Michael Weiss Posted July 16, 2012 Report Share Posted July 16, 2012 Henning Mankell mentions Lars Gullin in the Wallander series novel, "Before the Frost." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted July 16, 2012 Report Share Posted July 16, 2012 Good catch and good memory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ted O'Reilly Posted July 16, 2012 Report Share Posted July 16, 2012 Jay McShann appears in Elmore Leonard's "The Hot Kid" (2005). Even talks with the main character Carl Webster if I remember correctly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted July 16, 2012 Report Share Posted July 16, 2012 In Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch novels, Harry often listens to Art Pepper and Frank Morgan recordings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted July 16, 2012 Report Share Posted July 16, 2012 Harry must be a junkie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSngry Posted July 16, 2012 Report Share Posted July 16, 2012 Otherwise it would be Bud Shank... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeweil Posted July 16, 2012 Report Share Posted July 16, 2012 There is an experimental novel by German author Hartmut Geerken (who also played music, IIRC), Obduktionsprotokoll, in which a concert by the Sun Ra Arkestra in Cairo plays a central role.Oh, and I remember a Swedish erotic short story where a teacher seduces a student to the music of the Bill Evans trio with Scott La Faro ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Kart Posted July 16, 2012 Report Share Posted July 16, 2012 Harry must be a junkie. He's an LAPD homicide detective. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted July 16, 2012 Report Share Posted July 16, 2012 Harry must be a junkie. He's an LAPD homicide detective. So.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Gitin Posted July 17, 2012 Report Share Posted July 17, 2012 Among the musicians Kerouac mentions are Allen Eager (in "The Subterraneans" under the pseudonym "Roger Beloit"), Richie Kamuca (in the same place, K spells it "Ricci Commuca"), Shearing (in "On the Road") Getz and Warne Marsh (in "Desolation Angels"), Miles Davis (in "Mexico City Blues") and, perhaps above all and most intimately, Brew Moore (in "Desolation Angels" -- K calls him "Brue"). He also speaks of following Lee Konitz and wondering what it would be to BE Lee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinmce Posted July 17, 2012 Report Share Posted July 17, 2012 If I'm not mistaken the writers of the film version of THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY inserted jazz into the narrative. Matt Damon does a pretty cringey Chet Baker impersonation and carries around Bird and Dizzy Savoy 12"ers, alongside Chet Baker Sings and, erm, Complete Communion (the story is set in the mid-to-late fifties). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnlitweiler Posted July 18, 2012 Report Share Posted July 18, 2012 "Up Above The World:" by Paul Bowles has a scene in which two couples (predators and victims) sitting in a living room listening to a Cecil Taylor record is an extremely decadent activity. Bowles is as persistently sadistic as Mickey Spillane and up to a point, more effective. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted July 18, 2012 Report Share Posted July 18, 2012 Bunch of them in "Beneath the Underdog" and a bunch more in other "tomes." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnlitweiler Posted July 19, 2012 Report Share Posted July 19, 2012 Oh, and "Mojo Snake Minuet" includes some references to jazz artists.Oh, and "Mojo Snake Minuet" includes some references to jazz artists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chuck Nessa Posted July 19, 2012 Report Share Posted July 19, 2012 Oh, and "Mojo Snake Minuet" includes some references to jazz artists. Really? Fascinating book. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
medjuck Posted July 19, 2012 Report Share Posted July 19, 2012 Many of Josef Skvorecky's books mention jazz musicians by name-- most from the pre-bop era. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Bresnahan Posted December 8, 2012 Report Share Posted December 8, 2012 In Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch novels, Harry often listens to Art Pepper and Frank Morgan recordings. Michael Connelly's latest Harry Bosch novel, The Black Box, takes Connely's/Bosch's love for Jazz to a new level. Not only does he listen to the latest Art Pepper live CDs put out by his widow, he even mentions the label by name and describes in detail which tracks he really likes. Let's put it this way, I'm buying Art Pepper: Unreleased Art Vol. III, Croydon Concert because of his write up. Harry Bosch also gets into a little challenge with another character to see if they can name a Jazz artist that the other hasn't heard of. Harry's pretty bad at it, naming somewhat well-known names like Gary Smulyan and Grace Kelly. The other guy comes up with Danny Grissette (singling out his recent CD Form and the track Let's Face The Music And Dance) & Michael Formanek. It was pretty fun to read this one just for these Jazz mentions. They're sprinkled throughout. Later, Kevin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllenLowe Posted December 8, 2012 Report Share Posted December 8, 2012 (edited) Dave Gitin - years ago I told Dick Katz about the episode in Kerouac where he follows Konitz and imagines being him - Katz told Konitz, who was quite weirded out. Edited December 8, 2012 by AllenLowe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted December 8, 2012 Report Share Posted December 8, 2012 Michael Moorcock mentions - of all things - John Patton's 'Fat Judy' in 'The entropy tango'. That was 1981 - a couple of years before Acid Jazz became fashionable in Britain. MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Friedman Posted December 9, 2012 Report Share Posted December 9, 2012 Author Bill Moody has written a number of mysteries all focused on jazz musicians such as Wardell Gray, Chet Baker and others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BFrank Posted December 10, 2012 Report Share Posted December 10, 2012 (edited) If I'm not mistaken the writers of the film version of THE TALENTED MR RIPLEY inserted jazz into the narrative. Matt Damon does a pretty cringey Chet Baker impersonation and carries around Bird and Dizzy Savoy 12"ers, alongside Chet Baker Sings and, erm, Complete Communion (the story is set in the mid-to-late fifties). One more anachronism if I remember correctly. There's one scene where you see a stack of records in his apartment and the one on top is Miles' "Tutu". Edited December 10, 2012 by BFrank Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillF Posted December 10, 2012 Report Share Posted December 10, 2012 Looks like we've moved on to movies, so I'll just mention Conte Candoli's brief walk on part as the mysterious Club Silencio trumpeter in David Lynch's Mullholland Drive : Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul secor Posted December 10, 2012 Report Share Posted December 10, 2012 Curtis Fuller's "Five Spot After Dark" is mentioned in Huruki Murakami's novel After Dark. Many jazz musicians are mentioned in Paul Pines' novel, The Tine Angel. Among them: Sheila Jordan, Lee Morgan, Ted Curson, Trane, Ornette, King Pleasure, Lloyd McNeill, Jeremy Steig, Mingus, Dolphy, Don Cherry, Robin Kenyatta, Monk, Cecil, and Joe Lee Wilson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlhoots Posted December 10, 2012 Report Share Posted December 10, 2012 Jo Nesbo often references jazz & rock musicians in the Harry Hole novels. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ejp626 Posted December 10, 2012 Report Share Posted December 10, 2012 I'm pretty sure Jim Carroll namedrops jazz musicians in The Basketball Diaries, to show how hip he was even as a teenager, but I'll have to go back and check. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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