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Geoff Dyer: But Beautiful [2012] paperback USHIS it destroyed itselfLester Young fading away in a hotel room; Charles Mingus storming down the streets of New York on a too small bicycle; Thelonius Monk creating his own private language on the piano In eight poetically charged vignettes, Geoff Dyer skilfully evokes the embattled lives of the players who shaped modern jazz. He draws on photos and anecdotes, but music is the driving force of But Beautiful and Dyer brings it to life in luminescent and wildly metaphoric