Pynchon the Guest Musician?

[Dustin Iler]

Can anyone verify this? "Along with the loose-limbed music, Hoboken Saturday 
Night features musical contributions by heavy hitters (no pun intended) such 
as drummers Elvin Jones and Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, guitarist Hugh 
McCracken, and novelist Thomas Pynchon."

Sorry if this has been reported/discussed before.

--Dustin


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The Insect Trust - Hoboken Saturday Night (US Surrealistic Folkrock 1970

One of the more interesting one-shot bands in rock & roll, the Insect 
Trust's most famous member was writer/critic/ethnomusicologist Robert 
Palmer, who played alto sax and clarinet. Less famous, but still a notable 
member, was guitarist/songwriter Luke Faust, who went on to add creative 
input for the Holy Modal Rounders' string of wonderful early- to mid-'70s 
records. The Insect Trust released two albums, their self-titled 1968 debut 
on Capitol, and their second and final LP, Hoboken Saturday Night. Along 
with the loose-limbed music, Hoboken Saturday Night features musical 
contributions by heavy hitters (no pun intended) such as drummers Elvin 
Jones and Bernard "Pretty" Purdie, guitarist Hugh McCracken, and novelist 
Thomas Pynchon. The music ranges from surreal folk-rock (à la the Holy Modal 
Rounders and Fugs), to Booker T.-like pop-soul, to flat-out free jazz. 
Decades after its release, Hoboken Saturday Night sounds a bit dated, but 
its charm is irresistible, especially when Nancy Jefferies sings and the 
band cranks up its raucous onslaught of reeds and percussion. Never intended 
to be a traditional pop act, the Insect Trust should be best remembered for 
extending rock's boundaries and taking the genre to a much hipper level 
without resorting to a lot of banal technique. Good luck locating their 
records.

The Insect Trust were a musical collective based, as the title suggests, in 
Hoboken by way of Memphis and by way of a brief fling with the Holy Modal 
Rounders. The resumes of the regular members are impressive enough?reedist 
Robert Palmer became one of the most famous rock critics in the land, singer 
Nancy Jeffries wound up signing Suzanne Vega and Ziggy Marley among others 
to Elektra, and guitarist Bill Barth rediscovered Skip James. But the list 
of sidemen on this album is truly staggering, with two bona fide drumming 
legends, Elvin Jones and Bernard Purdie, heading the list, followed closely 
by bassists William Folwell and Bob Bushnell. And the music they created on 
this 1970 album is as fresh and unique as you might expect given the talents 
involved, a bubbling stew of blues, jazz, old-time music, folk-rock and 
even, as liner-note writer Robert Christgau points out, bubblegum, with a 
bohemian-but-not-hippie slant to the lyrics that was utterly refreshing for 
the time. Word-of-mouth on this record has just been growing and growing, 
and now, over 30 years later, we're proud to be the ones to turn the wishes 
of a multitude of collectors into reality with this exclusive reissue. 
Includes 'Be a Hobo; Hoboken Saturday Night; The Eyes of a New York Woman; 
Ragtime Millionaire; Somedays; Our Sister the Sun; Reciprocity; Trip on Me; 
Now Then Sweet Man/Mr. Garfield; Reincarnations; Glade Song', and 'Ducks'.

1 Be A Hobo
2 Hoboken Saturday Night
3 The Eyes Of A New York Woman
4 Ragtime Millionaire
5 Somedays
6 Our Sister The Sun
7 Reciprocity
8 Trip On Me
9 Now Then Sweet Man/Mr. Garfield
10 Reincarnations
11 Glade Song
12 Ducks