Ode To Gravity:
An Evening of Jazz and Poetry

A program of poetry, jazz, and text-sound composition, featuring works by the Bobby Scott Trio, Charles Amirkhanian, Miles Davis, and Chris Hottel. The program begins with an early version of one of Charles Amirkhanian’s popular works of sound poetry, “Radii,” which takes as its text every word in the dictionary that begins with “r-a-d-i”. This is followed by four pieces by the Bobby Scott Trio taken from an old 1953 Savoy recording (MG 15055). Next up is Chris Hottel reading a selection of poetry from his 1970 book “The Knives of Dawn” (Oyez Press). The program concludes with another text-sound composition by Amirkhanian and then the jazz piece “Easy Livin’” from an early Miles Davis LP entitled “Blue Moods.”