You may Be – v2

You may Be

but did you bop

did you scream

like Dizzy, like Miles;

Did you growl

on the keys,

on the ivories,

like Thelonious Monk

 

Did you warble

did you scat

did you Howl

like Allen Ginsberg;

Were you a Beat

on the street

on the road

like Jack Kerouac

 

==================

edited September 15, 2021

You may Be – v2

 

November 18, 2018

You may Be

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/you-may-be.html

https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1064118948680085504

about Jazz, Bebop, Beat poetry, Allen Ginsberg,

Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, and Dizzy Gillespie,

who I saw perform at UNH with my parents

Parent’s Weekend, either 1979 or 1980.

&

edited November 18, 2018

Mood Indigo – v2

https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1064114948794695680

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/mood-indigo-v2.html

November 16, 2018

Mood Indigo

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/mood-indigo.html

May 1993

Mood Indigo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLayv8rPlts

by Willie Humphrey

(93 years old in 1993)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Humphrey

https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3530822107858981063/

Preservation Hall Jazz Band

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preservation_Hall_Jazz_Band

Preservation Hall

&

edited November 16, 2018

Nice Tie – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/nice-tie-v2.html

8/7/04 18:05

Nice Tie

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/08/nice-tie.html

partially non-verbal conversation with Richard Payne

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0668413/

of Preservation Hall Jazz Band

https://www.facebook.com/preservationhalljazzband/

https://www.preservationhalljazzband.com/

at Preservation Hall Jazz Band club

https://www.facebook.com/Preservation.Hall/

http://www.preservationhall.com/?fbclid=IwAR3erKerKs-nD2hpMDNl6QDuCcgpyZkyGrGzPrGM06c-k8WFGmeyqXdRhvg 

726 St. Peters Street

New Orleans, LA

He was the bass player for the band and

he was the bass player in

“Toots Sweet’s Band” in the movie

Angel Heart (1987).

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092563/

I gave him my tie, right off my neck

(a tie I had bought from a pushcart at

Downtown Crossing in Boston).

&

edited April 27, 2015

Congo Square – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/congo-square-v2_27.html

(editing version 2)

edited November 4, 2018

Amazing Grace – v3

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/amazing-grace-v3.html

(editing original again)

edited April 16, 2015

Amazing Grace – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/amazing-grace-v2.html

July 12, 2004 18:56 –

Amazing Grace

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/07/amazing-grace.html

Amazing Grace solo of Aaron Neville

at the 1993 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival

http://www.nojazzfest.com/

https://www.facebook.com/JazzFest

https://www.facebook.com/jazznheritage 

https://twitter.com/Jazznheritage

http://www.art4now.com/cpost93.htm

during a real wedding.

The members of Los Lobos were near me, watching as I was.

I saw the wedding couple riding in a carriage

in the French Quarter that night.

&

edited April 13, 2015

Congo Square – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/congo-square-v2.html

July 12, 2004 19:15.

Congo Square

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/07/congo-square.html

Congo Square, special area at the

1993 Jazz and Heritage Festival, New Orleans

&

Edited December 6, 2013

Night in New Orleans – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/12/nightin-new-orleans-new-awlins-v4.html

(editing original version)

Edited December 5, 2013

Night in New Orleans – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/12/night-in-new-orleans-new-awlins-v3.html

Edited September 20, 2012

“Night in New Orleans – v2”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/09/night-in-new-orleans-nuhawluns-v2.html

Sunday, July 15, 2001 at 6:22:58 PM EST

edited December 6, 2001

“Night in New Orleans

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/night-in-new-orleans-nuhawluns.html

mostly about trip to New Orleans for Jazz and Heritage Festival, 1993

and again for job interview at Tulane University 1996

&

edited April 16, 2015

A Beat in Concord – v7

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/04/a-beat-in-concord-v7.html

(editing version 4)

Edited October 19, 2013

“A Beat in Concord – v6”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/10/a-beat-in-concord-v6.html

Edited July 2, 2013

“A Beat in Concord – v5”

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-beat-in-concord-v5.html

based on original version

further edits June 30, 2012

A Beat in Concord – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/06/beat-in-concord-v4.html

(turning the poem to the present tense)

further edits June 30, 2012

A Beat in Concord – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/06/beat-in-concord-v3.html

further edited June 6, 2012 (with edited by Elisha and Marshall Burns)

A Beat in Concord – v2 - 2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/06/beat-in-concord-v2-2.html

edited June 6, 2012

A Beat in Concord – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/06/beat-in-concord-v2.html

written May 18, 2006 5:59pm

A Beat in Concord

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2006/05/beat-in-concord.html

written about someone I saw under the Exit 14 underpass, Concord, NH

 

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