But Beautiful

A Book About Jazz

Geoff Dyer

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English

Canongate Classics
01 May 2012

Music; Jazz; Prose: non-fiction

Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano.

In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skilfully evokes the embattled lives of the players who shaped modern jazz. He draws on photos and anecdotes, but music is the driving force of But Beautiful and Dyer brings it to life in luminescent and wildly metaphoric prose that mirrors the quirks, eccentricity, and brilliance of each musician's style.

By: Geoff Dyer
Imprint: Canongate Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 164g
ISBN: 9780857864024
ISBN 10: 0857864025
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 01 May 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Geoff Dyer is the author of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi and three previous novels, as well as nine non-fiction books. Dyer has won the Somerset Maugham Prize, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction, a Lannan Literary Award, the International Center of Photography's 2006 Infinity Award for writing on photography and the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E.M. Forster Award. In 2009 he was named GQ's Writer of the Year. He won a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2012 and was a finalist in 1998. He lives in London.

Reviews for But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz

* Remarkable...there can be few books on jazz written with such tenderness and care. -- Adam Lively Times Literary Supplement * But Beautiful is just that. A moving and highly original tribute to Black American Music. -- Bryan Ferry * As intricate a mixture of biographical essay and make-believe as is likely to be written. New York Times * The only book about jazz that i have recommended to my friends. It is a little gem. -- Keith Jarrett