Musicality of Poetry Series XI: Jazz Poety, Roots and Rudiments w/ Kamau Daaood, Kahil El' Zabar and Moderator Quraysh Ali Lans
Guild Complex

Illinois Humanities Council grant

Jazz and poetry have repeatedly intersected in blues, bebop, and hip hop/ Rhythms, expressions, wails, and late nights of hypnotized audiences are just a few commonalities. Tonight the stage is graced by three men versed in poetry, jazz and community who will discuss these inersections: past, present, and future.


9/4/2002 - 9/4/2002


Jazz and poetry have repeatedly intersected in blues, bebop, and hip hop/ Rhythms, expressions, wails, and late nights of hypnotized audiences are just a few commonalities. Tonight the stage is graced by three men versed in poetry, jazz and community who will discuss these inersections: past, present, and future.
Kamau Daaood, a performance poet based in L.A., emerged from the infamous Watts Writers Workshop in the sixties. Kamau is not only known for his poetry, he's known as an educator and community arts activist, widely acknoledged as a major driving force behind Los Angeles' black cultural renaissance, Kamau's tenure as a "word musicain" with the Pan African Peoples Arkestra under the direction of Horace Tapscott helped to shape his bbebop-flavored poetic approach. His readings have brought him to podiums with Gil Scott Heron, The Last Poets, Amiri Baraka and Sonia Sanchezm and have taken him as far away as Egypt and Somalia. A collection of his work Leimert Park, was released in 1997.
Kahil El' Zabar took up drums as a child on the south side of Chicago. El' Zabar's interest in blues, jazz and gospel led to his lifelong study of African music. In 1975 he joined Chicago's association for the Advancment of Creative musicians (AACM.) He has taught at the University of Illinois & The University of Nebraska, and is the author of Mis'taken Brilliance (Third World Press, 1993), a book of prose and poetry. His work is recognised around the world. Guild Compex welcomes back long time friend Quraysh Ali Lansana as the moderator for tonights event. Quraysh is the author of two books of poetry, a childrens book, and is the editor of five anthologies of Literature including Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art (Third World Press, Chicago 2002). Having completed his MFA in Creative Writing from New York University he returns to Chicago as the Associate Director of the Gwendolyn Brooks Center and an assistant professor of English at Chicago State University. Musicality of Poetry Series is the Guild Complex's longest running Guild Complex series, which provides a space for musicians, poets and audiences to discuss and expieriance the intertwinings of poetry and music.
This Program is made possible in part by a grant from the Illinois Humanities Council.

Performers
Kamau Daaood, Kahil El' Zabar and Moderator Quraysh Ali Lansana

Tags: Literary, American, 2002