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ImproviXation #107

by J. Otis Powell‽ (with interrobang)

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ImproviXation #107 

Some days I wish I could bend my knees

Lean backwards and wail like a saxophonist

But I know anyone within earshot

Would hear that wrong

There are days

I feel like screaming

But I don’t dare

I’m afraid of what the

Vibrations might cause

On days like that I like to clamp on headphones

Crank up volume on John Coltrane

Archie Shepp

Alb...

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Thursday 26th September 2013 4:55 pm

Ayler   Carter   Coltrane   Emel Sherzad   ImproviXing Change   Marsalis   Murray   saxophones   Shepp   wailing

ImproviXation #107 & China!

by J. Otis Powell‽ (with interrobang)

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photo credit: Kari Musil 

ImproviXation #107 

  Some days I wish I could bend my knees

Lean backwards and wail like a saxophonist

But I know anyone within earshot

Would hear that wrong

There are days

I feel like screaming

But I don’t dare

I’m afraid of what the

Vibrations might cause

On  days like that I like clamp on headphones

Crank up volume on John C...

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Thursday 3rd November 2011 12:52 pm

Emel Sherzad   ImproviXation   saxophones   wailing   worn threadbare

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