Duke Hazlett
January, 1960
Perched at the mouth of his eight-foot exponential-horn speaker, Henry Jacobs, a 34-year-old wizard of oddsville, confronts the challenges of satire and sound. At home in his exotic, shoji-screened hilltop hideaway a few miles north of San Francisco, Jacobs is surrounded by his beautiful Eurasian wife, a pair of Burmese cats, perpetually-burning incense, and dog-eared copies of Ethna Musicology. In 1953, on Berkeley station KPFA-FM, he invented jazzman-idiot Shorty Petterstein ("Blow is lik...
