Word: cecil
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...black hand curled into the sign that says fuck you. Take a look, not only because it is the most graphic illustration of everything that The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger ends up being about, but also because, by the end of the book -by the time Cecil Brown has led you through the garish circus of lies, illusions, and rip offs that go reeling through the world of his characters - it will be good to have a "message" that definite and unequivocal to hang on to. Fuck you. And you. And you. And you. In this book...
...Cecil Brown has a very subtle way of creating total chaos within your imagination without you ever realizing how it all came about. The style and general format of the novel are easy and without interruption; yet somehow, amid the general flow of things, realities are contorted, perspectives tiltcrazily, and the whole tone of the novel can shuttle back and forth from snide humor to outright malevolence. "All is jive," says Mr. Jiveass Nigger, and from the beginning of the book until its end, you're never quite sure if you might not just be the one who's being...
...black policemen in those cities is 10%, 17%, 5%, 10% and 21% respectively. Of the nation's 300.000 lawyers, only 3,000 are black-one of the smallest black ratios of any U.S. profession. Of the Government's 93 U.S. Attorneys, none is black; the most recent (Cecil Poole of San Francisco) has just been replaced by a white. Thurgood Marshall sits on the Supreme Court, but of 459 federal judges, only 22 are black. Among the country's 12,000 state and city judges, only 178 are black. As for prison administration, California is a good...
...bebop, jazz was wedded to the classics through the progressive jazz of Brubeck, the Modern Jazz Quartet and others. It took on an increasingly formal, warmed-over character. At that moment, the need for the New Thing first stirred among future jazz movers like Alto Saxophonist Ornette Coleman, Pianist Cecil Taylor and Tenor Saxophonist John Coltrane...
...Thing is indeed a mysterious and almost spiritual happening that occurs when the musicians are in tune with themselves and one another. "I'm an instant person," explains Trumpeter Cherry with gentle bluntness. "When something goes through me I want to be able to express it." What Cecil Taylor wants to express is often something akin to the presence of the Almighty. "In the West, God is to be bowed down to. But really, God is an energy that goes through you and lifts the performer into a higher plane than he could ordinarily achieve...