The bass saxophone

Description:

Two jazz-haunted novellas and a memoir of the Czechoslovakian novelist's own youthful obsession with jazz convey the irresistable lure of the music that celebrates freedom and spontaneity but was officially censured as being degenerate.

subjects: Fiction,  Jazz musicians,  Saxophonists,  Translations into English,  Fiction, general,  Musicians, fiction,  Czechoslovakia, fiction,  Czech republic, fiction

People: Josef Škvorecký

Places: Czechoslovakia