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Henry Blackburn (Jazz Lines) conducts another 1940s outing to Chicago's jazz hot spots, on this occasion in the company of horn legends Muggsy Spanier and Lee Collins. The great Sidney Bechet and others are recalled—Henry's "musical heroes, some even colleagues in later years." The Chronology, detailing the author's own rich musical life to date, concludes with Part IV. "Humans in Cages" transports us into his "other life," the realm of cardiac health. This clever piece was the conclusion for an assignment, in a 1970s medical debate, to argue against exercise conditioning for heart patients.
Slobodo Blogg (Jazz Klassix) has a formidable reputation in Balkans jazz circles as an enfant terrible of Lucasan musico-semiology. He publishes reviews and tirades on the current state of jazz in such Euroscreeds as Jassiz, Nujazs, Les Hottentots, Das Urschizzle and El Telemundo Toro. He is now at work on a compendious history of the ukulele and its kin in jazz and blues, titled (in loose translation) Studies in Testicular Fortitude.
Ludina P. Gumbo (Endless Series for Goylz and Boyz) has collected and sold defunct children’s books for decades and can spot a rare edition across a whole reeking landfill. She has written extensively on radical Victorian women writers and their dreadful fates in works such as Mrs. Shelley’s Dread Revenge (Calpix Press, 1990), I Married a Warthog for the Rozzers (U. of Alaska Press, 2002) and So What’s Wrong with Loving a Dead Vampire? (Lollapalooza Inc., 2007)
A. Krapp (Comix), something of a mystery man and recluse, has been commenting on cartoons for decades under various other pseudonyms. As I. P. Hard, he wrote A Canterbury Cantata of Comics (Milquetoast Press, 1996) and Eyes on the Strips (Wonderworks Publishers, 2003). He is currently struggling to compile a history of alternative comics in the 1960s and ’70s, with the working title Zap! Pow! Bam! but without an author’s name yet assigned.
Willis Quick (One Hung Hungarian) is back in our pages again, with the opening passage of his earliest mystery novel, The Process of Murder (1985). It introduces his favorite detective character, Richard Poole, and inserts him into a place he has never explored, whereupon (with the usual luck of the fictional hero) he finds an intriguing enigma facing him inside an innocent dovecote on a grand estate. What next?
Wyoming Rictus (Etaoin Shrdlu: Keltick Klassick) is a former rodeo queen, accomplished harpist and author of 23 detective novels (such as The Nine Jailers, Who Killed Roger Kraproyd?, Kiss Me Dully, Farewell, My Luger and many more) featuring the snappy team of Phil and Rosemarie Pontz, which follow the happily-married sleuths around the world in pursuit of felons, miscreants, Sabbath-breakers, jabbernowls, Saracens, villains, ogres, maniacs and scofflaws, often with highly amusing results. Several have been filmed as TV movies (on Lifetime—the Girlee Channel) starring the lovable hubby-and-spouse team of Emmaline Grimsworth and Rupert Thrax.
Theodore Saurus (Gigantologophilia) is a long-time radio wizard of language issues, beginning his career with the legendary Wolfman Jack, when he appeared as “Captain Adverb” on KXUS. Has worked extensively as a gypsy wordsmith, drifting from town to town in search of evil-doing words, illicit constructions and forbidden usages. His best-known publication is The Gerund—Friend or Foe? (Washington, D.C., Bureau of Weights and Measures, 1995).
Venica vom Schliegel (Kooky Kar Klassix) is an international authority on auctions and online sales. She is vastly experienced in evaluating old cars, having learned to drive the family M-B at age 11 on the
Tillie E. Toiler (The Rise & Rise of Agsnorri Krollie) is the distinguished host and commentator on The Barsco Hour of Power and A Little Nightly Invocation, two pioneering radio religious programs. She has degrees or certificates from
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