Questions

1. In “Jazz Fan Looks Back,” the speaker names famous jazz musicians: Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Sonny Stitt, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie (Bird) Parker, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Max Roach, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Pettiford, Lionel Hampton, Dexter Gordon, and Fats Navarro. Choose two or three of the musicians in the poem and listen to some of their work. What do they have in common? Do you know of jazz musicians whom Jayne Cortez does not mention? Why might she have left them out?

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   Questions: - In “Jazz Fan Looks Back,” the speaker names famous jazz musicians: Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Sonny Stitt, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie (Bird) Parker, Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Max Roach, Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Pettiford, Lionel Hampton, Dexter Gordon, and Fats Navarro. Choose two or three of the musicians in the poem and listen to some of their work. What do they have in common? Do you know of jazz musicians whom Jayne Cortez does not mention? Why might she have left them out?
2. Try reading this poem aloud. How does the meaning change?

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   Questions: - Try reading this poem aloud. How does the meaning change?
3. Jazz at the Philharmonic was a series of famous concerts that took place at the Philharmonic Auditorium in Los Angeles. What do you think it means that Cortez repeats “Jazz at the Philharmonic” twice? What is she saying about what a jazz fan hears when he or she looks back?

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   Questions: - Jazz at the Philharmonic was a series of famous concerts that took place at the Philharmonic Auditorium in Los Angeles. What do you think it means that Cortez repeats “Jazz at the Philharmonic” twice? What is she saying about what a jazz fan hears when he or she looks back?
4. What elements of jazz do you find in this poem?

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   Questions: - What elements of jazz do you find in this poem?