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Performance
11:20 am
Wed July 4, 2012

Slam Poetry Meets Jazz

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Credit Eric Baker / KCUR
The House pianist, Everett Freeman, performs during the opening 30 minute set.
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The house band performs their opening set.
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A packed crowd awaits the beginning of the Jazz Poetry Jams.
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The house bassist, Dominique Sanders, goes on a riff.
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Eric Boone performs first for the featured American Jazz Museum's young poets team.
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Brandon Bushnell-Smith performs at the Jazz Poetry Jams. He's a member of the American Jazz Museum's team headed for "Brave New Voices."
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Raja Nelson performs in front of a packed house at the Jazz Poetry Jams.
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Trey Newman performs his poem "Scars of Fallen Shadows."
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The house drummer, Tyree Johnson, performs during the set between the featured poets and the open mic.
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The house band performs their second set.
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Bobbie Jones performs along with the house band for her two poems.
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Jas Taylor performs in the Jazz Poetry Jams open mic portion.
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Jas Taylor performs.
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Poet in Residence Glenn North Performs his piece "WBLK."
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Glenn North is the Poet in Residence at the American Jazz Museum.
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Desmond "337" Jones and Theodor "Priest" Hughes make up "The Recipe." The two teach a class at Avila University on spoken word poetry.
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By Eric Baker

Let’s play a word association game.  What’s do you think when I say, “Kansas City?”  Barbecue?  The Royals? How about jazz?  Now what about when I say “Jazz,” what do you think?  It probably isn’t poetry.

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