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Geoff Goodman: Jazz + Haiku
by Chris Mosey
On the face of it jazz and haiku wouldn't seem to have a great deal in common: jazz, born in the brothels of New Orleans at the close of the 19th century; haiku, an offshoot of age-old Japanese Zen Buddhism, seeking answers to the meaning of life in the quiet life and a pithy observation of nature. Yet, as he lurched from one dive to another in Storyville, might not Jelly Roll Morton, on occasion, have gazed ...
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