But Beautiful [electronic resource] : A Book About Jazz
Dyer, Geoff2012
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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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[Place of publication not identified] : Canongate Books, 2012
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1 online resource (1 text file)
ISBN:
9780857863355
Language:
English
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BRN:
3654262