Before people get too excited and start a big debate about
Miles's place in the musical world, let's remember we should
keep things related to hardboiled writing and not stray into
jazz debates (and I'm suspcious of legal thrillers,
too).
I join in the recommendation of Art Pepper's and Anita
O'Day's autobiographies, and people might like Mezz Mezzrow's
too, which is full of great slang. They make a real-life flip
side to the nightclub world we read about in the period
novels. Pepper and O'Day had hellishly tough lives and the
books, as I recall, fit into the hardboiled non-fiction
category we sometimes find.
Bill
-- William Denton : Toronto, Canada : http://www.miskatonic.org/ : Caveat lector.
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