Jazz in the City

Jazz in the city
is about more than music;
about more than notes
dancing.
It's about more than 12 bars
or the blues progression.
Jazz in the city is about
sounds of barbecue
sounds of traffic
sounds of sirens and sounds
of someone yelling something
to someone else.
It's the kind of jazz
that starts slow, childlike,
and finds its way
among the concrete and neon—
among the people that breathe it life.