

But Beautiful
A Book About Jazz
Author: Geoff Dyer
Narrator: Dion Graham
Unabridged: 5 hr 6 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 04/09/2019
Categories: Nonfiction, Music, Jazz
Author: Geoff Dyer
Narrator: Dion Graham
Unabridged: 5 hr 6 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 04/09/2019
Categories: Nonfiction, Music, Jazz
Geoff Dyer is the award-winning author of many books, including But Beautiful, Out of Sheer Rage, Zona (on Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker), and the essay collection Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism). A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Dyer lives in Los Angeles, where he is writer-in-residence at the University of Southern California. His books have been translated into twenty-four languages.
There is a truism about jazz: some like to just hear the song’s melody played straight; others, appreciate the improvisation that uses the melody as a jumping off point. The latter like jazz. Geoff Dyer states in his title that this is “a book about jazz.” What he doesn’t tell you is that, in looking......more
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