KEITH GAMBLE`S ART HOUSE GATHERING: Poetry Night

August 11, 2012, at the Phoenix Cafe in Hazel Park, MI is the site for my Keith Gamble`s Art House Gathering: Poetry Night. This promises to be an exciting night. The evening will kick-off with me performing three of my avant-garde jazz pieces.

I will begin the evening with My Mind and Soul: For Solo Tenor Saxophone (Unaccompanied). I recorded My Mind and Soul with Creative Tradition in 2006, on our CD "Do I Have To Live Like This?" (track number 25 - Give Me Back My Mind, poetry by Wardell Montgomery). My Mind and Soul is an interesting piece with a retrograde of octaves and set theory.

At The Hill is an avant-garde jazz composition written in four movements. All four movements have been performed and recorded. I have performed In The Belly Of The Beast (1st movement of At The Hill) with my four piece group and Creative Tradition. Movements three and four have also been performed by Creative Tradition. Teachers is the second movement of At The Hill, and is actually a be-bop piece inside an avant-garde jazz composition. Continuum Jazz Ensemble has recorded "Teachers", but the recording has not been released. Although these movements have been performed separately with other groups, and myself, this performance will be the first time At The Hill: For Jazz/Avant-Garde Solo Tenor Saxophone has been performed with all four movements in order, and unaccompanied.

For Sarah And Sarah is a composition written for my Mom, and my former clarinet student, both of whom share the same name. For Sarah And Sarah is a blues feel piece that has its melody based upon the name "Sarah".

After my performance poet Wardell Montgomery, Jr. will come to the stage and give us a set of his poetry. Wardell Montgomery is an Urban Folk Poet, and you will not want to miss the wit and social commentary Wardell brings to the stage. After Wardell Montgomery, we will open the stage for open mike.

If you are a poet, or you know a poet, the stage will be open for poets to give us enlightenment. Hope you can join us at the Phoenix Cafe, at 8pm, at 24918 John R. Road in Hazel Park, MI.