But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
by Geoff Dyer
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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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But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
by Geoff Dyer
ISBN
9780857864024
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Binding
Paperback
Publication date
May 10, 2012
Dimensions
19.8cm x 12.9cm x 1.5cm