14. oktober, 2005
Lewis MacAdams har skrevet en bok om det som er kult.
Den heter Birth Of The Cool : Beat, Bebop, and the American Avant Garde og kom i 2001. I tillegg til å handle om alt det han synes er stilig, undersøker MacAdams opprinnelsen til begrepet "cool". Det fungerer godt—det har blitt en interessant studie.
Innimellom leverer MacAdams fin-fine anekdoter fra de kuleste av de kule. Her er f.eks. en scene med Charlie Parker og Miles Davis i en drosjebil:
"Bird had this white bitch in the back seat of the taxi with us," Davis remembered. "He'd done already shot up a lot of heroin and now the motherfucker's eating chicken—his favourite food—and drinking whiskey and telling the bitch to get down and suck his dick," which she did. Then, between bites of chicken, Bird started eating her out. After a time, Bird asked Miles if the scene was bothering him, and Miles admitted that it was. Bird told Miles to turn his head and look out the window.
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