BOOK/MAGAZINE: A Novel of the Central Avenue Jazz Scene and an Outsider's Quest to Find a Place There

BOOK REVIEW Early Bright by Ami Silber A novel of the Central Avenue jazz scene and an outsider's quest to find a place there - and finish a song that's in his head. KINDA blue is the shelf of jazz lit, where few writers have managed to keep their cool when engaging with the music. Jack Kerouac championed a spontaneous bop prosody, but plotted out or living in the moment, the prosody has rarely harmonized with the bop. John Clellon Holmes' The Horn, a character study of a saxophonist, deserve...

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