March friend,
a coating of snow
speaking low.
Monday, March 31, 2014
Sunday, March 30, 2014
Friday, March 28, 2014
kat gang dream your troubles away arbors jazz #19404...
Kat Gang sings Dream Your Troubles Away. Holy Smoke! What a record! What a band! Terrific song choices. Terrific musicians. There's a real neatness to this jazz - a kind of Charlie's Gone By elegance. Richness in rhythm, voice and plunking. Hey! Pianist Renzi is a monster - and there are others on this album. Surely. The horns the strings all there full. Not one of these people mailed in their performance. The solos, the company, yes, flawless. Pros. And Kat Gang sings it. Ellington and Miles would have noticed. And smiled on this singer. And on her Solitude and Bye Bye, my two favorites here. Listen to Kat Gang. In a group of All-Stars, she is the star.
A big cast with Kat: Bucky Pizzarelli, Mike Renzi, Jay Leonhart, Joe Ascione, Harry Allen, Warren Vache, and John Allred. Five Stars!
13 tracks standards. Five Stars!
Available at www.amazon.com and visit www.katgang.net
A big cast with Kat: Bucky Pizzarelli, Mike Renzi, Jay Leonhart, Joe Ascione, Harry Allen, Warren Vache, and John Allred. Five Stars!
13 tracks standards. Five Stars!
Available at www.amazon.com and visit www.katgang.net
zoot from the tenor...
Two mornings ago
In a light snow
Barely snow
On the road to Easton
Carmen McRae and Zoot Sims
Zoot from the tenor
Carmen Monk's Ruby
Ruby My Dear
Wondering where to get more Carmen McRae CDs
?
No toll booths in sight
Ruby Dear
&
Zoot
Hey
Edgy
& not a lick of snow
In a light snow
Barely snow
On the road to Easton
Carmen McRae and Zoot Sims
Zoot from the tenor
Carmen Monk's Ruby
Ruby My Dear
Wondering where to get more Carmen McRae CDs
?
No toll booths in sight
Ruby Dear
&
Zoot
Hey
Edgy
& not a lick of snow
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Thursday, March 20, 2014
the old upright...
The old upright
Scratched and moved
The piano
In a big room wood floors the dog barking
Keifer! bark, bark!
And tenor saxophone solos
Echo
Cough!
Aaahgh!
Stella
Stella
Wiiiish!
That glass full of bourbon Wiiiish! piano riffs
The upright
Black, a teak black mahogany paper gold trim
A framed photograph on top of it (Jack and his horn)
A painting on the wall (Miles doo-bop!)
That painting
"That painting should be hanging in a New York penthouse!!"
Jazz!!
A glass of Wild Turkey,
Clarice?
Decorate it
Drink rings cigarette burns in it
All over the valuable wood
Stained glass churches smile on this artifact
It's home
Its home
Here with Murray Jack Dave McKenna
Evening,
Clarice.
The old 1940s Everett and a twelve inch television set
Rejoice!
Keifer!
Bark,
Bark!
Scratched and moved
The piano
In a big room wood floors the dog barking
Keifer! bark, bark!
And tenor saxophone solos
Echo
Cough!
Aaahgh!
Stella
Stella
Wiiiish!
That glass full of bourbon Wiiiish! piano riffs
The upright
Black, a teak black mahogany paper gold trim
A framed photograph on top of it (Jack and his horn)
A painting on the wall (Miles doo-bop!)
That painting
"That painting should be hanging in a New York penthouse!!"
Jazz!!
A glass of Wild Turkey,
Clarice?
Decorate it
Drink rings cigarette burns in it
All over the valuable wood
Stained glass churches smile on this artifact
It's home
Its home
Here with Murray Jack Dave McKenna
Evening,
Clarice.
The old 1940s Everett and a twelve inch television set
Rejoice!
Keifer!
Bark,
Bark!
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Monday, March 17, 2014
the open road...
The open road
came up
Snow lifted
It came up this morning
That willow of early summer
I though spring?
An Isaacs painting?
Henry Isaacs
Palettes shapes blocks boxes sweeps
thick and grained and
Like music on the radio on the open road
yes,
An Isaacs painting ? I thought
Riding by
The dairy stand shaped like a milk bottle
The hot dog stand a hot dog
Amarillo Tucumcari Barstow
At a bus stop on a side street,
ham and eggs
Two cups of coffee
came up
Snow lifted
It came up this morning
That willow of early summer
I though spring?
