{"product_id":"142671","title":"But beautiful ","description":"\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/tmgdisk01.cafe24.com\/images\/vs\/4172\/sv\/3jYG66eB0qfB3OTVIx7Y2MBsYRDmZH.png?v=1765014804\" style=\"max-width:100%;max-height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center;font-size:30px;font-weight:bolder;line-height:1.6em\"\u003e But beautiful \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd 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style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003e“I simply could not help but translate this book.”\u003cbr\u003e _ Haruki Murakami\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book is one of Jeff Dyer's representative works and is a collection of imaginative critiques of jazz musicians. \u003cbr\u003eThe lives of jazz musicians who represented the 1940s and 1950s, including Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, Chet Baker, and Duke Ellington, are reinterpreted in a new way, crossing between reality and fiction.\u003cbr\u003e These stories sometimes read like biographies, sometimes like essays or novels.\u003cbr\u003e As the saying goes, “Jeff Dyer is a genre,” Dyer created his own genre of written music.\u003cbr\u003e Through the author's writing, readers delve deep into the life of a jazz musician as he navigates a turbulent moment in his life.\u003cbr\u003e And there, familiar yet unfamiliar jazz melodies begin to be heard.\u003cbr\u003e Jazz critic Hwang Deok-ho faithfully translated this work, which won the Somerset Maugham Medal, a leading British literary award, into Korean.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/tbody\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e You can preview some of the book's contents.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003ePreview\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e introduction\u003cbr\u003e About the photo\u003cbr\u003e But beautiful  \u003cbr\u003eReviews: Tradition, Influence, and Innovation\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e main\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Recommended albums\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eDetailed image\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/momo\/TopCate3775\/MidCate001\/377389980(1).jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Detailed Image 1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eInto the book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Is it true that you were just drunk when the police surrounding you were just looking for an excuse to smash your delicate head?\u003cbr\u003e You were screaming and begging at the same time, tears streaming down your nostrils, and you felt that the situation was spiraling out of control.\u003cbr\u003e As we walk, as we take brisk strides, a hand suddenly approaches us, grabs our arm, and pushes us into the middle of something that is always happening.\u003cbr\u003e Some events in life are like that.\u003cbr\u003e It just so happened that they were waiting for us to arrive.\u003cbr\u003e I was waiting patiently, like a sudden rain shower.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The rattling of the train and the whistle continued to enter his music. \u003cbr\u003eEspecially in Louisiana, the blues sung by firefighters with the sound of train whistles in the background was as sticky and captivating as a woman's song at night.\u003cbr\u003e The railroad runs through his work just as it runs through the history of African-Americans.\u003cbr\u003e Black people built the railroads, worked on the railroads, traveled on the railroads, and ultimately, like Duke, composed music on the railroads.\u003cbr\u003e It was a tradition he inherited.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.132\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The idea of ​​contributing to music, of dedicating something to it, led me to discover my own sound, whether it was the trumpet, the piano, or whatever.\u003cbr\u003e The friends who came after felt they had to take responsibility for the future of music.\u003cbr\u003e They felt they had to do something about the changes that would occur over the next ten years.\u003cbr\u003e Until six months later someone comes along and changes everything again. \u003cbr\u003eEvery note they played was filled with agony, and whatever they did with the trumpet, it sought a new sound that, if not a shrill scream, would strangle them.\u003cbr\u003e Music had become so complex that you had to go to three or four years of school before you could even hope to play anything.\u003cbr\u003e But jazz wasn't that difficult for Ben.\u003cbr\u003e Jazz wasn't something to be wrestled with, it was something to be reconstructed in one's own image.\u003cbr\u003e Jazz was just playing your saxophone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.155\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e But then, for a moment, he stumbles.\u003cbr\u003e Forgetting what you're playing, you grab the eighth or ninth railing of the count.\u003cbr\u003e Then he calls everything together and rises to the highest note.\u003cbr\u003e Eventually, we reach that note, very precisely.\u003cbr\u003e It flies cleanly. \u003cbr\u003eAt the very top of the leap, before gravity kicks in again, there comes a moment of perfect weightlessness, a moment of brilliance, clarity, and tranquility.\u003cbr\u003e Then it falls again.\u003cbr\u003e Drawing beautiful curves.\u003cbr\u003e As it fades into the deep sighs of the blues.\u003cbr\u003e The prisoners realize what the performance has been all about.\u003cbr\u003e Dream of falling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.259\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e People who live among alcohol, drugs, discrimination, tiring journeys, and wasted time are bound to have somewhat lower expectations from life than those who live a more peaceful life.\u003cbr\u003e But if this is the damage done to jazz musicians, we cannot help but wonder what their lives would have been like if the terrible toll had not been exacted from the people who created jazz.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e --- p.289\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublisher's Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eWinner of the Somerset Maugham Award, Britain's leading literary award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe life of a jazz musician, born anew through the combination of reality and fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lester Young slowly dying in his hotel room, Thelonious Monk getting his hands slapped by a cop while he's holding onto the steering wheel, Charles Mingus venting his anger on a battered bicycle through the streets of New York… … .\u003cbr\u003e Jeff Dyer reconstructs the life of a struggling jazz musician through a series of anecdotes, drawing on the way he listened to music.