Twelve bar blues

By Patrick Neate

Subjects: Ex-prostitutes, Musicians, fiction, Fiction, general, Fiction, sagas, Manners and customs, Cornet players, Jazz, Fiction, Social life and customs, Women singers, British, New orleans (la.), fiction, Jazz musicians

Description: Lick Holden, a talented but tormented young coronet player, sets out to conquer the steaming jazz scene of early twentieth-century New Orleans.