- Jazz musicians, Fiction, Trumpet players, Self-destructive behavior
Rick Martin loved music and the music loved him. He could pick up a tune so quickly that it didn't 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 aren't enough to make it through a life.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and bleak.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Dorothy Baker
- First published
- 1938
- Pages
- 243
- Publisher
- Gallimard, Amereon Limited, New York Review Books
- Editions
- 24
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9780860015468
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“Ich habe beschlossen, Rick Martins Lebensgeschichte aufzuschreiben, jetzt wo alles vorbei ist, wo Rick hinüber und, wie man so schön sagt, zur letzten Ruhe gebettet ist.”
Dorothy Baker was an American novelist who wrote the lesbian pulp novel Trio (1943), along with widely-successful romance novels. She married poet Howard Baker and together they composed fiction and plays.
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