Fat Man Jones

Jazz marimba player arriving late to a gig in the short story "The King of Jazz" by Donald Barthelme. It first appeared in The New Yorker, January 30, 1977.

He arrives in the middle of a jazz battle between "king of jazz" Hokie Mokie and new guy Hideo Yamaguchi.

See also

• Spicy MacLammermoor
• Hideo Yamaguchi
• Hokie Mokie

External Links

• story in The New Yorker, January 30, 1977
• story in Sudden Fiction: American Short-short Stories, 1986