SO WHAT by MILES DAVIS. Poem by D.R. James.

 

Divorceville, Michigan, December 1999.

 

Mind/ful/l
of Miles

 

What’s new?

I too

am kind

of blue,

ear buds

soothing

 

“So What,”

 

Chambers

and then

Evans

noodling

Gil E.’s

intro.

 

Sooo what?

 

Upright

walks in

the tune,

conjures

modal

three-part

 

sooo what’s.

 

No mute

for Miles,

just cool,

crystal-

clearful

riffing.

 

Sooo what?

 

Coltrane’s

tenor

takes me…

Jimmy’s

brushing

behind.

 

Sooo what?

 

Cannon-

ball’s break

before

more Bill,

then back

as one:

 

Sooo what?

 

B-dah

b-dah-

b-dah

b-daaah:

 

Sooo what?

 

B-dah

b-dah

b-dah.

b-dah

bah:

 

Sooo what?

 

B-dah

b-dah-

b-dah

b-daaah:

 

Sooo what?

 

B-dah

bah-bah-

baaah:

 

Thaaa’s what.

 

 

 

Stereo Story #792