Clubscene - WordJazz

Main Street
on
Saturday Night

 
A
period chandelier
dangles
precariously
in a cavernous
reception
area





Europeanizing
and
gleaming
quietly

an
ornate staircase
to
a semi-darkened
cavity
“The Dark Knight”
awaits

a
sea green marble
wellspring 
spurts
 
flanked
by an
advertisement 
Audrey Hepburn
“Breakfast at Tiffany’s”
&
“The Phantom of the Opera”
background for
a
keyboard
and
electric guitar
to assist
in the
resurrection
of 
enduring standards
Broadway musicals
and
popular songs
of the
immortals





a single note
solo
jazz player
takes the song’s
melody
and
revamping





slightly flecked
softer and romantic
chestnuts
of
the long-ago




a
robust accented voice
wrings subtle
nuances of meaning
from
timeworn standard
elegiac ballads
such as
“They Can’t Take That Away From Me”
“Embraceable You”
“Someone to Watch Over Me”
“Looking for a Boy”
“Fly Me to the Moon”
a rousing
“Mountain Greenery”
and
“Love for Sale”

Laura Cunard Keyboard Vocals
Ben Grave Guitar
featured soloist
Heather Keizur

VENETIAN THEATRE
BISTRO & LOUNGE
Hillsboro, OR

Redd Williams
11/10/08