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Sterling Plumpp: Survival Blues
Born in rural Mississippi in 1940, Sterling Plumpp has for thirty years taught at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and produced a body of poetry giving him considerable claim to be one of the country’s most distinguished blues-jazz poets. Somber … Continue reading
Sterling Plumpp salutes Von Freeman
Von Freeman, one of Chicago’s titanic tenors, passed away this August, and his passing brought to mind the most beautiful lines ever written about him: “Be-Bop is precise clumsiness. Awkward lyricism under a feather’s control. A world in a crack. … Continue reading →