New Jazz Poets

[ghost of miles]

Came across this at a local record store today and put it on hold--looks like it's available as a custom CDR from Folkways. Any opinions on it from those who might have heard its contents?

[Indestructible!]

Came across this at a local record store today and put it on hold--looks like it's available as a custom CDR from Folkways. Any opinions on it from those who might have heard its contents?

The Folkways website you listed provides some decent sound clips for all of the tracks on the album. I think you can get a pretty good sense of the album from the clips...

Thanks for pointing this out, BTW. I'm listening to the clips now, and this sounds like an interesting album. Please report back on what you thought of it after you buy it!

Cheers,

Shane

[JSngry]

I found it in suburban Little Rock about 20 years ago. It's...ok at best, mostly a curiosity, at least for my tastes. All of the poetry involved reads better than it speaks (or is spoken here, to be probably more fair). However, Quartet Out did sample the Ishmael Reed reading and included the line "burning lakes of fire" in "Hip Bop". The Reed thing is probably the best read and the best poetry on there.

Again, that's just my taste.