Muse-Echo Blues
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0345377621 / Publisher: Ballantine Books, May 1992
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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"Brilliant...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 CHRONICLEMuse-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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