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Flying High: A Jazz Life and Beyond by Peter King (Northway Books)

Source: Ann Cotterrell
May 4, 2011

Peter King's book ranks among the great jazz autobiographies. Peter King's book ranks among the great jazz autobiographies. One of the world's leading alto saxophonists, he tells his story with searing honesty, revealing the obsessions and motivations that have driven him and the dilemmas of surviving as a top creative musician in an often inhospitable world. With unsparing self-analysis he describes the traumas that accompanied his brilliant career for many years. Internationally recognised as a jazz star, Peter King has ...

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