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But Beautiful Geoff Dyer

But Beautiful By Geoff Dyer

But Beautiful by Geoff Dyer


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Summary

In a series of fictional portraits, Dyer shows the 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.

But Beautiful Summary

But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer

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 recreate the drug-fogged, music-drenched, reality-melting, racism-crazed insides of the minds of people like Powell, Mingus, Webster and Chet Baker are unnervingly effective. So too, are his pen-portraits of their music .his long postscript on jazz today shows that he can operate as a lucid and catholic jazz critic as well' Miles Kington, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

But Beautiful Reviews

**'Swings Geoff Dyer straight into the front line of writers' THE TIMES **'Remarkable.there can be few books on jazz written with such tenderness and care.' Adam Lively, TLS **'A little gem' Keith Jarrett ** 'BUT BEAUTIFUL is just that. A moving and highly original tribute to Black American Music' Bryan Ferry

About Geoff Dyer

Geoff Dyer was born in 1958. His book BUT BEAUTIFUL: A BOOK ABOUT JAZZ, won the Somerset Maugham Prize & was shortlisted for the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys orial Prize. His essays & reviews appear in the INDEPENDENT, NEW STATESMAN & SOCIETY.

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GOR001665348
9780349110059
0349110050
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Little, Brown Book Group
20030807
240
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