nerding out of control

So lately my new thing has been to take all the poets that perform regularly on Tuesday nights at the North Star and assign them a comparison to a Jazz great. Wil Gibson has joined me on this as co-decider and so listing them we have to start from the beginning with Peddlar Bridges who is our Cab Calloway. If you don't know Cab Calloway was a genius of performance with loud crazy outfits and incredible hilarious vocal shifts mid song. He knew how to keep a crowd pumped up even if they were laughing at him. No one fits Peddlar better. Then its Jay Davis and he is our Duke Ellington, artistically versitile and good natured but not only that knows how to put a band together around him that can make good music. He knows how to go to a venue and get excited about other peoples work to keep the scene alive. Nate shuddered a little when we called him Louis Armstrong but that is just his bashful side, before Nate the scene was struggling and he brought this insane passion and skill level that hadn't existed before so young people could look up and say "THAT IS A POET!" and old people could just say "WOW!" Without Nate tuesday nights would be more time for me to sit and sing Journey's Faithfully to myself while my Fiance watches(or tries) to watch CSI.

Moving on Wil could only be Miles Davis who is not the best Jazz musician or mind of all time but is the most accessable the most genius at making music that can not be represed. One of my friends said that Miles brought Jazz to white people and Wil brings real hip hop philosophy to those who don't know it. I like that. Miles had an eye for talent and bringing people up through his band and letting them grow on their own from there. Wayne Shorter is an example. Wil has lent an ear to everyone in this town and heard, digested, and given suggestions to them.

If you think I'm finished your dead ass wrong I have the whole group figured out people. Keep posted to find out more.