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...Maynard Ferguson, 35, plays the most complex and modern arrangements of any big band since Kenton's, though Ferguson sometimes swamps his sidemen with his outer-space approach to the trumpet. Every so often, like Kirk Douglas in Young Man with a Horn, he gets up and tries for the groovy sound of an ambulance siren. But most of the time the boys roll along smoothly in spite...
...that are the raw material for his books. Cheever even then seemed to have an infinite capacity for wonder, was constantly fascinated with how close reality came to the fantastic. He began to place an occasional story-earning him $25 in Story or little more than prestige in Hound & Horn. With such encouragement and support, he moved into New York's Greenwich Village, met Dos Passes, E. E. Cummings, James Agee, Hart Crane, Ben Shahn, Gaston Lachaise...
...word about professorial metaphors: the reader does not expect flowing and melodious prose in a book of this kind, but he could request Woodworth not to write sentences like "Local companies need not espouse either horn of the dilemma..." And in making a very simple point on page 96, Woodworth uses an extended metaphor which includes cores, roots, flowers, fruit, tangents, shooting stars, and satellites...
...Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. Drummer Kenny Clarke and Guitarist Charlie Christian were all regulars and, in fitful collaboration with them, Monk presided at the birth of bop. His playing was a needling inspiration to the others. Rhythms scrambled forward at his touch; the oblique boldness of his harmonies forced the horn players into flights the likes of which had never been heard before. "The Monk runs deep," Bird would say, and with some reluctance Monk became "the High Priest of Bebop." The name of the new sound, Monk now says, was a slight misunderstanding of his invention: "I was calling...
Onstage, he storms inwardly, glaring at his audience, wincing at his trumpet, stabbing and tugging at his ear. Often his solos degenerate into a curse blown again and again through his horn in four soft beats. But Miles can break hearts...