The Textuality of Soulwork by Hunt Timothy;

Author:Hunt, Timothy;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University of Michigan Press

foresaw the tune straight through, took complete command of it, let measures of it carry it along on its own impetus while he busied himself within it with his own conception of it—a conception so profoundly interior that only the keenest ear could tell what he was doing, and this didn’t mean David Diamond [the American composer who was a friend of Kerouac’s and was apparently with him at Birdland that evening], it meant Cecil Payne [the baritone sax player who was playing with Konitz that evening and who, Kerouac notes, listens to the solo in “in amazement”] (and me) (and others in the club)—beautiful, sad, long phrases, in fact long sentences that leave you hanging in wonder what’s going on and suddenly he reveals the solution and when he does, with the same vast foresight that he brings to a tune you now understand it with vast hindsight—a hindsight you wouldn’t have gotten without his foresight, and a hindsight that at last gives you the complete university education in the harmonic structure of ‘I[‘ll] Remember April,’ a beautiful and American structure to boot. And at a moment of his saddest, seemingly lost note which became found in the conclusion of the “sentence” I suddenly realized “He is doing exactly what I’m doing with a sentence like ‘hints of heartbreaking loss that filtered in with chinks of October daylight from the street’ and here I’ve been worried all along that people wouldn’t understand this new work of mine because next to Daphne du Maurier it is almost completely unintelligible (for instance)!—does LEE KONITZ worry about VAUGHAN MONROE? Let the dead and the dumb bury the dead and the dumb!

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