Rick Martin loved music and the music loved him. He could pick up a tune so quickly that it didnt matter to the Cotton Club boss that he was underage, or to the guys in the band that he was just a white kid. He started out in the slums of LA with nothing, and he ended up on top of the game in the speakeasies and nightclubs of New York. But while talent and drive are all you need to make it in music, they arent enough to make it through a life. Dorothy Bakers Young Man with a Horn is widely regarded as the first jazz novel, and it pulses with the music that defined an era. Baker took her inspiration from the artistrythough not the lifeof legendary horn player Bix Beiderbecke, and the novel went on to be adapted into a successful movie starring Kirk Douglas, Lauren Bacall, and Doris Day.

Binding: Paperback;192 pages; Publisher: New York Review Books; Classification: FA; Weight: 318 g; Dimensions: 147 x 204 x 14

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