But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz

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“Could also be the most efficient 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 up to date jazz. Drawing on photos, anecdotes, and, most necessary, the best way he hears the music, Dyer imaginatively reconstructs scenes from the embattled lives of one 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 at the piano. Then again, music is the motive force of But Beautiful, and wildly metaphoric prose that mirrors the quirks, eccentricity, and brilliance of each and every musician’s style.


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