The Live New Departures Jazz Poetry Septet

The Live New Departures Jazz Poetry Septet: Blues For The Hitchhiking Dead

by Bruce Lindsay
May 7, 2013

It's not jazz, it's not poetry, it's jazzpoetry. At least, that's what Jerry Hooker called it in a review of the 12 March 1962 performance at Southampton University that is captured on Blues For The Hitchhiking Dead. Two of the UK's foremost poets combined with five of the country's finest jazz musicians to become The Live New Departures Jazz Poetry Septet, bringing this relatively newfangled combination of words and music if not to the masses then at least to an ...