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The Sermon

by Rex Butters
October 17, 2004

the old jazz musician sat wheelchaired on the Denver mall playing for spare change he wore a jaunty plaid fishing hat held his sax at an angle like Prez blowing the ballad “Lover Man." the white haired southerner his jovial meat red face

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Raw Jazz Man

by Joyce Renee Lewis
October 17, 2004

he puts the horn to his lips flavors the reed with panama spice takes a slow, deep drag of mystery-- ex-ha-lation! as the universe centers itself in every note he blows poems ...

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I Remember Mingus

by Jonathan Kirby
October 17, 2004

He played his sound on soulful strings. A sound..., that keeps on lingering. A sound so rich, so full, and so clear. Although many more have come and gone, only few whose name will last as long. Yes, I still can hear that sound in my ears. When ...

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Jazz is a Sacrament of Substance

by Jamal Ali
September 26, 2004

4 Eddie Jefferson jazz is a sacrament of substanceand Eddie was a preacher spreadin' the wordthe cat used to swing itsingin' syncopated lyricsword-scattin' while trackin' convoluted tonesI tell you, the cat used to sing itmixin' words with the musicfloatin' and explodin' from ...

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Two Views from the Club, 1991

by Daniel M. Shapiro
September 26, 2004

for Elvin Jones (1927-2004) Outside the club at 131 West Third Street, neon signs lose their glare in the stillness of snowflakes that mark a late spring. A rumble perplexes pedestrians accustomed to subway cars or thunder, but ...

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The Green Mill

by Eric Vance Walton
September 11, 2004

We took the redline to Lawrence and checked the world at the door in the footsteps of all those before who found solace in sax and draped themselves in neon dreams I must confess how easily I acquiesced to the Gresik groove ...

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Kind of Blue

by Imani Tolliver
August 26, 2004

pearl's mad at miles told everybody her business by telling his how can we make love to the keys, the fingers that pushed out the sweet melody that beat the kink right outta cicely's neck what happened to ...

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Tourist in Paradise

by AAJ Staff
August 8, 2004

By Suzi Price From Monterey to Montreux, And all stops in between, I'm takin' up a fast plane, And droppin'on the scene.I'll be groovin' on the tasty works, Of Haden, Brown and Krall, And hearing all the jaunty tunes, Of Gillespie, Dizz', Jamal.From Swing to Bop, Contemp, Tradit, The Kool Kats ...

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Dan Jaffe: Playing the Word

by AAJ Staff
August 8, 2004

High Flyers I'm listening to “Ornithology" as two brown pelicans wheel by the corner of my balcony in swooping counterpoint to Bird's quick notes. Those high flyers make me think of you, Martin, your words rising ...

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Dedication to Tommy Flanagan

by AAJ Staff
August 8, 2004

"Tommy Flanagan"- sounds like an Irish gentleman strolling the countryside indeed someone you might think of in a silly way drinking Bailey's and Cream but what was it Tommy, what was it he happened to be? ...