Henry Blackburn (jpt Jazz Lines Special Feature) shares memories of 1947 Chicago and famed cornetist Jimmy McPartland. We present the first parts of a serialized conspectus highlighting Henry's extraordinary life as both medical pioneer and jazz force—recording musician, band leader, colleague and agent of the jazz elite, and arranger of concerts in cities throughout the world.
Tawny Fossille (Darwinists 6 Creationists 0) is a new acquisition for jpt, Our Far-Flung Correspondent, who will file reports from Hither and sometimes Yon. She has been a contributor to National Pubic Radio’s Audio Sex Files, to National Geothermal Magazine and to Grit, The Newspaper Nobody Ever Read. A longtime resident of
Irma La Douche (Konspiracy Theery) is a senior fellow (or fellowette) of the Kato Klub (Green Hairnet Kadre) and a culinary-arts graduate of the Sorebun Institute of Paris, KY. She has traveled the world in pursuit of exotic, rare and little-known condiments, including the ever-elusive Tres Moutarde. La Douche’s latest self-help manual is How to Tame and Eat Neighborhood Animals (Furryfood Press, Ketchupo, TX., 1999).
Tentulla Numbasi (Bloxbusted Beasties) has written studies of modern publishing (Books to Bleach Your Mind, 1997, and How to Write a Breast-Saler, 2003) and is now researcher-in-residence at the Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, Ind., where she is compiling exhaustive checklists of rare pornography in unusual media (Braille, Urdu-text, urban graffiti, defunct computer languages [FORTRAN, KLAVIS, IHOP] , pure math, etc.). Plans for a computer game to follow.
Branson Paradiddle (Whizzdom of the Mystick East) is the renowned author of An Encyclopedia of Southern Semantics (1997) and the host and designer of the newest TV game sensation, Heathen Idol, in which 24 randomly chosen teenagers compete every week to swear and blaspheme in the most imaginative and innovative way. The Fox Network show has garnered the largest viewing audiences since executions were banned from
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Montgomery W. Sears (Lost in the Johnson Smith Catalog) is famed for a series of reference books on classic American cars, including the Marmon, Moon, Jordan, Stutz and Mercer, best known as sports-luxury vehicles. He is also an avid fan of early string-band music and fronts a group of amateurs dedicated to reviving the old tunes, The Dixie Cowbells. Sears plays banjo, mandolin and such exotic instruments as mandola, tipple and taro root. His band appears at many old-time music festivals from
Allegra von Troppo (Moments Musicale) is the daughter of legendary Mueller conductor Horst Wessel von Troppo and has devoted a career to locating and destroying the low-quality recordings her father was forced to make as a figurehead of the East German regime. She has written extensively on subjects as diverse as potato-farming (Eyes in the Soil, 1988), elective cross-dressing (Make Yourself All Over, 2003) and maintenance of miniature horses (Wee Steeds, 1992).
Blenchley X. Wheatcroft (Kartoon Kavalkade) is a Fellow of Murten College,
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