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Geoff Dyer But Beautiful

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English

Expected delivery time 14-30 days

Book information

Canongate Books Ltd

UK

2012

Paperback

240

Standard

267134

978-0-85786-402-4

0-85786-402-5

composers & musicians

Annotation

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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