Make Jazz Not War!
an affiliation of Citizen Artists
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Update on Target Practice: great interviews last week, one or two more to shoot, editing to a scratch track has begun. Citizen Artist projects are always more than just the individual artwork. Target Practice started out as a poem. It’s slowly becoming a film. It’s already a continuing art installation. We placed 40+ Black Lives Matter...
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Here’s a little about each of the friends and legends we’ll be playing for: RICHARD LOPEZ Richard Lopez worked with The JazzPoetry Ensemble throughout the ’90s. HIs piano both grounded the group and took it in new directions. He was best known back then for his work with the Columbus Symphony and his trio with Jim Rupp and Roger Hines at Rigsby’s. The ‘90s was also when he put together Too Far North with Michael Cox, Terry Douds, and Matt Wagner. In recent years, he performed regularly at the Columbus Museum of Art. Our relationship could be volatile. One night......
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I first heard Kidd Jordan at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. I spent the day in the jazz tent while my friends wandered the fairgrounds sampling the other musics. I told them to be back at the jazz tent well before the last set – the World Saxophone Quartet. The seats I was...
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Kidd famously played along with squeaky doors at SUNO. I heard him play with the sound of the air conditioning at Columbus’s King Arts Center during a workshop for elementary school students. I listened and learned and thought I understood. I listened and played with the sounds around me. I wrote a poem about it...
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In The Princess Bride, Vizzini uses the word “inconceivable” so often and so inappropriately that eventually Inigo Montoya says “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." The less-than-liberal media and our fascist politicians keep using the word “unprecedented”. I do not think it means what they think it means. It’s a basic tenet that America puts no person above the law. It is totally precedented to indict people who are believed to have broken the law. Unprecedented was letting Nixon off. Never before had a President so clearly criminally subverted our democracy. There was......
Music, News, Performances
Come help Make Jazz Not War! celebrate these affiliated Citizen Artists who joined the ancestors since the beginning of the pandemic. There will be a drum circle. We will call the ancestors and they will send us music. There will be times when musicians from related groups (Too Far North, Nova Madrugada, Richard Lopez Trio,...
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With our name change, some of our merchandise has become obsolete. We’d like to sell it so we can get new merch. So we’re having a sale. Sizes and quantities are limited. Don’t forget to tip the band. Get ‘em before they’re gone!! Make Jazz Not War T-shirts: Were $15/$20 Now ONLY $9.99/$12.99!! Make Jazz...continue reading...
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Our website is back! Technical issues, health, etc. conspired to make us miss important events and our holiday sale. The sale will now be a New Year’s sale. We changed our name, but we still have a fair amount of JazzPoetry Ensemble branded merchandise. We need to sell it so we can get new Make...
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TARGET PRACTICE During George Floyd Summer Blacks Lives Matter signs were planted in Glen Echo with almost the frequency of spring bulbs. Diversity and inclusion wafted on the summer breeze. Refreshing. Inviting. Chasing the burnt stench of yesterday, the sweet scent of tomorrow made cliches like sweet scents on a summer breeze fresh again. I...continue reading...
