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Waltz
by Stuart Gershen
layout by Yoshi Segoshi |
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I'm sitting in my little room...desk...computer...bookcase...phone...closet...cat...listening to music coming from the other side of the apartment. Eric Dolphy, Booker Little, Mal Waldron, Richard Davis and Eddie Blackwell playing some of the most beautiful music ever.
Fifteen minutes of magic performed live at the Five Spot in N.Y. on July 16, 1961. The song is called Booker's Waltz, and it brings a smile to my face every time I hear it. Music can do that. It can make you feel.
It can touch you in ways that open up an entire world. |
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This night...not last night or the night before that
The music seemed different More alive I've listened to it a thousand times Eric Dolphy...the same saxophone and bass clarinet Booker Little...the same trumpet Mal Waldron...the same piano Richard Davis...the same bass Eddie Blackwell...the same drums Still a waltz Still beautiful |
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Shining Nuanced Delicate |
Booker's Waltz It makes me want to dance I think I might I wonder why music can make me feel this way How can small wooden boxes and assorted wires and silver discs make me smile Make me dance Have the drugs kicked in Prescription...of course How can anything plugged into the wall be magical This night...not last night or the night before that I realized it doesn't matter I don't care |
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It just is Magic or not It just does > |
No mystery...no magic bullet...no banging my head into the wall trying to understand
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It just has to fit Me and the music All the parts fit This night This waltz |
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Eric Dolphy is in a wooden box Booker Little is in a wooden box Mal Waldron is in a wooden box Richard Davis is in a wooden box Eddie Blackwell is in a wooden box |
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They are connected by wires that go into small metal boxes that are connected to me Plugged into the wall I'm still smiling I'll dance again later |
 Eric Dolphy and Booker Little Memorial Album (Prestige) |
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Stuart Gershen is a serious Jazz and audio freak, lives in New Rochelle, NY.
He can be reached at sg921@optonline.net |