beast of burden

i'm feeling lazy today,

listening to some big city in the summer jazz

from back in the day when the two were intertwined,

told stories about each other

and were all over the grey scale

in a colourful sort of way.

this is music to listen to

while you're sitting back in a big old chair

with your feet on the window-ledge

or leaning out the window

with the tunes as a soundtrack

for the stories unfolding below.

near at hand - lemonade, beer from the fridge perhaps,

or a jug of californian wine.

donald byrd (t), mobley (ts), best (vib), burrrell (g), hancock (p), warren (b), humphries (d), perkinson (vcl).