September 6, 2024 marks the release date of D.D. Jackson’s “Poetry Project,” featuring the work of poets Ayesha Chatterjee, George Elliott Clarke, Luciano Iacobelli, Irving Layton, Micheline Maylor, Bruce Meyer, A.F. Moritz, Giovanna Riccio, Libby Scheer, Yin Xioyuan and Choucri Paul Zemokhol, set to music by D.D. Jackson, and performed by instrumentalists D.D. Jackson, Rich Brown, Jane Bunnett, Tom Fleming, Kelly Jefferson, George Koller, Larnell Lewis, and Curtis Stewart, and vocalists Laila Biali, Dean Bowman, Yoon Sun Choi, Ethan Cronin, Sammy Jackson, John Lindsay-Botten, and Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez.
This digital release is now available on Bandcamp.
And I am proud to share the setting of a poem from my book,The Garden, “Coda: The Blues,” track 12 of the CD.
Check out the whole album, now, including this video teaser for “Mavety Street!”