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Of course you know how he sounds–you’ve heard him on records–but still you need to see him. He is in motion every moment–what could be more obscene? There he is with his great head, fat stomach, and little round piston legs, and long yellow-sectioned strong big fingers, at rest about the size of bananas. When he plays he beats down piano and seat and wears them away. Big arched eyebrows that never stop traveling, like a Jew’s–wandering-Jew eyebrows. He listens as much as he performs, a look of hideous, powerful rapture on his face. Powerhouse is not a show-off like the Harlem boys, not drunk, not crazy–he’s in a trance he’s a person of joy, a fanatic. You know people on a stage–and people of a darker race–so likely to be marvelous, frightening. Is it possible that he could be this! When you have him there performing for you, that’s what you feel. Improvising, coming on a light and childish melody– smooch–he loves it with his mouth. And his mouth is going every minute: like a monkey’s when it looks for something. He’s not coal black– beverage colored–looks like a preacher when his mouth is shut, but then it opens–vast and obscene. He has African feet of the greatest size, stomping, both together, on each side of the pedals. He has pale gray eyes, heavy lids, maybe horny like a lizard’s, but big glowing eyes when they’re open.
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“Nigger man”?–he looks more Asiatic, monkey, Jewish, Babylonian, Peruvian, fanatic, devil. He’s here on tour from the city–“Powerhouse and His Keyboard”– “Powerhouse and His Tasmanians”–think of the things he calls himself! There’s no one in the world like him.