Only Way
The only way that Nichols
could have any control
over his wife or put a smile
on her face was to put on
a Gerry Mulligan record and
turn it up loud so that the
cool baritone saxophone of
Mulligan could work its wonders
and she would say Why he’s
so sexy and that sax of his it
drives me crazy and Nichols
knew he was second best to
that Mulligan guy and once
when he took her to a jazz
concert where he had a job
to keep her in her seat and
she swooned and gazed and
nigh wet herself and when he
got her home that night it was
one of the hottest nights of sex
he ever had which for a second
best guy wasn’t at all bad.
poem by Terry Collett
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Move On.
Move on Mulligan would say
Move on don’t look back and
Yet he’d be off on one of his
Journeys into his past talking
About the good old days about
Him and O’Connor and the things
They got up to and how they were
The boys to be seen with and how
They’d be all over the place with
The drink and all and the girls were
Hanging on to their arms and you’d
Say and what kind of girls were they
To be hanging onto your arms and
He’d laugh and slap his knee and give
You the look he gave when he knew
He’d said something he ought not to
But there you are he’d say men are
Men and so it will ever more be so but
For you it was always are the kids fed
Are they clothed are they happy in their
Shallow squalor but Mulligan saw no
Further than his nose heard nothing that
Wasn’t clinking with glass and drink oh
Men my girls are they worth it you’d say
Putting the kids to bed makes you think.
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New York is still where I live most of the time.
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I'm fascinated with the electronic devices that we can mess around with.
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I've always wanted a C trumpet on top, to have that same kind of facility without shouting.
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I like what I hear other guys doing, but the thing that really attracts me is melodic playing.
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When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.
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When I began listening to saxophones, I was first attracted to Coleman Hawkins.
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