Tillie's Punctured Romance & The Love Song of Rotten John Calabrese plus Selected Short Subjects

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Prose by a US jazz musician imprisoned in New Jersey at the time of publication. Intro by Jim Christy. Named after Chaplin's first feature movie, Tillie's Punctured Romance is a se ries of poetic improvisations on themes central to Leeds' life: drugs, religion, love, jazz, movies, show business. Leeds was serving a sentence at Trenton State Prison for drugs. From Atlantic City originally, Leeds was once a professional jazz bassist who played with Woody Herman, Buddy Rich, Al Cohn, Charlie Parker and others. After that he spent time in treatment centres, mental hospitals and jails. Show more