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Justin E. Schutz's avatar

i can hear them, i can hear them playing, no really i can, and it doesn’t stop, it won’t stop, and it’s runnin and runnin, yeah, i’m runnin and humming..,,,,,,,,..,,,,,

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Justin E. Schutz's avatar

thanks Bret, your writing moves me, i didn't think, i just wrote what i felt reading your piece

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Manuela Thiess Garcia's avatar

Wow, Bret! Beautifully written. Pure science fiction. You have a gift for it, and like most science fiction, it is an apt depiction of the nihilistic world we are facing!

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Marilyn Harris's avatar

So current events are gettin' to you, too, Brother Bret? 🤔 Remember: it ain't over 'til the fat lady sings! 🎶🎵🎹🥁🎤 Don't lose heart! 💕 XOXO - M

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George M's avatar

In a sequel to this dystopian tale, an African woman sits down to start her fictional response. Life and jazz fuse in the soulwaves that come and go from the spirit world beyond to the spirit world that pulses in the world of free people everywhere. The French, who embraced Josephine Baker, Django Rinehart and Sidney Bechet in the earlier 20th century were quick to respond to the crushing of the 21st century Jazz Revolution in the former USA. The Caribbean and South African drums had never stopped; but now they sprang up and caught the impetus of a jazz-inflected sound that called them to reshape their music. Brits, Scandinavians and South Americans heard rhythms that sounded in their memories, and by and by new sounds syncopated their ways into the bloodstreams of humans not drugged into American conformism and hypocrisy. New liveliness swung into being.

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Bret Primack's avatar

Go George go!

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Justin E. Schutz's avatar

thought is the enemy of flow, you, George are flowing, i love it

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Su Terry's avatar

Outlawing jazz....well as we know (Nazi Germany, Communist Russia) it won't be the first time. And like the Phoenix it keeps coming back.

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Bret Primack's avatar

Bird Lives!

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Arthur Rosch's avatar

Trump wouldn't know what a "chorus" is or represents in song terms.

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wayne dooley's avatar

Brilliant! I need to drag out every saved program from the many Kennedy Center performances. I had tended years ago to remember better times.

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Ric Ross's avatar

This is what happened with Hitler 90 years ago....right??????

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Bret Primack's avatar

Exactly. A sickening parallel.

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R.J. Marx's avatar

Says it all...:(

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Michael Kleine's avatar

Wow! Thanks for that... And greets from Germany... Michael, 33rpmPVC.de & Flöz K Booking

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Ken Chernoff's avatar

Bret lives!

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Arthur Rosch's avatar

WEll struck, Bret. I once attempted a novelette in which the hero wakes up in world suddenly devoid of all black people. He didn't understand why his jazz radio station was playing polkas. It was a literary idea beyond my skills so I gave it up after about twenty pages.

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Bret Primack's avatar

I like the concept.

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Bradley Stern's avatar

I love this so much. Thank you, Bret. Great writing!

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Bret Primack's avatar

When I heard Trump is taking over the Kennedy Center, I just had to write this.

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Naomi's avatar

Wooooow!!

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