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photo by Andrew Yudkin/via pexels.com
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Nocturne
the sound became a poem
after happening into
Kenny Burrell leading
an arranged Gil Evans
below a full moon
shining across fine sand
bracing guitar form largesse
with a brass and conga chorus
coloring prior apparel worn anew
creating softly a midnight glow
cover to an ocean blue
on that last night we were young
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Terrance Underwood is a retired Gas Turbine Package Engineer whose career offered opportunities to work all over the world. A devoted jazz enthusiast, his first memory operating a mechanical devise was a 4-speed spindle drop record changer for his father’s collection of 78s.
Click here to read Proceeding From Behind: A collection of poems grounded in the rhythmic, relating to the remarkable, by Terrance Underwood
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Listen to the 1965 recording of guitarist Kenny Burrell playing “Moon and Sand.” [Universal Music Group]
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