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![Home fax: 55 bis, bd du Montparnasse
+33-1-45493266 75006 Paris
FRANCE
7 February 2000
Noah Howard
Altsax Music
Rozenlaan 7
B-3030 Tervuren
BELGIUM
Dear Noah,
Although the French quit expressing New
Year’s greetings when January ends, I depart
from them in saying HAPPY NEW YEAR--even after
the groundhog has had his chance to say it.
I hope that the enclosed JAZZ from the Haiku
King (which Godelieve Simons of Brussels has auto-
graphed too) will remind you of our pleasant visit
to your place last year. Although Broadside Press
did not--perhaps could not-- follow my plan and
keep the integrity of Godelieve’s engravings in
the book in Section VI, “Jazz Meets the Abstract,”
the publisher things enough of the book, just pub-
lished in November, to submit it for the Pulitzer
Prize. But that big prize requires the influence and
and inside track.
If you can consider making a recording with
me, based on these jazz-and-blues-and-gospel haiku
that are a new literary genre, maybe you can choose
those haiku (and longer poems, perhaps) that would
best fit saxophone music. Having your list, I
could read them onto a cassette for you to let you
know my style, poem by poem. I could compose a
“gig sheet,” as I call them (winding up usually
with ten or more sheets for a whole program [did I
send you a program that I made up for Chansse?];
then, after you suggest changes and educate me con-
cerning your recording-room technology, we could
rehearse doing-the-do jazzily. I know you might be
to busy to consider this, but give
it a thought when you can.
Cordial regards,
J Emanuel
P.S. I enclosed, too, my 1999 “Literary Happenings” sheet (I have 8 earlier
ones, each just as long) to give you an idea of my recent track record.](https://cuny.manifoldapp.org/system/resource/5/2/8/528b27f4-f2a4-41e9-9fcd-78038dea8808/attachment/dab45c6f4498cd92b236b84e2ae31157.jpg)
