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photo by Gisle Hannemyr/CC BY-SA 3.0 DEED/Wikimedia Commons
McCoy Tyner in 1973
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Perceiving The Same Notes
That Black Olive near the back providing shade
a steady venue for beak & feather songsters
roaming around the leaves
as if they were tables at the Club Aviary
and these birds were playing in a morning after jam session
This, no rude awakening by any means. for
One particular call and response
I took as a choral reminder for me to McCoy Tyner
absent from my ears for awhile
and in so doing, for a good long while,
settled into a fertile day
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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 1976 recording of McCoy Tyner performing “Fly With the Wind” [Universal Music Group]
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