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But Beautiful : A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer, Cruz Rodríguez Juiz is a music available to read on EtoBox.
What is But Beautiful : A Book About Jazz about?
In a series of fictional portraits, Geoff Dyer captures the beating heart of jazz, its pathos and lyricism, urgency and self-destruction: Charlie Mingus in New York; Art Pepper in prison; Lester Young in the Alvin; Bud Powell in Paris. 'Drawing on how he hears the music of people like Mingus, Monk, Bud Powell, Art Pepper and Lester Young, Dyer has constructed eight variations like highly concentrated novels, 80 per cent proof swigs of fiction. The result, I think, is brilliant...His attempts to
Who reads But Beautiful : A Book About Jazz?
It is typically read by artists, cooks, musicians and hobbyists working from how-to references.
Common subject areas: arts, cooking, music, crafts.
- Author
- Geoff Dyer, Cruz Rodríguez Juiz
- Publisher
- Time Warner Books Uk
- Published
- 2003
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780349110059
- Category
- music
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.23 / 5 (51 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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