Allen Ginsberg’s groundbreaking masterpiece Howl continues to resonate these many years on. Most recently we’ve had the technological leap of Ross Goodwin and Howl.camera.
Today in New York at the New York Public Library (Tompkins Square branch) we’ll be witnessing, via master jazz improviser Kirk Knuffke (on cornet) and Justin Jay Hines (on percussion), a more old time form, jazz improvisation.
The duo will be performing, as their announcement declares, “an entirely new recitation and musical interpretation”
Knuffke is indeed an accomplished musician. Back in 2015, he was named the winner of Downbeat magazine’s “Rising Star” critics poll. He has performed with jazz luminaries, James Brandon Lewis, John Medeski, and Cecile Mclorin-Salvant, amongst many others.
The New York Times once referred to him as, not understating it, “one of New York City’s busiest musicians”.
Percussionist, composer, and teaching artist, Hines has performed with the New York Philharmonic, on Broadway ( In the Heights, Tarzan, and Pippin), and serves on the faculty of the Manhattan School of Music.
When A I develops a mechanico Molochian shrink in order to reduce everything in Howl & Kaddish -and anything else he wrote -to categories in the DSM -then maybe the estate & this website will realize the horror that it is blithely supporting, by normalizing & pimping for Ross Goodwin , Howl.camera, and the other AI monstrosities that are deforming & imperially ransacking the mind and heart and soul of Allen Ginsberg.
What would William Blake say ?