But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz

May be the best book ever written about jazz.--David Thomson, Los Angeles Times In eight poetically charged...
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Author: Geoff Dyer
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But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz by Dyer, Geoff

But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz

$43.03

But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz

$43.03
Author: Geoff Dyer
Format: Paperback
Language: English

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: Geoff Dyer
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: 11/10/2009
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.46lbs
Size: 8.30h x 6.14w x 0.65d
ISBN: 9780312429478

About the Author

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.


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