Concept Score #32
poem by Jake Marmer
piano improvisation based on poem by Alon Nechushtan
the line of thought
red
clown-like
slips if only
to embrace its diplopia
both hands
playing windshield, what
you, earnestly, discussed as ground
rules, arrangements, anonymity
chopped
evenly with serrated
breath,
then
looking
for ideas
you’re tracing
the backwash
like an oceanographer
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Jake Marmer is a poet and performer. His poetry-music-improv record Hermeneutic Stomp (Blue Thread Records) was released in 2013, and first poetry collection, Jazz Talmud, was published by Sheep Meadow Press in 2012. Currently a doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, he frequently contributes to the Forward and Tablet Magazine, and has recently co-hosted North America’s first Jewish Poetry retreat at the KlezKanada Festival. For more information, see http://jakemarmer.wordpress.
Alon Nechushtan is a NJ-based pianist whose album ‘Words Beyond’ (Buckyball Records) won the Independent music awards Best Jazz Album of the Year in 2012.
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