TIME SIGNATURES
‘Out of Nowhere’, The
Dave Brubeck Quartet, 1954
For Roger Street
-
Seán Street (U.K.)
The jazz those
mornings bequeathed to us, deferred
conversations
improvised like variations on a theme,
new riffs, fugues and
repetitions, always
finding a way to make
a song out of kinship.
You know that moment
on Jazz Goes to College,
side one, track two,
near the end: question and answer ,
call and response
between Paul and Dave?
That’s us right
there, duetting as we come to the coda.
An overdue flowering
of friends’ counterpoint,
a lifetime to
discover one another river’s
width apart. What if
it’s late in the day
to sign our names on
Time? No matter, worth it.