477. Still Echoing (For Lennie Tristano)

September 3, 2014
by Ryukan

I’ve blogged about the inspiration for this poem before but here is the text and postcard image and below find the Soundcloud widget.

477. Still Echoing (For Lennie Tristano)

477. Still Echoing (For Lennie Tristano)

1 Comment

  1. Bruce Greeley

    what a mellifluous jazzy voice, sir Splab! & dig Tristano’s “Intuition” too: free jazz a decade before anyone else tried it!

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