[Dixielandjazz] Patter

[ROBERT R. CALDER]

In the same spirit as Al Cohn, 
when he had declared himself impressed by the honesty of a drunk,and was withdrawing a banknote from his billfold,suddenly fixed his glass eye on the man and asked:"here, how do I know you're not going to use this to buy FOOD?"


I hope I don't see any of you hot jazzmen expressing a wish to deliver 
a note-accurate and syllable accurate straight realisation of printed words and music? 

like way down lower than New Orlean'where the muddy bottom has no blue sheen 
and enormous inedible catfish lurk, 
in a worse-than-Whiteman's-worst 
elephant murk 

as unsentimental as "Sonny Boy" 
(not a Williamson -- a blacked-up Jolson ploy) 
able in compare to make seem unHammy 
the million miles I'd walk to flee a certain "Mammy". 
(Mammy, Mammy, cound you ask for anything lower?) 

table d'hote 
orchez menu 

Robert Calder (c)
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