Give As A GiftBut Beautiful
A Book About Jazz
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Written By: Geoff Dyer
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Publisher: Canongate Books
Length: 00:00:00
Abridgement: Unabridged
Language: English
Release Date: 17-01-2019
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Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too-small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano . . .
In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skilfully evokes the embattled lives of the players who shaped modern jazz. He draws on photos and anecdotes, but music is the driving force of But Beautiful and Dyer brings it to life in luminescent and wildly metaphoric prose that mirrors the quirks, eccentricity, and brilliance of each musician's style.
Roger McEwan was lucky to be made redundant from
his corporate career in 2001 when his son was one and his daughter
a small bump. He started a small consulting firm, just himself,
and this allowed him to truly achieve work-life balance, enabling
him to spend many valuable hours with his children as they grew.
His world lurched once again when his children were six and
eight and he found himself a single dad sharing care of his
children with his ex-wife. This book is the result of his journey
as a single dad raising his two wonderful, challenging children.
Roger has a PhD in management and still runs his own
consulting business. Has a part-time role with the local district
health board, is writing a management book with a colleague he met
during his studies, is collecting material for a sequel to this
book, and teaches on the Massey University MBA programme. Most
importantly he is a dad, father, parent, teacher and friend to his
two children now aged 17 and 15.
