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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 hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonious Monk creating his own private language on the piano. However, music is the driving force of But Beautiful, and wildly metaphoric prose that mirrors the quirks, eccentricity, and brilliance of each musician's style.
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Besides colorful and expressive music, jazz greats such as Lester Young, Thelonius Monk and Duke Ellington led equally colorful, albeit self-destructive, lives. Through this collection of essays, Geoff Dyer recounts some of the more vivid episodes and events these personalities engaged in and illuminates unique aspects of their character that contributed to their music. He also sheds light on the oppression of working within an atmosphere of race-alienation, a hardship that led many to abuse alcohol and drugs, and find solace only in their incredible music.
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Geoff Dyer is the author of Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D.H. Lawrence, and Ways of Telling, a critical study of John Berger; The Missing of the Somme, about World War I; and the novels Paris Trance, The Color of Memory, and The Search.
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- PublisherRandom House UK
- Publication date1992
- ISBN 10 0099777800
- ISBN 13 9780099777809
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages208
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the mus ic and the men who shaped modern jazz. Drawing on photos, anecdotes, and, m ost important, the way he hears the music, Dyer imaginatively reconstructs scenes from the embattled lives of some of the giants of jazz: Lester Young fading away in an hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonious Monk creating his own private l anguage on the piano. However, music is really the driving force of But Bea utiful, and Dyer brings it to life in a luminescent and wildly metaphoric p rose style that mirrors the quirks, eccentricity, and brilliance of each mu sician's style. Seller Inventory # RWARE0000048096
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