“Why would someone use magic to kill a jazz musician in the middle of his set? I mean, I have my problems with the New Thing and the rest of the atonal modernists but I wouldn’t kill someone for playing it–at least not if I wasn’t trapped in the same room.”

Source: Moon Over Soho (2011), Chapter 1, “Body and Soul” (p. 19)

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