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Today's addition is the next album by one of my all time favorite
British musicians Michael Garrick and the last of his reissues on the
Vocalion label:

Michael Garrick - "Poetry And Jazz In Concert"

The love affair between the two Art Forms: Poetry and Jazz goes back
to the late 1950s, when American writers / poets of the Beat
Generation (Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and others) discovered the
"intellectual proximity" between their writing and the process of
creating Jazz music, as represented by the founding Fathers of Bee Bop
(Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and others). However, although the
poets were frequent patrons of the burgeoning NY Jazz club scene,
actual poetry readings combined with Jazz performances were pretty
rare and sporadic. Only when the Poetry and Jazz concept crossed over
the Atlantic to Britain (and later the rest of Europe) the movement
reached a full swing and enjoyed immense popularity with the poets,
musicians and the audiences. The intellectual crowds in London and the
rest of Britain attended Poetry and Jazz concerts in huge numbers
through the early and mid-1960s, but towards the end of the decade the
enthusiasm diminished. British poet Jeremy Robson and pianist /
composer Michael Garrick were largely responsible for the movement's
popularity. Garrick, a graduate in English Literature, had a great
sensitivity to the literary works and managed to compose music, which
suited the words perfectly. This album, released originally in 1964 as
two separate LPs (Vol.1 & 2) documents a typical Jazz and Poetry
concert. Recorded "live" in a studio, the applause and the audience's
reaction to the poetry faithfully reproduce the atmosphere of a
performance hall. The Jazz quintet (Garrick - piano, Joe Harriott -
sax, Shake Keane - trumpet, John Taylor - bass and Colin Barnes -
drums) provides the music and four poets (Adrian Mitchell, Dannie
Abse, Jeremy Robson and Laurie Lee) read their poems, creating a
wonderfully intellectual encounter, where the sum of the two Arts is
actually better than their individual contribution. This new addition
adds an ultra-rare EP of Jazz and Poetry recorded a couple of years
later, featuring the Michael Garrick quintet (with Ian Carr - trumpet
and Coleridge Goode - bass replacing their respective counterparts in
the earlier quintet) and Jeremy Robson, called "Before Night/Day".
This is a timeless masterpiece and an everlasting food for sensitive
souls - brilliant!

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