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Pure speed was also an impressive part of bassist Gary Peacock's playing. It pulled him with flying colors through a long unaccompanied solo in "L". This kind of unaccompanied chorus demands technical proficiency, in addition to purely musical content. For no matter how much thought backs the melodic line, the audience loses the rhythmic and harmonic context normally provided by other instruments; the solo then sounds like a lot of notes in a vacuum. But Peacock's fast playing, by bringing the notes closer together, adds the harmonic element, almost like broken chords...
...gossip was inspired. "I came to know Proust during the War: dirty, untidy, with a voice like a peacock. His conversations were like his letters, interminable explanations of why he could not stay longer. He had an absolutely oily timidity, and made a great show of aplomb which was entirely secondhand...
...PEACOCK'S TAIL by Edward Hoag/and. 257 pages. McGraw-Hill...
...fellowships, and is currently living in Greece on a grant from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Critics found his earlier books, The Cat Man (about circus life) and The Circle Home (about boxing), flat on characterization and rickety on plot, but praised him as a stylist. The Peacock's Tail is the story of a youne New Yorker's trials after he loses his girl Sandy to a Jewish rival. He becomes a refugee in a West Side hotel inhabited by whores and derelicts. Most of the book recounts his oscillating between Sandy's upper...
...mother of Dante Alighieri, not long before his birth, had a dream in which her son, having eaten the berries of a laurel tree, grew up and was miraculously transformed into a shimmering peacock...