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But Beautiful
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Title: But Beautiful
Author: Geoff Dyer
ISBN: 9780312429478
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2009
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Illustrated
Number of Pages: 240
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description:
Author: Geoff Dyer
ISBN: 9780312429478
Publisher: Picador
Published: 2009
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Illustrated
Number of Pages: 240
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher Description:
"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 on a too-small bicycle; Thelonious Monk creating his own private language on the piano. However, music is the driving force of But Beautiful, and wildly metaphoric prose that mirrors the quirks, eccentricity, and brilliance of each musician's style.