Metronome, Volume 78, Number 8, August 1961

Burroughs contributes “The Is the Time of the Assassins”, pp. 22-23.

Published in New York City by Metronome Corporation in August, 1961.

Bibliographic Information:

• M&M C29
• Shoaf III.22
• Schottlaender v4.C31
• Raven 19610800METR.78.8, b8

Selected Contents:

• letters
• Raymond Moss: photograph
• jazz news
• Dan Morgenstern:
• "Heard & Seen" (live jazz venues)
• "Joe Carroll: Man with a Happy Sound" (essay)
• Dick Hadlock: "San Francisco Is Special" (essay)
• Bill Gamble: photographs
• Philip F. Elwood: "The Role of San Francisco in Jazz History" (essay)
• Tom Feelings: illustrations
• Vernon Alley: "Why I Stay in Frisco" (essay)
• Kenneth Patchen: "The Hunted City" (poetry)
• Nat Hentoff: "More Clams and Consonances" (essay/interview)
• Herb Snitzer: photographs
• William S. Burroughs: "This Is the Time of the Assassins" (prose)
• Stanley Dance: "Nat Pierce: 'the phone always rings'" (essay/interview)
• jazz record reviews
• classical record reviews
• Art Salsberg: "High Fidelity" (essay)
• movie reviews
• Stanley Dance, Paul Gonsalves, Harry Carney, and Johnny Hodges: "Three Score: a quiz for jazz musicians" (Q&A)

Publishing Information:

• Editor: David Solomon
• Associate Editor: Dan Morgenstern
• Art Director: Jerry Smokler
• Photography Editor: Herb Snitzer
• High Fidelity: Art Salsberg
• Jazz Relations: Dick Moses
• et al