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Check Out Dis Gumbo

Chris Hayden
copyright 2000, Chris Hayden


CHECK OUT
The St. Looie All World 23rd
Be Re Boppin' Afrophonic Polyrythmic Freedom Hoodoo Street
Gum-BO

Sho' 'nuff
Deeee-eeeee-EEEP!
Black Classical Music Volca-a-no-o

MAN
Them cats be cookin' crazy DIG
What they redhot musical brainpuddin' be's puttin' down
A THERMODYNAMIC Memphis soulstew sizzlin' like Elvin's skins 'n rims:

Take a taste o' point 'n counterpoint solution equal parts peace and
revolution
Ayler's polyphonicatese
Down Theoretical Trane Trax chug-a-lug on down with ease!

Jazzpoets drive moneychangers from the temple with 360 degree high C's!

Threadgill's diatonics by Lateef's chromatics
Aske not for whom Rahsann's bells toll for Lo, as thy Pithecanthropus
struts
erectus they toll fo' THEE1

Then wingin' past Birdland
Come a Love Supreme
Reelin' 'n riffin'
Like a Bebop Dream

Be still my heart!
Stroke not on the downbeat o' no John Phillip Muzak!

NO!

Let it go in the glow
O' Dat St. Looie All World 23rd Be Re Boppin Afrophonic Polyrhythmic
Freedom Hoodoo Street Gum-BO!

Sho' 'nuff deee-eeeee-EEEEP!
Black Classical Music Volca-a-no-o

MAN!
Them crazy cats
Like jive saintly chefs
Caught up 'n ecstatic in Nontraditional harmoic variations
In syncopated improvisations and polymetric displacements that defy
Imitation or notation

In down on the one
Head arrangements
Burnin' brighter that
1000 suns

I DUG INFINITY!

'N THRUTH (karmic juju vibrations)
TRUTH(wiggin' 'em out 'cros oceans 'n nations)
Yo DOWN falls Kaufman's ancient rain
Jazz be blowin' its top again

In the keys to the kingdom and the house that is Yardbird's skull

Y'all CHECK OUT the St. Looie All World 23rd Be Re Boppin' Afrophonic
Polyrythmic Freedom Hoodoo Street Gum-BO!

Sho''nuff deeee-eeeee-EEEEP Black Classical Music Volca-a-no-o

Dig TRUTH
LAWD!
Git up 'n
DANCE!

give jazz a chance

copyright 2000, Chris Hayden




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