"Bird"
"Satchmo"
Soprano sax
That John Coltrane "Blue Train" poster everyone has on their god- damn walls
"Monster" players
Having a son who's a rapper
DJ Jazzy Jeff
Acid Jazz (Bonus: Vol. 1)
French jazz bootlegs
The way people always say the French really appreciate jazz
Playing Dixieland at a funeral
Spit valves
Jazz singers
The Jazz Singer
Having good chops
Having puffy cheeks
Having to wear sunglasses all the time
Blues and Soul Cheese
Harmonica solos
Slide guitar
Songs about drinking
Songs about a woman
Songs about a drinking woman
Songs about a mean drinking woman
Songs about a mean drinking woman with one leg (Bonus: in Memphis)
Beale Street
Jeri Curl
Honkies
The Blues Brothers
Marvin Gaye tributes
Don Cornelius
Soul groups that employ bubble-lettering
Singers that "got da blues so bad" they got to do something about it (Bonus: like write a song!)
Blues songs with "Blues" in their titles
Being sad all the time
Growling when you forget the lyrics
Excerpted from the book For the Love of Cheese, by the editors of Might magazine, published this month by Boulevard Books.
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