Young Man with a Horn

Name: Young Man with a Horn
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ISBN: 9781590175774

ISBN-10: 1590175778

ISBN-13: 9781590175774

Edition: 2012

Authors: Dorothy Baker, Gary Giddins

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Dorothy Baker’sYoung Man with a Hornis widely regarded as the first jazz novel, and it courses with the verve and swing of the music that defined an era. From the beginning, Rick Martin loved music and the music loved him. He could pick up a tune so quickly that it didn’t matter to the boss at the Cotton Club that he was underage or to the folks in the band that he was just a white kid. He started out with nothing in the slums of LA, but there was a kind of fate to his ending up on top of the game in the speakeasies and nightclubs of New York. But where instinct and drive are all you need to take you far in music, they aren’t enough to make a life work. Baker took her inspiration forYoung…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The
Publication date: 9/11/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.16" wide x 8.07" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

Gary Giddins lives in New York City.