Tag Archives: Jazz

Questioning the Process

Posted on May 29, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

Questioning the Processby Michael DoyleIn and out of our lives, we hearThose thoughts around us that persevere.Pushing and prodding us with possibility,And we gravitate toward what has plausibility.There are no promises, only process.We take our nibbles here and there to … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Action, Best, Deference, Depth, Destination, Document, Dream, Endless Question, Experience, Familiies, Gravitate, Hear, Images, Improvisation, Intention, Jazz, Know, Life, Lives, Love, Memories, Mess, Nibbles, Persevere, Photographs, Plausibility, Pocket, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Promise, Question, Reach Out, Satisfaction, Syncopation, Test, The Process, Thoughts, Travel, Valid, Voyage | Leave a comment

From High To Low

Posted on April 24, 2025 by alohapromisesforever

From High To Lowby Michael DoyleToo many people believe in the nicheAnd from there won’t budge an inch.Truth? It pays to know about everythingBecause then, you can choose what to bringTo the party of life’s extremes.From this, you can learn … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Ability, Absuidity, Accumulation, Beat, Believe, Born, Budge, Despite, Developed, Dreams, Extraordinary, Extremes, Fusion, High, History, Horn, Improvised, Inch, Jazz, Know, Legendary, Low, Miss, More, Music, Nation, Needed, Niche, Ordinary, Plain English, Poetry, Poetry and Poems, Reality, Richness, Sensibility, Skill Set, Spread, Street Urchin, Syncopated, Truth, Wise, Writing | Leave a comment

Looking Back On Quincy U

Posted on November 5, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

Looking Back on Quincy Uby Michael DoyleMentor and teacherTo rocker and preacherWith a deepness of eyesThat made it easy to realizeRather rock or jazzHis licks and hooks had pizzazzCreating hits like a grand slamQuincy’s life was the master jamMusic is … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Believed, Conceived, Conjecture, Control, Desire, Ego, Emotional Architecture, Every Night, Eyes, Feel, Fire, Given or Stolen, Golden Trace, Grand Slam, Human Tapestry, Jazz, Licks and Hooks, Looking Back, Love, Love and Grace, Master Jam, Mentor and Teacher, Music, Must, Note, Poetry and Poems, Preacher, Quincy Jones, Quincy U, Realize, Received, Record Deal, Respect, reviews, Rhythm, Rock, Rocker, Score, Soul, Sound Right, Sunshine and Smiles, Thriller, Trigger, Trust | Leave a comment

Thought For the Day: Jazz Is the Only Music In Which the Same Note Can Be Played Night After Night But Differently Each Time

Posted on October 17, 2024 by alohapromisesforever

“Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.” – Ornette Coleman

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Different, Each Time, Jazz, Music, Night, Ornette Coleman, Play, Same Note, Thought For the Day | Leave a comment

When High Brow Meets Low Brow

Posted on December 21, 2023 by alohapromisesforever

When High Brow Meets Low Browby Michael DoyleBoundaries of jazz smashed into neoclassical rockAnd the people who listened began with the talkTrying to be impressive though they couldn’t define itListening harder, the intellectuals began to refine itThere it was in … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged Boundaris, Closer, Define, Eloquence, Extravagance, Goal, High Brow, Higher Art, Implausible, Impressive, Intellectual, Intensity, Jazz, Listen, Low Brow, Lyrics, Neoclassical Rock, Odd Instruments, Poetry and Poems, Refine, Sacred Chord, Sonic Burts, Talk, Threhold | Leave a comment

