Edgar Cool's
Jazz Boat Journals

March

     As Chet Baker's, Let's Get Lost plays in the background it's another late night for Edgar Cool aboard the Jazz Boat. It is late winter and "all that is not given is lost" has been Edgar Cool's them all weekend. The ducks, geese, and sparrows were given more seed than they needed.

The moon is shining through the Silver Birch Trees. Edgar has let go of control in his life. He wonders why it is so different to love, than to be loved, still he is vulnerable. His God has given him an inner peace that translates into a love of people.

Round Midnight the moon lays behind the clouds. Across the lake he sees the amber furnaces that makes the black grit used to polish the earth edges. The glass ball earth is prepared for it's séances. Ravens fly in circles dropping chaos on the water mirror. The island's reflection disappears. Later the moon is back. Doves fly across the moon eye and spot the new landscape and can't remember what was there.

BILL EVANS

Jazz City is silent
now that Debby's Waltz
is done.
On the last night
Bill grooved while
the Death Birds
ate his hands.
Without missing a note
he played it with his feet.
Bill jammed
getting stronger
until the final chord.
Jazz City is silent
now that Debby's Waltz
is done.

Back to top