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But beautiful : a book about jazz

By Dyer , Geoff

Book information

Publisher
Canongate Books
Year
2012
ISBN
0857864025, 978-0-85786-402-4, 978-0-85786-335-5
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
407 kB (417071 bytes)
Edition
Main
Pages
225\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Jazz musicians -- Fiction. Jazz -

Description

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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