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with each member contributing to the music's unpredictability and exciting journey

It includes timeless classics like "Degi-Degi" and offers a unique blend of primitive and futuristic sounds

with lush harmonies and poignant

But Beautiful [A Book About Jazz] (MacMillan Publishing) circuitbent making it an intricateIn eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shaped modern jazz. Drawing on photos, anecdotes, and, most important, the way he hears the music, Dyer imaginatively reconstructs scenes from the embattled lives of some of the greats: Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too small bicycle; Thelonious Monk creating his own private language on the