" Blowblowblow! " and stumbled upstairs, almost falling on his face, and blew the door open and fell into the jazz-session room with his hands out to support him against anything he might fall on, and he fell right on Lampshade, who was working as a waiter in Jamson’s Nook that season, and the music was there blasting and blasting and he stood transfixed in the open door, screaming, " Blow for me, man, blow! " And the man was a little short n***o with an alto horn that Dean said obviously lived with his grandmother just like Tom Snark, slept all day and blew all night, and blew a hundred choruses before he was ready to jump for fair, and that’s what he was doing.
" It’s Carlo Marx! " screamed Dean above the fury.
And it was. This little grandmother’s boy with the taped-up alto had bea
