false 1561466 2 <B>The Great American Jazz Novel by Nathaniel Mackey, winner of the 2006 National Book Award.</B><BR><BR>Los Angeles, October 1982: Molimo m'Atet, formerly known as the The Mystic Horn Society, is preparing to release its new album <I>Orphic Bend</I>. The members of the jazz ensemble&#151;Aunt Nancy, Djamilaa, Drennette, Lambert, N., and Penguin&#151;are witness to a strange occurrence: while listening to their test pressing, the moment Aunt Nancy's bass solo begins a balloon emerges from the vinyl, bearing a mysterious message: <I>I dreamt you were gone</I>.... Through letters N. writes to a figure called Angel of Dust, the ever-mutating story unfolds, leaving no musician or listener untouched.<BR><BR><I>Bass Cathedral</I> is Mackey's fourth volume in his ongoing novel with no beginning or end, <I>From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate</I>. Thought balloons morph into mute-stereoptic emanations; N. encounters a master mouthpiece-maker; Drennette leaves Penguin dateless; Lambert's kicking it around with Melanie&#151;much is abuzz but something else is happening to the ensemble. The music seems to be living them. N. suffers cowrie shell attacks and they are all stranded on an Orphic Shore. Socio-political forces are at play or has this always been the essence and accident of the music's resilience? And Hotel Didjeridoo must be resurrected, but how? Myth spins music spins thought spins sex&#151;Mackey's post-bop boxless box set is, as the Utne Reader wrote, "Avant-garde literature you can love: an evolving multivolume novel of the jazz world that plays with language and ideas the way Thelonious Monk plays with flatted fifths." 1554012 31 1 2008 Bass Cathedral (New Directions Paperbook) total:14|5:7|4:2|3:1|2:2|1:2| 14 52 63 2 0 0 false false Sat Apr 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 26 18:02:27 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 26 18:02:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 1 0 false false Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 04 07:52:31 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 12 08:06:00 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Wed Oct 28 07:59:10 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 28 08:00:20 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Oct 24 15:14:23 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 15:14:23 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Wed Oct 21 14:25:15 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 14:25:15 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jul 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 21 20:07:33 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 04 07:41:54 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed May 06 19:07:06 -0700 2009 Wed May 06 19:07:17 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue May 05 17:46:16 -0700 2009 Tue May 05 17:46:24 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Apr 06 19:19:19 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 19:19:19 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Mar 24 07:26:01 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 07:26:01 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Feb 27 07:17:45 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 27 07:17:45 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Tue Feb 10 11:02:57 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 11:02:57 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jan 31 22:24:03 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 22:24:03 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jan 30 18:19:20 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 18:19:42 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jan 30 08:34:43 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 08:35:22 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jan 01 08:38:57 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 08:39:00 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Dec 20 13:00:58 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 20 13:08:55 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Fri Dec 19 08:56:44 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 19 08:56:46 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Thu Dec 18 17:41:24 -0800 2008 Thu Dec 18 17:41:28 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Tue Dec 16 10:47:05 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 16 10:47:15 -0800 2008