Even as we rolled our cart out to the parking lot, we could hear Bratley squalling away in the distance, gradually fading as the doors slid shut behind us.

If a man is king of all he surveys, he'd best make sure he has a wide enough view, Big Will had joked to his ten-year-old son while leaning back in his leather chair and puffing on his favorite brand of Havana cigar.

My mind just went blank.

These and other writers also consciously strive for jazz's full-bodied swingingness, its danciness, its range of allusion, its trickbag of quicksilver improvisational impulses.