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For a great, great jazz book, check out
Geoff Dyer's "But Beautiful, A Book
About Jazz."
It is a brilliantly conceived work that
recreates moments (from Dyer's own
imagination) of the lives of some of jazz's
greats: Bud Powell, Lester Young,
Thelonious Monk, Duke Ellington,
Charles Mingus, Chet Baker, Art Pepper,
and Ben Webster.
I also really enjoyed two of Dyer's other
works: "Out of Sheer Rage" about
procrastinating in writing a biography
about D.H. Lawrence, and "Yoga for
People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do
It", a hysterical travelogue.