An Isaacs painting?
Henry Isaacs
Palettes shapes blocks boxes sweeps
thick and grained and
Like music on the radio on the open road
yes,
An Isaacs painting ? I thought
Riding by
The dairy stand shaped like a milk bottle
The hot dog stand a hot dog
Amarillo Tucumcari Barstow
At a bus stop on a side street,
ham and eggs
Two cups of coffee
the open road 2...
The open road came up this morning
In my head
When the snow left
A warmer day
& I could hear
The
Train
Stop
Lumbering busses and ten wheelers
Hobo Towns
Harmonicas
& smells of fires cooking
Next stop!
Wonderland!
Scotland!
&
Point
Trees!
A warmer day
On the sea
In my head
When the snow left
A warmer day
& I could hear
The
Train
Stop
Lumbering busses and ten wheelers
Hobo Towns
Harmonicas
& smells of fires cooking
Next stop!
Wonderland!
Scotland!
&
Point
Trees!
A warmer day
On the sea
Friday, March 14, 2014
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
lawrence ferlinghetti et cetera...
In the summer nights
Poetry,
Lawrence Ferlinghetti et cetera
I want to live on that hill
In the red roofed house
Sandstone walls
Four
In the green and umber
When there is no snow
Poetry,
Lawrence Ferlinghetti et cetera
I want to live on that hill
In the red roofed house
Sandstone walls
Four
In the green and umber
When there is no snow
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Saturday, March 8, 2014
in the summer springs...
Canvases to plant
Many
Ideas colors
Portraits
Chartreuse
Parchment
&
Orange Pop
Songs
&
Bands
Singers whispers and glows
There
Kat Gang
Eyes shadows and whirls
Paint
All the Rainbow Rooms
All the Oak Rooms Glen Islands
&
Rosevilles
In the summer springs
In the summer gardens
Jazz!
Many
Ideas colors
Portraits
Chartreuse
Parchment
&
Orange Pop
Songs
&
Bands
Singers whispers and glows
There
Kat Gang
Eyes shadows and whirls
Paint
All the Rainbow Rooms
All the Oak Rooms Glen Islands
&
Rosevilles
In the summer springs
In the summer gardens
Jazz!
Thursday, March 6, 2014
john steinbeck (1902-1968)...
"Gonna cuss an' swear an' hear the poetry of folks talkin'." -John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
strawberries...
Difficult winter's
Tale of told experience
In a poet's hand
Strawberries
In a plot Brent made
On a hill above the pond
Where
Koi live
Beneath
The
Ice
In the reeds
The sky is warmer this morning
Though
Tale of told experience
In a poet's hand
Strawberries
In a plot Brent made
On a hill above the pond
Where
Koi live
Beneath
The
Ice
In the reeds
The sky is warmer this morning
Though
brigitte zarie...
A lyric
In a glass room
She
A mic
A shadow box
Bop
Be
Bop
Be
Bop
Be
Bop
In a glass room
She
Sings
In a glass room
She
A mic
A shadow box
Bop
Be
Bop
Be
Bop
Be
Bop
In a glass room
She
Sings
Sunday, March 2, 2014
the sea home...
"And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it, we are going back from whence we came." -John F. Kennedy
The boat heeling
A tall glass full
Water blue
Islands horizons gulls flying
Ombre
To
Light pink
Heeling into the wind
The Sea Home
A tall glass full
Any
Way
The boat heeling
A tall glass full
Water blue
Islands horizons gulls flying
Ombre
To
Light pink
Heeling into the wind
The Sea Home
A tall glass full
Any
Way
johnny depp the poem...
Johnny Depp
Pennants wave hats and cannon
Winds
Skulls
&
Crossed bones
In a mountain cabin
Colorado
Vegas!
Vegas?
Bah
Boom!
By Hunter S. Thompson
In the winter cold
Pennants wave hats and cannon
Winds
Skulls
&
Crossed bones
In a mountain cabin
Colorado
Vegas!
Vegas?
Bah
Boom!
By Hunter S. Thompson
In the winter cold
Saturday, March 1, 2014
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