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...office, Mann has attracted a devoted following from "the lay and fringe public" with a unique amalgam of jazz and ethnic music. Last week, in Manhattan's cavernous Village Gate, the Herbie Mann Septet was serving up one of its typical jazz potpourris: gently infectious bossa nova, thumping Afro-Cuban, variations on a North African tribal chant, a Middle Eastern treatment of the theme from Fiddler on the Roof, a brooding interpretation of a classical piano piece writ ten in 1888 by French Composer Erik Satie. Mann also introduced a new gimmick: he played a flute improvisation against...
...combo's "ethnic jazz" gained a wide audience. But in the mounting din of his drummers Mann found himself becoming "a sideman in my own group" and he fled to Brazil. He came back playing a new music that helped touch off the bossa-nova craze...
...NOVA EXPRESS by William S. Burroughs. 187 pages. Grove...
This unholy trinity constitutes the Nova Mob, a sort of celestial Cosa Nostra, and the book begins with "total disaster now on tracks" for earth, and "the whole planet absolutely flapping hysterical with panic." Any reader who hopes to learn in the end whether the Nova Mob outwits the efforts of Has san's Nova Police to save the world reveals a hidebound, unhip fixation with the old plotted fiction...
Occasionally, Burroughs' hollow humor draws a hollow belly laugh, as when one Nova Mobster, The Subliminal Kid, eggs on the civilized world toward a mind-shattering collapse by playing over and over (on loudspeakers that cannot be turned off) unrelated sound tapes of jack hammers, jukeboxes and cocktail-hour persiflage. But mostly the novel is a stream of unpunctuated non sequiturs, in which coherence seems inadvertent and in which Burroughs' scatological and pornographic effects no longer seem to shock...