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But Beautiful

By: Geoff Dyer
Narrated by: Dion Graham
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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.

©2012 Geoff Dyer (P)2019 Canongate Books Ltd
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An absolutely terrific read. Beautifully, wonderfully, soulfully read by Dion Graham. Prose that flows like extraordinary poetry.

This is truly the best book I've ever read!

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