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This career-spanning selection of Komunyakaa's (The Chameleon Couch) jazz-inspired poetry showcases the title piece, a libretto by composer Sandy Evans set to music by the Australian Broadcast Company (included here on two CDs). "Testimony" is a flowing, poly-voiced mosaic of lyrical narratives evoking events in saxophonist Charlie Parker's life. An iconic artist able to listen...Log In or Sign Up to Read More