<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=551513" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Enter Jazz</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the past few weeks<br>(1995, I think) <br>A whole field of music<br>Has knocked on my door.<br>Jazz has made my acquaintance.<br>Jazz who has always before<br>Seemed so stale, so staid, <br>So stuck in a groove<br>Sometime back in the thirties, <br>Jazz now emerges<br>As the most delightful companion.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I first noticed <br>My new friend<br>On the Voice of America, <br>A sudden lightness of spirit<br>Lighting up my room<br>Through the transistor radio.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then Nancy, Carolyn's mum in Ferny Creek, <br>Turned out to be a jazz fan<br>With a collection of cassettes, <br>And I abandoned myself<br>To jazz's invitation<br>To dance, <br>Easy, free-flowing steps<br>Up and down<br>The lounge-room carpet.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Last night<br>The friendship firmed further: <br>In the E.G. Guide<br>Was listed a jazz trio<br>Which they claimed could be heard<br>At the Albert Park Hotel<br>Not far away.<br>The trio swelled to seven or eight musicians<br>As the evening unfolded<br>And I drank in the rhythms<br>Of what a chat with their apparent leader, Bill, <br>Revealed was traditional jazz<br>In the Chicago style, <br>So sweet, so gentle, so softly swinging.<br>Jazz took my arm<br>And smiled.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I have a new friend.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Peter+Elliott">Peter Elliott</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=551513" data-title="Enter Jazz de Peter Elliott" data-description="In the past few weeks (1995, I think) A whole field of music Has knocked on my door. Jazz has made my acquaintance. Jazz who has always before Seemed so stale, so staid, So stuck in a groove Sometime back in the thirties, Jazz now emerges As th..."></div> </div> </div>

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