But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
Author(s): Geoff Dyer
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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Winner of Somerset Maugham Award 1992. Shortlisted for John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize 1992.
Remarkable...there can be few books on jazz written with such tenderness and care. - Times Literary Supplement
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