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AfroCentric Jazz Club Blues

Disappearing to the soul of the music. 🎷

By Antoni De'LeonPublished 5 months ago 2 min read

A beautiful Afro Black woman, dressed in a stylish tweed suit, sits at a grand piano in a dimly lit jazz club. She is playing a melancholic tune. The club is filled with Afrocentric patrons, all dressed in elegant attire, sipping cocktails and conversing in hushed tones.

The scene is darkly noir, as of a vintage photograph, with soft focus and a warm, sepia-toned color palette. The style is Art Deco and golden age illustration, with a touch of surrealism, evoking a quiet disappearing of the self..

The music beckons you to a place beyond your inner self. To peace and celestial imaginings.

🎷 The saxophone emerges like a distant voice lost in fog...low, trembling, and edged with a kind of yearning that feels older than memory. It doesn’t cry exactly; it evokes sorrow in silver tones, slipping between shadows as if searching for something, yet knowing not what.

🎶 A brushed Snare pulses gently like raindrops tapping on new glass, while the upright bass hums beneath it all, each pluck resonating like the echo of a prayer in a vast, empty room. There's no hurry here. The tempo drifts, suspended in a melancholic trance.

🎶 🎶The piano enters in soft waves...minor chords cascading like moonlight down marble steps. Its phrasing is hesitant, as though recalling dreams too tender to speak aloud. Occasionally, a sudden flourish of notes flare like a shooting star, then fades, leaving only quiet awe.

This is not jazz that swings, struts, or seduces. This jazz haunts. It unfolds like incense in an ancient chapel, each phrase laced with ache and wonder, inviting you to dissolve into its spell. You don't listen to this music...you fall through it.

This is the kind of haunting melody that echoes through quiet halls or drift from a ghostly jazz club tucked behind Velvet.

It begins with a tremble...a slow unraveling of notes like mist weaving through lanternlight. The saxophone sighs, a sound that feels like a memory yearning to become real again, pulling you gently toward a place beyond edges. Here, rhythm isn’t a pulse - it’s a tide. It carries you softly, not forward but inward, into warm velvet shadows where the soul forgets its weight.

🩶 The piano dances in fragments, echoing distant footsteps on marbled halls...each chord beckons like a door opening to dreams. Cymbals shimmer like falling stars, and the bass croons with the patience of ancient wind, low and loyal.

The melody doesn’t just play - it reaches. It enfolds. It becomes the hush between heartbeats, the space between longing and finding. You do not resist. You dissolve.

And in this vanishing, you find the embrace - not absence, but arrival in a realm where sorrow glows and beauty breathes slow. Maybe it’s a quiet corner, or a phantom balcony in a jazz club spun from silk and salt air. Wherever it is, it waits for you.

Veiled in inconsistent dissonance and cognitive potential..

You vanish...adrift in melodious bliss.

🎶🎶🎷🎷

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About the Creator

Antoni De'Leon

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. (Helen Keller).

Tiffany, Dhar, JBaz, Rommie, Grz, Paul, Mike, Sid, NA, Michelle L, Caitlin, Sarah P. List unfinished.

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  • Jamye Sharp2 months ago

    Very good at getting the reader into the mood of the place and sounds. Is this from a personal experience?

  • Dylan 3 months ago

    Wonderful descriptions of the music and the scene, beautiful ballad.

  • Grz Colm4 months ago

    Wonderful and transcendent! Loved this line Antoni, “You don't listen to this music...you fall through it.” Yes please, I wanna go here!😁

  • Mariann Carroll5 months ago

    I would like to enter your poem 🥰

  • Sandy Gillman5 months ago

    Beautiful, I could actually hear the music.

  • Novel Allen5 months ago

    I hear the piano a'playing...the trumpet sounding...the blues a'drowning the night in smoothness...its the glory hallelujah sounds. Marvelous.

  • This was so haunting, melodious, and blissful. Loved this so much!

  • Tiffany Gordon5 months ago

    Alright Antoni! This was a slam dunk! You put me in a meditative trance and therapeutically massaged my tension-filled temples with this one! Get it gurl What a gift you have! Your pen game is strong! 💪🏾🫶🏾🌸

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