Moonstone Poetry @ PhillyCAM, 699 Ranstead Street Comcast Cable 66/966HD/967 or Verizon FIOS 29/30 in Philadelphia. “For seventy-five years, poets have listened to jazz and assimilated certain relationships between the two arts-not merely the issue of language but also the connection between jazz improvisation and poetic narratives as journeys.” (Preface of The Second Set by […]
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87964733385?pwd=Nk5LN2FMNjhUeE5uVnQ2VVdBMVZPQT09 Meeting ID: 879 6473 3385 – Passcode: 904825 Virtual Poetry Reading: International Jazz Day: aTONEment – Jazz Inspired Fables from Improvising Lives A cross-genre poetry series melding musicians who play the notes with poets who take note! This spotlight on Philly’s Art of Improvisation will witness Moonstone poet, Raheem Curry trading solos with singer […]
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87964733385?pwd=Nk5LN2FMNjhUeE5uVnQ2VVdBMVZPQT09 Meeting ID: 879 6473 3385 – Passcode: 904825 Virtual Poetry Reading: Jazz & Forgiveness: aTONEment – Contemporary Responses to James Weldon Johnson’s God’s Trombones Co-hosts Elijah B. Pringle, III & John Lavin welcome audience to the May Edition of aTONEment and share topic of how James Weldon Johnson’s God’s Trombones has taught jazz to pray and to […]
Virtual Poetry Reading: Neal Kosaly-Meyer, John Lavin, Elijah B. Pringle, III, Fióna Bolger VIRTUAL – Registration Required: Virtual – Registration link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0kdeGprT8qGNcj0i5hXzXxbHwMGpIttrri Neal Kosaly-Meyer is a Seattle-based composer and performer. As a member of Moonstone’s aTONEment community, Neal has joined John Lavin to coordinate a Free Jazz performance in Dublin of Finnegans Wake […]
Jazz and Finnegans Wake: Jam Session Sunday May 15, 2022 – 5 pm Live at Fergie’s Pub & Online 1214 Sansom Street, Philadelphia and on zoom – Registration Required – Registration Link https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqceusqj8jHNTEJbA47-4Q57xV7jsy66bq Come witness the Jazz Experiment of the Ages! Horns and Drums and Arms and Lungs will be Jamming the Lyrical, Witty, […]
Remembering John Coltrane: Reading, Panel and Open Mic Jam Wednesday September 23 @ 7pm Fergie’s Pub, 1214 Sansom St Philadelphia To honor the 100th anniversary of John Coltrane’s birth (September 23, 1926), the Coltrane Estate launched “Coltrane 100,” a year-long global celebration. The centennial highlights a massive schedule of catalog reissues, symphonic performances, and tribute […]
VIRTUAL WRITING WORKSHOP| 5pm Registration Link – https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/JAj5oD1RTHKfwfapZt3Chg Trane-ing Poetry Workshop invites writers to explore the John Coltrane’s process of bring social issues to life and how that process can be applied in our own writing practce. In this online class, we dive into the creative process behind several of John Coltrane’s most famous songs, […]
Monday October 26, 2026 – 7pm – LIVE Black Squirrel Club – 1045 Sarah St Remembering Coltrane Book Release: Poetry Open Mic and Jazz Jam John Coltrane began his illustrious career in the 1950’s with two high list associations: Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. Coltrane played with Davis’s band until around 1960, when he began […]
