Javon Jackson, Nikki Giovanni Rekindle Rapport at The Movies
An unlikely partnership was struck on 2022’s The Gospel According To Nikki Giovanni between tenor saxophonist-composer-educator Javon Jackson and the renowned poet-activist whose literary career was launched with 1968’s Black Feeling, Black Talk, Giovanni’s seminal volume of modern African-American poetry. As the former Jazz Messenger and director (since 2013) of the Jackie McLean Institute of […]