автор: Jim Lyons

Jimmy Lyons is a spoken word performance poet and pioneer in the Sound Experience of music and poetry who started his career in Greenwich Village, New York, sharing stages with Bob Dylan, Richie Havens, Allen Ginsberg and other creative spirits. He was termed by the «King of the Beats» Jack Kerouac and Beat original Bob Kaufman as «The Jazz Man» and A Pure Sound Poet»! Jimmy was arrested performing at the Gaslight. The charge was that he was a cabaret performer. He went through the courts of New York City and won the right to expand the art boundaries and definition of poetry. Documented by photos and his work in major books as a part of the developing American Poetry movement and later a part of the West Coast Wordhustlers publication; at a seminal point in his life Jimmy also became a playwright in the famous Actors Studio where James Dean, Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro studied. He became a composer and lyricist whose musical «Eclipse» was being prepared for Broadway starring Christopher Walken. Jimmy has written several documentary film scores and his poetic songs have been recorded by Johnny Mathis, Nana Mouskouri, The Lords and others in the US, and His own album «Night»s Music» is popular in Europe. Since returning to California, he has performed his sound poetry at Keystone Corner and many festivals, notably Ken Kesey»s Hoo Haw and is a favorite at the «Beat and Beyond» and other Santa Cruz Poetry Festivals.