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Jazz as a Verb

Written By Danny Nicolas

Liz Danzico writes over at Bobulate,

"Frank Chimero and I came together over a shared commitment to jazz. But not only exchanges of music. We emulated the form. He would write a blog post. I would respond. I would improvise one of his hunches. He would iterate one of my posts. A call- and-response approach to a developing friendship."

"We wrote like this alongside one another without ever meeting or speaking directly – much like many of us: we never meet the people we admire from afar. We read their stories. We watch their videos. We inspect their work. We make up the in-between parts. We improvise. Frank’s stories became my stories, our stories. This book is, partly, about making things out of stories, and using them to help us live well."

In a letter to Liz Danzico, Frank Chimero wrote,

I see a platform and it tells me two things: first, other people’s contributions are important. Second, the world is not done. Wow. If I want to believe anything, it’s that.






Published on Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 at 5:00 am | Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.











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