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Reviewed on May 15, 2003
Turner, the author or editor of 13 nonfiction works, uses jazz legend Bix Beiderbecke's brief (1903-31) but celebrated life as a frame for this richly atmospheric novel of Chicago during the Depression, Prohibition, the rise of gangsters, and jazz. Beiderbecke is not the only legend who appears in this densely populated novel: gangsters Al Capone and Dutch Schultz, musicians Bing Crosby, Tommy Dorsey, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong...Log In or Sign Up to Read More