But Beautiful A Book About Jazz
- 10 May 2012
- 9780857864024
- £10.99
- 240 pp
- 129×198mm
- 7 Mar 2019
- 9781786894137
- £20.99
- 5 hrs 6 min
- 10 May 2012
- 9780857863355
- £8.79
- 240 pp
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‘A copy … ought to be on everybody’s Desert Island’ Independent
In a few words
‘A copy . . . ought to be on everybody’s Desert Island’ Independent
In a few words
‘Ought to be on everybody’s Desert Island’ Independent
Remarkable...there can be few books on jazz written with such tenderness and care.
Adam Lively
Times Literary SupplementBut Beautiful is just that. A moving and highly original tribute to Black American Music.
Bryan Ferry
Remarkable . . . there can be few books on jazz written with such tenderness and care
Adam Lively
Times Literary SupplementBut Beautiful is just that. A moving and highly original tribute to Black American Music
Bryan Ferry
Remarkable...there can be few books on jazz written with such tenderness and care.
Adam Lively
Times Literary SupplementBut Beautiful is just that. A moving and highly original tribute to Black American Music.
Bryan Ferry
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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 skilfully 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.
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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 skilfully 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. Read by acclaimed narrator Dion Graham.
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the book
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 skilfully 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.
As intricate a mixture of biographical essay and make-believe as is likely to be written.
The only book about jazz that i have recommended to my friends. It is a little gem.
Keith Jarrett
As intricate a mixture of biographical essay and make-believe as is likely to be written
The only book about jazz that I have recommended to my friends. It is a little gem
Keith Jarrett
As intricate a mixture of biographical essay and make-believe as is likely to be written.
The only book about jazz that i have recommended to my friends. It is a little gem.
Keith Jarrett