{"id":5601,"date":"2010-12-29T10:26:45","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T14:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=5601"},"modified":"2010-12-29T10:27:19","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T14:27:19","slug":"5601","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/5601\/","title":{"rendered":"He Gone? No, He Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Didn\u2019t know what was wrong with New York this last month, but it felt uncanny, unheimlich<\/em>, no one saying savvy rude things to you or the guy next to you, no one slapping you on the back calling you names or complaining about this or that as you enter Katz\u2019s, no one offering unasked for wise-crack put downs with that unmistakable faint Brooklynese (rhymes with pekinese) people here speak even if they have been manhattanites for a quarter century & more, no one that makes you wonder how come that\u2019s the third time the same evening you\u2019re in some place with that same person. And then I get an email from Paris bitching about the fucking French, but loving & living every minute of it totally, & it is signed by Steve Dalachinsky<\/strong> & then I realize, ah, that\u2019s what\u2019s wrong with New York City, Steve\u2019s not here, it\u2019s his wonderfully grumpy presence I missed!<\/p>\n

But don\u2019t worry, all you newyorkese, Steve is back, I saw him Monday night through the window at Katz\u2019s & we had pastrami together (he had some of their fries too, but that\u2019s the last thing you should eat at Katz\u2019s they are truly terrible \u2014 slightly dried out overcooked fingers of cardboard). It was the night after the blizzard of \u201910 & we had come in on a D train from Bay Ridge, which was where the D train went that day as Coney Island was cut off, and weirdly enough it was the fastest we ever traveled back & forth between Sorrentinostan and Houston Street where that Monday night Nicole, Steve, the latter\u2019s Italian poet friend Erika Dagnino and a few others (who couldn\u2019t make it because of the weather conditions \u2014 ever tried to walk a double bass for a mile or two through 3-foot snow drifts?) were to do gigs in the \u201cEvolving Music \/ Evolving Voice\u201d series. Well, we had ourselves a ball, Miles Joris-Peyrafitte got a lot of guitar playing in, Sylvia Gorelick read some excellent new poems & duetted with Miles (check them out here<\/a>)\u00a0 while Ras Moshe sat in drums for several numbers.<\/p>\n

And it was wonderful to hear two extended poems by Steve, who, for my money, is the finest of what used to be called jazz-poets going \u2014 maybe the only one around I am awed by, as he has kept it fresh and can swing like none of those simili- Kerouac cats ever could even when they were twenty way back when. Dalachinsky is the man \u2014 & if you want to check out that statement but can\u2019t get to New York City (or Paris, he\u2019s going back soonish for some gigs), get a hold of a copy of a totally marvelous book, Reaching Into the Unknown 1964-2009<\/em><\/a>, with Steve Dalachinsky<\/strong>\u2018s poems and Jacques Bisceglia<\/strong>\u2018s photographs of jazz artists \u2014 430 excellently produced pages \u2014 published by RogueArt in 2009.<\/p>\n

And here below an all-too brief extract of Steve\u2019s reading (that is him, I swear it, even though he studiously kept his head out of\u00a0 the light), backed by Miles\u2019 guitar:<\/p>\n

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