First Impressions

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Research Article| January 01 2020 First Impressions Julie Ezelle Patton Julie Ezelle Patton JULIE EZELLE PATTON is a sculptor of sound, image, and text. Her visual poetics take the form of found object assemblage, scrolls, extended texts, limited edition work, performances, ephemeral libraries, and site-specific installations. Her noted Womb Room Tomb installation honoring her mother, Virgie Ezelle Patton (1928-2015), was featured in the Front International Triennial 2018. Patton is the author of Notes For Some (Nominally) Awake. Her book-length serial poem B is forthcoming from Tender Buttons Press. Patton bridges musical and literary improvisations in performances emphasizing “in-the-moment” compositions. She has performed at the Stone, Jazz Standard, the Vision Festival, Woodland Pattern, Poesie Sonore, the Festival Internacional de Poesía in Medellín in Colombia, and many other venues and festivals in the United States and abroad. Patton enjoys collaborating with composing-instrumentalists and poets, including Nasheet Waits, Henry Grimes, Ravi Coltrane, Abou Farman, Janice Lowe, Drew Gardner, Anne Waldman, and Lee Ann Brown and Tony Torn. She performs with improvising guitarist Paul Van Curen as the duo Cloud Flower. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Jazz and Culture (2020) 3 (1): 82–84. https://doi.org/10.5406/jazzculture.3.1.0082 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Julie Ezelle Patton; First Impressions. Jazz and Culture 1 January 2020; 3 (1): 82–84. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/jazzculture.3.1.0082 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressJazz and Culture Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2019 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2019 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.