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DESCRIPTIVE NOTES has new additions: See Entry No. 3 : MEMENTO SUITE, issued in 2022; Entry No. 4: Johnny Case and his Texas Swingtet featuring Billy Briggs, issued in 2016; Entry No. 5: LAST NITES by Johnny Case (solo piano recorded live at Sardines Ristorante Italiano). This was recorded September 19, 2001 - one week and one day after the September 11 attack on the World Trade Center. My notes, dated November 2001, address the circumstances which led me to make this record and how an unsavory business alliance brought about the demise of the original Sardines.

POEM FORUM

POSTHUMOUS DEBUT

In last night’s dream my brother

Appears months belatedly

For the first time since his death.

From a party of strangers

All of whom smile kindly as

Tho we are friends-to-be:

“Who is he?” one wants to know.

I say to them: “That’s my Bro!”

Would an aura of love be withheld

Had this man been in their lives?

“His name is Jerry Case.”

Any ills the skies will erase,

For this is what’s left to know:

“In many ways he’s my hero.”

Closure

I hasten to sit at his side

Among the bereft ones who smile…

Johnny Case 12-12-2024

Johnny Case