Poetry. Music. African American Studies. Fusing the most exciting elements of performance art, spoken work, funk, and jazz on his new CD BLACK FISH JAZZ, Diem Jones has created an entirely new genre of musical and literary performance that he calls "spoken song." Collaborating with several world-renowned musicians -- including George Clinton, Tony Khalife, David Lee Spradley, and Frank Cohen -- Jones speaks the truth about corruption, deception and redemption, accompanied by original music that incorporates jazz, rock, funk and other provocative combinations. Al Young comments "Jones squeezes poetic blood from the turnips of everyday life. Sometimes you laugh at what you thought you heard him say. At another listening, the very same track might upset you enough to do some deep musing and thinking of your own."