• Music

    Things

    June 17, 2024 /

    By Joy Lynn Clark 06/17/2024 I wrote this song sixteen years ago as I was watching the tale of the “infamous” Burr Oak Cemetary scandal https://daisyfriday.net/burr-oak-on-the-colored-side/ unfold on the local Chicago news. I still had not known that I had ancestors buried there but I was asking around. As I heard the story, my mind drifted off about vampires, zombies, and grave robbers. Things is part of a larger work that I was going to make a, “rock opera”. I never managed to finish it but, there are a few more tunes. I also arranged the original duet to a solo. I never got my settlement. Below is a palatable,…

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  • Papers

    Jazz Round’ Midnight: Soundtrack To My Life

    December 11, 2017 /

    By Joy Lynn Clark 12/11/2017 Charlie Parker’s music is the soundtrack to my life; familiar and always playing in the background.  The memories run through my mind like scenes from a movie.  As I listened to, “Jazz Round Midnight”, and considered the history, these are my impressions. I was listening to Embraceable You when I started to do a search online.  My first hit was an article about a lost baby, a bottle, and a promise to come home.  Was he just trying to sleep?  I lost my connection right when I got to the part about the sculpture of a head.  Then I skimmed another review about Charlie Parker from a black…

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