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/
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
&
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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