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...older brother named Branford, who was playing both clarinet and piano by the time he reached second grade. Feeling a few faint nudges of paternal concern that Wynton not fall behind in the musical Futurity Stakes, Ellis hit Hirt for an advance to finance the purchase of a trumpet. "Don't get that boy no trumpet," Davis interrupted. "It's too hard. Let him play something else...
...fact that the warning is dubious is less offensive than the total self-right-cousness with which it was uttered. Who is this Geoffrey Bok '84, (however apparent his lineage) that he feels he must guide us through our undergraduate careers? What right has he to self-righteously trumpet and disparage the Pi Eta when he obviously knows little about it? If he is opposed to the Pi, then why does not he quietly avoid it--although it should be added that if he so wishes, even he would be welcomed to join with open arms...
...Syrians, arms to Nicaragua through the American flotilla offshore, and--for hard cash--sell Muammar Qaddafi whatever he wants. Train a few hundred guerrillas to blow up oil tanks and airline offices in South Africa. Whenever an anti-American issue comes along, jump on the bandwagon. In the Falklands, trumpet principled support for the just anti-colonial cause of the Argentinean and Latin American peoples against the British accomplices of U.S. imperialism. Never mind that the Argentine junta were recently "fascists" bent on disappearing every communist and leftist they could catch...
UNLIKE Nat "King" Cole and the like, "King" Buddy Bolden is not a well known figure nor is his life well documented. But he was one of the first great jazz trumpet players and Coming through Slaughter attempts to explain and understand his life through a cultural portrait of turn-of-the-century New Orleans. Because of the paucity of facts--only one known portrait of Bolden exists--the poem-play employs a combination of fantasy, music and hallucination in place of more traditional devices like plot and dialogue...
Coming through Slaughter thwarts convention every step of the way. Jazz in every style and mood drones continually in the background, and during rare moments of silence the actors speak and walk in rhythmical jazzy patterns. Bolden himself appears on center stage pushing the stops of his brassy trumpet. Conversations take the form of poetry rather than prose...