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    <![CDATA[Shades of Blue]]>
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    <![CDATA[ After several months of successful work in London and Amsterdam with American expatriate Fletcher Paige, Evan Horne returns to the states and settles in the  San Francisco Bay Area. There he reunites with his  girlfriend, FBI agent, Andie Lawrence. And Evan quickly makes inroads  into the Bay Area jazz scene. Life is good until a phone call from a Los  Angeles attorney turns his life upside down. Evans  old friend and former mentor, pianist Calvin Hughes,  has died, and named Evan as his sole beneficiary. Evan is shocked to learn that Hughes has left him his  small Hollywood house, money, and all his possessions. But when Evan begins to play through some hand-written sheet music, he recognizes one as a song  from the landmark Miles Davis recording Birth of the  Cool, and another from Kind of Blue, arguably one of the most important  recordings in modern jazz. Was Calvin Hughes the uncredited composer of one or both of these tunes, or  was it simply  Hughess transcriptions from the recordings?  In addition, Evans finds a cryptic note, and a photo taken almost 40 years  earliera young Cal with his hand on a baby carriage.  Both are taped to the bottom of a dresser drawer.  A friend of Cals Lisa Gaines  will continue  to take care of Milton and rent from Evan. Evan is soon on a whirl-wind journey across the country to find answers from his family and to confront his mother.  What was her relationship with Calvin Hughes?  And just how did Jazz come into the equation?]]>
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        <name><![CDATA[Bill Moody]]></name>
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  <read_at>Tue Jun 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Moody's writing is concise. Soft on characterizations, hard on plotting, soft on segways, hard on situations. Spontaneity and uncertainties didn't compromise his story, but a few disconnected, unnecessary happenings did. There was passion and purpose and facts. I enjoyed this work but surprise was j...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58214499">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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