Beyond Words: Jazz + Poetry at Rendon Hall

Beyond Words: Jazz + Poetry is a show that explores the intersection of the oral poetic image in evolution with jazz music. It is a collaboration of musicians and poets that grew out of a chance meeting Bay Area haiku poet, author and impresario Amos White, and renowned jazz musician and composer Dillon Vado. In performance, poets and musicians unite in a common experience that stretches and fuses the literal imagination with jazz interpretations for a synchronous overtone of musicality. Joining Vado and White will be Jeff Denson (bass), Dahveed Behroozi (piano), and poets Tongo Eisen-Martin and Isabella Borgenson....

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Beyond Words: Jazz + Poetry is a show that explores the intersection of the oral poetic image in evolution with jazz music. It is a collaboration of musicians and poets that grew out of a chance meeting Bay Area haiku poet, author and impresario Amos White, and renowned jazz musician and composer Dillon Vado. In performance, poets and musicians unite in a common experience that stretches and fuses the literal imagination with jazz interpretations for a synchronous overtone of musicality. Joining Vado and White will be Jeff Denson (bass), Dahveed Behroozi (piano), and poets Tongo Eisen-Martin and Isabella Borgenson.

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