{"id":267,"date":"2009-11-11T11:50:34","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T16:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/2009\/11\/midnight_est_deadline_blues_co\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T16:33:24","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T20:33:24","slug":"midnight_est_deadline_blues_co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2009\/11\/midnight_est_deadline_blues_co.html","title":{"rendered":"Midnight (EST) deadline, blues contest entries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prizes of Jazz at Lincoln Center tix for this weekend and dvds of Wynton Marsalis with Willie Nelson for the best blues lyrics or prose poem will be determined at 12:01 tonight (11\/11\/09). Several stunning (!?!) efforts have been received &#8212; via the comments box below &#8212; but<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> I&#8217;m not publishing any of them until all the tries are in and the winners have been chosen<\/span>. Is it hard to write a blues lyric? See my examples from yesterday, or search the web for classics, which are plentiful. Three to five choruses fitting a standard 12-bar blues form, or a bluesy prose poem of 100 to 150 words are what I want to see &#8212; alto sax soulman Maceo Parker playing in the elegant Allen Room, and Wynton leading the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra in music by Mary Lou Williams, with featured soloists Geri Allen and Geoff Keezer are first prizes; second and third are dvds of Wynton and Willie (with guest Norah Jones), autographed by Mr. Jazz at Lincoln Center himself.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Submit your blues now! Don&#8217;t delay and cry like this &#8211;\u00c2\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;\"><p>I didn&#8217;t send my entry to see a weekend show<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;\"><p>Didn&#8217;t send my entry to hear ol&#8217; Maceo blow<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;\"><p>Now it&#8217;s Saturday, I&#8217;m lonely, and got no place to go.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;\"><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;\"><p>I coulda been at Lincoln Center, listening with the jazz elite<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;\"><p>The Allen Room or Rose Hall, as music halls they&#8217;re sweet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;\"><p>Could be watching Wynton &#8216;n&#8217; Willie, even that would be a treat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;\"><p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;\"><p>If I&#8217;d writ a blues or poem, I wouldn&#8217;t be here now<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;\"><p>If I&#8217;d write a blues or poem, I wouldn&#8217;t be here now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"webkit-indent-blockquote\" style=\"margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;\"><p>Awful glad I had a chance though, thanks to Mandel anyhow.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.howardmandel.com\" target=\"blank\">howardmandel.com<\/a> <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/JazzBeyondJazz\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe by Email or  RSS<\/a> <br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/archives.html\" target=\"_blank\"> All JBJ posts <\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/w.sharethis.com\/widget\/?tabs=web%2Cpost%2Cemail&amp;charset=utf-8&amp;style=default&amp;publisher=6ed88875-2235-4b29-aaa3-60183b0bcbcc\"><\/script> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prizes of Jazz at Lincoln Center tix for this weekend and dvds of Wynton Marsalis with Willie Nelson for the best blues lyrics or prose poem will be determined at 12:01 tonight (11\/11\/09). Several stunning (!?!) efforts have been received &#8212; via the comments box below &#8212; but I&#8217;m not publishing any of them until [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[581,582,429,116,573,574,571,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"tag-blues-lyrics-contest","8":"tag-geoff-keezer","9":"tag-geri-allen","10":"tag-jazz-at-lincoln-center","11":"tag-maceo-parker","12":"tag-mary-lou-williams","13":"tag-willie-nelson","14":"tag-wynton-marsalis","15":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1i3CL-4j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":265,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2009\/11\/jazz_at_lincoln_center_ducats.html","url_meta":{"origin":267,"position":0},"title":"Jazz at Lincoln Center ducats, Wynton-Willie dvd giveaways!","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"November 7, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Readers of this blog can win 2 tix for JALC's November 14 shows by Maceo Parker or the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra playing Mary Lou Williams, or autographed Wynton-Willie Nelson Play Ray Charles dvds. 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How hard can it be?\"Minutes seem like hours, hours seem like days,Seems my baby would stop her lowdown ways\" -- Muddy Waters, \"Country Blues\"\u00c2\u00a0\"Woke up this\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;main&quot;","block_context":{"text":"main","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/category\/main"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":271,"url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2009\/11\/wynton_le_chevalier_marsalis.html","url_meta":{"origin":267,"position":2},"title":"Wynton le Chevalier Marsalis","author":"Howard Mandel","date":"November 19, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"A survey in my latest City Arts column\u00c2\u00a0of the music of trumpeter-composer Wynton Marsalis, in the jazz spotlight for 25 years. 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