So, what have you done with them?

Everyone I gave you?

 

What did you do

with Wynton Marsalis and

Herbie Hancock?

 

Show

me

what

you

know!

 

1e&a, 2 e&a, 3e&a, 4—

For fu-asdfugghjkl (grrrr)

You’re better than that.

There’s life beyond fours.

I taught you to count

in five to Brubeck.

Get out of the box

and into the pocket!

 

Riddle me this, Davis—

 

Where have you given

Miles room to live

in your bones?

 

Find your own fire—

your kind of blue,

then say something!

Don’t get stuck walking

when you can swing

all the way off the page

 

Listen to each one again

I still expect you

to show me what you know

about becoming music