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1. Gift (poem)
+ short interview
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(1
known recording)
[lc580408-1]
source: audience
length: 2 minutes (partial)
details: oldest known live recording.
comments:
Poetry reading with Maury Kaye on piano.
"I was working with a pianist and an arranger, Maury Kaye. I did a
few weeks with him. We worked together at a place called Dunn's Birdland,
which was a room on top of Dunn's delicatessen on St. Catherine Street
in Montreal. He used to write big band arrangements. He had about
a 12 or 15 piece band and this little stage, and it was his gig. I'd
come on at midnight, and I kind of improvised while he played. Sometimes
he was playing the piano by himself and sometimes doing parts of arrangements
or tunes played in a somewhat subdued way while I took my own riffs.
Or sometimes I'd do set pieces, like a poem from Let Us Compare
Mythologies. We did that off and on for a month, and then I worked
with a great jazz guitarist from Winnipeg by the name of Lenny Breau.
So, I was doing that in those years, I guess it was '57, '58." (Leonard
Cohen, interviewed by Martin BEEK, in "I Left A Woman Waiting",
Goldmine, Feb. 19, 1993).
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