Bobby's Beat
Disguised in a Grown Up Suit
Dinner Show Fridays
December 31, 2023
by Bobby Kapp
1
There is nothing new in the world. People can find the fulfillment they seek by looking inward, cleaning house, and enjoy the investment.
Outside in, system brainwash, profit,
To be by having one is had,
it's the season to celebrate being,
Designed to feel glad,
On the Inside, out,
doesn't rhyme cause,
outside in is never enough,
is something to ponder as being
continues...
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2
Remain innocent and childlike through out life and never feel old.
When I was little
I always thought that grownups knew it all,
But my magic world did not exist for them, so tall up there,
Where all was written in stone, and
Nothing left to the unknown,
my beloved place of Oz
and yellow brick,
stick ball in the street,
Car, Car, C A R
Are grownups real with Blues, or
Just fake news,
I'm still me,
like when I was little,
Imagination was my loot
Yes it's still little me,
Disguised in a grown up
Suit
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3
Protection against the representatives of God knocking on your door to save you cause they haven't yet saved themselves.
Some people pray
To not go to hell
I pray cause I already been there
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4
Create a balance between one's personal life and whatever empire one is living in.
Legal Outlaw
Stamp the Papers !!
Don't miss one copy,
Jumps thru all the hoops,
Keep close a patience
To make a Saint Blush,
Park the sword of anger
In a sheath of honey,
Pay ALL the money.
Submit To the Little ones
Behind the desks their
Little power, while being
Publicly robbed of the sacred
Artistic worth in currency,
Freedom locked
safe and sound
In the cosmic vault,
Render unto Caesar still brings
The challange To a draw.
FREEDOM is the real prize of the
Legal Outlaw
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Bobby Kapp Trio with Joan Yonkler, jazz vocals Dinner Show Fridays 6pm
Drummer and vocalist Bobby Kapp, a New Jersey native, was a seminal figure in the 1960s on the New York City jazz scene, recording and performing with legendary saxophonists Dexter Gordon and Archie Shepp, among other jazz greats. He is the recipient of a 4½-star review in Downbeat. Jazz singer Joan Yonkler has performed at Blues Alley in Washington, DC, Bethesda Jazz and Blues Club in Maryland, and at clubs in Rome, New York, and Mexico City. Kapp’s jazz trio features Patricio Méndez on keys and David Barrera Osornio on bass.
Reservation tickets can be acquired at no charge, and are highly encouraged, as the seating capacity is about 40. Click below for the Boleto City reservation page, and select the number of tickets required at checkout. Your name(s) will be placed on an attendance list. Cover charge at the door is $350 MX, and there is a minimum food and drink consumption of $350 MX per person. You can also reserve at the restaurant, or by phone: (52) 415 154 9655.
Bobby Kapp / Robert Kaplan, from Highland Park, New Jersey, was unloading tires from a tractor-trailer one day when he decided to leave home. With a school mate's old Dodge and a silver sparkle Ludwig drum kit, he was off to the Catskill Mountains to make a gig. Then he became the blues in Parkersburg, West Virginia, school music at Berklee in Boston, life music on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and how to use a piece of rope as an emergency fan belt on a VW in Mexico, which is called improvising.
One observer remarked, "The only musician I know who has gone from playing drums on some of world's most abstract music (on records with Marion Brown, Dave Burrell, Noah Howard and Gato Barbieri), drumming and singing with Dexter Gordon in Mexico, to placing in the top ten finalists of the prestigious Thelonious Monk International Vocal Competition, and world tours with bassist Gene Perla and the Fine Wine Trio. Some jazz magazine should pick up on this guy's story by now."
Anyway, Robert became Bobby, who says, "Best of luck on everybody's transitions out there. You know, there is always a new song to be sung, everywhere."
