An engaging personal account of the jazz scene in Paris in the '80s
and '90s In his Beat-like jaunt through the Parisian and European
jazz scene, Mike Zwerin is not unlike Jack Kerouac, Mezz Mezzrow,
or Hunter S. Thompson-writers to whom, for different reasons, he
owes some allegiance. What makes him special is his devotion to the
troubled musicians he idolizes, and a passion for music that is
blessedly contagious. Many jazz fans will know Mike Zwerin for his
witty, irreverent, and undeniably hip music reviews and articles in
the International Herald Tribune that have entertained us for
decades. Based in Paris, or, rather, stuck there, as Zwerin likes
to say, he has been a music critic for the Trib since 1979. Zwerin
also had a distinguished career as a trombonist. When he was just
eighteen years old, he was invited by Miles Davis to play alongside
Gerry Mulligan, John Lewis, and Max Roach in the band that was
immortalized as The Birth of the Cool. The Parisian Jazz Chronicles
offers an engaging personal account of the jazz scene in Paris in
the 1980s and 1990s. Zwerin writes lovingly but unsparingly about
figures he knew and interviewed- such as Dexter Gordon, Freddy
Heineken, Miles Davis, Bob Dylan, Chet Baker, Wayne Shorter, and
Melvin Van Peebles. Against this background, Zwerin tells about his
own life-split allegiances to journalism and music, and to America
and France, his solitary battle for sobriety, a failing marriage,
and fatherhood.
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