Download ebook or buy real book: “But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz” by Geoff Dyer
Genres: Writing, Non Fiction, Essays, History, Biography, Literature, Poetry, Short Stories, Music, Jazz
 | Original title: But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz Rating: 4.30 Publish date: June 26th 1997 Language: English Isbn: 0865475083 |
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; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano. However, 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.
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