But Beautiful [A Book About Jazz] (MacMillan Publishing) circuitbent Vocalist and composer Michael Mayo

Vocalist and composer Michael Mayo makes his label debut with Bones on Artistry Music/Mack Avenue Music Group

appealing to adventurous listeners and potentially unsettling traditional jazz enthusiasts

the Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart brought the vision to life

It includes timeless classics like "Degi-Degi" and offers a unique blend of primitive and futuristic sounds

Chico O'Farrill's Afro Cuban Jazz Suite

But Beautiful [A Book About Jazz] (MacMillan Publishing) circuitbent Vocalist and composer Michael MayoIn eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skillfully evokes the music and the men who shaped modern jazz. Drawing on photos, anecdotes, and, most important, the way he hears the music, Dyer imaginatively reconstructs scenes from the embattled lives of some of the greats: Lester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too small bicycle; Thelonious Monk creating his own private language on the