David Jackson

John Coltrane – On Green Dolphin Street (Germany 1960)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMBDYxL_2wc&feature=player_embedded#!

A little something for my friends from John Coltrane and his friends.
What is it about this Green Dolphin Place? I guess we have to find out more about it. Again we go there and find Coltrane and more greats. Ah time travel. Who would have ever thought it was possible!
I have presented other old videos from the Green Dolphin circa 1960 with greats like Marian McPartland, John Coltrane. There was someone there to catch this and save it for us. One wonders who that was and how these films exist. There is someone in the back of this room behind the camera and equipment that I admire. Thank you unknown engineer. Thank you. And you out there, the next time you cross a bridge, thank the engineer. We are listening to landmark performances a good engineer recorded and no one wrote his name down. Same with the bridge.

John Coltrane – Tenor Sax
Wynton Kelly – Piano
Paul Chambers – Bass
Jimmy Cobb – Drums

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWwYRjXXfLw&feature=player_embedded

Birds poem by Wayne Jackson

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Wayne Jackson was an ironworker. As a young man he fell 26 feet and broke many bones.

After hurting in all the broken places
And after writing three poems of madness
And after the sun has gone down
Low enough to come in the southern window
And warm me
And after the birds have settled in the yard,
Have fed and flown
But have brought no peace,
I take the pen hand
And rub the scarred parts of the other hand
Absentmindedly
I too
Wish to feed and fly
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Cat Poem by David Michael Jackson

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POEM TO MINDY
and there she is
my cat
she demands that my hands
touch her fur and
she demands my
total
attention
she knows she’s the only cat
that matters
that ever mattered.
She knows the cats of Egypt
I sometimes think she was there herself and added that
unknown quality to
the reliefs in the temple walls, for
she is the only cat that ever mattered as she wimpers that
demanding little
raorw

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