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McTaggart, Eddie
30, Hick's father; "headed West and went silent" after his wife Grace left him for an elephant trainer
McTaggart, Grace
29, Hick's mother and Peony's sister;
McTaggart, Hicks
1, Detective at Unamalgamated Ops agency in Milwaukee; "long flagged by the police at all levels as Uncooperative," 26; "a big ape with a light touch," 20; "a corporate thug," 30; Hicks taunted by "four-eyed troublemaker" and his sap disappears, 32; an emerging "spiritual heavysetness" (Oriental Attitude), 36; "safe in the featherbed of your destiny," 37 (Aunt Peony);
"Midnight in Milwaukee"
24, April Randazzo's trademark song which she sings at midnight at Arlene's Orchard Lounge, composed by Pynchon
Moten, Bennie (1893-1935)
Bennie Moten was an American jazz pianist and band leader born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. He led his Kansas City Orchestra, the most important of the regional, blues-based orchestras active in the Midwest in the 1920s. The real revolution came in the early 1930s when he recruited Count Basie, Walter Page and Oran 'Hot Lips' Page. Walter Page's walking bass lines gave the music an entirely new feel compared to the 2/4 tuba of his predecessor Vernon Page, colored by Basie's understated, syncopated piano fills. This riffing style came to define many of the 1930s big bands. Wikipedia
