THE BIRD

Trumpet, saxophone, tuba . . . what’s the dif? They’re all horns.

I guess this means The Times won’t be able to use my services as a jazz critic. Darn.

RIK (Faux Pas) THORENSEN, LOS OSOS.

Thorensen’s letter likened Kerouac’s lilting prose to the “a trumpet solo by Charlie Parker”--Ed.