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But beautiful - a book about jazz

✍ Scribed by Geoff Dyer

Publisher
Canongate Books
Year
2012
Tongue
en-GB
Weight
171 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
0857863355

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano. . . In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skilfully evokes the embattled lives of the players who shaped modern jazz. He draws on photos and anecdotes, but music is the driving force of But Beautiful and Dyer brings it to life in luminescent and wildly metaphoric prose that mirrors the quirks, eccentricity, and brilliance of each musician's style.

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