- Born
- 4 July 1928
Cairo - Died
- 25 April 2003
Vancouver - Country
- United States
Biography
Ted Joans was a jazz musician who played trumpet. Ted Joans was born on 4 July 1928 in Cairo and died on 25 April 2003 in Vancouver. Honours include American Book Awards (2001).
Theodore Joans (July 4, 1928 – April 25, 2003) was an American beatnik, surrealist, painter, filmmaker, collageist, jazz poet and jazz trumpeter who spent long periods of time in Paris while also traveling through Africa. His complex body of work stands at the intersection of several avant-garde artistic streams. He was the author of more than 30 books of poetry, prose, and collage; among them Black Pow-Wow, Beat Funky Jazz Poems, Afrodisia, Jazz is Our Religion, Double Trouble, WOW and Teducation. In 2001 he was the recipient of Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Awards Lifetime Achievement Award. In visual art, Joans is best known for creating a more than 30-foot-long chain of drawings and collages on dot matrix printer computer paper called Long Distance Exquisite Corpse (1976–2003), an extended exquisite corpse of 132 invited contributors, including Paul Bowles, Breyten Breytenbach, William S.
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Awards
- 2001 American Book Awards
Frequently asked questions
What instrument did Ted Joans play?
Ted Joans is known for playing trumpet.
When and where was Ted Joans born?
Ted Joans was born 4 July 1928 in Cairo.
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