Best of Jackson Payne

Name: Best of Jackson Payne
Price: 3.75 USD
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ISBN: 9780375405358

ISBN-10: 0375405356

ISBN-13: 9780375405358

Edition: 2000

Authors: Jack Fuller

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Musicologist Charles Quinlan -- white, middle-aged -- has spent half his life immersed in jazz, and now he thinks he is ready to explain the life and work of one of its masters. The music, he believes, will show him the way past the accidents of birth and the disparities of experience that divide him from his subject, Jackson Payne. Payne appeared on the scene a fully formed jazz artist not long after returning from service in the Korean War. For two decades his tenor saxophone burned its way through a series of increasingly complex musical ideas. And then he flamed out. What had driven him? What had destroyed him? Is it possible for someone like Quinlan to break through the walls of race…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/13/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Jack Fuller was editor and publisher of the Chicago Tribune and a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for his journalism. He served as special assistant to Edward H. Levi in the Department of Justice.