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Her Ocean

by Wayne Wolfson
April 25, 2005

The two words you ache for the most are also the hardest (to find). The clouds rolled back, a burlesque shows curtains rising for the matinee. That big stupid animal waiting to devour me, the crowd waiting. Waiting A bird flew by, I had seen the wires attached to its wings. Indifferent, ...

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I Want To Be Bad

by Wayne Wolfson
April 25, 2005

Momentary curiosity combined with eroticism. I opened my eyes. She was looking at me while she worked it. Tongue flicked across tooth, the same one used to signify dessert. Eye closed again, I pushed up to meet her. Upstairs Prezz's horn. One long note. Slow. So slow. The ...

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The Vibes Alive

by Suzanne Dennison
April 25, 2005

THE VIBES ALIVE Hard to admit: this love Only a dream kept alive By haunting all the tunes. Tho the actual impossible --- To know the texture of your soul --- Music keeps the vibes alive Recalling that special glow Penetrating my ...

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Miles Showed Me His Trumpet

by Larry Jaffe
January 15, 2005

Miles Davis lived around the block from me deep in the upper west side of Manhattan island. He played like one man could be an island living for his horn that paid his daily bread living in this house made of gingerbread, on West 77th Street while I ...

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Jazz Fusion

by Suzanne Dennison
January 15, 2005

JAZZ FUSION Love merely a whisper A shadow in the mind Breaks thru with music Totally sublime. Thus what we had together Still active in song Floods me with an ecstasy Listening til dawn. The beauty in our trade-off Traced thru these ...

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Richard Tee

by E. Amato
January 9, 2005

Fingers flying like heavy birds across the black and whites Erecting massive columns of music to uphold the sweet rasp of a saxophone, the lazy lick of a guitar -- glissandos in work boots - Fender Rhodes Cathedral

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A Poem Celebrating "Exploration" by Granchan Moncur III

by Norman Weinstein
December 29, 2004

after Mama got too tight, and after Blue Note dove into a blue funk, and after Hendrix collapsed saluting the flag, and after the Sixties turned into Wynton's favorite whipping post,and after “freedom" became too abused to call for seriously, publicly, & even decades after,

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My Poe to You

by Suzanne Dennison
November 21, 2004

FLOWING SOUNDS Help me to release Pent-up emotions Thru flowing sounds That re-activate your image Playing til dawn Such amazing music Meticulously done Flowing with love's charms Yet so unique the aural angle In a world of its ...

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The Lady

by AAJ Staff
October 31, 2004

(A musing after spending 72 hours straight listening to live music, a classical soprano vocalist, an 11 year-old violinist prodigy and a jazz trio, the Pat Metheny Trio in the winter of 2003) You cannot see her, but sometimes if you are lucky, you can hear the voice of the lady singing through the ...

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Rush Street

by Eric Vance Walton
October 24, 2004

Here we are on Rush Street amongst all the beautiful people tonight, much too tall to be blue these eyes appear to be lying because after all this time, we seem to be the ones they're watching dressed to the “t", they think we have it nice and ...