... I could play a thing I'd been hearing. It came alive. – Charlie Parker

A jazz sculptor – like this - takes an intricate idea – like that - plays a melodic riff – like this - makes the air dance – like that - sends the vibration – like that - sound to your ear – like this - something you feel – like that - something you hear – like this

— inspired by #nwp Write Across America, via Prairie Lands Writing Project, Missouri and American Jazz Museum

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