BLUE IN GREEN by MILES DAVIS. Poem by D.R. James.
...he watched winter turn/his red wine black, fell asleep weeping...
Solo by Charles Mingus. Poem by D.R. James.
D.R James riffs on jazz, bass solos, and too much audience chit-chat.
THE OTHER WOMAN by CARO EMERALD. Story by Lucia Nardo.
Believing herself unloved and unlovable had splintered her heart. Her desperate life’s search was to find someone to piece it back together.
SO WHAT by MILES DAVIS. Poem by D.R. James.
Divorceville, Michigan, December 1999. Mind/ful/l of Miles What’s new? I too am kind of blue, ear buds soothing “So What,” Chambers and then Evans noodling Gil E.’s intro. Sooo what? Upright walks in the tune, conjures modal three-part sooo what’s. No mute for Miles, just cool, [...]
LAZARUS MAN by TERRY CALLIER. Story by Eric Roe.
But now I was almost nine years at the plant, and that novel was in a box in the closet, kept company by two others I’d gone on to write. The plant had become quicksand.
MOONGLOW by ARTIE SHAW. Poem by D. R. James.
Until/somebody’s wedding, I only saw Mom/dance big-band behind an ironing board...
WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD by LOUIS ARMSTRONG. Story by Violet St Clair.
From Strauss to the Stones, I jammed my classroom with music, matching songs and symphonies to subjects, activities, and transitions.
OVER THE RAINBOW by EVA CASSIDY. Story by Luke R Davies
I came across a song that I hadn't listened to for ages, a song that when I first heard it, was a real life changing moment.
CENTRE STAGE Bill Arnott
Canadian writer Bill Arnott brought a new dimension to Stereo Stories when he started sending in some jazz poems in mid-2020 . He sent YouTube clips of himself narrating the poems. While driving the empty streets of Vancouver in lockdown..
ALL OR NOTHING AT ALL by VINCE JONES. Story by Nick Gadd
It would be overstating it to say that we came to Melbourne because of Vince Jones. But it didn’t hurt that you can find performers of his calibre there.