But Beautiful: A Book about Jazz (Chinese Edition) - Softcover

Geoff Dyer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 7533937856 ISBN 13: 9787533937850

Publisher: Zhejiang Publishing House of literature and Art, 2013

Synopsis

This book attracts you to have a listen again and again. You will become tender and sensitive after you have a look at these sentences, like a poor animal. Sometimes, you will smile, sometimes you will cry without reasons, sometimes you suddenly remember something or somebody in the past, and sometimes you will stand up suddenly to the balcony to have a smoke. You will confidently (even proudly) recommend it to your friends when you finish it, and you will keep it on your bookshelf with the hope that one day, your childrenyour children childrenwill read it again after you left the world. Because this is a Bible for jazz music.

About this title

Review:

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.

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Zhejiang Publishing House of literature and Art
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 7533937856
• ISBN 13: 9787533937850
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 210