Greg’s Reviews > Jazz > Status Update

"It's good they don't need much space to dance in because there isn't any. The room is packed. Men groan their satisfaction, women hum anticipation. The music bends, falls to its knees to embrace them all, encourages them all to live a little, why don't you? since this is the it you've been looking for."

"While her aunt worried about how to keep the heart ignorant of the hips and the head in charge of both, Dorcas lay on a chenille bedspread, tickled and happy knowing that there was no place to be where somewhere, close by, somebody was not licking his licorice stick, tickling the ivories, beating his skins, blowing off his horn while a knowing woman sang ain't nobody going to keep me down..."