Bub's first Jazz Record.
3) A 160-page poetry book created within the story. Preorder your personalized first edition here---> http://spot.fund/1q76n2sc Tagline:
Two budding jazz musicians share a house not far from the college they attend on scholarship in a drab Navy town outside of Seattle. A creative community is unwittingly ignited – adding color to the landscape & a renaissance despite the
gravity of a blue-collar world. Set in the early 2000's, "Spoken Jazz & the tingg* Machine" is the most ambitious project I've ever tackled. It's the second musical I've written but will be, (with your help) the first one produced. The writing format is designed to be in episodic audiobook form. Each of the 23 scenes will be roughly a 20-minute episode complete with music, voice acting & foley, (sounds) like an old-time radio show. The audio story is approx. 7 hours of content. I chose this format because I'm a music producer, not a stage or screen producer. So when we make art, we make it to the furthest reaches of our ability & if someone with a different skill set decides to take it further, it'll be more readily finished to bring it to the next level. I'm actually imagining this to be animated someday, maybe in the style of 'Waking Life'. The story follows the strange path I took in college while learning Jazz guitar & writing 3 books of poetry & prose that I self-published with my typewriter, (The tingg* Machine) many glue sticks, scissors & original black & white photography while spending hours at Kinkos putting them together. Mostly while living in a '73 Volkswagen Bus before eventually sharing a house with my bass player friend who also played in the OC Jazz band in Bremerton Washington. The story is riddled with social commentary, theories of musical thought, poetry, music, brotherhood & a pushback against the budding wokeness that started proliferating into our culture then, while showing the firsthand struggles of being an artist working to create despite his fiscal possition.
