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"Of the World" is the second book of the groundbreaking coming of age trilogy "If Where You're Going Isn't Home," the ten-year story of a boy growing up Mormon in America in pursuit of a dream to play jazz trumpet. At sixteen, licensed to drive, armed with his trumpet and a talented band, Shake Tauffler begins to slip the harness of his home and neighborhood to test himself in the raw world of the streets and nightclubs of Salt Lake and its outlying towns. His threatened
Criticized- by jazz elitists too young to remember his glory years as an innovator-for doing such a popular Broadway tune he replied. It's not the number that counts, it's the way you play it. That's what makes jazz.
Journey is the first book of the groundbreaking coming-of-age trilogy If Where You're Going Isn't Home, the story of a boy growing up Mormon in America with a dream to play jazz trumpet. It is the recipient of a coveted ForeWord Clarion Five Star Review. It begins in 1956. Young Shake Tauffler hears a line of music on the radio of a cattle truck that changes his life forever. The music is jazz. The instrument is a trumpet. His family is moving one last time - from a southern Utah ranch to a
A poetic, lyrical and critical review of the "experiments in time" recordings done by the Dave Brubeck Quartet in the early 60s -- exemplifying a kind of stately, sophisticated and mostly cool jazz, often in unusual if not unique time signatures, such as 5/4, 9/8, 11/4 and 13/4.
"Of the World" is the second book of the groundbreaking coming of age trilogy "If Where You're Going Isn't Home," the ten-year story of a boy growing up Mormon in America in pursuit of a dream to play jazz trumpet. At sixteen, licensed to drive, armed with his trumpet and a talented band, Shake Tauffler begins to slip the harness of his home and neighborhood to test himself in the raw world of the streets and nightclubs of Salt Lake and its outlying towns. His threatened
Criticized- by jazz elitists too young to remember his glory years as an innovator-for doing such a popular Broadway tune he replied. It's not the number that counts, it's the way you play it. That's what makes jazz.
Journey is the first book of the groundbreaking coming-of-age trilogy If Where You're Going Isn't Home, the story of a boy growing up Mormon in America with a dream to play jazz trumpet. It is the recipient of a coveted ForeWord Clarion Five Star Review. It begins in 1956. Young Shake Tauffler hears a line of music on the radio of a cattle truck that changes his life forever. The music is jazz. The instrument is a trumpet. His family is moving one last time - from a southern Utah ranch to a
A poetic, lyrical and critical review of the "experiments in time" recordings done by the Dave Brubeck Quartet in the early 60s -- exemplifying a kind of stately, sophisticated and mostly cool jazz, often in unusual if not unique time signatures, such as 5/4, 9/8, 11/4 and 13/4.