But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz Audiobook (Free)

Lester Teen fading away within a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of NY on a too-small bike; Thelonius Monk creating his very own private language in the piano .

In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skilfully evokes the embattled lives of the players who shaped modern jazz. He pulls on photos and anecdotes, but music may be the traveling power of But Beautiful and Dyer brings it to life in luminescent and wildly metaphoric prose that mirrors the quirks, eccentricity, and brilliance of every musician’s style.