between jazz and New York is a very strong bond and the writers know that. In the novels of New York setting somebody mentions a song, who is a local, who is a musical, a jazz musician who does one of the protagonists, who puts jazz in its title, Who makes a sort of background for the story, who puts in almost everything that I mentioned.
But there are those who, as in the case of Wu Ming 1 alias Roberto Bui (Wu Ming is a collective of writers, if you want to learn more click here ), is jazz not only the backbone of the story but also the narrative style.
New Thing tells the most critical period for the black culture, those late 60's that saw the birth of the Black Panther movement and the explosion of a revolutionary jazz, free jazz, the "new thing" out of any fee , played in the local worst, and best of the city.
The book offers the reader as a jam session narrative, which revolves around the case of a serial killer known as Son of the Whiteman who chooses his victims among the black musicians. The narrative proceeds by excerpts of interviews with some "veterans" and recorded by journalist Sonia Langman (disappeared at the time of the crimes): "As important as the arrival of Ornette (Coleman, ed) in New York was the Revolution ' October. Mica that in Russia, eh. The one in the Cellar Café on 96th street west side. October 64. The October Revolution in Jazz, a six-day festival organized by Bill Dixon ... the maximum capacity was about sixty people, but in the evening was filled with a quail egg in an ostrich chick. "
And then the imaginary newspaper articles Brooklyn, flashbacks, and turns to local legendary (Cellar Café, Slugs, Birdland, Village Vanguard ...) and many musicians, and true blacks, with their lives as their legendary dead .
Those of the Black Power and free jazz have been years of suffering and hope for the black community: "In our music (to speak is the character of Rowdy Dow, ed) grew hungry. When you arrive in New York Pharaoh (Sanders, ed) slept in the subway. Rashid Ali slept in parks and ended when the soldiers will come Phialdelphia. "
Recently, the theatrical organization operating margin has staged a free adaptation the book with the show "Homicide, Jazz & Black Power" , an experimental performance that has reignited the focus on a text whose originality we find each reading, maybe you made our turn to jump, in chunks, depending on of his memories as a reader, a bit like when there is the sudden urge to listen to certain songs, but only some, a few jazz albums that we loved.
New Thing
, Wu Ming 1, Einaudi (Stile Libero), 2004 
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