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Writes Richard Terrill, "The name fakebook derives from recognition that a jazz musician who is improvising over a set of chord changes is "faking," making up his or her own melody. The fakebook then is a place to start, the structure upon which music is completed." For this Fakebook, with its "improvisations" that pay homage to various greats like Stan Getz, Dexter Gordon, and John Coltrane, and with its exploration of how jazz works, jazz is the place to start in coming to terms with one's limits, in music and in life. After pursuing music as a young man-backing up celebrity performers at...

Do you enjoy books which read like movies? If so, you will be amazed by the four interconnected stories actually lived by the novelist as an inner city teacher who overcame racism in a most unique way while also becoming a nationally collected visionary artist whose communication with the dead, experiences as a detective chasing perhaps the first 20th Century female killer, and One-Mind telepathic experiences are vividly presented in a hilariously serious manner as clearly as in a movie.