Rigorous Freedom 
by Roberto Bonazzi

"Rigorous freedom of jazz that Beethoven invented—
Ellington our Beethoven in his "trench coat of dignity"
and rhythm becomes the dance in all the arts."
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New York City native Roberto Bonazzi's essays, reviews, short stories and poems have appeared in over 200 publications, including The New York Times, Village Voice, Transatlantic Review (London), and Excelsior (Mexico City). Author of the critically-acclaimed Man in the Mirror: John Howard Griffin and the Story of BLACK LIKE ME, he wrote the liner notes for Joël Dilley's The Window and Bett Butler's Myths & Fables. His latest book is the critically-acclaimed Maestro of Solitude (Wings Press, 2007). He lives in San Antonio and writes the column "Poetic Diversity" for the Express-News.