Split the Difference

Posted on January 3, 2021 by alohapromisesforever

Split the Differenceby Michael DoyleKicking back with my girls on the holidaysSharing life with them in a million waysWhen we happened on a soulful snip of movieWith a lot of heart that played out groovyThere in the middle of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 3-D, Abstract, Beat, Celestial Concept, Complicated Hearts, Culture, Difference, Displayed, Dreams, Each of Us, Enough, Every Bit, Everyone, Explore, Fascination, Fluff, Forgot, Future, Get Jazzy, Great Before, Greater, Groovy, Hear, Holidays, Improvised Part, In REach, Inference, Ink Dab, Jazz, Joy, Keep, Kicking Back, Known, Learn, Lennon, Lesson, Life, Living Our Soul, Lot of Heart, Lyric, Meaning of Life, Middle, Million Ways, Moment, Movie, My Girls, Nature, Needed Role, Nurture, Our Meaning To Others, Panorama, Parts, Photograph, Plausibility, Play, Played Out, Plot, Poetry and Poems, Possibility, Postulation, Preach, Present, Probability, Pseudo-Intellectual, Punditry, Repartee, Say, Screens, Shadows, Sharing Life, Soul, Soulful, Split, Splitting the Difference, Stories, Subtle, Sum, Super Stars, Teach, The Streets, Tough, Twist, Waiting, Wonders of Life | Leave a comment

All That Mistaken Jazz

Posted on June 4, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

In this day and age, there is so little convention of civility that is kept and each indiscretion perhaps leads further to those things that act in concert to break down society. All That Mistaken Jazz by Michael Doyle Conversations … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged All, Alone, Animal Magnetism, Avoidance, Broken, Civility, Convention, Conversation, Desperate, Dignity, Dreams, Felt Deeply, Fit, Focus, Heart of Stone, Hesitation, Hidden, Host, Importance, Indiscretion, Jazz, Life, Live, Losses, Mistake, Most, Past, Phase, Photograph, Phrase, Poem, Poetry, Pragmatism, Price Paid, Privacy, Question, Quit, Random Chance, Sad, Sake, Seldom, Shattered, Society, Space, Spoken, Treasure, Trite, Voice, Want, Whimper, Winners, Words | Leave a comment

What Color Is A Soul?

Posted on April 15, 2020 by alohapromisesforever

We’re half way through NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo 2020 and it’s April 15th. The stated optional objective is to write a poem reflective of the color of any particular brand of our choosing. This brought to mind an argument brewing since the … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry and Poems | Tagged 2020, Again, American Dream, Behind, Belief, Best, Black, Black Price, Blind, Bliss, Blow, Blues, Breakdown, Breath, Cats, Color, Color Barrier, Control, Creole, Crim, Crow Jim, Distinction, Down Side, Extinction, Feeling, Foster, Grief, Heartless, History, Hyphen, Idiom, Inexcusable, Integration, Jazz, Jazzy, Know, Legends, Living, Mistake, Musical, NaPoWriMo/GloPoWriMo, New Orleans, Notes, Objectionable, Optimism, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Political Correctness, Questionable, Race, Race Consciousness, Racial Preference, Racial Test, Racism, Razz-ma-Tazz, Reality, Reference, Satchmo, Segregation, Sight, Soul, Soulful, South, Stomp, Time, Truth, Uncouth, White, Word of Mouth | Leave a comment

Top Violinists In Popular Music

Posted on November 11, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

The following is a compilation I put together of 100 of the top and most popular violinists in popular music through the 20th and 21st Centuries. This compilation represents a broad cross section of talent that has presented itself in … Continue reading →

Posted in Thought For the Day | Tagged Blues, Classical Cross Over, Country, Education, Fiddle, Folk, Jazz, Music, Popular Music, Rock, Violin | Leave a comment

Daily Prompt – Kinetic

Posted on July 16, 2018 by alohapromisesforever

Scenes like jazz paint musical colors in shades of blues Most of them dynamic and throbbing in kinetic hues Creative notes are strung together in memorable proclamation Breathing in to breath out in life’s heightened exclamation The music rains fire … Continue reading →

Posted in Photographs & Memories | Tagged Clarity, Colors, Daily Prompt, Dissonance, Heat, Hues, Jazz, Kindred, Kinetic, Night, Notes, Proclamation, Stick In the Mud, Summer, Swelter, Tones, Turmoil | Leave a comment