I hope you are doing well! I appreciated your recent sharing of Tom Colello's Slug's memoir. It spurred me to think about a mentor of mine who has a connection to the venue as a jazz lover and manager/producer of numerous top-tier artists since the 1960's: Marty Khan. That, in turn, got me thinking about Marty's writings and how you may find them interesting, assuming you don't already know about them! His non-fiction work lives at the intersection of jazz advocacy and business strategy, while his fiction work mines the common ground between jazz, noir, and sci-fi. I have yet to read his three novellas, but I recently downloaded them for a too-low price and hope to get to them soon.
I suspect it's probably been recommended to you, but if you ever read Francis Spufford's "Cahokia Jazz", I'd be very interested in hearing your thoughts on it.
Hi Ethan,
I hope you are doing well! I appreciated your recent sharing of Tom Colello's Slug's memoir. It spurred me to think about a mentor of mine who has a connection to the venue as a jazz lover and manager/producer of numerous top-tier artists since the 1960's: Marty Khan. That, in turn, got me thinking about Marty's writings and how you may find them interesting, assuming you don't already know about them! His non-fiction work lives at the intersection of jazz advocacy and business strategy, while his fiction work mines the common ground between jazz, noir, and sci-fi. I have yet to read his three novellas, but I recently downloaded them for a too-low price and hope to get to them soon.
Best,
Josh Zaslow
Thanks, I don't know either of those writers you mentioned but will check them out.
Two older titles that I would recommend to anyone based on their entertainment value:
1. Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem (also the book-on-tape recording of it by Steve Buscemi, but most definitely not the movie version).
2. Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season by John Gregory Dunne.
I learned of the second from 1982's The Catalog of Cool, a wonderful guide to movies, TV, books and pop culture. You can view it The Internet Archive.
I suspect it's probably been recommended to you, but if you ever read Francis Spufford's "Cahokia Jazz", I'd be very interested in hearing your thoughts on it.
Lonesome Dove is a wonderful novel!