Ancient Jazz incarnate
rising from his seat
clarinet in hand
sharing a prayer with us
Slowly, oh so slowly,
melting into the notes, the
lyrics
another place and time
the song, Mood Indigo
Ancient growl of the tune
rhythm, melody
whine of his clarinet
drawing us all in to
the Mood Indigo
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edited
February 21, 2022
Night in New
Orleans - v5
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/02/night-in-new-orleans-new-awlins-v5.html
&
Mood Indigo – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/11/mood-indigo-v2.html
https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1064114948794695680
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/
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
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
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