All That Jazz

since the thirties musicians have improvised while playing traditional tunes they've changed the tempo rearranged the notes added some embellishments made runs and flourishes generally rewrote the tunes and created a new form of music it caused listeners to snap their fingers and tap their toes and they called it jazz jazz changed the way people thought about music the music changed the way people thought they no longer just sat and listened they became part of the music the music became part of them I heard it in my cradle I grew up with it grew to love it and still listen to all that jazz Copyright ©2008 Don Tyson