West End News
Otis “Bu Bu” Turner
At the baby-grand piano,
Sings If You Could See Me Now beneath a triumphal arch,
Separating two rooms of beboppers, night-owls, ‘Players’ who knew what Bu Bu was saying, knew What he was playing, knew Diz and Dameron.
Blues In The Phone Booth
Alvin Jackson, a double-bass playin’ brother,
Brother of Bags, has completed his phone-call,
Leaves the door wide-open for the trumpet player who,
Prefers to jam sitting down - get down sitting down then.
Roy! Brooks! drummin' man
Has set up his drummin’ stuff to one side of Bu Bu’s baby-grand.
Trumpet’s in the phone booth - was that Lonnie, Lonnie Hillyer, inside with his Trumpet,
Pet?
Phone booth action happened on the other side of Bu Bu - at his left hand.
In Walked Charles of the McPherson clan - an alto playin’
Man!
Worst coffee in the world! But the West End Hotel's after-hours' hang,
Provided everything else that this young man’s soul required.
Man!
R. W. White
20 March 2013
At the baby-grand piano,
Sings If You Could See Me Now beneath a triumphal arch,
Separating two rooms of beboppers, night-owls, ‘Players’ who knew what Bu Bu was saying, knew What he was playing, knew Diz and Dameron.
Blues In The Phone Booth
Alvin Jackson, a double-bass playin’ brother,
Brother of Bags, has completed his phone-call,
Leaves the door wide-open for the trumpet player who,
Prefers to jam sitting down - get down sitting down then.
Roy! Brooks! drummin' man
Has set up his drummin’ stuff to one side of Bu Bu’s baby-grand.
Trumpet’s in the phone booth - was that Lonnie, Lonnie Hillyer, inside with his Trumpet,
Pet?
Phone booth action happened on the other side of Bu Bu - at his left hand.
In Walked Charles of the McPherson clan - an alto playin’
Man!
Worst coffee in the world! But the West End Hotel's after-hours' hang,
Provided everything else that this young man’s soul required.
Man!
R. W. White
20 March 2013
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