brownsville, Texas and Matamoros, Mexico. Also at a child "detention" center in Homestead, Florida. Dina speaks out in true story and true poems.
*Note from Magdalena: Matamoros is an unfortunate name of racism, murder and hate, "Kill Moors" so named by Spanish invaders. In Western Massachusetts we too hold onto the names of murderers to represent us. May that day soon be over.
16 min - 9 min
- Jazz Ready. Episode 94. Taína Asili: Singer, Filmmaker and Activist.
Get your heart lit and your feet dancing!
11 min - Episode 93: Ben Barson, Baritone Saxophonist; Composer; Scholar; Educator.
Barson is the protégé of the late Fred Ho (Episode 92). Barson and a number of other artists invite us into an excerpt of his "Mirror Butterfly: The Migrant Liberation Movement Suite" as performed at the Kennedy Center in 2019.
13 min - Episode 92: Fred Ho, (1957-2014) Composer; Baritone Saxophonist; Author; Scholar; Educator; Producer; Fashion Designer.
Many of the artists you have heard on Jazz Ready have a Fred Ho connection. Now its time you hear one of his works. Later this summer Jazz Ready will offer a tribute performance for Fred in honor of his birthday.
17 min
About Jazz Ready: 15 Minutes (more or less) of Unexpected Pleasure.
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Life is jazz: unexpected poems for those who think they don't like poetry. Sometimes you'll hear the poetry of music, theater, story. Unexpected guests in unexpected times. Always original! Often premieres.
Your host: Magdalena Gómez, Poet Laureate of Springfield, MA