MP3 2396 mb.
Performer: David Meltzer
Title: Poet w/ Jazz 1958
Country: US
Catalog Number: SJCD 9001
Label: Sierra Records
Released: 2005
Style: Spoken Word
Rating: 4.3
Votes: 734
| 1 | From: The Book Of In |
| 2 | Came Into The Motionless Picture |
| 3 | The Opium Queen |
| 4 | From: The Lowlands |
| 5 | Misspliced Sermon |
| 6 | Night Track |
| 7 | From A Long Untitled Poem |
| 8 | The Golden Opium Den |
| 9 | Main Line Blues |
| 10 | The Ladybirds |
David Meltzer February 17, 1937 December 31, 2016 was an American poet and musician of the Beat Generation and San Francisco Renaissance. Lawrence Ferlinghetti described him as one of the greats of post-World-War-Two San Francisco poets and musicians. Meltzer came to prominence with inclusion of his work in the anthology, The New American Poetry 19451960. Meltzer was born in Rochester, New York, the son of a cellist and a harpist. In 1940, the family moved to Brooklyn, New York City. At the age of 11, he wrote his earliest poem, on the topic of the New York City subway system. He performed on radio. Artist: David Meltzer Genre: Jazz, Spoken Word Release Date: 2005 Label: Sierra Records Catalog Number: SJCD 9001 Recording: Studio Length: Format: CD. Artist Releases. Poet w Jazz 1958 CD David Meltzer. Green Morning LP David Meltzer. Label Releases. Poet w Jazz 1958 CD. David Meltzer. Currently Unavailable. Like Ginsberg and other Beats, Meltzer had an affinity for jazz and collaborated with jazz musicians in the 1950s on an album released decades later, David Meltzer: Poet with Jazz 1958. He was a songwriter and guitarist himself and recorded and performed with his first wife, the singer Tina Meltzer, in the 1960s. Meltzer taught for decades at the San Francisco-based New College of California and was on the board of the Before Columbus Foundation, which promotes multicultural literature. Co-Founder of Sports 1 Marketing. Family first, then author, speaker, and humanitarian. Live Q&A: Road to Revenue & Happiness 15 David Meltzer Live. email me for today's worksheet: david. Success can be so sinple but our ego makes it difficult. Read David Meltzer's bio and find out more about David Meltzer's songs, albums, and chart history. Get recommendations for other artists you'll love. In 1958, he recorded an album of his poems with a jazz combo for Jim Dickson on Dickson's Vaja label. The album was not released but finally saw the light of day in 2006 on Sierra Records titled David Meltzer: Poet with Jazz 1958. Jim Dickson had earlier recorded Lord Buckley, Lenny Bruce and the Page Cavanaugh Trio. Later Jim would be A&R producer for World Pacific and Elektra Records as well as discovering and producing the rock group, The Byrds. Track List. From: The Lowlands. Came into the Motionless Picture. Night Track. From: The Book of In. Golden Opium Den. Misspliced Sermon. Main Line Blues. Opium Queen. The Opium 1957 he moved to the Bay Area and is associated with the San Francisco Renaissance and the Beat Generation. He is the author of several collections of poetry and fiction, and also known for being a jazz musician. His more than fifteen books of poetry include Two Way Mirror: A Poetry Notebook City Lights, 2015 and When I Was a Poet City Lights, 2011. He died December 31, 2016, in Oakland, California. David Meltzer is author of many volumes of poetry, including the Clown Swmina, 1960, the Process Oyez 1965 Yesod Trigram 1969, Arrows: Selected Poetry, 19571992 Black Sparrow Press, 1994 and No Eyes: Lester Young Black Sparrow, 2000 and San Francisco Beat: Talking with the Poets City Lights 2001. His musical recordings include Serpent Power and Poet Song. He teaches in the Humanities and graduate Poetics programs at the New College of California. He lives in the Bay Area