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#MayMontage #InternationalJazzDay late to the party ! Fiction loosely based on the life of Bix Beiderbecke .This book now in print as a #NYRBclassic .When they made a movie of it , Hoagy Carmichael was in it . He wrote the beautiful song Stardust , & actually played gigs with Bix IRL.

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Of the 14 books I read this month, these three were my favorites (4,5* each).

“The good thing, finally, is to lead a devoted life, even if it swings around and strikes you in the face.”

Baker strikes again with this fantastic book about a white boy who becomes obsessed with black jazz music and becomes the best horn player LA or New York has known until then. The reader feels the trip that his life becomes, drowned in alcohol, steamy as an underground jazz club.

I did like Daisy Jones, buy this book really rocks!

(Pic: The Painted Hills, Oregon)

My #NYRBBookClub friends will understand why I couldn‘t resist another book by Dorothy Baker. I can‘t imagine the young man can live up to the expectations (after Cassandra) but I am willing to find out!

I learned that there has been made a film of this book (“Young Man with a Horn“), too, and maybe this is the better medium for me concerning this topic.

I might watch it one day when I stumble across it.

Littens, I seriously begin to think I‘m in a reading slump. (Does it count if audiobooks work relatively well?)

Another bail. I don‘t say this book isn‘t interesting but for me it isn‘t. Probably because the prologue spoiled the story – plus: I‘m no musician. I like to listen to music but I‘m no good at imagining sound that is only described. Everything beyond “booming bass” gives me nothing.

And what I read wasn‘t told intriguingly, either.

Littens, you are clever. Maybe you are cleverer than I am.
Does any of you have an idea why one should want to write a novel, a fictional book,and then in the book‘s prologue already reveal key moments of the plot one has thought up❓

I hope that the development of the story and the writing are nice. If not I am, sorry, once again inclined to bail. 🤷🏽‍♀️

I needed five or six tries until this one finally let me open it on my e-reader. 🙄

But here I go now.

A story about a guy who is a talented jazz musician, about his life, his profession, his family life and his friends.

I like the atmosphere the cover transports so let‘s see what the inside is like.

Reading another Dorothy Baker, with my whole heart.