Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Part One: Jazz Poems -- Rhythm Method -- Togetherness -- Twilight Seduction -- Woman, I Got the Blues -- Jasmine -- Gingkoes -- Tenebrae -- Cante Jondo -- Changes -- or, Reveries at a Window Overlooking a Country Road, with Two Women Talking Blues in the Kitchen -- The Same Beat -- To Beauty -- Ignis Fatuus -- Pepper -- Satchmo, USA -- Nightbird -- Copacetic Mingus -- Gerry's Jazz -- Speed Ball -- February in Sydney -- The Plea -- Elegy for Thelonious -- Dolphy's Aviary -- Gutbucket -- Blue Light Lounge Sutra for the Performance Poets at Harold Park Hotel -- The Story of a Coat -- No-Good Blues -- Ode to the Saxophone -- Coda -- Part Two: Testimony -- The Libretto -- Yusef Komunyakaa's "Testimony" and the Humanity of Charlie Parker -- Survival Masks: An Interview with Yusef Komunyakaa -- Testimony -- The Music -- Testimony, The Ties that Bind -- French Flowers Blooming: The Music for Testimony -- Composer/Musical Director's Notes -- Testimony, Songs and Musicians -- Australian Art Orchestra Performances -- Contributors -- Selected Bibliography -- Selected Discography -- Acknowledgments -- Testimony, The Recording.