But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz - Paperback
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But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz - Paperback
$19.00
by Geoff Dyer (Author)
"May be the best book ever written about jazz."--David Thomson, Los Angeles Times
In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shaped modern jazz. Drawing on photos, anecdotes, and, most important, the way he hears the music, Dyer imaginatively reconstructs scenes from the embattled lives of some of the greats: Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonious Monk creating his own private language on the piano. However, music is the driving force of But Beautiful, and wildly metaphoric prose that mirrors the quirks, eccentricity, and brilliance of each musician's style.Author Biography
Geoff Dyer is the author of Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D.H. Lawrence, and Ways of Telling, a critical study of John Berger; The Missing of the Somme, about World War I; and the novels Paris Trance, The Color of Memory, and The Search.
Number of Pages: 240
Dimensions: 0.65 x 8.3 x 6.14 IN
Illustrated: Yes
Publication Date: November 10, 2009
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