Set a bit later, in the East Village jazz scene was Tin Angel
by Paul Pines. Picked up as much for the author's name being
similar to that of John Evan's PI as for the jacket copy, the
book was very good. And even I, at the time even more of a
jazz neophyte than I still am, was able to identify several
of the famous jazz musicians barely hidden behind their name
changes. I'm sure a more knowledgable fan would get even more
out of that aspect. It was only a few years ago, when reading
his obit, that I found out Pines had owned a '70s East
Village jazz club called the Tin Palace, which explained why
he knew the scene so well.
John Browner's Death of a Punk was set around the CBGBs punk
scene. And Charlie Huston's vampire, Joe Pitt, was turned in
that club's legendarily grimy bathroom.
Mark
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