Luis lopez nieves biography of william

  • Influential and best selling Puerto Rican author.
  • It's the birthday of Luis López Nieves, (books by this author) born in San Juan, Puerto Rico (1950).
  • He was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, the son of the late Hipolito Lopez and Filona (Nieves) Lopez.

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    Don't play too much, don't play
    too loud, don't play the melody.
    You have to anticipate her
    and to subdue yourself.
    She used to give me her smoky
    eye when I got boisterous,
    so I learned to play on tip-
    toe and to play the better half
    of what I might. I don't like
    to complain, though I notice
    that I get around to it somehow.
    We made a living and good music,
    both, night after night, the blue
    curlicues of smoke rubbing their
    staling and wispy backs
    against the ceilings, the flat
    drinks and scarce taxis, the jazz life
    we bitch about the way Army pals
    complain about the food and then
    re-up. Some people like to say
    with smut in their voices how playing
    the way we did at our best is partly
    sexual. OK, I could tell them
    a tale or two, and I've heard
    the records Lester cut with Lady Day
    and all that rap, and it's partly
    sexual but it's mostly practice
    and music. As for partly sexual,
    I'll take wholly sexual any day,
    but that's a duet and we're talking
    accompaniment. Remember "Reckless
    Blues"? Bessie Smith sings out "Daddy"
    and Louis Armstrong plays back "Daddy"
    as clear through his horn as if he'd
    spoken it. But it's her daddy and her
    story. When you play it you become
    your part in it, one of her beautiful
    troubles, and then, however much mus

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