The alto in Bernard Herrmann's score for Taxi Driver set the
mood for =
that night-falls-on-the-city atmosphere. Trouble in Mind
(troubl=E9d =
mind) was pretty spooky, too. But for me, the best example of
the =
integration of jazz and the PI novel is the movie Naked
Lunch, where =
Ornette Coleman's Master Musician of Morocco improvisation
complements =
William S. Burrroughs' report writer cum espionage
agent.
The rock-and-roll song at the beginning of Miami Blues
wasn't bad, =
either.
And all the jukebox music of Barfly.
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From: Frederick Zackel[SMTP:fzackel@bgnet.bgsu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 1997 8:38 AM
To: rara-avis@icomm.ca
Subject: RARA-AVIS: PI & jazz
Delurking (or decloaking perhaps...)
Imagine a saxophone player at ground zero for a big city's
skyline. He
(or she) is surrounded by forty, fifty floor skyscrapers, all
concrete =
and
glass. It's after midnight, and the buildings glow like
honeycombs lit
from inside. Much of the light that hit the sidewalks is
light bounced
down from these empty offices
The sax man plays to no one, to everyone, but the streets are
empty, and
the sounds echo and echo again off the cold, silent
buildings. No one =
is
listening, and he empties his soul....
In the daytime the city is a destination, a goal, a journey
every
individual is on. At night, the city is a presence, alive, a
hulk in =
the
dark.
The PI is jazz; jazz is the PI.
Frederick Zackel
author of "Cocaine & Blue Eyes" and "Cinderella After
Midnight"
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