Hereby Monsters is a podcast about facing the unknown.

I start to float, I float away from the earth.

Have you ever smoked crack before?

We're all kind of frantically searching for meaning.

They have the neurotransmitters. I think we're all

juggles in some way. Yeah, we're not broken. Crazed delinquents.

We're in our last day, young man. Listen to Here Be Monsters, the

podcast about the unknown on the KCR. Listen to Here Be Monsters. The Podcast About the Unknown.

On the KCRW iTunes Page.

From the Independent Producer Project of KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Bob Carlson, and this is Unfictional.

Unfictional is a program of stories and personal documentaries and today on the program a portrait of Horace Parlan.

The country of Denmark has loomed large in the history of jazz music.

Beginning even in the 20s and 30s, touring musicians found great venues and avid fans there.

And later, legendary recordings were made at the clubs in Copenhagen.

Beginning in the 1950s, Denmark even became a home for many expatriate American musicians.

Stan Gets, Dexter Gordon, Ben Webster, and many others.

And a handful are still there, like pianist Horace Parlan, who now lives in a retirement home in a town on the Danish coast.

Award-winning producer Raga Hode, spend some time with him, and listen to stories of playing

with Charles Mingus and Archie Shep.

He's blind now, confined to a wheelchair, but Horst still remembers the old days, reaches

out to old friends, and he still travels to the legendary Copenhagen Jazz Club

Molmart and listens to what the cats are playing these days. From KCRW.com a

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