One cannot have a jazz poetry site and talk about media influence without at least mentioning Louis Armstrong. With his classic style of singing and song play, his music is vintage jazz.

Here a piece of art work that encompasses part of Young's poetry. While Young is a Jazz poet, he also falls in the category of Langston Hughes and the Blues poet. Young writes not only about poems with rhythm, but he also writes about hardships faced as an African American poet. This image of the painting demonstrates the chaotic order found in the lives of people Young and Hughes both write about.

Here is another painting that demonstrates Young's style of writing. He writes with a rhythm and beat in most of his poetry. This is evident in many of his live readings and when others read his poetry. Shown in the image are classic instruments of jazz and blues, two genres of music that his poetry tends to follow.