Jazz Poems - Poems about Jazz

(Sam Trio stands at the mic, snaps fingers lightly, takes a drag on a Marlboro, and smiles to the crowd) Dig this, we’re going back in time, way back to the smokey jazz clubs and cool sounds and jazzy vibes of the 50s and 60s jazz scene in America/ I’m talkin’ bout a sound, a feeling,...

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Piano man was what he said he was called. Percussion he didn’t need to keep us enthralled. Pianoforte, this was his instrument of choice. Pacifying and entertaining with his velvet voice. Piano man hit heights. Please play those black and whites. Pick a tune with pazazz. Play that great old time Jazz. Phrase those songs to tap our feet. Pure honkey tonk,...

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The club was dim, a haze of gin and gold, where jazz ran slick like honey through the air. She stood in shadow, wicked, dark, and bold, red dress a warning--men still stopped to stare. Her cigarette burned low, a dying spark, a curl of smoke that whispered through the room. She met my eyes and smiled--slow, and dark-- a prelude to...

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polish outside royce, he hide a boy, called him sunshine he so starch on the collar he don't appreciate the cloth till the potato off it again stingiest thing ever, hold langstons typewriter ima go shuffle it again for yu ryan, danial, ward the spirit pop lost the address, in his toe winkle, he had it how this the rhyme? the partner upstairs cant see me i...

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Nail walking down the street Carrying a bagful to fix something For the master who owns my dreaming Storefronts lolling sidewalks asleep Night quiet jazz, Erie, PA The endless road breaking cartons Locked doors being kidnapped jumping fences getting spotted running away Dreaming snatches of words in the air Fine milky jazz boots on a roll a train That passes at 10 a,m, cars...

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was the whiskey and the jazz playing On too many black nights with too Many lonely women and not a poem Between them How many times can you run From the shadow of the voices that Surround you Beating like drums in the darkness Tasting more of your flesh each time Not leaving enough for a man to breathe No way for a man to...

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Yo. From a whisper, barely a breath, to a front-page roar/ EAST COAST JAZZ in the fifties, sixties/ Not just blowing trumpets, but blowing up the jazz scene jazz/ LPs stacked high vinyl spinnin’, cracklin' truth in every hip-to-be way. Jazz LPs, popin'’ the Truth, etched in black and white/ modern Jazz on...

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Expressive dance that communicates emotion. Energetic dance inspired by the jazz sound, creating a lively, fun and high-energy motion. Graceful, expressive movements that are profound, like in lyrical jazz, need hours of practice and devotion. Evoking emotions to convey and astound. ...

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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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sound of blues ripples on-- smokey tunes blowing hot sizzling flamed mood...it's jazz! sax notes intoxicate swirling like coltraine's grind, soulful trance whips my breath... spice of night, weekend jives! ...

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SHAZZ HAZZ JAZZ- Come sup wit me, Come sup wit me Come sit here under my tree Come time wit me come dine wit me Shhh! Smoken Ahhh! Smoken waters , cooling brezze flown, come here sir dance wit me Come Tago in front of the ocean Come fly away, in the skies with me Just flowN, floating We hazz jazz, we hazz jazz, we...

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(Snaps fingers, adjusts imaginary beret) Alright, listen up/ hitching a ride on the infinite subway/ strapped in tight/ destinations unknown/ no layover/LSD boosting, pushing past the earthly zone/ unlocking doors to realms yet to be shown/ dreams dripping in technicolor/ a cosmic goo/reality bends/ fractures/ a kaleidoscope in view/ The first jazz cat to blow on Martian...

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as we danced every step was discovery, the creaking patio hardwood rhythmic and soulful. the light was wet, it’d just rained. under the melting evening sky time softened, dripped. we glistened, jewels in the night. something about that jazz, we moved though we can’t dance, we were the piano keys, the air frolicking around the strings, the breath of...

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Shazz Hazz jazz... Hazz a present tense sound verb to have, to it; Been getting down, sho’ you have; Shazz Hazz jazz... been owner of the views, rhythm blues; Been dancing in funky shoes; Hazz been covered in oil; Dirty in the soil; Shazz Hazz jazz... all is well has no idea Hazz much to reveal Hazz peace wide open; Open exposure, poets a risen...

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(Snaps fingers) Let's talk sonic alchemy, a cauldron bubblin' deep/ Rare groove rising, a phoenix from jazz vinyl's pyre/ Acid Jazz is born, setting the soul on fire/ in London's smoky clubs, back when the eighties roared/ A rare groove movement pulsed, a sound from nowhere that knows no bounds/ More like a fusion,...

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