The Goblin June-July 1922 . QPBK* Blues and Blues and Blues A Study in Jazz. THE OTHER night when I was attempting to ob-tain some much needed sleep my room-mate camehome in an entirely different frame of mind. Hewas singing in a beautiful bathroom tenor a recent pop-ular song. I awoke to hear the final strains: They needed a song-bird in Hea-ven So God took Caruso aw-ay. Archibald, said I, Is that really a popular song? It is, said he, shall I sing it again? Heaven forbid! said I fervently, drawing my headunder the blankets, You have done enough harmalready. My dreams were troubled that night
The Goblin June-July 1922 . QPBK* Blues and Blues and Blues A Study in Jazz. THE OTHER night when I was attempting to ob-tain some much needed sleep my room-mate camehome in an entirely different frame of mind. Hewas singing in a beautiful bathroom tenor a recent pop-ular song. I awoke to hear the final strains: They needed a song-bird in Hea-ven So God took Caruso aw-ay. Archibald, said I, Is that really a popular song? It is, said he, shall I sing it again? Heaven forbid! said I fervently, drawing my headunder the blankets, You have done enough harmalready. My dreams were troubled that night. It seemed thatas I wandered in a wood, I .came suddenly upon thehouse of the Mad Jazzer. I knew immediately whosehouse it was because it was built in the shape of a pianoand the chimneys resembled saxaphones. A party ofthree, the Jazzer, the Trombonist and the Jazz Babywere gathered about a piano on the front lawn. Everynow and then they would strike up a tune and the JazzBaby would shimmy around the lawn. As I approachedthey all swayed with a motion approaching a Chica
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