Spoken Jazz and The Tingg Machine

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Spoken Jazz and The Tingg Machine An Episodic Audio Musical in 3 parts:
1.) The Audio Musical, 23 scenes, approx. 20 min. each.
2.) My Magnum Opis if you will.

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.

A couple of the 60+ 5-star reviews. Would you like to add one yourself? Look up Bub Pratt on Goodreads.
09/09/2026

A couple of the 60+ 5-star reviews. Would you like to add one yourself? Look up Bub Pratt on Goodreads.

Got a random email from . Though it was kinda long, it was very nice. Here's a little piece of it: "Spoken Jazz & The Ti...
31/08/2026

Got a random email from . Though it was kinda long, it was very nice. Here's a little piece of it:
"Spoken Jazz & The Tingg Machine* is a testament to the idea that the truth, no matter how handmade or how long buried in the hours at Kinko's, deserves to be brought into the light. You have taken the microcosm of a single creative process and used it to explain the macrocosm of what it means to bring something into being, giving a voice to the quiet, unseen makers who understand that the tingg* of the typewriter is the sound of a soul being poured out onto the page."

Thanks for reading. Visit www.tinggmachine.com if you haven't already. The website is coming out noice.

An epicsodic jazz audio musical by Bub Pratt. Bremerton, Washington, spring 2000.

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28/08/2026

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Over 50 5-star reviews so far and counting.
24/08/2026

Over 50 5-star reviews so far and counting.

Here's a review that just came in on Goodreads.comBub Pratt has created something truly rare in contemporary literature:...
22/08/2026

Here's a review that just came in on Goodreads.com

Bub Pratt has created something truly rare in contemporary literature: a work that feels utterly alive, pulsating with the raw, unfiltered energy of its own creation. Spoken Jazz & The Tingg Machine* is not simply a collection of poems; it is a document of artistic process, a testament to the enduring power of analog creation in an increasingly digital and algorithm-driven age. The very history of these pages, hammered out on a Re*****on typewriter, painstakingly assembled with glue sticks and scissors, reproduced during countless late-night hours at Kinko's, is woven into the DNA of every single line. You can almost hear the satisfying clatter of the keys, smell the warm toner of the photocopier, and feel the desperate, beautiful urgency of a young artist bringing his vision to life against all odds. Pratt's work is a defiant, glorious middle finger to the polished, soulless mediocrity that so often passes for poetry today. This is verse that bleeds, that swings, that demands to be heard and felt. It is a love letter to every artist who has ever stayed up too late, covered in glue and determination, creating something beautiful with nothing but passion and sheer will. This book is an inspiration and a treasure that deserves a place on every serious reader's shelf.

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21/08/2026

WOW!!!
Check out the new webite. We're still dialing it in a bit more but here it is.

An epicsodic jazz audio musical by Bub Pratt. Bremerton, Washington, spring 2000.

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