In this freewheeling collection of short stories and vignettes, the famed French
cartoonist examines not only the music, but the nature of the jazz sub-culture.
The grumpy festival goer, the curmudgeonly collector, and many other fan
“types” are the targets of his unerring gimlet eye. Drawn in a range of styles as
improvisational as Coltrane and Mingus — everything from loose linework
to tight pen and ink to gestural pencils — Blutch captures the excitement of
live performance, the lovelorn, and the Great Jazz Detective, who is out but
not down.
