Showing posts with label jazz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label jazz. Show all posts

Saturday, December 15, 2012

How Could I Forget Mel Torme?

Photo Credit: Old Town Roasters


As we sit here among the millenials 
And the hip hop happy nexters 
a velvet fog comes floating down 

From the speakers hidden up there,

startled, delighted, suddenly thirty-five 
years younger, I look happily around, 
expecting other faces to register

the same ecstatic recognition,


but Torme is not Mogen David, 

Mel doesn't even run in that crowd 
he's Dom Perignon in a Waterford flute, 

which explains the complete lack of 
attention this crowd is giving to 
the mist wrapping its cool 
around their feet.





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Friday, August 17, 2012

Blessing


Cleopatra's Needle, Broadway & 92nd
Photo Credit: Cleopatra's Needle

Cleopatra's Needle

I spy the bass player through the window, 
clumsily bumping down Broadway; 

he could have hidden a body in that over-
sized soft case, her head resting on his 

shoulder there at the end of her improbably 
long neck, whispering whatever it is she 

tells him each night
that puts him in the mood 
for jazz

© R Mark Grace


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