Jazztodon artist of the week: Vernon Frazer!
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Jazztodon artist of the week: Vernon Frazer! From his webpage:
Vernon Frazer defies ready classification, regardless of idiom. From poetry to fiction to multimedia and points in between, his creative work bursts with energy, humor and exploration. Frazer has written more than thirty books of poetry, three novels, and a short story collection. Working in jazz poetry, Frazer performed his poetry and music with the late saxophonist Thomas Chapin, the Vernon Frazer Poetry Band, and as a solo poet-bassist.
A trumpeter in fifth grade, Frazer discovered a deep affinity with jazz about six months after he began writing seriously. At seventeen, a chance encounter at a jam session introduced him to the bass violin, a second love that has assumed varying degrees of importance in his life and work.
