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WOW!! dangermouse - well done! Dizzy Gillespie? - you have a wide-ranging musical education.

Thank you.
My dad is a jazz head. He got me into Anjani.
Apart from LC - his coolest favourite is Theolonius Monk.
Thanks

Hi DM ~

I saw Thelonious perform at the Ann Arbor Jazz Festival sometime back in the early 70s... maybe late 60s. A regular-size movie theatre. He was scheduled to play in the afternoon and it was only about half full. His playing was so avant garde [a better term might go there, but can't think of it at the moment... maybe progressive?] that people couldn't relate and quite a few walked out. So, to a fairly empty theatre, he finished playing... and, of course, didn't appear to notice. In fact, it seemed he couldn't have cared less whether everyone stayed or everyone left. He was in his own world with his piano. I was glad that I got to see him.

I, too, like the punchy, rhymey style of your poem and its almost "Dear Heather"-like repetition. I like this image very much, too:

as Dizzy
Gillespie
on a hot night
in new Orleans.

Now, for a bit of irony and serendipity:
There's an NPR program here called Night Bridge. [I came back here to share this.] The emcee just gave an overview of tonite's setlist and the first thing he said was, "We're going to have the Thelonious Monk quartet with John Coltrane... " ~ Truth. Absolute truth . Needless to say, I was compelled to say something. I wonder if this is a sign... and, if so, of what. I could conjecture, but I won't just yet.



~ Lizzy

Dangermouse,

There is a jazzy cadence to the poem that reminds me of "beat" poetry, the kind
that was sometimes read to musical accompaniment.

Ha. You're right, Steven. There is. It really rolls . Consistent with the topic, too. I wonder if DM has heard that very kind of thing in the household, as a child growing up. I like the humour at the end, too.


~ Lizzy

Lizzy,

And maybe it's a "beat" stream of consciousness kind of thing, but the Chambers Brothers
song, "The Time Has Come Today," comes up in my mind now, though that song is
inconsistent "with the topic."

My dad will be be soooooooooo jealous when he hears you saw Theolonius live. Wow.
He jokes that he likes the two monks - Leonard (the monk) and Theolonius.
But, hey, I think if it were a choice of sitting in a room with- he'd jump for Anjani!