Ted Joans

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Ted Joans , actually Theodore Jones (born July 4, 1928 in Cairo , Illinois, † April 25, 2003 in Vancouver , Canada ) was an American trumpeter, jazz poet and painter.

In the 1960s, Joans owned a house in Timbuktu . He claimed to be a brother of LeRoi Jones ; however, this is uncertain. Ted Joans was born Theodore Jones on a houseboat in Cairo, Illinois. He completed an art degree from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Joans later joined the Beat Generation writers in New York's Greenwich Village and San Francisco . He was a friend of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg . His painting “Bird Lives!” Hangs in the De Young Museum in San Francisco. After the death of Charlie Parker in March 1955, Joans was the creator of the "Bird Lives!" Legend and the graffiti of the same name in New York . He invented the surrealist technique of “outagraphy”, in which the main subject of a photograph is cut out of the picture. In 1969 he performed with the jazz musicians Archie Shepp , Clifford Thornton , Dave Burrell , Alan Silva and Algerian musicians at the first Panafrican Festival in Algiers. Ted Joans died in Vancouver, Canada in 2003 after suffering from long-term diabetes.

Joan's volumes of poetry were published in German under the name "Blitzlieb Poems", Blitzlieb is an allusion to Blitzkrieg .

Works (selection)

German books
  • Out of stock, or Blitzlieb Poems . Loose-Blätter-Presse, Kassel, Hamburg 1979. Editor, translator: Michael Kellner . Second, greatly expanded edition:
  • More lightning love poems . Verlag Michael Kellner, Taschen-Texte , No. 1, Hamburg 1982. Translator: Eckhard Rhode u. a. ISBN 3-922035-00-0
  • The Aardvark Watcher. The aardvark researcher . Literarisches Colloquium Berlin, LBC editions , No. 62, Berlin 1980. Translator Richard Anders.
American books
  • All of Ted Joans and No More . Excelsior Press, New York 1961.
  • The hipsters . Corinth Books, New York 1961.
  • Black Pow-Wow . Jazz poems. Hill & Wang, New York 1969.
  • Afrodisia Hill & Wang, New York 1970
  • A Black Manifesto in Jazz Poetry and Prose . Calder & Boyars, London 1971.
  • Ted Joans, Joyce Mansoury: Flying Piranha . Bola Press, New York 1978
  • Honey Spoon 1993
  • Education . Coffee House Press, 1999.
  • Wow . Quarermoon Press, Mukilteo, WA 1999. With drawings by Laura Corsiglia.
  • Ted Joans, Laura Corsiglia: Our Thang . Ekstasis Editions, Victoria, BC, 2001.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Lord: Jazz discography (online)
personal data
SURNAME Joans, Ted
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jones, Theodore (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American trumpeter, jazz poet, and painter
DATE OF BIRTH 4th July 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Cairo , Illinois, USA
DATE OF DEATH April 25, 2003
Place of death Vancouver , Canada