All That Jazz Poems - Poems about All That Jazz

all that jazz Hello Dolly, I must confess those Louis Armstrong tunes keep churning in my head I've had Georgia on my mind since that night we danced cheek to cheek when we shared a kiss to build a dream on Since then, I think of only you and what a wonderful world it would be if you'd agree to share your life me What...

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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...

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Bright Sun-light Shimmering On the water Playing jazz non-stop On stones of the river Flowing crystal water Honeycomb pebbles Gliding under Open mouths Singing Carps 13.8.2021 Sponsor: Malabika Ray Choudhury Contest: Merse PREMIER CONTEST: PLACED 8th...

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From East to west enslaved in chains To work the fields, make tracks for trains They sang their song antiphonally To dull their day, hide misery Those blues notes hit in wailing tone And words about the heavenly home Their doleful sounds had paved the way To blues and jazz in later day Rhythms and chords became complex Joplin’s ragtime was a great success For...

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Her poetry was conceived 'round fancy pants scraps, inclined to reverberate wrangles 'tween an I reckon ma'am and well versed jazzy visuals, paid no mind to cowboy's bumbling foolishness & lumbered foreign gibberish knowing full well it was a lone star disposition, merely a Texan head trip See y'all next time... Written in response to him calling out my words as 'fancy pants'...all in good fun. "Well...

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So farewell Keith Vaz, we don’t really mind Whether you steered from the front or behind But the coke was a bit of an epic fail What’s that, you’re snorting, I didn’t inhale? So hello Keith Vaz, you’re still knocking about You can lock up yer closet now yer out And maybe hang out with Osborne and stuff Isn’t he a bit...

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All That Jazz/Dedicated to Horace Silver That underground sound sizzles because it's hot! That sound from underground tells a story Drawn deep from my soul It's moody...it's blue Sometimes so sublime it soothes you Jumping and jiving with a crackle and a pop... Who's chomping that silver sound from those ivory keys? Who's thumping that bass and walking the talk? Trumpets on fire...flying...

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big satchmo renowned jazz pops In Loving Memory Of Louis Daniel Armstrong {Satchmo Or Pops} {Aug 4th 1901 - July 6th 1971} Also Entry For Brian Strand's Spetimal Fun Contest...

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take five..take five.. take five the melody reiterates Inspired by Dave Brubeck's hit of 1961...

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Rock n' roll- two-beat blues...

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