Download listen to Mark Weber | Did You Get Locked Out? and The Classical Jazz Quartet | Marche Touche from the Reindeer Can Really Fly Jazz Radio Show December 24, 2009, Host: Mark Weber KUNM Albuquerque, New Mexico
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My grandmother,
who could never be called lovable,
did teach me something useful –
a terse, Yiddish fashion appraisal:
“It suits you
like earrings
on a kangaroo.”
Two Reasons Why I Like Men
(1) The vulnerability of their legs
in shorts,
(2) The innocence of their bare chests
in August.
Ernest Hemingway and Soren Kierkegaard
liked to write standing up at a podium.
I hear you ask, “Why?”
I do [...]
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Trio 3 | Oliver Lake, Reggie Workman, Andrew Cyrille | November 5, 2009 Outpost Performance Space, Albuquerque | Photos by Mark Weber
THE HURT SONG
The roots of the hurt song
snares the ankles of me, trapping me
in a tangle; the twisting binds me
tighter as the visions speak.
The arrows of my jazz strikes from
hotel room shadows; strange [...]
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Art Pepper Quintet with Bob Magnusson, John Dentz and guest Lee Konitz at Donte’s North Hollywood 1982 | Photo: Mark Weber
NIGHT SPIRITS
It’s a shame
mornings gotta come up with
a bright bleaching, extinguishing the dark,
sending stars into hiding
and the moon to the other side of the earth.
An up sun provides the aroma of
breakfast, drowning out the flavor [...]
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“Movement is the key to everything,” I over-
heard one of the trainers at the gym say -
amen to that-
I can’t help wondering if
I’m a textbook example of a middle-aged person
endeavoring to retain as much youth as possible
by becoming a gym rat?
my beloved Saul Bellow was a health freak, too
all those gym scenes in his novels
were [...]
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Rufus Reid 1979 | Photo: Mark Weber
A LINE OF STRINGS
A thickness of quiet pulled
the air into slow where it
begged to be filled.
A big muddy of thoughts spread
over the crowd, like the water
they were; wet collars, sweaty palms.
A low tide of moving hands
struck a line of strings,
releasing songs too heavy for corners,
to bright to hide.
The jazz [...]
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the perfect
score dillinger
sd is when
you can
taste the
machine gun
action in
the way
you get the
money
For Mark Weber on his birthday.–Todd Moore
Mark Weber | Photo by Eric Breitbart
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The poetry was a perfect foil to a musical background, consequently a good time was had by all, a visual and audible treat.
Kenny Davern
More like a series of dreams than poems.
Todd Moore
There
were two motives for having this concert. I wanted a chamber quartet of horns to back my poetry and for that I wanted [...]
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Turk Murphy 1979 | Photo: Mark Weber
SORROW SONGS
Sorrow songs rise from campfires
in angry yellow jagged flames
pressing long shadows onto
fresh plowed dirt mixed with sweat;
the land cries blood with them,
under skies dark like them.
Clapping hands like angels wings
circle the smiles of dancers
swelling to a rhythm born
from shackles sounding
a call to lost lives drowned of youth.
Drums hammer [...]
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first edition * 300 copies * August 2009
Note: the headwaters of the Niger River are not technically at Timbuktu — at Timbuktu is a tributary that eons ago was the beginning of the Niger but over the time the rivers (the Niger is comprised of two ancient rivers) switched course.
textural advice: Todd Moore
author photo [...]
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