But Beautiful A Book About Jazz

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.

ISBN:	9780857864024
Publisher:	Canongate Books
Imprint:	Canongate
Published date:	10 May 2012
DEWEY:	823.92
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	225
Weight:	176g
Height:	197mm
Width:	129mm
Spine width:	16mm

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