RARA-AVIS: PI & jazz

Frederick Zackel (fzackel@bgnet.bgsu.edu)
Wed, 19 Nov 1997 08:38:43 -0500 (EST) 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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