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...music and starved it of its spirit until its parents no longer recognized it. In defiant self-defense, Negro players were developing something new?"something they can't play," Monk once called it?and at 19, Monk got to the heart of things by joining the house band at Minton...
...note lead him to an unrehearsed next note. This, he feels, completely frees him from the cliche. This may or may not be the key to more meaningful improvisation, but have you ever heard a folk singer talk like that? It sounds like something you might have heard at Minton's in the mid-forties when Gillespie and Parker were exploring the new world...
...large pat of deep yellow Jersey butter and three squat glass jars containing Tiptree 'Little Scarlet' strawberry jam; Cooper's Vintage Oxford marmalade and Norwegian Heather Honey from Fortnum's. The coffeepot and the silver on the tray were Queen Anne and the china was Minton." One memorable meal, in Moonraker, takes 6½ pages for Bond to order...
Meanwhile, in the now ancient Mizner villas behind the Poinsettia Curtain, the Old Guard was mumbling bravely into the Minton: "Palm Beach absorbs these people; they cause hardly a ripple...
...which is small to the point of claustrophobia-knew all about Lolita. It had been published (in English) by Paris' Olympia Press, had been reviewed in the U.S. (TIME, March 18, 1957), but had not found a U.S. firm willing to take a chance on it. But Bookman Minton says he was not aware of Lolita until Reader Ridgewell brought it to his attention. Said Rosemary, happily swizzling a vodka on the rocks: "I thought Nabokov had a very interesting way of writing, very, you know-crystalline...