Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome.
It's time now for our community connection right here on Kay one, the
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Kaan Funeral Home and also Tall Grass Motors. Well, we've got we've got
a really cool program here for you today, folks, because we're gonna be
talking to Morris mccorby poet, artists and very well known around this community.
Also ridget Wood from a Great Dog. And we've got a very special event
coming up. What this Sunday, Yes, and it's gonna be at the
Great Dog and Morris, You're gonna be the star. I'm gonna be an
instrument in an ensemble of jazz musicians and jazz poetry. I'll be playing the
Hobo. What what is that? For folks, It's a read instrument that
disguised itself as a black man reciting poetry. Got me. I was told
to watch out because you were probably gonna get something past me, and you
did. Now, this is really cool because you've been involved with this art
form for quite a long time. You're gonna have a band behind you,
and this is really gonna be a nice mixed or nice fusion of different to
art. Yes, Tom collaboration, I have an ensemble with me, you
know. And that's the whole point with not behind, because the link between
poetry and jazz's historical, but mostly it's been more hysterical than meaningful. And
so I'm gonna be so much out front with these these guys as an instrument
and a couple of tunes that mean a lot to me, and I think
have a lot more to say than what you just might hear in music.
You know. Music is one of those things where the artists created, sometimes
instantaneously. Sometimes it's done very pragmatically, yes, But however, where it
comes together, it's something that speaks to our inner self. It makes us
think, makes us reflect sometimes even just plane makes us happy, exactly.
And that's the kind of point with jazz and poetry. Jazz most of all,
because it's more spontaneous, more improvisational, much like life. You know,
poetry is often edited and re edited and copyrighting and so forth, and
so bringing those two expressions closer together is important for me because I think poetry
meaningful words in meaningful tones can have meaningful influences on people. And as far
as just having fun, chucking and driving or thinking very deeply while listening.
Now, how did you first get started to what was the genesis? What
was that spark that said, Hey, this is something I'm gonna do.
Way back with him and I used to live in Oklahoma City. I came
across all the jazz musicians that were associated with deep and when they would take
solos that had no lyrics, I was writing words to those solos in my
head. Later on, I realize that people signed their names to that kind
of stuff and call it poetry. And so I just jumped on the battenwagon
and started calling it poetry. This is an opportunity to men jumping all the
bandwagon and actually just called it jazz instrumentation. And that's why I said,
I'll be playing the Hobo who which a lot of poetry comes from, but
it comes from just filling in the blanks between harmonies and solos and jazz music.
Well, this is going to be interesting not only for the ears,
but also for the mind, the art, and the soul. Yes,
yes, fully emergent experience. Yes, we are all being hit with it,
almost hosed down with words. Now that don't mean anything to the point
where DARNI are hypnotic or hypnotized by them, and you know, to be
able to get people's attention and with music and maybe say something meaningful at the
same time, Mike could be a unique and life change experience. You know,
I'm Goodness says this is great and Bridge, I want to talk to
you about the setting, because the setting is going to be really cool.
Yes, go ahead, tell us a little about the about the Great Dog.
The Great Dog listening room. Yeah, it's a house called house concert
style listening room. And the expectation is that there is no conversation during the
show. Now, that doesn't mean that you can't go yeah, you know,
show your enthusiasm, no, or if the if the artist makes some
kind of comment that people interact back and forth, I mean that happens,
but definitely no conversation during the show. Well, this is good because everybody's
going to be focused towards the entertainment and to appreciate the entertainment, and everybody's
going to get the same chance to appreciate it at the same level. You
know, something that a lot of the artists that come through talk about is
the fact that with nobody talking during the performance. It allows the musicians and
the artist's space that they wouldn't otherwise have. They can start out very low
and build up gradually, and there's just a lot of freedom that they have
when people are not talking. Now, this is a neat little place and
it is right there at eight twelve fourteenth Street here in Bartlesville, and it's
called the Gray Dog Listening Room, and it's just a nice little building.
And you guys kind of whip this up with a lot of ingenuity. Yes
it is. We started out with a recording studio, Redcat Recording, and
we built that and then my next goal was to get the other half of
the building, which used to be a little neighborhood bar called the Dixie Chicken.
And so there was a lot of music in that room for a long
time anyway, and then I got ahold of it and a few of us
turned it and have a place to enjoy the arts. Now we're going to
enjoy your art mores coming up on Sunday, and that this will be at
the Great Dog Listening Room. And for a twenty dollars donation, you'll gain
access to the process taking place as we catch a little lightning in the bottle,
as they say hopefully. Yeah, you know, I just want to
say I really appreciate Bridget's courage and encouraging the audience to shut up your performances.
