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NATIVE |
Visual and Verbal exploration of JAZZ & NATIVE AMERICAN lifestyles    |
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In thoughts, in memories, in whispered comments, in discovered connections and in deathbed revelations there is an insistence upon existence. So what if there are no buffalo here in these Eastern Woodlands! Let's describe the situation with my “No Buffalo” terse verse below. NO BUFFALO No buffalo; no wide-open plains; no buckskin daily wear. My posters, prints and greeting cards at www.cafepress.com/NAeastART recognize such presence. |
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JAZZ - Ah YES THEN THERE IS J |
A 75y story partnering Jazz with American History  |
In spite of being proclaimed as America’s most original music, JAZZ has been mightily maligned through the years and treated as the devil’s own discord. Co-opted and supposedly sanitized, it, nevertheless, circles around and manages to slip on by with its down-home BLUES and its challenging beat still intact. Thank you, Wynton Marsalis, and all others so involved, for your forceful and far-reaching focus toward keeping jazz alive. I invite you to read my F.R.E.E. book: JAZZ from the Belly of the BLUES. It is a work in progress. Available chapter by chapter, with pertinent paintings, and photos to go with the words, this book speaks of a 75 year jitterbug dance partnering JAZZ with its comparable years of our American History. Free, feisty and filled with more than a few fun images, this history (her-story) book will entertainingly speak of some serious subjects. It will invite you to appreciate each chapter’s quick read at a slow, thoughtful pace – with time-out for “ah, yes” smiles.
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