Is there a single person on this list who likes Cecil Taylor's poems, or zanier still prefers them to the piano bits?  Jazz guys doing poetry are right up there with actors deciding they want to make rock records.  Or worse yet, blues records.

At 04:04 PM 7/3/2002 -0700, skip Heller wrote:
on 7/3/02 1:17 PM, Samerivertwice@aol.com at Samerivertwice@aol.com wrote:

2) Why some jazzers feel the compulsion to set their terrible terrible poems to music.

If anyone can answer this one, please come to my house for a reward.  Some of the most truly substantial artists of my lifetime have demolished their own credibility by making sure there's lots of bad poetry sprinkled throughout their catalogues.  I wants answers.

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Chris Selvig