To Breathe Into Another Voice: A South African Anthology of Jazz Poetry 9781928341314, 1928341314

To Breathe Into Another Voice is the first anthology of South African jazz poetry to be published.

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Table of contents :
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface

1. Power In The Music
On Being A Flower
For Bra Ntemi
Old Sof’town
Dudu’s Groove
Where I’m From
Jazz Club
The Sounds Of Exile

2. This Thing Called Jazz
Untitled
Noted
For Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers
Rainjazz On The Dune
Applauding The New
Jazz
A Life In Pieces
Swing In D Minor
Jazznight / Improvisations / Urban Vibes
Genesis
Nostalgic Jazz
My Grandmother’s Hymn
Mercury / Quicksilver
Self-Medication

3. They Make The Music
Brass
The Now Generation
Coming Out Of The Closet
Arid
Presence Of A Master
Them Jazz Cats
Hey Music Man
Elegy For Jazz
For Gloria Bosman

4. Some Of Them Were Special
Bheki Mseleku Remembered
Songbird Traveller
Home Tones
A Poem For Lesedi
In Gentle Light And Heavy Tones
Acknowledgement
A Love Supreme
Coltrane’s Lap
Playing To The Wall
This Blues Thing Is Us: Ke Kgale Re Tshwenyeha
Miles
So That Light Would Be There
Portrait Of A Cow
Mr FunkDaddy
Voice
Abdullah’s Top To Bottom Dollar
Memory Of Dollar Brand/Abdullah Ibrahim
Sikade
Tribute To Zim Ngqawana
Is It Jazz?
Kippies
Horn Screaming
Zimasile
Ways Of Being Free
1. Steve Newman
2. Andile Yenana
3. Yonela Mnana
Your Song
Double Shot

5. All About Living
Rhythm And Blues
Sax Seduction
Memories Of Mannenberg
@ Sam’s Tavern
At The Jazz Club
It’s All That Jazz
Thirsty Waters
I Wish I Had Known Bob Kaufman
Song
Ek Verlang Na Jazz
I Miss Jazz (English)
I Am In A Jam
The Day You Left
Endless Highway
If Only
A Lesson In Poetry Women And Jazz Men
That Tune
MZANTSI LeTS DANCE
There Is A Train
Cassandra Wilson Will Sing
Instrumental
Giving In

Contributors
Acknowledgments

To Breathe Into Another Voice: A South African Anthology of Jazz Poetry
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