It was a great day in Harlem. Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk and many other jazz greats gathered on a stoop on 126th St. in 1958 to be photographed together by Art Kane. There were ...

Chester Himes, I came to after that. And his Harlem is a sociopathic landscape. I can’t even tell where people are half the time, because they’re either being conned or conning someone.