All that Jazz: Gentrification

I do not know how long I’d been walking around the tables and pedestals, when I realized they had a good time nip literally within them. After observing them from all angles, I was as small as necessary and entered; trying to feel the textures to lean against the walls, sniffing the corners, the outside looked from one of their slots, I dropped in a corner or simply I lay on the floor, closed my eyes and listened.

From the Book “When I see this, I think this” Capi Corrales.

Roberto Burle Marx

Jazz Standard

Cool Jazz

Say, love me or leave me and let me be lonely
You won’t believe me but I love you only
I’d rather be lonely than happy with somebody elseYou might find the night time the right time for kissing
Night-time is my time for just reminiscing
Regretting instead of forgetting with somebody elseThere’ll be no one unless that someone is you
I intend to be independently blueSaaay, I want your love, don’t wanna borrow
Have it today to give back tomorrow
Your love is my love
There’s no love for nobody elseSay, love me or leave me and let me be lonely
You won’t believe me but I love you only
I’d rather be lonely than happy with somebody elseYou might find the night-time the right time for kissing
Night-time is my time for just reminiscing
Regretting instead of forgetting with somebody elseThere’ll be no one unless that someone is you
I intend to be independently blue

Let’s do it

 

Birds do it, bees do it
Even educated fleas do it
Let’s do it, let’s fall in love

In Spain, the best upper sets do it

Lithuanians and Latts do it
Let’s do it, let’s fall in love

The Dutch in old Amsterdam do it
Not to mention the Fins
Folks in Siam do it – think of Siamese twins

Some Argentines, without means, do it
People say in Boston even beans do it
Let’s do it, let’s fall in love

Romantic sponges, they say, do it
Oysters down in oyster bay do it
Let’s do it, let’s fall in love

Cold Cape Cod clams, ‘gainst their wish, do it
Even lazy jellyfish, do it
Let’s do it, let’s fall in love

Electric eels I might add do it
Though it shocks em I know
Why ask if shad do it – Waiter bring me
“shad roe”

In shallow shoals English soles do it
Goldfish in the privacy of bowls do it
Let’s do it, let’s fall in love

Transcribed (from the stated recording) by Todd Peach <todd@thepeaches.com>
Other verses I’ve seen in print follow:

In old Japan, all the Japs do it
Up in Lapland little Laps do it
Let’s do it, let’s fall in love

The chimpanzees in the zoos do it
Some courageous kangaroos do it
Let’s do it, let’s
fall in love

I’m sure giraffes on the sly do it
Even eagles as they fly do it
Let’s do it, let’s fall
in love

Electric eels I might add do it
Though it shocks em I know
Why ask if shad do it – garcon de
“shad roe”

The world admits bears in pits do it
Even Pekingeses at the Ritz do it
Let’s do it, let’s
fall in love

The royal set sans regret did it
And they considered it fun
Marie Antoinette did it –
with or without Napoleon

 

 

You Don’t Know What Love Is

Unforgettable
That’s what you are,
Unforgettable
Tho’ near or far.Like a song of love that clings to me,
How the thought of you does things to me.
Never before
Has someone been more…Unforgettable
In every way,
And forever more
That’s how you’ll stay.That’s why, darling, it’s incredible
That someone so unforgettable
Thinks that I am
Unforgettable, too.[interlude]Unforgettable
In every way,
And forever more
That’s how you’ll stay.That’s why, darling, it’s incredible
That someone so unforgettable
Thinks that I am
Unforgettable, too.

So What

Blue Train

 

Take five

Well You Needn’t