Ted Joans
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Ted Joans (July 4, 1928 - April 25, 2003) was a trumpeter, a jazz poet and an American painter.
He was born Theodore Jones on a riverboat in Cairo, Illinois. He earned a degree in fine arts from Indiana University. Joans later associated with writers of the Beat Generation in Greenwich Village and San Francisco. The poet was a contemporary and friend of Beat icons Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. His painting Bird Lives hangs in the De Young Museum in San Francisco.
Joans was also the originator of the "Bird Lives" legend and graffiti in New York City after the death of Charlie Parker in March 1955.
Joans invented the technique of outagraphy, in which the subject of a photograph is cut out of the image.
Ted Joans died in Vancouver, British Columbia. He had been in poor health with diabetes.
Works
- Funky Jazz Poems
- Beat Poems
- All of T.J. and No More
- The Truth
- The Hipsters
- A Black Pow-Wow Of Jazz Poems (1969)
- Afrodisia (1970)
- Razzle Dazzle (1980s)
External links
- Ted Joans Lives! Tribute (huge)
- Ted Joans information, news, & resources
- Ted Joans & Laura Corsiglia official website
- bookseller specializing in Ted Joans books
- Ted Joans tribute at Milk
- Village Voice obituary
- Ted Joans Bio and Directory
- Ted Joans at Find-A-GraveTemplate:Musician-stub