[Dixielandjazz] Jazz & Poetry--the 50s

[Charles Suhor]

On May 7, 2005, at 10:10 PM, Steve barbone wrote:

> Charlie, you brought back some wonderful memories of the Greenwich 
> Village
> this wannabe hip young man in those days had almost forgotten



> .Steve, I should have known you'd recognize a lot of those current 
> Jazz & Poetry cats. The Village and West Coast action in the 50s was 
> legend for those of us who were following the Beat movement and its 
> literature from afar. In New Orleans, until the early 60s (Robert 
> Cass, Eluard Burt, Marty Most, and others) there were just a few 
> ludicrous posers who didn't even know how to be wannabees. It was as 
> if they had read Norman Mailer's heaving, masturbatory "The White 
> Negro" essay and decided to play the role. But the modern musicians 
> like Mouse Bonati, Reed Vaughan, Chick Power, Joe Pass, and at least 
> one poet-musician, Bruce Lippincott, were true Beat figures without 
> knowing or caring about the labels. I wrote a little about the local 
> Beats and, alas, the drug culture on pp. 213-16 in my book on jazz in 
> postwar New Orleans. Dennis Formento ("Mesechabe"magazine), James 
> Nolan, and others have been writing about the 1960s bohemian culture 
> of the city.

Charlie Suhor


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