David Jackson The Bet
by Seymour Shubin
I guarantee you, he said
At the end of his mother’s funeral,
That the dead will meet,
That they will look in full health
To each other,
Just as they were.
Oh yeah, I thought , and where
Do I collect if you are wrong?
But that was then and this is now
And oh how I miss her
And how I want to give
His money back.
Originally Publihed as The Bet Poem
We fought over an apple on the
train to Paris
and you kicked at me as
we crossed through the gate
onto the cobblestones,
two young Americans in Paris
having a lover’s spat and
making up.
We checked into that hotel
with the tiny balcony
and the red bed with the red curtains.
We were sprouts in a garden
that year.
We never imagined that
it couldn’t last, that time
would grow vines which would crawl up
us like it crawls up everyone
and hold us in factories and
houses and familiar streets.
Every cell in my body is different now and
you are gone,
as gone as Paris of that year.
The train
rolls again across
the French countryside,
rolls into Paris
on
tracks of memory
and we get the same
room and hitch hike across France again
speaking no French,
young Americans with our
thumbs out.
david michael jackson June 10, 2012 editors@artvilla.com
Marian McPartland Piano and Jazz
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THE GIRLS IN THE BAND a film by One Step Productions tells the “poignant, untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their fascinating, groundbreaking journeys from the late 30′s to the present day.“Review in Variety
Jazz legendary piano wizard Marian McPartland continues to showcase the world’s best musicians on NPR’s longest-running jazz program, Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz.
Here is an excellent article about visiting Marion McPartland by Judy Chaikin. Judy Chaikin is the director of The Girls in the Band.
When you research a post you sometimes run into another who has already done a job far better than you of detailing and archiving the subject. When you meet such a resource, you have to acknowledge. To learn more about Marian McPartland and piano and the times and history be sure to visit Marian McPartland a Jazz Pianist, an overview of a musical career. by Clare Hansson. Excellent!
Here is Marian’s Facebook Page. Ladies and gentlemen that photo behind her is only the most famous Jazz photo in history and she, dear ones, is in it. Here is the photo again from A Great Day in Harlem Here is A bio of the musicians and Marian McPartland.
Her start came in WW II, the big one. My dad was in that war and met my mom there. Marian was in that war and met her husband in England.
Thanks to the film and the people who made it, I, on an island in a far off land once called Tanase, have learned about this lady and now love her work. To blog is to be always on a discovery path. This path led to Marian McPartland’s piano.
We have decided that this is a windmill to battle. This is the first blog of presentations of women musicians. Expect more. We, or I, or whomever this is, thinks we or you, yes you should want more music from more of the ladies in this blog starring women featured in THE GIRLS IN THE BAND. It’s a good page.
Marian’s piano music speaks for itself.
The Girls in the Band Audience Award, Best Documentary Feature – Palm Springs International Film Festival Audience Favourite Feature, Victoria Film Festival Audience Choice Documentary, Omaha Film Festival Produced by Judy Chaikin, Michael Greene, Nancy Kissock. Executive producer, Greene. Co-producer, Hugh M. Hefner. Directed by Judy Chaikin. Written by Chaikin, Edward Osei-Gyimah
david michael jackson june 29 2012, editors@artvilla.com send rose petals
i wuz the last one standing
told off
hornswangled,
befittched,
narry a narnstitch to chamfer,
stalwrited agin,
the final blartly
last one standing I wuz,
barnsnorted right into thye cornswaint
petroclusive
blottled and confused
left there to think I was
left there to think
and think I did
david michael jackson sometime in the past editors@artvilla.com send caramel corn
Blacklist molded Joan Scott’s screenwriting career | | The Bulletin.
Joan Scott, the wife of Adrian Scott, one of the Hollywood Ten, died yesterday. She was the last living link to any of the 10 who went to jail, except possibly the children and grandchildren who still are around. That’s how history dies unless we keep the remembering alive.
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