Invocation

from From Coltrane to Coal Train: An Eco-Jazz Suite by Marc Beaudin

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From Coltrane to Coal Train: An Eco-Jazz Suite.
Featuring poetry by Marc Beaudin and music by former members of the bands Morphine and Orchestra Morphine, Dana Colley, Billy Conway and Laurie Sargent.
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1) Invocation

Before the Word
Before the Light
Before our desperate invention of the Gods
Before the world whirled in its mad dance
There was the Music

In the infinitely-faceted, poly-phonic song of the multi-verse:
the Music
In the supra-logical, bio-lingual courtship of the cosmos:
the Music
In the resonating drum of the Big Bang
In the birth spasms of Pangaea
In the death throes of the Paleolithic:
the Music
In the waxing and waning of the glaciers
In sunlight drinking dew from an eyelash of grass
In the crow’s prophesying voice:
the Music

In everything, the Music & finally
those who would hear it …

Portals between the infinite & the temporal
We give these doorways names:

Mozart
Black Elk
Bashō
Neruda
Chang Tzu
Van Gogh

&
a horn player from Hamlet, North Carolina called
John William Coltrane

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from From Coltrane to Coal Train: An Eco-Jazz Suite, released May 29, 2022

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Marc Beaudin Livingston, montana

Poetry & spoken word infused with jazz.
“All a musician can do is to get closer to the sources of nature, and so feel that he is in communion with the natural laws.” – John Coltrane

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