BUT BEAUTIFUL

. May be the best book ever written about jazz. --David Thomson, Los Angeles Times 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 hot el room/ Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle/ Thelonious Monk creating his own private langu age on t...[Read more]