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Jazz pianist Evan Horne, back from Europe, settles near California's Russian River and reunites with FBI agent Andie Lawrence. He quickly connects with the Bay Area jazz scene and is elated when drummer Roy Haynes, one of the big names in jazz, invites him to New York to record a couple of tracks on a new album. But the tune goes sour when Evan receives a call from an LA attorney telling him his old friend and mentor, pianist Calvin Hughes, has died and named Evan his sole beneficiary and heir to Hughes' small Hollywood house, money, and all of his possessions. Playing through some of Calvin's handwritten sheet music, Evan recognizes a song from the landmark Miles Davis recording Birth of the Cool and then another from Kind of Blue, arguably one of the most important recordings in modern jazz. Was Hughes the uncredited composer of one or both of these tunes? If not, how did he get the sheet music? Then Evan finds a cryptic note from Hughes and a photo taken almost 40 years earlier taped to the bottom of a dresser drawer. It seems Hughes had more than one secret. And all of them will thrust Evan into a dangerous cross-country journey.... Professional jazz drummer Bill Moody has played and/or recorded with Jr. Mance, Maynard Ferguson, Jon Hendricks, Annie Ross, and Lou Rawls. He lives in northern California, teaches creative writing at Sonoma State University, and is active in the Bay Area jazz scene with the Terry Henry Trio and Dick Conte's trio and quartet. Shades of Blue is sixth in his Evan Horne mystery series. www.billmoodyjazz.com
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Bill Moody's background as a musician and his talents as a writer have made the Evan Horne mysteries a favorite of jazz aficionados and crime-fiction fans alike. Moody, a professional drummer and noted critic, teaches at Sonoma State University in northern California. www.billmoodyjazz.com
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- PublisherPoisoned Pen Press
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1590588975
- ISBN 13 9781590588970
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. After several months of successful work in London and Amsterdam with American expatriate Fletcher Paige, musician Evan Horne returns to the states and settles in the San Francisco Bay Area. There he reunites with his girlfriend, FBI agent, Andie Lawrence. And Evan quickly makes inroads into the Bay Area jazz scene.Life is good until a phone call from a Los Angeles attorney turns his life upside down. Evan's old friend and former mentor, pianist Calvin Hughes, has died and named Evan as his sole beneficiary. Hughes has left him his small Hollywood house, money, and all of his possessions. But when Evan begins to play through some hand-written sheet music, he recognizes one as a song from the landmark Miles Davis recording Birth of the Cool, and another from Kind of Blue.Evan is soon on a whirlwind journey across the country to find answers from his family and to confront his mother. Was Calvin Hughes the uncredited composer of one or both of these tunes, or was it simply Hughes' transcriptions from the recordings? What was her relationship with Calvin Hughes? And just how did Jazz come into the equation?. Seller Inventory # SONG1590588975
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