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Kat, a young pianist suffering from composer's block, finds inspiration in the jazz of the 1940s and in the life of Kitty, a woman whose problems parallel her own but who infuses Kat's life with spontaneity, stimulus, and revelation
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ant...Xam Cartier's talent with language, and her gift for expressing anew the codes and ceremonies of black life, have a new and vibrant source of expression. Muse-Echo Blues is one hell of an improvisation."
- SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Muse-Echo Blues wail the soul of American history, our highs and our lows through the formative years. Here is a tune that swings from the heart, starting with sense-surround sound of the 90's, and blacktracking back to the roar of the '20's, right to the edge of deadened Crash times.
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- SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
Muse-Echo Blues wail the soul of American history, our highs and our lows through the formative years. Here is a tune that swings from the heart, starting with sense-surround sound of the 90's, and blacktracking back to the roar of the '20's, right to the edge of deadened Crash times.
Like an explosive riff, this homage to jazz and the African-Americans who perform it is as innovative as Be-Bob, Re-Bob , the author's debut novel. Stricken with composer's block, Kat is a 1990s, San Francisco-based pianist who, in an "insistent vision," relives the memories of 1940s jazz hipsters. First, she's transported into the life of Kitty, whose love redeems a saxophone player named Chicago from his addiction to heroin. Then Kat takes up the story of Lena, Chicago's chanteuse (turned prostitute) mother, who exemplifies the price women in the industry pay to succeed. Both women help Kat discover the sources of her problem, namely her "space-cadet" lovers and an absentee landlord. These soul sisters teach Kat to let her feelings flow into her music and to search her roots for strength and inspiration. Cartier rises to the challenge of jazz poets in this fusion of classic American music--jazz--and literary imagination.
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- PublisherHarmony
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0517577933
- ISBN 13 9780517577936
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages211
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Book Description hardcover. 1st edition. New York. 1991. Harmony Books. 1st Printing. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket . 0517577933. 211 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Literature America Black Women. FROM THE PUBLISHER - Amid the new breed of BMW-driving, black urban professionals of 1990s San Francisco, suffocated by the sweet wine cooler sound of black fusion muzak, Kat, a young pianist with an acute case of com- poser's block, is sorely in need of inspiration. She finds it in the jazz past of the 1940s and in a soul sister named Kitty, a young woman whose problems parallel her own at a time of dandies duded up in bigknotted ties/chest protectors flanked by flat-map labels of double breasted suits . the sharpest togged cats in. lisle handclocked socks, tucked into Stacy Adams and Florsheims - fine fancy kicks for cats on the move to a groove of their own. . Kat is dealing with used-up men and recalcitrant landlords, Kitty is breathing the same air as the jazz greats and making love to Chicago, a sax player from the legendary Billy Eckstine's band. Bit by bit, Kitty infuses Kat's life with the spontaneity and easy grace of a Coltrane improvisation. For nearly half a century, critics have been uniting for the arrival of a writer who would do for fiction what jazz poets Bob Kaufman, Ted Joans, John Gould Fletcher, and Langston Hughes have done for poetry. She's here! Xam CartiEr is as exciting, riveting, and original as a Max Roach solo. She is to writing what Betty Carter and Sarah Vaughan are to music. - ISHMAEL REED. inventory #23348 Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket. Seller Inventory # z23348
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