After The Concert Poem by Terry Collett

After the concert you went
around the back and there
was the bus with John Lewis
talking to some guy by the

door and having got by them
you climbed aboard the bus
and saw the other members
of the MJQ and having made

your way towards them Percy
Heath gave you a big smile and
you said who you were and he
gave you the low down on his

double bass and signed your
programme and so did Connie
Kay although he didn't have a
lot to say and then there was

Milt Jackson who was sitting
in a side seat a guy you wanted
to meet who had played with
most of the jazz greats years

before and he said a few words
and signed with a quick squiggle
and then as you departed the bus
John Lewis all gentlemanly and

soft spoken signed the programme
too and then you were off back
home to play the record of the
MHQ you'd bought carrying your

images of the MJQ guys in your
memory that you'd caught.