notanotherbookreview

  Peter Cherches, TRACKS: Memoirs From a Life With Music , published by Bamboo Dart Press. I enjoy Peter's prose, from his early Condensed Book t o the more recent Whistler's Mother's Son and Other Curiosities  (Pelekinesis). Publishers Weekly called him "one of the innovators of the short short story" before the term flash fiction. I also enjoyed his amusing and suprising performances at Cornelia Street Cafe with Lee Feldman, crooning standards of his own. Below is an excerpt from TRACKS . Miles Davis, “Straight, No Chaser,” from Milestones (1958)  One of the first jazz albums I bought as an adolescent, I think when I was 12, was Milestones, by the Miles Davis Sextet. I figured I’d kill two jazz birds with one stone: Miles Davis and John Coltrane, neither of whom I’d ever heard, to my knowledge. I was unaware at the time of the more legendary status of the group’s next album, Kind of Blue. I did know that Miles Davis was possibly the most famous living jazz mus...