But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
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But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
Author: Dyer, Geoff
Brand: Canongate Books
Edition: Main
Binding: paperback
Number Of Pages: 240
Release Date: 10-05-2012
Part Number: 9780857864024
Details: 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.
EAN: 8601200412888
Package Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.0 x 0.9 inches
Languages: English, Unqualified
