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BODY AND SOUL: A JAZZ AUTOBIOGRAPHY (RCA Victor). Coleman Hawkins, the granddaddy of the tenor sax, says he got his famous full tone from trying to play over seven other horns. He managed so well that he has outblown and outclassed most other saxophonists of the past three decades. These 16 selections (1927 to 1963) bring back not only the Hawk but McKinney's Cotton Pickers, the Mound City Blue Blowers, and the bands of Fletcher Henderson, Lionel Hampton and Red Allen as well...
...readers of the avant-garde Evergreen Review in on how he does it. His methods for "spontaneous prose": "No periods separating sentence structures already arbitrarily riddled by false colons and timid usually needless commas-but the vigorous space dash separating rhetorical breathing (as jazz musicians drawing breath between outblown phrases). No pause to think of proper word but the infantile pileup of scatological buildup words till satisfaction is gained. If possible write 'without consciousness' in semi-trance...
...years had Carnegie Hall been so jammed-and never so racked by such raucous music. The 200 fans on stage had the most tranquil spot: they were behind the brass. But out in front, the louder it got, the better they liked it. And no band yet had outblown Stan Kenton's for sheer...
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