[Dixielandjazz] Big Word or Typo? / Was "Leonard Feather"

[Charlie Hooks]

on 1/17/03 11:58 AM, Williams, Bob at robert.c.williams at eds.com wrote:

> I must admit to having learned this word from Paul Edgerton.  I am not
> nearly that smart.
> 
> It refers to the fact that the Wooden Nickel Jass Band is no longer an
> observable "phenomenon."
> 
> I like it.


I like it, too.  There's an excellent article in the Kenyon Review, 1952, by
R.P. Blackmur called, "Between the Numen and the Moha" that explains the
term through usage much better than any attempt at "dictionary" definition.

Charlie

PS. Sorry, can't recall the pages in KR and no access from my easy chair.
But the article is in there that year.  I studied with Blackmur summer of
'52, and he published that article in the Fall.

CH