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 skillfully 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.
But Beautiful : A Book About Jazz - Geoff Dyer
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