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Music Journalist And Fiction Author Matty Bannond Releases Debut Jazz Novel, 'Cutting Contest'

Source: Matty Bannond
October 23, 2025

Cutting Contest is an energetic novel about a dry-humoured and hot-tempered young trombone player on the brink of financial, professional and personal ruin. Published in September, 2025: Connie Benson is a 26-year-old trombone player whose reckless online persona is taking over her life—and trashing it. She is buried under a mountain of personal debt, her professional reputation is falling apart and her relationship with her mother is hanging by a thread. When she snatches the last open spot in a ...

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