Oops.  Like I said: I missed the original post.  Still, "Coming Through Slaughter" IS a pretty great book, and helped open the door for several subsequent novels that feature the same time and place (and music) such as Peter Everett's "Bellocq's Women," David Fulmer's "Chasing the Devil's Tail," etc etc.

Phil

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From: Oppenheim, Phil
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 9:31 AM
To: 'Julien Quint'; 'zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com'
Subject: RE: fiction about music or musicians?

Oh yeah -- has anyone namedropped Michael Ondaatje's excellent, poetic "biography" of Buddy Bolden, "Coming Through Slaughter"?

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On Tuesday, October 07, 2003 10:31 PM, Julien Quint wrote:

>Not to mention the bar where the engineers from Yoyodine go play
>improvised music that's described as it wouldn't be out of place on an
>Erstwhile disc :)