Ebbene sì, sembrerebbe che esista davvero la chiesa Africana Ortodossa dedicata al grande musicista. La Villa vuole ricordare John Coltrane così.
Per chi volesse assistere alle celebrazioni vi indichiamo dove andare: San Francisco.
Gregory Corso (foto di Harold Chapman)
Who from the beats had the most passion for the Blues & Jazz?
Gregory Corso was the only one of the Beats that I ever discussed jazz with. He was very fond of going to the Blue Note where Bud Powell was playing with his group. Read the rest of this entry ?
“In 2004, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, poet, had a vision. He dreamed of creating Poets Plaza, an outdoor urban enclave inspired by the appealing, people-friendly piazzas of Italy – a small public park to grace a short stretch of Vallejo Street in North Beach, San Francisco”. Read the rest of this entry ?
Lew Welch e Allen Ginsberg fuori dalla City Lights, a San Francisco (1963)
“Lew Welch writes lyrical poems of clarity, humor, and dark probings . . . jazz musical phrasings of American speech is one of Welch’s clearest contributions”.
Let’s go
Come on
Let’s go
Empty our pockets
And disappear. Read the rest of this entry ?
From upper left: Peter Orlovsky, Denise Mercedes, Julius Orlovsky, Gordon Ball, Gregory Corso, Ray Bremser, Bonnie Bremser (1971. photo: Allen De Loach)
In this newly rediscovered memoir, Bonnie Bremser, ex-wife of Beat poet Ray Bremser, chronicles her life on the run from the law in the early Sixties. When Ray fled to Mexico in 1961 to avoid imprisonment for armed robbery, a crime he claimed he did not commit, Bonnie followed with their baby daughter, Rachel. Read the rest of this entry ?
La storia di Julie Baird, una donna statunitense, fotoraccontata da Darcy Padilla. Read the rest of this entry ?
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Gaetano Veninata
Moises Di Sante
Villa Telesio 