‘like a girl saying yes’

is the way Condon
put it

hearing Bix’s coronet
for the first time

a mellow tone
lofted gently from the bell

of the horn
like a girl saying yes

or as Louis said
followed (no doubt)

by his cackle laugh
“I’m tellin’ you

those pretty notes
went right thru me”

“‘like a girl saying yes'” was first published in Brilliant Corners.