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But Beautiful
A Book About Jazz
Author: Geoff Dyer
Narrator: Dion Graham
Unabridged: 5 hr 6 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc.
Published: 04/09/2019
Category: Music - Genres & Styles - Jazz
Synopsis
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."Top-shelf performance . . . Dion Graham delivers the kind of listening experience that you'll want to hear in one sitting." -AudioFile