SHAM-94.
Gerry bloops the low
Note on bari. Too much SPAM
In Mulligan's stew.
SHAM-95.
Mingus' elegy
For friend who loved to wear SPAM:
"Good Bye SPAM-pie Hat."
SHAM-96.
Maynard Ferguson
Blows too hard, explodes his lips.
SPAM-lips save the day.
SHAM-97.
Dizzy's mom beat him
When he threw up the SPAM. Hence
The trademark puffed cheeks.
SHAM-98.
Cole Porter's will left
Hormel big bucks. Why? "I get
a kick out of SPAM."
SHAM-99.
Miles, while battling SPAM
addiction, cuts the landmark
disc, Sketches of Pain.
SHAM-100.
SPAM is to luncheon
meats, as Lalo Schifrin is
to jazz musicians.
SHAM-124.
Cole Porter, too, was
confounded by it. Asked, "What
is this thing called SPAM?"
759.
What if Parker, Monk,
and Coltrane partook of SPAM?
bilious bebop
760.
Coltrane nixes the
carrot juice; tries SPAM cocktail.
writes "A Loaf Supreme"
761.
Ornette Coleman plays
"The Shape of Free SPAM To Come"
Fans run to Zamfir
762.
What is more awful
than the sound of squishing SPAM?
a Kenny G tune
764.
Ornette's harmony
some say "indigestible!"
it's SPAMolodics
765.
fifty-second street
cooking pot of new bop jazz
at Minton's SPAMhouse
766.
Dexter Gordon moves
to Paris: less racism?
no, just much less SPAM
767.
Louis Armstrong finds
way to entertain millions:
sing, play, eat SPAM, sing
768.
SPAM deserves much thanks
it gave Billie Holiday
the right to feel blue
769.
Miles needs a new tune
sees Bill Evans munching SPAM:
now that's "Kind of Blue"
770.
Sidney Bechet plays:
can't find the cork grease--panic!
SPAM to the rescue
771.
Metheny hunts for
years but can't reproduce SPAM
on Synclavier.
772.
Lyle Mays finds the sound
quite easily. Releases
Fictionary bomb.
773.
Metheny Group has
a secret weapon: David
Bowie on SPAM can.
774.
brasiliana
amorphously glistening
the sound of Spam Getz
776.
"Hey, Thelonius,
how'd ya like your SPAM cocktail?"
Says, "Straight, No Chaser."
777.
Was Bitches Brew by
Miles D. inspired by one too
many SPAM cocktails?
778.
Gershwin devours SPAM,
looks at can, writes "Rhapsody
in Blue and Yellow."
779.
George Gershwin's fondness
for SPAM inspires famous song
"I Loves You, Porky."
814.
Hormel sponsors new
Marsalis SPAM-dard Time by
Wynton and Branford
815.
"Soft and bland/And square
and pink"--words to Jobim's "SPAM
from Ipanema"
816.
Sinatra, Dorsey
split some SPAM, then record "I'll
Never Smile Again"
857.
Joe Zawinul is
hungry: eats much SPAM--"Mercy
mercy mercy" penned
1429.
broke jazz dudes read ad:
"earn bucks as Hormel pitchmen!"
must take disco gig
1739.
miles davis album
name shows he ate spam daily
called it "can of blue"
1740.
miles davis loved spam
felt it would add years to life
of course he's dead now
1825.
It jumped from the pan,
Took over the microphone.
Weird: scat-singing SPAM.
2134.
gerry mulligan
gone much too soon; unlike SPAM,
he's blooped his last note