Ebook {Epub PDF} But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer

Buy But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz New by Dyer, Geoff (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible www.doorway.rus:  · Geoff Dyer. Image: Document I’ve been re-reading Geoff Dyer’s But Beautiful recently — it was first published in — which is a book about Jazz, and is a must for any devotee of the music, and a small literary masterpiece that can — must — be read and re-read. It is one writer’s take on the life of jazz musicians. Let me quote from his piece on Lester Young. But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz Geoff Dyer. out of 5 stars Paperback. $ # Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong Terry Teachout. out of 5 stars Hardcover. $ # American Singers: Twenty-seven Portraits in Song Whitney Balliett. out of 5 stars 8.

But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz Geoff Dyer This acclaimed fictional book is divided into vignettes, each portraying a time in the life of one iconic jazz musician: from Lester Young to Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington and Charles Mingus. The book earned Dyer a number of accolades. But Beautiful - A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer - paperback () published by Canongate 10 May 'A copy #; ought to be on everybody's Desert Island' Independent. Dyer can get to places few writers on music know exist." Greil Marcus, Interview "Swings Geoff Dyer straight into the front line of writers whose books are imbued with the spirit and techniques of jazz voices deep love and understanding of the musicians evoked with appropriate poetic image and sound effects.".

The introduction to Geoff Dyer’s “But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz” raises a few red flags: He excuses his impressionistic series of jazz biographies as an act of “improvisation,” a work of creative license in the spirit of the music that it describes. If you’ve read enough music writing, you’ve heard this one before. “Dyer emerges at once as a considerable jazz scholar; hardly less impressive is the supple prose which fleshes out known facts and myths and brings his subjects vibrantly alive This is a book I shall return to again and again.” Jazz Journal International “Dyer turns jazz in to poetry and his subjects into a beautiful sad music. But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz. But Beautiful.: Geoff Dyer. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, - Biography Autobiography - pages. 8 Reviews. "May be the best book ever written about.