SPAM Haiku: Jazz

SHAM-93.
New Metheny disc:
As Spreads SPAM So Spreads SPAM Spread.
Downbeat gives five hurls.

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

--Screamin' Phil Erickson, pje@hyperion.haystack.edu

760.
Coltrane nixes the
carrot juice; tries SPAM cocktail.
writes "A Loaf Supreme"

--Screamin' Phil Erickson, pje@hyperion.haystack.edu

761.
Ornette Coleman plays
"The Shape of Free SPAM To Come"
Fans run to Zamfir

--Screamin' Phil Erickson, pje@hyperion.haystack.edu

762.
What is more awful
than the sound of squishing SPAM?
a Kenny G tune

--Screamin' Phil Erickson, pje@hyperion.haystack.edu

764.
Ornette's harmony
some say "indigestible!"
it's SPAMolodics

--Screamin' Phil Erickson, pje@hyperion.haystack.edu

765.
fifty-second street
cooking pot of new bop jazz
at Minton's SPAMhouse

--Screamin' Phil Erickson, pje@hyperion.haystack.edu

766.
Dexter Gordon moves
to Paris: less racism?
no, just much less SPAM

--Screamin' Phil Erickson, pje@hyperion.haystack.edu

767.
Louis Armstrong finds
way to entertain millions:
sing, play, eat SPAM, sing

--Screamin' Phil Erickson, pje@hyperion.haystack.edu

768.
SPAM deserves much thanks
it gave Billie Holiday
the right to feel blue

--Screamin' Phil Erickson, pje@hyperion.haystack.edu

769.
Miles needs a new tune
sees Bill Evans munching SPAM:
now that's "Kind of Blue"

--Screamin' Phil Erickson, pje@hyperion.haystack.edu

770.
Sidney Bechet plays:
can't find the cork grease--panic!
SPAM to the rescue

--Screamin' Phil Erickson, pje@hyperion.haystack.edu

771.
Metheny hunts for
years but can't reproduce SPAM
on Synclavier.

--Screamin' Phil Erickson, pje@hyperion.haystack.edu

772.
Lyle Mays finds the sound
quite easily. Releases
Fictionary bomb.

--Screamin' Phil Erickson, pje@hyperion.haystack.edu

773.
Metheny Group has
a secret weapon: David
Bowie on SPAM can.

--Screamin' Phil Erickson, pje@hyperion.haystack.edu

774.
brasiliana
amorphously glistening
the sound of Spam Getz

--Screamin' Phil Erickson, pje@hyperion.haystack.edu

776.
"Hey, Thelonius,
how'd ya like your SPAM cocktail?"
Says, "Straight, No Chaser."

--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu

777.
Was Bitches Brew by
Miles D. inspired by one too
many SPAM cocktails?

--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu

778.
Gershwin devours SPAM,
looks at can, writes "Rhapsody
in Blue and Yellow."

--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu

779.
George Gershwin's fondness
for SPAM inspires famous song
"I Loves You, Porky."

--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu

814.
Hormel sponsors new
Marsalis SPAM-dard Time by
Wynton and Branford

--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu

815.
"Soft and bland/And square
and pink"--words to Jobim's "SPAM
from Ipanema"

--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu

816.
Sinatra, Dorsey
split some SPAM, then record "I'll
Never Smile Again"

--Chris Fishel, ctf2m@virginia.edu

857.
Joe Zawinul is
hungry: eats much SPAM--"Mercy
mercy mercy" penned

--Screamin' Phil Erickson, pje@hyperion.haystack.edu

1429.
broke jazz dudes read ad:
"earn bucks as Hormel pitchmen!"
must take disco gig

--Screamin' Phil Erickson, pje@hyperion.haystack.edu

1739.
miles davis album
name shows he ate spam daily
called it "can of blue"

--Gary Bisaga, gbisaga@mitre.org

1740.
miles davis loved spam
felt it would add years to life
of course he's dead now

--Gary Bisaga, gbisaga@mitre.org

1825.
It jumped from the pan,
Took over the microphone.
Weird: scat-singing SPAM.

--Paul, lewisp@servms.fiu.edu

2134.
gerry mulligan
gone much too soon; unlike SPAM,
he's blooped his last note

--screamin' phil erickson, pje@hyperion.haystack.edu


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