Frank Hudson
@frankhudson.bsky.social
Founder of the Parlando Project — “Where Music and Words Meet.” Composes, records, researches, writes, & those things feedback into each other.
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When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.
December 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
When I interviewed Spinal Tap and Marty DiBergi this summer, none of them broke character, for the whole hour. Except Rob Reiner, once, losing it when Michael McKean's David St Hubbins talked about minimalism. I didn't use this in the feature and hadn't published any audio, but this is joyful.
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Nice feature in Film Daily about "The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit," now streaming on Prime Video. Don't miss the Q-and-A with the filmmakers--me, Daniel Loewenthal, Roberta Friedmam--following the writer's survey of the doc's themes and approach. filmdaily.co/indie-film/m...
'Jazz from Detroit' rewrites America’s jazz story – Film Daily
Discover how Mark Stryker’s “Jazz from Detroit” rewrites America’s jazz story, elevating Detroit’s essential role and celebrating Black musical excellence.
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December 14, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Nice feature in Film Daily about "The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit," now streaming on Prime Video. Don't miss the Q-and-A with the filmmakers--me, Daniel Loewenthal, Roberta Friedmam--following the writer's survey of the doc's themes and approach. filmdaily.co/indie-film/m...
A trained composer recently wrote how she distrusts/discounts those who she frequently encounters who tell her it’s easy to set Emily Dickinson to music.
This naive composer, who largely self-realizes the work, worried for a day or so. Am I one of those?
🧵 1/3
This naive composer, who largely self-realizes the work, worried for a day or so. Am I one of those?
🧵 1/3
December 14, 2025 at 2:53 PM
A trained composer recently wrote how she distrusts/discounts those who she frequently encounters who tell her it’s easy to set Emily Dickinson to music.
This naive composer, who largely self-realizes the work, worried for a day or so. Am I one of those?
🧵 1/3
This naive composer, who largely self-realizes the work, worried for a day or so. Am I one of those?
🧵 1/3
The link’s to a short, smart & tart review that is likely right about the film. Oddly, it makes me want to watch it, since I’m hopelessly addicted to metaphor & often tolerant of dram am & ham—even if I’ll feel the same anger & disappointment after watching it.
Broken English: Marianne Faithfull is given the Am Dram Punchdrunk Immersion Experience treatment in this horrible documentary boxd.it/c2P6ud
A ★ review of Broken English (2025)
I have to give this awful missed opportunity of a film one star not only despite but because of the magnetic wonder of its subject, the extraordinary Marianne Faithfull, interviewed in her final days ...
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December 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The link’s to a short, smart & tart review that is likely right about the film. Oddly, it makes me want to watch it, since I’m hopelessly addicted to metaphor & often tolerant of dram am & ham—even if I’ll feel the same anger & disappointment after watching it.
Yes, this.
And the allied thing from my youth: looking at a person’s record collection & judging their appreciation of life from their curation of cardboard-covered grooved vinyl.
And the allied thing from my youth: looking at a person’s record collection & judging their appreciation of life from their curation of cardboard-covered grooved vinyl.
One thing I find fun when listening to old records is looking at the other records advertised on the sleeve and trying to imagine the presumed crossover audience in the market for all of them.
December 14, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Yes, this.
And the allied thing from my youth: looking at a person’s record collection & judging their appreciation of life from their curation of cardboard-covered grooved vinyl.
And the allied thing from my youth: looking at a person’s record collection & judging their appreciation of life from their curation of cardboard-covered grooved vinyl.
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New single 'Restless' out now. One of the sweetest ballads from the swing era, it was a dream to bring this to life again
linktr.ee/ronanmurphym...
Ryan Molloy - Bass
Shugo Ishii - Guitar
Eoghan McCloskey - Drums
Recorded with Mikey Rogers @ Sun Studios, Dublin
#jazzsky
linktr.ee/ronanmurphym...
Ryan Molloy - Bass
Shugo Ishii - Guitar
Eoghan McCloskey - Drums
Recorded with Mikey Rogers @ Sun Studios, Dublin
#jazzsky
November 22, 2025 at 1:42 PM
New single 'Restless' out now. One of the sweetest ballads from the swing era, it was a dream to bring this to life again
linktr.ee/ronanmurphym...
Ryan Molloy - Bass
Shugo Ishii - Guitar
Eoghan McCloskey - Drums
Recorded with Mikey Rogers @ Sun Studios, Dublin
#jazzsky
linktr.ee/ronanmurphym...
Ryan Molloy - Bass
Shugo Ishii - Guitar
Eoghan McCloskey - Drums
Recorded with Mikey Rogers @ Sun Studios, Dublin
#jazzsky
#music #poetry At sunrise here’s an Emily Dickinson poem, now a short song, that starts at sunset & then regards time by considering those who disregard it. A picture postcard of “Cozy Gothic” frankhudson.org/2025/12/12/t...
