Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Tantor Audio, 2019
Made available through hoopla
Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (5hr., 06 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781977390684 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT12332708, 1977390684 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 12332708
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Read by Dion Graham
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
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