The Best of Jackson Payne
A Novel
321 pages
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5-1/2 x 8-1/2
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© 2000
When Charles Quinlan, an academic obsessed with jazz, starts exploring the life and death of Jackson Payne, a fictional tenor-sax player, he can't imagine where his research will lead. Told in a series of dazzling riffs by everyone from Payne's lovers to his fellow musicians, The Best of Jackson Payne is a novel that swings unlike any other.
Contents
ONE Taps
TWO Stormin' at the Point
THREE The Shell Casting
FOUR Off the Bar
FIVE That's Why the Lady Is a Tramp
SIX My Funny Valentine
SEVEN The Standard Form of the
American Popular Song
EIGHT Stuck in a Groove
NINE The Kensington Sessions
TEN Celestial Faith
ELEVEN Sweet Thing
TWELVE Taps
TWO Stormin' at the Point
THREE The Shell Casting
FOUR Off the Bar
FIVE That's Why the Lady Is a Tramp
SIX My Funny Valentine
SEVEN The Standard Form of the
American Popular Song
EIGHT Stuck in a Groove
NINE The Kensington Sessions
TEN Celestial Faith
ELEVEN Sweet Thing
TWELVE Taps
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