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But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
Geoff Dyer
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Description for But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
Paperback. 'A copy .. ought to be on everybody's Desert Island' Independent Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: AVGJ; AVH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 170. 240 pages. 'A copy . ought to be on everybody's Desert Island' Independent. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: AVGJ; AVH. Dimension: 199 x 129 x 16. Weight: 170.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857864024
SKU
V9780857864024
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-98
About Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer is the author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and three previous novels, as well as several non-fiction books. Dyer has won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, a Lannan Literary Award, the International Center of Photography's 2006 Infinity Award and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E.M. Forster Award. In 2009 he was named GQ's Writer of the Year. He won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012. In 2015 he received a Windham Campbell Prize for non-fiction. He currently lives in Los Angeles.
Reviews for But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz
Remarkable...there can be few books on jazz written with such tenderness and care.
Adam Lively
Times Literary Supplement
But Beautiful is just that. A moving and highly original tribute to Black American Music.
Bryan Ferry As intricate a mixture of biographical essay and make-believe as is likely to be written.
New York Times
The only book about jazz that i have recommended to my friends. It is a little gem.
Keith Jarrett
Adam Lively
Times Literary Supplement
But Beautiful is just that. A moving and highly original tribute to Black American Music.
Bryan Ferry As intricate a mixture of biographical essay and make-believe as is likely to be written.
New York Times
The only book about jazz that i have recommended to my friends. It is a little gem.
Keith Jarrett