The Sunset stopped on Cottages
Here’s a poem by Emily Dickinson that I made into a little song. There’s an audio player below to hear it.* I intended the music I made for this piece to be jaunty – not only because I worry that …
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December 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
#music #poetry At sunrise here’s an Emily Dickinson poem, now a short song, that starts at sunset & then regards time by considering those who disregard it. A picture postcard of “Cozy Gothic” frankhudson.org/2025/12/12/t...
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Remembering Tom Verlaine on his birthday. Here are Television performing Foxhole on OGWT in 1978
December 13, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Remembering Tom Verlaine on his birthday. Here are Television performing Foxhole on OGWT in 1978
As is my wont, rather than adding to the corpus of poetry, I’ll regift this voice of another poet, now sung, Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “The Sparrow” #PoemsAbout #YouShouldntHave @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #poetry #music Here it sung at the link: frankhudson.org/2024/01/12/t...
The Sparrow
Paul Laurence Dunbar is most often introduced as the first successful Afro-American poet, and I guess I’ve just followed form by starting this post that way. That statement is more-or-less true. I’…
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December 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
As is my wont, rather than adding to the corpus of poetry, I’ll regift this voice of another poet, now sung, Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “The Sparrow” #PoemsAbout #YouShouldntHave @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk #poetry #music Here it sung at the link: frankhudson.org/2024/01/12/t...
Burning the midnight lamp tonight to finish mixing a recording of an Emily Dickinson poem, now a song, that I did on her birthday anniversary this week. If it stands up, I’ll release it later this week as part of my long-running Parlando Project.
December 12, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Burning the midnight lamp tonight to finish mixing a recording of an Emily Dickinson poem, now a song, that I did on her birthday anniversary this week. If it stands up, I’ll release it later this week as part of my long-running Parlando Project.
Mostly writers writing about typefaces in this thread. The long-running Parlando Project only has one piece about typography—this one with a hidden sadness & an indulgent guitar solo: frankhudson.org/2017/06/04/f...
December 10, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Mostly writers writing about typefaces in this thread. The long-running Parlando Project only has one piece about typography—this one with a hidden sadness & an indulgent guitar solo: frankhudson.org/2017/06/04/f...
#mspcyclecast Yup, snow. Sidestreets are a mess. Took a main snow emergency street for most of my ride to breakfast this morning. Had to “portage” over some intersections with irregular deep snow ruts. The one bikeway i passed wasn’t plowed yet. Still got there.
December 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
#mspcyclecast Yup, snow. Sidestreets are a mess. Took a main snow emergency street for most of my ride to breakfast this morning. Had to “portage” over some intersections with irregular deep snow ruts. The one bikeway i passed wasn’t plowed yet. Still got there.
#music #poetry Just listened to the 1st episode of this new podcast “Really, The Doors.” The commonly used format here: “a couple of folks talking informally” cloys some for me—but likely better here that it’s majority female. Worthwhile insights in it, like this conversation at the end:
December 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The week Kurt Vonnegut died the LYL Band did a little tribute to him by performing portions from his novels, including this one: frankhudson.org/2021/11/10/t...
December 8, 2025 at 5:01 AM
The week Kurt Vonnegut died the LYL Band did a little tribute to him by performing portions from his novels, including this one: frankhudson.org/2021/11/10/t...
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Some days nothing works better to soothe 21st century pains than music that’s a thousand years old. Haunting, strange, utterly remote - and yet because of that sounding at times hypermodern - the music from the 11th century manuscripts of the Winchester Troper is presented beautifully on this album👇
Alleluia (Versets: Pascha nostrum - Epulemur)
YouTube video by Discantus - Topic
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December 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Some days nothing works better to soothe 21st century pains than music that’s a thousand years old. Haunting, strange, utterly remote - and yet because of that sounding at times hypermodern - the music from the 11th century manuscripts of the Winchester Troper is presented beautifully on this album👇
#PoemsAbout #Imps @alanparrywriter.co.uk #music #poetry
When I saw this week's subject I thought of this poem by Leigh Hunt (something of the Zelig/Forrest Gump of the English Romantic movement). I wrote music for the poem & recorded a performance of it here: frankhudson.org/2025/10/26/r...
When I saw this week's subject I thought of this poem by Leigh Hunt (something of the Zelig/Forrest Gump of the English Romantic movement). I wrote music for the poem & recorded a performance of it here: frankhudson.org/2025/10/26/r...
