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...project seeks to blend music, poetry and prose into a "fusion" of jazz aiming to explore what Jazz (with a capital 3) as a medium expresses, and what a could potentially express. Using the music of Ellington. Gillespie, Waller, Monk and other greats coupled with selections from both Black and white authors. Mood Indigo II examines the meaning and the masters of Jazz in paying homage to the must distinctive origins and its fascinating evolution into a sophisticated cross-cultural genre, the performers (also both Black and White) not the "the Jazz transceds race." The message gets a little heavy...
Ginsberg: I learned from Kerouac, whose poetry is greatly unackowledged, what poets call "phonic knowledge." Nobody studies it in the universities, but every poet studies Kerouac's seminal book, Mexico City Blues. Kerouac's had completly free form and he listened to jazz artists like Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk and Miles Davis. The idea behind the jazz was spontaneous improvisation and long breath. That had an influence on the line in "Howl" and any other long-line poems I've done. Thelonius Monk's idea of thinking then silence, thinking then silence affected "Kaddish." It would go: clonk, clonk...clonkcklonkcklonk...
...than that of pope in legend, a man haunted, filled with rage and not "altogether admirable." This new More is an actor, writing his lines as he goes along. Arrogant in public, he's a victim of debilitating doubt in private. This More is a workahotled. A failed monk, he chooses marriages and a secular career in London. He is a merciless scourge of heretics and, at the same time, is preoccupied with death and tears for his own soul...
...history, translations, drawings and photographs. For masses of readers Brother Louis, as he was called by the Trappists, redefined the image of monasticism and made the concept of saintliness accessible to moderns. His treatise on meditation, New Seeds of Contemplation (1962), was deemed a spiritual classic. Moreover, the cloistered monk became a pioneering Catholic polemicist on civil rights and the immorality of nuclear war. Merton explored the spirituality of Eastern religions well before other Catholics...
Though not the cult figure he was during the 1950s and '60s, Merton still commands a following. Forty of his books are in print. Paulist Press is offering a videotape in which Michael Moriarty portrays the monk. Last June PBS televised a biography, and the film is still enjoying brisk sales and rentals. The show's producers have now recycled 20 of their interviews as Merton by Those Who Knew Him Best (Harper & Row; 191 pages; $12.95), a slight but engaging book...