Jazz Poetry Week on the Jazz Break at Noon, KRTU

For over a decade KRTU 91.7 FM has offered Jazz Poetry Week on the Jazz Break at Noon, as host Kory Cook is joined by poet Jim LaVilla-Havelin to explore jazz poetry – its roots, its current incarnations, the local, national, and international hybrids of inspired collaboration and improvisation. From Langston Hughes to “Strange Fruit”, from Vocab to Rich Oppenheim’s Ferlinghetti-based explorations, from Jason Moran to Kurt Elling, Philip Levine, Roberto Bonazzi, and Fernando Flores.

Poets, musicians, share the noon hour for a week as National Poetry Month and Jazz Appreciation Month both take on April.