John Clellon Holmes reflects on the history of jazz in this classic novel. Edgar Pool is "The Horn," the hero, and the man who helps change the face of American music. He becomes the legend whose triumphant and tragic career is reconstructed through the memories of his friends and lovers.
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John Clellon Holmes died in 1988.
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The Horn, Life of Yardbird Parker,
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I read The Horn about 20 years ago now and interviewed Mr. Holmes at the University of Arkansas. This is a great read for the enthusiasm of the Beats for bebop jazz and jazz's connection with the whole Beat movement. As a student assigned to interview the university's resident Beat writer, I paid a visit to Mr. Holmes and drank a six-pack of beer and spent the afternoon and early evening with Mr. Holmes who talked more about Kerouac and Ginsberg than himself. He referred to Kerouac as a genius, and was exceptionally modest and considerate. However, I think his work stands up with the rest of the Beats and is very good. This is my favorite of his books. I find it interesting it's being released as a paperback in 1999. The Beat Generation is being passed to Generation Y.
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Consider that it was four o'clock of a Monday afternoon, and under the dishwater-gray window shade-just the sort of shade one sees pulled down over the windows of cheap hotels fronting the sooty elevateds of American cities where the baffled and the derelict loiter and shift their feet-under this one shade, in the window of a building off Fifty-third Street on Eighth Avenue in New York, the wizened October sun stretched its old finger to touch the dark, flutterless lids of Walden Blue, causing him to stir among sheets a week of dawntime lying down and twilight getting up had rumpled. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Billy James, New York, Edgar Pool, Kansas City, Times Square, New Orleans, Sixth Avenue, Walden Blue, Curny Finnley, Kelcey Crane, Paradise Alley, Terre Haute, Wing Redburn New!
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Consider that it was four o'clock of a Monday afternoon, and under the dishwater-gray window shade-just the sort of shade one sees pulled down over the windows of cheap hotels fronting the sooty elevateds of American cities where the baffled and the derelict loiter and shift their feet-under this one shade, in the window of a building off Fifty-third Street on Eighth Avenue in New York, the wizened October sun stretched its old finger to touch the dark, flutterless lids of Walden Blue, causing him to stir among sheets a week of dawntime lying down and twilight getting up had rumpled. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Billy James, New York, Edgar Pool, Kansas City, Times Square, New Orleans, Sixth Avenue, Walden Blue, Curny Finnley, Kelcey Crane, Paradise Alley, Terre Haute, Wing Redburn New!
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