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DIED. ARTHUR TAYLOR, 65; jazz drummer and bandleader; in New York City. Known for swinging "like a strong breeze," in the words of one critic, Taylor recorded albums with John Coltrane, Miles Davis and Thelonius Monk. As the leader of his own group, Taylor's Wailers, he was a mentor to many younger musicians...
...from Thelonius Monk's funky score to the pseudo-orgy in a New York jazz bar, Dangerous Liaisons 1960 is a very fun, very sly, and very sexy motion picture...
...whole of this Dunster House production is marked by tight direction, lively acting and capable technical work (especially by the sound people, who dug up some great Thelonius Monk as background music for Felix's unlikely attempts at seduction). Everett is especially good in the lead, believably lovable and neurotic, but he really couldn't steal the show from this well-balanced cast...
Ginsberg: I learned from Kerouac, whose poetry is greatly unackowledged, what poets call "phonic knowledge." Nobody studies it in the universities, but every poet studies Kerouac's seminal book, Mexico City Blues. Kerouac's had completly free form and he listened to jazz artists like Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk and Miles Davis. The idea behind the jazz was spontaneous improvisation and long breath. That had an influence on the line in "Howl" and any other long-line poems I've done. Thelonius Monk's idea of thinking then silence, thinking then silence affected "Kaddish." It would go: clonk, clonk...clonkcklonkcklonk...
...composer will discover music as a mood, Blake concluded, so that a whole range of possibilities becomes possible. Blake finished his lecture by playing one of his own compositions on the piano, "Arlene," and said that his own favorite composer is Thelonius Monk...