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But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
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| #82369 in Books | Geoff Dyer | 2009-11-10 | 2009-11-10 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.28 x.76 x5.41l,.46 | File type: PDF | 240 pages | But Beautiful A Book about Jazz||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| The unreliable narrator|By Morgan|This is an usual book in that it is written as something best described as journalistic but is explicitly not bound by fact.It aims at the essence of a jazz world and has been applauded by a number of jazz luminaries as giving the clearest account of the jazz life around. Much of this might be explained by its romanticism. Rather like Diane Ar|.com |Besides colorful and expressive music, jazz greats such as Lester Young, Thelonius Monk and Duke Ellington led equally colorful, albeit self-destructive, lives. Through this collection of essays, Geoff Dyer recounts some of the more vivid episodes and eve
"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 o...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz | Geoff Dyer. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.