Robert Skinner lives in New Orleans. It is author of ten books including two studies on the work of Chester Himes.
SKINNER Robert, The problem with cat eyes (cloudy eyed Cat), 1998, Gallimard Série Noire No. 2635 / 2001, Trad. Jouanne Emmanuel
1938, New Orleans. Former cop trapped in a nasty, Israel Daggett released from a penitentiary where he spent five years mulling his hatred. It is poorly digested hatred. Especially when the good that awaits you is found dead in a canal on the day of your outing. Assisted by Wesley Farrell, King of the nights of New Orleans negro and white as comfortable in the black community than the pride of white, Daggett will plow the shallows of a city already somewhat shaken by the ambition a woman. A strange and beautiful plant poisonous to cat eyes unforgettable. Still more corpses than jazz quotes!
Notes: New Orleans woman singing in a voice loud and muddy "(p.11)" Dinah Shore was one of the guests of the Breakfast Club and she was singing a nonsense about love [...] Behind He cheerfully sang Dinah something that spoke of money fell from the sky "(p.28)" singing Begin the Beguine. The schhhh soft brushes on snare drums filled the air like a tropical breeze, and clarinets bites sizzled like crickets (sic) "(p.43)" by adding jazzy like Margaret Whiting when she accompanied Bob Eberly singing [...] In Rampart Street, Louis Arm and his trio were sweating great drops of Dixieland blow [...] was a club for authentic jazz aficionados, and the faces of the crowd swayed and clapped fingers "(p. 49) "under his mustache at Duke Ellington" (p.66) "he heard the bursts clarinets and edgy saxophone wailing touts "(p.68)" The music of trombonist who was playing with the musical theme of Little Brown Jug "(p.99)" Nobody Knows the Way to attack [...] was the queen undisputed singers black voices of New Orleans "(p.151)" sang Blue Moon [...] Her version was full of jazzy improvisations, and the orchestra played a foxtrot tempo [ ...] Blue Moon finished and attacked Deep Purple without scoring a single time "(p.154-155)" Lady Day singing Can not Help Lovin 'That Man Of Mine on the juke box "(p.170)" played his version of It Do not Mean A Thing "(p.189)" The sextet had Take the A Train attacked "(p.191)" was listening to Louis Armstrong and his Hot Seven Combo on a little radio "(p.193)" version of the Dorsey Brothers Tangerine "(p. 229)" Chatanooga Choo whistling choo "(p. 233)" Cab Calloway's Minnie the moocher played "(P.311)" at the Club Moulin Rouge, to play a drum solo that escaped through the open door [...] a bassist began to pinch the strings of his instrument, soon joined by a trumpeter and clarinetist "(p. 342).
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