Music and Crime

By J.R. Creech

Ray the Face is a 32-year-old saxaphone player. Yet his angry past has delivered him to the seedy side of LA, where he is lucky to get even a one-night stand with Manny Montoura and his Latin... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0399134182
• ISBN13: 9780399134180
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: Putnam Adult
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.

Customer Reviews

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J.R.Creech brings to life one's true passion for music and shares the eventual price one must pay to persue it. Lyrical and dynamic, the main character's obsessions shine like stakes in the blinding sun; I totally believed the choices they made as honest reflections that any and all in such a place would choose to hopefully master a dream. The author has a pure sense of jazz and understands the devotion one needs to master it, and also, he understands the devil and the price one must pay to go to the alter. Ray the Face suffers on many levels, his character has depth and thought he tries his best to hide his fears, but though his families heartbreak scares him to the bone, he never fails to reveal his soul. Lenny, the true player, the real artist, but weaker of the two, must suffer for his short cuts and thus, is never allowed reach his true potential. Music and Crime is a perfect American novel. Part Kerouac and part Baldwin, it wins you over with its committment to the facts of art as a means. This book was an orphan at Putnam and never got the support it's reviewer's reccommended and there is the rub - read this book, feel this book and you will have rewarded yourself greatly.