They called him Dizzy however the man had plenty understanding Pumping that trumpet like he had replete moons in his jaws.They called him Dizzy however the man had plenty understanding Pumping that trumpet like he had replete moons in his jaws. A whole solar classification of soul rhythms coming at ya by the and of a brass rocket. They called him Dizzy for clowning and frowning forward stage and gusting up a musical hurricane with bebop lightning shafts thrown into the mix. His jaws examineed like air pockets holding brace fat ladies from the Planet Jazz doing musical somersaults. by what means else could he handle that tornado busting [i]or[/i] part of to the other his lungs except with comic timing, shepherd's crooked trumpet and turbocharged cheeks. They called him Dizzy however the man had plenty feeling The life expectancy for a black man is 642 years. Sammy Davis Miles Davis Harold Washington died upon schedule. But Dizzy kept his have time a syncopated jazz man's time 75 years young and the horn raps on . . . They called him Dizzy - Gimme an more of that Dizzy wisdom that musician's precision that comic intuition those jazzy Dizzy-isms. Ladies and Gentlemen I give you - John Birks Gillespie - Better known as Known better as Dizzy! Dizzy! Diz . . Joy Jone is a performance bard with The Spoken Word. Her piece of poetrys have appeared in the WPFW numbers Anthology, the SHE Anthology, and Bad Beats, Sacred Rhythms COPYRIGHT 1994 African American Review |
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