Bebop Poems - Poems about Bebop

...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/ ......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

... 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 ......Read the rest...

... 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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

...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, ......Read the rest...

...Fred frog would a dancing go, With his best friend Bob's girlfriend Flo, Flo went to all the dances Where all the male frogs she entrances She knew how to bebop And she and Fred danced a lot Po......Read the rest...