Jazz Son: Selected Poetry, Lyrics, and Fiction

In Jazz Son, Elliot F. Bratton makes a powerful contribution to creative Jazz literature. A Jazz scholar, one-time New York Jazz DJ, and practicing Jazzpoet, his poems are celebrations of the Jazz life in all of its spirituality, sensuality, pathos, and joy. There are poems dedicated to several Jazz legends, as well as original lyrics to classic melodies by such composers as John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, and Thelonious Monk. Bratton has also included one work of fiction, "The Wider World," a fantasy that takes the idea of the power of music to inspire writers into a different dimension.