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- The first in a series of thrillers featuring - ready? - an early music ensemble. Great fun, and worth searching for.
- A group of working class Dublin youth struggle to put together a soul band. Hilariously touching. And better than the great movie!
- Which will prevail, the restoration of the Cathedral or the tradition-bound Choir? Lovely English setting, and afterward you won't feel quite so bad about the politics at your job.
- The madness of the creative process, and the struggles with commercial compromise.
- More university politics, production of a new opera, and running commentary by none other than E.T.A. Hoffmann (in limbo).
- Unequivocably the best book you'll ever read about the making of a musician, the invaluable teacher, the creative process, performances, and the courting and wooing of the Muse.
- A mystery series featuring a jazz musician, this is the first of four. Moody is a drummer and journalist who knows the ins and outs. His latest (Bird Lives!) features a killer who writes haikus built on classic jazz titles.
- Another real favorite, again set in university, this book celebrates better than any other I know the joys of music making, through the travails of a group of college professors who decide to start an amateur jazz band.
- Magic realism on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Robert Johnson mysteriously shows up and sets into motion the founding of a Native American rock 'n' roll band. Very cool.
- Pulitzer Prize winner. A very interesting book with an accordian as the main character. Its lifetime journey is filled with mystery, heartbreak, humor, and joy.
- The story of a talking, alto saxophone-playing bear. A contempory fable, featuring guest appearances from such real-life jazzers as Charlie Haden, Billy Hart, and Lester Bowie. To say nothing of the bear's romance with a woman named Iris...
- A fictionalization of the life of trumpeter Chet Baker, one of the most beautifully doomed musicians who ever lived.
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