December 5, 2025 at 1:32 PM
#PoemsAbout #Imps @alanparrywriter.co.uk #music #poetry
When I saw this week's subject I thought of this poem by Leigh Hunt (something of the Zelig/Forrest Gump of the English Romantic movement). I wrote music for the poem & recorded a performance of it here: frankhudson.org/2025/10/26/r...
When I saw this week's subject I thought of this poem by Leigh Hunt (something of the Zelig/Forrest Gump of the English Romantic movement). I wrote music for the poem & recorded a performance of it here: frankhudson.org/2025/10/26/r...
A series of cars driving in a line on 33rd street in south Minneapolis with horns honking. Immigration raid?
December 4, 2025 at 9:18 PM
A series of cars driving in a line on 33rd street in south Minneapolis with horns honking. Immigration raid?
The name of the poetic form the sonnet means “little song.” This long in the cask sonnet set in late autumn has been made into just that. frankhudson.org/2025/12/03/b...
Before the Snow
Long time readers know that the Parlando Project is largely about our encounters with other people’s words – usually their literary poetry. Poetry, even impersonal or hermetic poetry, is a rich way…
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December 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
The name of the poetic form the sonnet means “little song.” This long in the cask sonnet set in late autumn has been made into just that. frankhudson.org/2025/12/03/b...
I love seeing folks visiting older examples of the more than 850 recordings combining literary poetry & original music by the Parlando Project. Early 20th c. Chicago poet Fenton Johnson is a poet I've loved exploring/performing, and today I see a couple dozen are hitting this harrowing piece:
Fenton Johnson’s “Tired” for National Poetry Month
As we continue into the last week of National Poetry Month I’m going to remind casual readers here that poetry is not only beauty or amazement, even if during this month we often emphasize those qu…
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December 3, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I love seeing folks visiting older examples of the more than 850 recordings combining literary poetry & original music by the Parlando Project. Early 20th c. Chicago poet Fenton Johnson is a poet I've loved exploring/performing, and today I see a couple dozen are hitting this harrowing piece:
The featured song in this clip, “Dance Me To the End of Love” is adapted from a Spanish poem of Lorca’s by Leonard Cohen. Cohen’s dry wit on display in the interview. Cohen mentions Lorca & guitar—so here’s my performance & adaptation of Lorca: frankhudson.org/2024/07/09/t...
December 2, 2025 at 12:35 PM
The featured song in this clip, “Dance Me To the End of Love” is adapted from a Spanish poem of Lorca’s by Leonard Cohen. Cohen’s dry wit on display in the interview. Cohen mentions Lorca & guitar—so here’s my performance & adaptation of Lorca: frankhudson.org/2024/07/09/t...
This is a possibility to take 5 minutes of your Monday time to appreciate 5 minutes of some others’—a poet, the composer, & the musicians—time.
@andrewmale.bsky.social Have you heard the musical version by Bryce Dessner and Bang on a Can All-Stars? Somehow, it's even more -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aECE...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aECE...
No-one read poems like Olson: youtu.be/gAYxpSjkyAg?...
December 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This is a possibility to take 5 minutes of your Monday time to appreciate 5 minutes of some others’—a poet, the composer, & the musicians—time.
#MSPCyclecast What can I say—snow. Side streets are fat tire only at my skill level. Snow Emergency main roads not too bad, but there are plow banks at times & the bump outs are snow banked & not plowed. Didn’t ride any dedicated bikeways this morning—so no info there alas.
November 30, 2025 at 2:48 PM
#MSPCyclecast What can I say—snow. Side streets are fat tire only at my skill level. Snow Emergency main roads not too bad, but there are plow banks at times & the bump outs are snow banked & not plowed. Didn’t ride any dedicated bikeways this morning—so no info there alas.
With today’s snow & post-Thanksgiving mood I recall this longer (8 minute) piece from early in the Parlando Project where I performed Longfellow as if he was a Beat poet in a Jazz coffee house. #poetry #music “This is the poem of the air.” frankhudson.org/2018/12/27/l...
Longfellow Goes Beat
I live in one of the northernmost states in the U.S., a place where winter cannot be denied, and so we must make our treaty with cold and snow. Some will even claim it makes us better persons—hardi…
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November 29, 2025 at 6:14 PM
With today’s snow & post-Thanksgiving mood I recall this longer (8 minute) piece from early in the Parlando Project where I performed Longfellow as if he was a Beat poet in a Jazz coffee house. #poetry #music “This is the poem of the air.” frankhudson.org/2018/12/27/l...
#MSPcyclecast As promised, it was fluffy snow at dawn for my ride to breakfast. Just a light coating so far on the roads, & kind of pretty.
November 29, 2025 at 2:30 PM
#MSPcyclecast As promised, it was fluffy snow at dawn for my ride to breakfast. Just a light coating so far on the roads, & kind of pretty.