06-25-2022, 08:50 AM
Fifty-second Street
I wonder if Swing Street even recalls
bebop surging out of the Famous Door
from Parker’s axe and Monk’s dulcet upright
while Tatum, Holiday, Dizzy played the Onyx—
street life, jazz clubs, forties New York,
and disc jockey Sid airing live programs:
W.C. Handey’s Place can only be envious.
I wonder if Swing Street even recalls
bebop surging out of the Famous Door
from Parker’s axe and Monk’s dulcet upright
while Tatum, Holiday, Dizzy played the Onyx—
street life, jazz clubs, forties New York,
and disc jockey Sid airing live programs:
W.C. Handey’s Place can only be envious.