"In a world of noise, in a world where the treble clef is disappearing, in Carman Moore, music still has a friend. This biography traces the musician's journey from apprenticeship to his becoming one of the world's leading composers- a composer whose range is phenomenal." Ishmael Reed Carman Moore whom Jazz Legend and 2006 Pulizer Prize Award Winner Ornette Coleman calls "The best composer in the world," recounts his crossover-filled life from youth to friendships and meetings with such world figures as John Lennon, W. H. Auden, Louis Armstrong and Robert Redford. This great American bio is...