« He'll sing 'Cement Mixer, Put-ti Put-ti' and suddenly slow down the beat and brood over his bongos with fingertips barely tapping the skin as everybody leans forward breathlessly to hear; you think he'll do this for a minute or so, but he goes right on, for as long as an hour, making an imperceptible little noise with the tips of his fingernails, smaller and smaller all the time till you can't hear it any more and the sounds of trafic come in the open door... » Jack Kerouac, On the Road.
Pourtant, à force de travailler sur ce bouquin, je sens que l'écriture de Kerouac n'est pas une écriture bop, mais une écriture free: du Coltrane et non du Charlie Parker ou du Slim Gaillard. Mais c'est vrai que "Cement Mixer" est un morceau d'anthologie. Orooni orooni.
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