\u003cbr\u003e The main characters are representative musicians who led jazz in the 1940s and 1950s, such as Lester Young, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, Ben Webster, Chet Baker, Art Pepper, and Duke Ellington.\u003cbr\u003e It captures moments of self-destruction, sadness and loneliness, anxiety and emptiness, and downfall that emerge from alcohol, drugs, discrimination, and the arduous journey.\u003cbr\u003e At that moment, jazz is born.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The anecdotes in this book are both real events and fiction created by the author. \u003cbr\u003eGeoff Dyer describes his writing, which combines nonfiction and fiction, as \"imaginative criticism.\"\u003cbr\u003e Scenes in the book are based on well-known or legendary stories.\u003cbr\u003e A representative example is the story of Chet Baker having all his teeth knocked out.\u003cbr\u003e Such well-known repertoires are what jazz calls \"standards,\" where the artist briefly mentions established facts and then improvises around them, sometimes creating his own version that completely departs from the facts.\u003cbr\u003e Scenes that retain the formal privilege of improvisation appear like completely new 'original compositions'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eJeff Dyer's unique way of inviting readers into the world of jazz.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The author does not present a chronological history of jazz or suggest methods of appreciation. \u003cbr\u003eInstead, it invites readers into the world of jazz by describing, based on facts, what kind of lives jazz musicians lived and what style of music they created and played, along with some imagination.\u003cbr\u003e Jeff Dyer didn't specify exactly what he was referring to when he included what someone actually said in the book.\u003cbr\u003e Jazz musicians often quote other musicians in their solos.\u003cbr\u003e Whether or not the listener notices the quotation depends on his or her musical knowledge.\u003cbr\u003e Likewise, the events that appear in 『But Beautiful』 are things that have been changed beyond what was created or quoted, and they show not the musician's actual appearance, but the author's view.\u003cbr\u003e For example, rather than depicting musicians solely through their work, the author portrays the lives of jazz musicians by projecting them onto the moment they first heard the music. \u003cbr\u003eTherefore, it is entirely up to the reader to perceive the 'atmosphere' of jazz that this book presents.\u003cbr\u003e There is no right answer or set answer here.\u003cbr\u003e Just like jazz itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The story of Bud Powell, who suffered a nervous breakdown due to drug addiction, flows through his consciousness in a dreamlike hazy manner, while the story of Charles Mingus, who expresses his anger with his heavy body, changes scenes rhythmically.\u003cbr\u003e Duke Ellington's story of spending countless hours on the road while touring is as free and romantic as his wanderings.\u003cbr\u003e The sad and strange moment of craving drugs, being confined to mental hospitals and prisons, and ultimately being unable to even think of a life outside of music, is finally brought to life in Dyer's writing, and jazz begins to play in the still photographs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBeautiful sentences embroidered by non-experts,\u003cbr\u003e Music told through words\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn this book, \"But Beautiful,\" which begins with a tribute to John Berger, the author ironically states that not being able to play an instrument is actually a condition for being able to write, showing how a non-expert can embroider beautiful sentences among experts.\u003cbr\u003e Just as John Berger describes scenes in words in greater detail than photographs in his book, Geoff Dyer presents music through words in this book.\u003cbr\u003e With this, he once again proves that “Jeff Dyer is a genre.”\u003cbr\u003e With this work, he won the Somerset Maugham Medal, a literary award representing the UK, and joined the ranks of world-renowned writers. He still enjoys a solid reputation as a writer beloved by writers such as Haruki Murakami and Alain de Botton.\u003cbr\u003e This book was first introduced in Korea in 2013, but the regret over the translation followed it like a shadow. \u003cbr\u003eAlong with Jeff Dyer's photo critique collection, Moments of Duration, and the author's new work, Sea\/Saw, which is being introduced in Korea for the first time, Eulyoo Publishing presents one of Jeff Dyer's anthologies, but beautiful, which has been translated by jazz critic Hwang Deok-ho to enhance its completeness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “The best jazz photographs are full of the sounds of the people in them,” says Dyer.\u003cbr\u003e For example, in Carol Leaf's photograph of Chet Baker on stage at Birdland, we hear not only the performer's voice within the frame of the small stage, but also the chatter and clinking of glasses that fill the nightclub.\u003cbr\u003e \"But Beautiful\" is also filled with the voices of the protagonist in the text. \u003cbr\u003eIn the anecdotes of each musician, including Duke Ellington, Lester Young, and Art Pepper, the reader is not merely observed by the author, but is deeply immersed in their lives.\u003cbr\u003e There, we hear the familiar commotion of life that is likely to be around us. \u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:95%;padding-top:20px;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:16px;font-weight:bold;padding-bottom:20px\"\u003e GOODS SPECIFICS \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eDate of issue:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 5, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003ePage count, weight, size:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336 pages | 384g | 130*200*25mm\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9788932474618\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"width:100%;margin-bottom:5px;line-height:1.6em;font-size:14px\"\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8932474613 \u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"height:10px\"\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\u003c\/table\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/center\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/center\u003e","brand":"LIBRAIRIE COREENNE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43891674546218,"sku":"142671","price":25.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0683\/2750\/5962\/files\/225cadf55795c651b1c526d95836e105.jpg?v=1765337532","url":"https:\/\/librairie.coreenne.fr\/en\/products\/142671","provider":"LIBRAIRIE COREENNE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}