Originally Posted by
morpeth
Excellent thread. I love both the Val Wilmer and Art Pepper's autobiography... Will have to seek out the book on Dr John.
One of the finest books about jazz that I know of is Geoff Dyer's But Beautiful
Publisher: Canongate Books; Main edition (10 May 2012)
ISBN-10: 0857864025
ISBN-13: 978-0857864024
- lightly fictionalised portraits of Monk, Mingus, Chet Baker, Art Pepper and others. Quite brilliantly done - funny and moving and seems to get inside the music in unexpected ways.