The crowd was\u00a0spread out like a tossed bowl of candies on their blankets, they got their glasses\u00a0in the shade. Their backs were to me, so I was free of them.<\/p>\n
I had\u00a0a rock and brought a pillow but I didn’t want them for long. When the notes hit me, they broke me down and I got up and moved.<\/p>\n
For two numbers, I improvised my limbs one axe\u00a0heat after another. I climbed the rope and twisted in the wind. No noodlin’ and no schmaltz to drag me down.<\/p>\n
The sax grabbed a bird’s eye and I rode on its back. That kid could blow.<\/p>\n
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I rode the dragonflies with my fingers, they all\u00a0turned golden when\u00a0the sunset electrified their wings.\u00a0No one cared if I was going to flip, I didn’t care, I was booted with these guys.<\/p>\n
When they gave that hide hitter some heat, the grass grooved with him, all slashes of beauty, and I was jumpin’ in the pocket. I don’t know if they could see me but I felt like\u00a0it was jake and anyhow I didn’t care.<\/p>\n
I hated hearing the final tag and was sorry when they had to cut. I got back in my boat and rowed to town.<\/p>\n
Who needs junk when there’s jazz smokin’\u00a0on the field?<\/p>\n
Today’s penny is a 2003 – the year that Kind of Blue<\/em> by Miles Davis\u00a0was ranked number 12 on Rolling Stone<\/a><\/i> magazine’s list of the 500 greatest albums of all time<\/a>.<\/p>\n For a glossary of jazz slang, lookie here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" He threw a note out, and I caught it and rode it. I was up the hill where it was hot and sunny but close enough so those cats could chill me. The green flowed all the way down to the stage, I was high enough to surf the rhythm. The crowd was\u00a0spread out like … read more Hot notes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[109,1236,166,1235,223],"class_list":["post-9243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-improvisation","tag-109","tag-concert","tag-dance","tag-jazz","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9243"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9272,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243\/revisions\/9272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lisaschnellinger.com\/pennies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}