Jazz and Literature

Maria Antónia Lima is Associate Professor at the University of Évora, in Portugal, where she completed her PhD on the fiction of Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. She is a researcher at the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES) and teaches American Literature at the University of Évora. She was President of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies (APEAA) and a Board Member of the European Society for the Studies of English (ESSE). Her publications include international essays in specialized journals and critical volumes, as well as books on Gothic and the relationships between literature and the arts.Mia Funk is an artist, podcast host, writer, and creative educator. Founder of The Creative Process international educational initiative, podcast, and travelling exhibition, her varied work sees her leading workshops and mentoring students around creativity, critical thinking, environmental ethics, and humanities disciplines. Her work appears in public and private collections, including the U.S. Library of Congress, Office of Public Works, and Centre Culturel Irlandais de Paris. She’s received the Prix de Peinture from the Salon d’Automne and exhibited in the Grand Palais. Funk served on the National Advisory Council of the American Writers Museum and serves on the advisory board of the European Conference for the Humanities.

• INTRODUCTIONMaria Antónia Lima and Mia FunkPART I - JAZZ AND LITERATURE: ELECTIVE AFFINITIES1 Jane Austen and John ColtraneAllen Michie2 Does Early Jazz Express Freedom or Possibility?Amedeo D’Adamo3 Modern Jazz Quintet: Hughes, Joans, Kaufman, Cortez, KomunyakaaA. Robert Lee4 Race and Cut-Up Improvisational Aesthetics: William Burroughs and JazzBenjamin J. Heal5 Jazz and Futurism in Italy 1910–1935Francesco Martinelli6 David Bowie’s Blackstar: Jazz, War, and Seventeenth-Century Literary Connections in “’Tis a Pity She Was a Whore” and “Sue”James Rovira7 Jazz as Modernity’s Challenge in Interwar SpainJuan Herrero-Senés8 Sounds in the Dark: Jazz in Noir NarrativesMaria Antónia Lima9 Jazz in Brazilian and Portuguese PoetryMário Avelar10 Truth Has to Be Given in Riddles: Literary Influences in the Portuguese Jazz SceneNuno Catarino11 Jazz, Body, and Soul: Yusef Lateef’s Autophysiopsychic PracticeSam Reese12 Varieties of Religious Experience through Jazz in Cortázar’s “The Pursuer”William LevinePART II - EXPERIENCES OF CREATIVE INTERFACES13 Hvor En Var Baen: Places of ChildhoodHaftor Medbøe14 Four Musicians and Six Characters: Narrative Categories in Contemporary Free JazzJosé Dias15 The Creative Process: Storytelling as an Improvisational ProcessMia Funk16 Morte d’Miles: Time with a VirtuosoPeter Weller17 Inside the Mind and Heart of the Free Improviser – an ImprovisationRobert Dick18 Notes on Improvising While Composing: Dutch Writer J. Bernlef on Writing with JazzScott RollinsPART III - THE CREATIVE PROCESS19 INTERVIEWSMusic, Space, Sensation, and the Creative ProcessAda LimónJazz, Poetry, Improvisation, and the Art of MemoryAnthony JosephPortugal, Cultural Memory, and the Language of JazzBernardo MoreiraJazz and the Time of the NovelBruce Evan BarnhartAn Improvised LifeDickie LandryAfrican American Music and Storytelling: A Curator’s PerspectiveDwandalyn R. ReeceImprovisation and Freedom, Passion and PurposeEdmar CastañedaJazz, Film, Graphic Novels, and The Discovery of SoundFilipe MeloWriting Between the NotesGeoff DyerOn Music and the Intersection of Life and CraftJericho BrownA Journey Through Music, Performance, and the Science of TimeNatalie HodgesA Long Time Ago in a Cutting Room Far, Far AwayPaul HirschZen, Blues, Simplicity, and The Art of SongwritingRick CarnesSongwriting and Self-ExplorationSharon Kovacs20 POEMSFor RayAna CastilloThat Cat Named BirdAntonia Alexandra Klimenko My RomanceGerald FlemingRahsaan Roland Kirk at the Village VanguardJeffrey GreeneChet BakerJ. BernlefForever Monkin’ itMalik Ameer CrumplerForward Avenue Blues (for Katherine Dunham)Michael SimmsOther Leavings, Other LivesYvette Centeno21 ARTWORKS