Reaction to For Sidney Bechet

For Sidney Bechet is Philip Larkins tribute to the Jazz Player Sidney Bechet. The persona says how hearing him play can almost transport him to New Orleans and he can imagine that he is there, picturing all the things that are going on around him. I think the line in the first stanza -"And in all ears appropriate falsehood wakes" means that the audience get lost in his music, and sets their imaginations loose, all in their own separate day dreams. Another reference to how the music makes the persona feel is "Is where your speech alone is understood". I think that this is showing that to the persona, the music speaks more clearly and more meaningful than perhaps sometimes words.