In this freewheeling collection of short stories and vignettes, the famed French
cartoonist examines not only the music, but the nature of the jazz sub-culture.
The grumpy festival goer, the curmudgeonly collector, and many other fan
“types” are the targets of his unerring gimlet eye. Drawn in a range of styles as
improvisational as Coltrane and Mingus — everything from loose linework
to tight pen and ink to gestural pencils — Blutch captures the excitement of
live performance, the lovelorn, and the Great Jazz Detective, who is out but
not down.
In this freewheeling collection of short stories and vignettes, the famed French
cartoonist examines not only the music, but the nature of the jazz sub-culture.
The grumpy festival goer, the curmudgeonly collector, and many other fan
“types” are the targets of his unerring gimlet eye. Drawn in a range of styles as
improvisational as Coltrane and Mingus — everything from loose linework
to tight pen and ink to gestural pencils — Blutch captures the excitement of
live performance, the lovelorn, and the Great Jazz Detective, who is out but
not down.