Yusef Komunyakaa 
Testimony, A Tribute to Charlie Parker [PDF ebook] 
With New and Selected Jazz Poems

Foreword – Sascha Feinstein
PART ONE: JAZZ POEMS – Yusef Komunyakaa
Rhythm Method
Togetherness
Twilight Seduction
Woman, I Got the Blues
Jasmine
Gingkoes
Tenebrae
Canto Jondo
Changes; or, Reveries at a Window Overlooking a Country Road, with Two Women Talking Blues in the Kitchen
The Same Beat
To Beauty
Ignis Fatuus
Pepper
Satchmo, USA
Nightbird
Copacetic Mingus
Gerry’s Jazz
Speed Ball
February in Sydney
The Plea
Elegy for Thelonious
Dolphy’s Aviary
Gutbucket
Blue Light Lounge Sutra for the Performance Poets at Harold Park Hotel
The Story of a Coat
No-Good Blues
Ode to the Saxophone
Coda
PART TWO: TESTIMONY – Yusef Komunyakaa and Sandy Evans
THE LIBRETTO
Yusef Komunyakaa’s ‘Testimony’ and the Humanity of Charlie Parker – Sascha Feinstein
Survival Masks: An Interview with Yusef Komunyakaa – Sascha Feinstein
Testimony – Yusef Komunyakaa
THE MUSIC
Testimony, The Ties that Bind – Miriam Zolin
French Flowers Blooming: The Music for Testimony – Sandy Evans and Christopher Williams
Composer/Musical Director’s Notes – Sandy Evans
Testimony, Songs and Musicians – Sandy Evans
Australian Art Orchestra Performances – Paul Grabowsky
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Selected Bibliography
Selected Discography
Testimony, The Recording

Yusef Komunyakaa is a professor and senior distinguished poet in the graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University. He is the author of twenty collections of poetry, including Dien Cai Dau, Neon Vernacular and Testimony: A Tribute to Charlie Parker, With New and Selected Jazz Poetry. Komunyakaa won the Pulitzer Prize and the Kingsley Tufts Prize for Neon Vernacular.