i can hear them, i can hear them playing, no really i can, and it doesn’t stop, it won’t stop, and it’s runnin and runnin, yeah, i’m runnin and humming..,,,,,,,,..,,,,,
Wow, Bret! Beautifully written. Pure science fiction. You have a gift for it, and like most science fiction, it is an apt depiction of the nihilistic world we are facing!
In a sequel to this dystopian tale, an African woman sits down to start her fictional response. Life and jazz fuse in the soulwaves that come and go from the spirit world beyond to the spirit world that pulses in the world of free people everywhere. The French, who embraced Josephine Baker, Django Rinehart and Sidney Bechet in the earlier 20th century were quick to respond to the crushing of the 21st century Jazz Revolution in the former USA. The Caribbean and South African drums had never stopped; but now they sprang up and caught the impetus of a jazz-inflected sound that called them to reshape their music. Brits, Scandinavians and South Americans heard rhythms that sounded in their memories, and by and by new sounds syncopated their ways into the bloodstreams of humans not drugged into American conformism and hypocrisy. New liveliness swung into being.
I wrote a short story once in which the protagonist awakes to discover that all negroes have vanished. As he drives to work he can't find anything on the radio except polkas and marches.
WEll struck, Bret. I once attempted a novelette in which the hero wakes up in world suddenly devoid of all black people. He didn't understand why his jazz radio station was playing polkas. It was a literary idea beyond my skills so I gave it up after about twenty pages.
i can hear them, i can hear them playing, no really i can, and it doesn’t stop, it won’t stop, and it’s runnin and runnin, yeah, i’m runnin and humming..,,,,,,,,..,,,,,
thanks Bret, your writing moves me, i didn't think, i just wrote what i felt reading your piece
Wow, Bret! Beautifully written. Pure science fiction. You have a gift for it, and like most science fiction, it is an apt depiction of the nihilistic world we are facing!
In a sequel to this dystopian tale, an African woman sits down to start her fictional response. Life and jazz fuse in the soulwaves that come and go from the spirit world beyond to the spirit world that pulses in the world of free people everywhere. The French, who embraced Josephine Baker, Django Rinehart and Sidney Bechet in the earlier 20th century were quick to respond to the crushing of the 21st century Jazz Revolution in the former USA. The Caribbean and South African drums had never stopped; but now they sprang up and caught the impetus of a jazz-inflected sound that called them to reshape their music. Brits, Scandinavians and South Americans heard rhythms that sounded in their memories, and by and by new sounds syncopated their ways into the bloodstreams of humans not drugged into American conformism and hypocrisy. New liveliness swung into being.
Go George go!
thought is the enemy of flow, you, George are flowing, i love it
Outlawing jazz....well as we know (Nazi Germany, Communist Russia) it won't be the first time. And like the Phoenix it keeps coming back.
Bird Lives!
I wrote a short story once in which the protagonist awakes to discover that all negroes have vanished. As he drives to work he can't find anything on the radio except polkas and marches.
Trump wouldn't know what a "chorus" is or represents in song terms.
Brilliant! I need to drag out every saved program from the many Kennedy Center performances. I had tended years ago to remember better times.
This is what happened with Hitler 90 years ago....right??????
Exactly. A sickening parallel.
Says it all...:(
Wow! Thanks for that... And greets from Germany... Michael, 33rpmPVC.de & Flöz K Booking
Bret lives!
WEll struck, Bret. I once attempted a novelette in which the hero wakes up in world suddenly devoid of all black people. He didn't understand why his jazz radio station was playing polkas. It was a literary idea beyond my skills so I gave it up after about twenty pages.
I like the concept.
I love this so much. Thank you, Bret. Great writing!
When I heard Trump is taking over the Kennedy Center, I just had to write this.
What?**
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/us/politics/trump-kennedy-center.html
Wooooow!!