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Dyer, Geoff

 
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Synopsis

In a series of fictional portraits, this book captures the dark heart of jazz, its pathos and lyricism, savagery and self destruction - Charlie Mingus in New York: friven by rage, built and behaving like a battering man; Art Pepper in prison: an alto and Alcatraz; Lester Young in the Alvin: a soft sound in a world too hard and harsh and dirty; Bud Powell in Paris: his skull still throbbing from the blow of a nightstick, his piano a deranged instrument; Chet Baker; Ben Webster; Ellington and Monk. The author also wrote "Ways of Telling" and "the Colour of Memory".

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À propos de l'auteur

Geoff Dyer was born in Cheltenham in 1958. He is the author of Ways of Telling, a critical study of John Berger, and The Colour of Memory, a novel. He wrote But Beautiful while living in New York.

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