Three musicians met in Paris, in the Montparnasse district, at the end of the 1960s.
O., a South Korean pianist from Busan, Bukka, a jazzman from Alabama experienced in the Vietnam War
And Ben, a Jewish saxophonist from Chicago, weave musical and emotional bonds.
Beyond the historical research required by the book, A Truly Very Swinging Trio is above all a novel.
It traces the journey of the three protagonists, marked both by the desire for a universal language - jazz
, a brilliant art placed here under the prophetic influence of Claude Debussy
- and the quest for origins.
Three nomads cross paths here, but each takes on their own destiny. |
