Meet Roger Singer

Dr. Roger Singer served as a med-tech at MacDill AFB in Tampa Florida for three in half years during the Vietnam era.  While stationed at MacDill he attended evening classes through the University of Tampa.  When discharged he began studies at the University of South Florida attaining his Associate and Bachelor degrees.  In 1977, Dr. Singer attained his doctorate in chiropractic from Logan College of Chiropractic, St. Louis, Missouri.  Dr, Singer has served on Legislative and Practice Management committees for the American Chiropractic Association, lecturing at a number of chiropractic colleges in the United States, Canada and Australia, and has authored over 50 articles pertaining to chiropractic management and legal guidelines for associates.  He has maintained a solo practice for the past 30 years.  He has four children; Abigail 28, Caleb 27 (an Army Captain and Airborne Ranger, who is presently serving in his second tour in Iraq), Andrew 24 and Philip 21.

" I have always been intrigued by the fusion of jazz; the instruments, the voices and the environment where the music takes shape.  At first I created poems suggesting the impact of the music on the listeners, whether it was dancers folded into one another's arms or lustful listeners at tables with curious fingers and eyes eager with love.  Now I enjoy speaking of the musician, his or her strength in jazz and the reason why they breathe the notes alive from pain or broken spirits from the past.  Through my poems I invite the reader to dive into the words, to get wet with the jive and dry off to the blow of sound slipping from horns." 

Roger's jazz poems are posted on Jazz INK.