THE GROOVE IS MIGHTY HIGH
...THE GROOVE IS MIGHTY HIGH/ LET’S THROW DOWN AND FLY UP TO THE SKY/
KEROUAC BLOWIN’WORD JAZZ WITH STRINGS/MILES AT THE BLACK KAWK, MAN WHAT A SCENE/ JACK AND MILES WALKED THE WALK AND TALKED THE JAZZ...
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Categories:
scatting, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
Giacomo Gates The Hip Jazz Cat
...The Hip Jazz Cat/Tony Adamo
Step up, Man, get up, let me hip you to this/ a jazz cat who weaves words and sings/ People, It’s Giacomo Gates/
He’s the master of vocalese a hipster’s delight/ A sto...
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Categories:
scatting, spoken word,
Form: Spoken Word
Oh love devine
...They seemed more interested in ruining our relationship
it became apparent that her attractiveness was and appeal became the lie to believe: in there gathering.The" foregot's to mentions" and " the ...
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Categories:
scatting, love, music,
Form: Bio
The Fugitive
...The clear blue sky above me
Needs a shadow on the run
To hide a weary fugitive
Before the setting sun
The desert plain is endless
And my boots are running dry
A fugitive is friendless
To the...
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Categories:
scatting, anxiety, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Deconstruction
...Away from the areas of complete ad nauseam
As political cases grasp a zenith of their corium
To utterly saturate the airwaves with information
Each other's obnoxious and feeble desc...
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Categories:
scatting, analogy, bereavement, caregiving, change,
Form: Rhyme
October Jazz
...Laying down in the cool night
I hear jazz on the radio
Saxophone can ease the pain of living
As can scatting
I'll take flight tonight
After I close my eyes
With a jazz send - off
I'll e...
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Categories:
scatting, autumn, music,
Form: Free verse
Last Inspiration
...Thoughts trickle what was left of my sanity,
Slowly but surely down my brain to gravity
Like the last drop of rain on a roof tile,
Being the last drop of hope to inspire the dwindling fi...
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Categories:
scatting, inspiration,
Form: Free verse