Keith Jarrett no blue note

"Impressive Jazz Improvisations are accomplished stories with Jarrett's songs as titles. Introspective and retrospective, follows Machado de Assis' and Proust's memorialist paths as character/narrator recasts old loves in cities of his youth against snowy Midwestern US background. Although presented as 'gay stories,' range is universal"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.