If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,
There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats

An Ongoing Series of Cultural and Personal Observations;
by Tom Sutpen, Stephen Cooke, Richard Gibson, Kimberly Lindbergs and Greg Ferrara

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"And, of course, that is what all of this is - all of this: the one song, ever changing, ever reincarnated, that speaks somehow from and to and for that which is ineffable within us and without us, that is both prayer and deliverance, folly and wisdom, that inspires us to dance or smile or simply to go on, senselessly, incomprehensibly, beatifically, in the face of mortality and the truth that our lives are more ill-writ, ill-rhymed and fleeting than any song, except perhaps those songs - that song, endlesly reincarnated - born of that truth, be it the moon and June of that truth, or the wordless blue moan, or the rotgut or the elegant poetry of it. That nameless black-hulled ship of Ulysses, that long black train, that Terraplane, that mystery train, that Rocket '88', that Buick 6 - same journey, same miracle, same end and endlessness."
-- Nick Tosches, Where Dead Voices Gather

If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,
There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats

July 04, 2009

The Art of Jazz #95

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They Follow the Gunslinger!

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If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats

July 04, 2009

The Art of Jazz #95

1 comments so far:

The Relevant Quote:

Blog of the Month (November, 2009)

They Follow the Gunslinger!

The Profiles:

The Goddess:

The Auteur

The Feed

The Ratings

The Past:

The Serial Content:

The Links:Cinema

Media

Music

Other People's Blogs

Pop Culture

If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,
There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats

The Links:

Cinema