Rick Fays: Sax- O-Poem Poetry and Jazz

Musicians:
Rick Fay: Clarinet, Soprano and Tenor Saxes
Johnny Varro: Piano
David Stone: Bass
Gene Estes: Drums
Doug Mattocks: Guitar

Rick Fay sums up his life in jazz in his own verse and in superb musical performances. "I know of no other album that combines the work of a poet who is also a jazz man and vice versa. 
—Owen Cordle, jazz critic and writer for The (Raleigh, NC) News and Observer, JazzTimes and Down Beat.

Selected by Tex Wyndham as a Writers Choice record for 1993 in the January-February 1994 issue of Coda Magazine.

Selections:
Sonnet to Sidney Bechet
Egyptian Fantasy
My Ultimate Nightmare
Ricks Wrecks
Sax-O-Poem
Street of Dreams
My Kind of Music
At The Jazz Band Ball Rain
Its Raining Again
For Charles Ellsworth "Pee Wee? Russell
Pee Wees Blues
Press Roll
Bogolousa Strut
To The Gift-Giver
Wistful
Plum Wine
Soliloquy (My Notes to Me)
Swing That Music To Barney Bigard
Mood Indigo
Astride The Flying Horse
Cabin In The Sky
Compliment
Buddy Boldens Blues
My Friend The Florida Photographer
Willow Weep For Me
Recompense
The Jazz Life