<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493820635266_4683" dir="ltr">In the same spirit as Al Cohn, <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493820635266_5190">when he had declared himself impressed by the honesty of a drunk,</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493820635266_5191">and was withdrawing a banknote from his billfold,</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493820635266_5174">suddenly fixed his glass eye on the man and asked:</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493820635266_5192">"here, how do I know you're not going to use this to buy FOOD?"<br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493820635266_5193"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493820635266_5173"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493820635266_5194">I hope I don't see any of you hot jazzmen expressing a wish to deliver <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493820635266_4835">a note-accurate and syllable accurate straight realisation of printed words and music? <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493820635266_5056"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493820635266_5055">like way down lower than New Orlean'</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493820635266_5054">where the muddy bottom has no blue sheen <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493820635266_5053">and enormous inedible catfish lurk, <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493820635266_5057">in a worse-than-Whiteman's-worst <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493820635266_5058">elephant murk <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493820635266_5052"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493820635266_5051">as unsentimental as "Sonny Boy" <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493820635266_5050">(not a Williamson -- a blacked-up Jolson ploy) <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493820635266_5059">able in compare to make seem unHammy <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493820635266_5060">the million miles I'd walk to flee a certain "Mammy". <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493820635266_5061">(Mammy, Mammy, cound you ask for anything lower?) <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493820635266_5049"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493820635266_5048">table d'hote <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493820635266_5047">or</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493820635266_5062">chez menu <br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493820635266_5046"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1493820635266_5063">Robert Calder (c)<br></div></div></body></html>