Poetry meets jazz on 'Good Day for Cloud Fishing' - "made of heart and brain"

PopMatters is delighted with a collaborative album by composer and clarinetist Ben Goldberg, and poet Dean Young. Goldberg first wrote songs based on a set of poems by Young and recorded them with an improvising band. Then Goldberg played the tunes for Young (without his knowing which tune matched which poem), inspiring him to write new poems reacting to the music. The result is 'Good Day for Cloud Fishing', a mini box set including 24 new poems by Young, as well as a dozen jazz compositions by Goldberg, inspired by Young's poems. "What a joy when artists get together to become more than they could have been alone", PM says.