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Article: Sterling D. Plumpp. Velvet BeBop Kente Cloth.(Book Review)
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- March 22, 2005
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Sterling D. Plumpp. Velvet BeBop Kente Cloth. Chicago: Third World P, 2003. 158 pp. $21.95.
In the introductory note to Mexico City Blues (1959), Jack Kerouac frames his extended poetic experiment with spontaneous composition and jazz sensibilities by writing,
I want to be considered a jazz poet
blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam
session on Sunday. I take 242 choruses;
my ideas vary and sometimes roll from
chorus to chorus or from halfway through
a chorus to halfway into the next.
A milestone in these lengthy conversations concerning the terms "jazz poet" and "jazz poetry," Kerouac's passage engages those commentaries, ...