Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry Season 1From the makers of Russell Simmons's Def Comedy Jam, comes an all new series that showcases practitioners of one of the country's fastest rising performing art forms def poetry in an intimate, uncensored format. Taped live at the Supper Club in New York, Russell Simmons Presents Def Poetry is hosted by popular rap artist Mos Def, and spotlights original material performed by contemporary urban poets and well known music comedy artists.

is the hardest

when you compare it to that of other concert instruments

the New and the Old

shaggy haired Mod practitioners of free love

One More Time9

Rarely does the translation from text to music succeed in what Michael Mantler accomplishes on this production: he finds a perfect unity of text and music

imaginative and polished

The 16 tracks include "Negev Blues

Ivory Joe Hunter

And like it's predecessor

a klezmer form

as well as bassist Rodney Whitaker & Dutch guitarist Jesse Van Ruller