What Jazz Can Do (for your life)

What Jazz Can Do (for your life)

Jazz is a master of disguise

Jazz soars – jazz dives

To many jazz might seem a straight obscenity

To aficionados its the hip road to truth

And the cool path to serenity

Jazz stems from the heart

But its a fluid agile muscular art

Its ripple and flow attached to heavy undertow

Its roar – its rock – its rage

All at once on a moving floating performance stage

Its candor – its glamour – its camouflage

Weeping sweeping seeping timing to perfection

Whatever your predilection

Jazz gives jazz takes jazz lives

But never fakes and always offers maximum protection

Its cutting edge – a tilted window ledge

A book that holds a vast store of musical knowledge

Jazz inspires jazz desires jazz fires

But never dies

Jazz jazz jazz… more please!

Jazz makes you go weak at the knees

Its a hammer blow – a cosmic light show

A dreamy warm inner glow

Jazz teaches what you want to know

It takes you where you want to go

Shake hands with jazz and you will receive

a Lifelong friend

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Fall in luvvve with jazz and you’ve got someone

Who’ll stay with you right thru to the bitter end

Jazz is something that you can’t ignore

So make jazz the first knock upon your door

And know jazz is the security

you’ve been longing for

Set against other religions

you may be inclined to follow

jazz makes many of them seem lacking in rhythm

short on life shallow and hollow

So choose jazz as your partner to jazz up your life

Jazz soars – jazz dives

Jazz is a master of disguise

And just like rock‘n’roll...

It never dies.

C Jazzman John Clarke 2003