Bebop Poems - Poems about Bebop

...buds beckon to pop leaves unfurl reveal green scroll spring devolves uncurls......

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...Spoken Word Poetry: JAZZ ALIVE Man alive, and this ain’t no jive, I’m diggin’ on jazz to stay alive/ East Coast rhythms from the 50’s and 60’s, in the heart of the city, where the music breaths/ ......

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...Thelonious Monk, In a world where he spins not just notes, but notes where bebop rides vibes/ Monk plays funk, Groovy good-time funk, A jazz revolution, a sonic delight/ No, Thelonious Monk did n......

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...THE BEAT POETS BEAT In the heart of San Francisco, Beat poet and publisher, Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights bookstore shines bright, where words dance like shadows and the Beat poets ignite the ......

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...The Legend of Jazz Soup Man, listen close/ This cat, He’s got the chops, deep, digging, negotiating chord changes, blowing you away with hip to the bone genre bending melodies, Improvising on his t......

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...on weekends, Mondays, and maybe Fridays too/ across the Bebop time zones/ people be digging at flea markets 4 Bebop jazz gold/ walkin', talkin', lookin' workin' the price/ on a table way in the b......

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...King Pleasure bebop jazz singer vocalese hipster/ a legend he was/ a master at writing lyrics to solos of jazz instrumentalists such as the lyrics to Charlie Parker's "Parker's Mood"/ His scat ......

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...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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...KEROUAC THE WORD SPEAKS JAZZ/Tony Adamo Spoken Word All in Caps for Better Reading While in Recording Studio/10/14/23 THE JAZZ COOL AND BEBOP MUSICIANS MADE MUSIC THEIR OWN/ THE BEAT GENERATION......

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... 1910 Asogio slow the music, as the music freely slows Heart ears hearing the abundant free flows Jazz bebop axe percussion drumming a beating Pirouette on point one foot tappiN Cadence ragtime ......

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... BEBOP BLUES Dedicated verse for Delores Matthews- How do ya! Do Rebop blues Them there, tied up shoes Crampin’ my style rebop blues Like a misbehaved child While far away Them t......

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...Michael Joseph Jackson Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he is regarded as one of t......

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...Harlem in the 40s Harlem in the 40s was a place of rhythm and soul Where music was the language and jazz was the goal Where singers and musicians made the crowds go wild Where swing and bebop a......

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...Charlie and Louis John and Miles Bebop to Modal Two different styles Soul passions blowing Harmonically through horns Notes and chords flowing One world and two forms Two different times ......

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...The oomph and zing of extra spin adds razzmatazz to shot akin to the standing ovation din a hole in one gets for a win. The cream screams to the top. The razzle and dazzle of dance shake, ......

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