That's greatly appreciated as musicians. What she doesn't said like that, that's
just me. Musicians are too often are doing their very best work and most
imaginative work while people are drinking and glasses are clinking. And you know,
quite often I'm doing my very best and most heartfelt work while people are thinking,
and people are thinking, and so you know, the opportunity to be
still and really be heard elicits more sometimes than the artist himself for herself.
Every imagine are intended. You know, I had a great opportunity to recite
before and in between a set by you know, lady named Jackie Myers,
a young musician named Jackie Myers here recently, in the quantity of listening with
such that I really felt like we got the absolute best from Jackie and her
accompanying musicians because they were being heard and they could feel the hearing which they
wanted to feed into. It makes a big difference, I'm bet it does
that. Bet it makes all the difference in the world. You know,
I kind of echo because as being a performer, sometimes when you're playing in
those nightclubs, it's all you can do to concentrate because they're like fifteen soul
propers going on in front again and I'm beat you use that word because this
won't be a performance. No, you know, it's gonna be an experience.
It would be an experience. You know, someone's expecting a performance,
they need to readjust their expectations and be prepared to be surprised and immersed.
Now, this is great. It sounds like you picked the perfect venue and
to have this taken place. And I understand this. This is going to
be recorded too, right, Yes, my husband Donnie Wood and another gentleman
in town, Chris Coffin, who has been working with Morris for some time.
They're going to be working together to get this recorded. Yes, oh
nice, Yes, sorry, Chris and I've been doing some recording. They're
just conventional poetry and opportunity too. You know, I I the perfect venue
attracted me because I've just been working in solitude with Chris and I don't come
out and do this anymore except for people like Bridget and Donnie and the musicians
with whom I'm working and except that place is like the listening room becomes the
quality of the opportunity and experience and what it what it brings out in me.
Yeah, well this is gonna be great. Now, Bridget what time
are we doing this on Sunday? Um? It starts at seven? Yes,
the evening. And I'm not gonna say performance. Okay, you're not
going to use that experience gets to seven the experiences and it's a twenty dollars
donation. Are you going to be doing this at the door? Should we
RISVP? Because of the size, Well, it is extremely limited. We
only have room for about forty people. So you have to text to be
on the list. How do we do this? Come in the door?
The number is nine one eight three ninety seven five eight one eight and I'll
put you on the list and you can pay at the door and all the
money goes to the artists. Can I say one other thing? Can say
whatever you like? Okay? So I really want to take a moment just
to say thank you to Mark and Debbie Haskell who took the time to donate
some money towards the expenses for this and then also Adam and Katie from Frank
and Lola's because they're going to be bringing by some of the food for that
day too, abuse draw in town. Yes, I want to take a
moment to say thanks to Chris Popa Foster and Zach zach Elkin, the board
member of the Ville Symphony Orchestra, and one heck of a horn player,
and Donnie who's going to be helping us out. Chris Colton of course,
and several other musicians are going to be coming up, you know. So
I'm really excited about that. This is gonna be a great experience in folks.
If you missed the text number, don't worry. I'm doing a news
story after this and probably around noontime you'll see it on our website at Bartlesville
Radio dot com. We'll have all that information for you, because I know
right now you're driving guard what was that text number? I'll get that for
you, and you can also pick it up off our Facebook page here in
a little bit too. So it's gonna be Sunday night. The experience begins
at seven Morris but Corby with Together and I'm among I'm looking for the right
words even to a poet to straighten me out, because propositions with which to
work, but all of them that you know, I have to do with
being a part of rather than and a leader of, you know, just
a part of an ensemble, all right, that that will will make that
happen, Yes we will. This has been great and it's been an honor
to meet you because I've heard a lot about you and this is gonna be
a cool experience once again, Yes, and bridget great meeting you. And
this is a little bit different than the last time you were on the radio
at age eleven, wasn't it? To read all about it? And I
say, you know, the word experience captures it. But it has to
do with the engagement of the audience as much as the poet and the musicians.
One thing I've also noticed with jazz musicians that the audience is on the
edge of their seat because the musicians are not quite sure what's coming next,
and noisy audience and everybody's hoping for the best, and it always works out
that way, even when it doesn't work out that way. So that is
what the experience of it is all about. It's kind of like my hero
or Carl will Enda oh yeah, yeah, well on that type rope,
Yeah yeah, you cannot, you cannot not be engaged. Yeah, yeah,
that's true. I mean there's an adrenaline rush with every note. Yeah,
even even when he failed, you know, it's unforgettable, and so
there's no such thing a failure. Yeah, very good. Thank you both
for being here with us today for a very special community connection right here on
K one. Really appreciate it.