Steve Cannon: Groove, Bang and Jive Around vinyl record

Steve Cannon: Groove, Bang and Jive Around vinyl recordDespite decades of notoriety as one of the filthiest books in the world, Steve Cannons first and only novel, Groove, Bang and Jive Around, has hardly been read since first being published by the Paris based Ophelia Press in 1969. Due to its scarcity, the New York Press deemed it an underground classic of such legendary stature that New Yorks black cognoscenti have transmogrified the work into urban myth. This debut, revised for release by Olympia

I and II collect a spurt of such experiments

such as “Stravinsky

Originally written in the 1990s with the help of Nuyorican poet Louis Reyes Rivera and published now for the first time

Lacanian psychoanalysis

available exclusively with direct pre-orders from Blank Forms’ store

accompanied by David Fuchs’ photo documentation

Ruba Katrib

distinguishing them from the performance versions

features a select group of unpublished

both veterans of Paul Bley’s ensembles—was Waters’ first New York appearance since 2003

since which he has performed and exhibited globally

The version included on the record is an interpretation based on live recordings that Hunt and Krumm had made in the early ’70s with clarinetist Houston Higgins and soprano vocalist Jill Higgins