Tamboo!
Sunday, May 18th~ Tamboo Lounge~ Brockton, Mass.
There has never been a better time for jazz and poetry lovers, and Sunday night, the Brockton audience was given the opportunity to enjoy a performance of interwoven music and words at the Tamboo.
To celebrate Haitian Flag Day, Buyu Ambroise opened the evening with a rendition of La Dessalinienne, the Haitian national anthemand his inspired tenor sax solo delighted the public. He was followed by the energetic pyrotechnics of Markus Schwartz on percussion.
Then Michèle Marcelin recited the exhilarating rapjaz by Frankétienne; a complicated, intricate tapestry of mental associations and of words torn apart and scattered. As she chanted, shouted, whispered and spoke the poem, Michèle worked the pauses between her lines to ride on the musicians’ groove and waited to start the next verse until a time so organic with the music that it felt predetermined.
The elegant and melancholy Mon pays que voici (My country ) by Anthony Phelps, was accompanied by Lou Rainone gliding over the piano keys with a gracefulness that echoed the lyricism of the poem. During the sensuous tenderness of Syto Cavé‘s M’anvi (I want), the musical improvisation of the entire Blues in Red band , both as interlude and accompaniment was marvelous.
The appreciative audience at the Tamboo
“…and a good time was had by all!”
“I play it cool. And dig the jive. That’s the reason I stay alive.”
Langston Hughes
Life is a lot like Jazz- It’s best when you improvise!
“It’s a voyage of discovery, to find a place where the poetry and the music fit, and both can be understood.”
Cool Cats and Hot Jazz…
Michèle, stealing a moment before the show with Brockton jazz aficionados
Patrick, Carl, Dudley and Tania
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Michèle Voltaire Marcelin is a poet/writer, performer and painter who was born and raised in Haiti, sojourned in Chile, and currently lives in the United States. The publication of her first novel “La Désenchantée” (CIDIHCA, Montréal-2006) was followed by its Spanish translation “La Desencantada” and two other books of poetry and prose: “Lost and Found” and “Amours et Bagatelles” (CIDIHCA, Montréal-2009) - translated into Spanish by Editorial ALBA as "Amores y cosas sin importancia" - all of which garnered rave reviews. Her writings are also featured in 3 anthologies published in France: "Cahier Haiti" (published by RAL'M-2009), "Terre de Femmes" (Editions Bruno Doucey-2011) "Revue Intranqu'îllités" (2012). She speaks and writes fluently French, English, Spanish and Haitian Creole. She has a BFA from the Leonard Davis Center for the Performing Arts at CUNY and a Masters from The New School for Social Research.
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