caricatures drawn, or to annoy the
musicians. This was the Pied Piper,
on Barrow Street, in the Village.
For a brief period, when it first
opened, it offered a memorable
five-piece group that included Max
Kaminsky, the late Rod Cless on
clarinet, Frank Orchard on valve
trombone, and, as intermission
pianist and at the top of his form,
the remarkable, vastly influential,
and still underrated James P. John–
son. There is nothing remotely like
the Pied Piper left in New York.
Indifferent music, high prices, poor
liquor, or combinations of this trin–
ity have taken over everywhere.
The rash of jazz "concerts" in such
places as Town Hall have not been
very satisfactory substitutes. The
musicians, along with the more
ravaged-looking members of the
audience, wear expressions of strain
brought on by the absence of a bar
and by a milieu too little enclosed.
At various times, attempts have
been made to present regular pro–
grams of good jazz on the air–
notably those conducted by Con–
don and by Rudi Blesh; but from
the start their chances of commer–
cial sponsorship were as remote as
those of Wallace Stevens' appear–
ing as a regular contributor in
Collier's.
The networks made short
work of both programs.
While jazz persists on records
and occasionally elsewhere, the
best of it increasingly nostalgic,
depending more and more on a
cultist rather than on a popular
base, it is almost drowned out by
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