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The acclaimed author of Veronica and A Trip to the Stars returns with a dazzling new novel based on one of the great legends of musical history.
New Orleans, 1900. The virtuoso cornet player Charles “Buddy” Bolden invents jazz, but after a life consumed by tragedy, the groundbreaking sound of his horn vanishes with him. Rumors persist, though, that Bolden recorded a phonograph cylinder, and over the course of a century it evolves into the elusive holy grail of jazz.
Florida, the present day. Dr. Ruby Cardillo’s life is falling apart. Her husband, a prominent cardiologist, has left her for a twenty-six-year-old. Her daughter, Devon, a once promising jazz pianist, has recently finished an enforced stint picking up trash along the interstate after a drug conviction. Ruby’s estranged mother has just died, but not before conjuring up ghosts that Ruby thought she had put behind her long ago. After a long career as a well-respected anesthesiologist, Ruby suddenly jumps the tracks, forgetting to eat and sleep, indulging her every whim, wearing only purple, consuming only bottles of 1988 Château Latour.
Then Ruby enlists Devon to accompany her on an impulsive road trip to New York, and both mother and daughter get more than they bargained for, discovering that their own shrouded family history is connected to the tantalizing search for Buddy Bolden’s long-lost cylinder.
Ranging from turn-of-the-century Louisiana to Roaring Twenties Chicago to contemporary Manhattan, Tiger Rag is at once a moving story of loss and redemption and an intricate historical mystery from one of our most brilliant storytellers.
Praise for Tiger Rag
“The structure here is like a long and complex jazz arrangement. There is a comparatively simple theme set up against what might be thought of as distinctive chord changes. And then, against this main story, the author sets up what might be seen as highly individualistic solos. The themes of the male performers and the female audiences come together, separate, then come together again. If you love the world of jazz, if it’s a little like a religion to you, you’ll love this ambitious, thoughtful novel.” —The Washington Post
“Describing music in a book is a bit like trying to describe color to a blind person; it rarely goes well. The opening stretch of Nicholas Christopher’s latest novel Tiger Rag, however, paints a picture of a jazz recording session so vividly that the reader might want to keep a towel handy for mopping his brow James Brown-style.” —GQ.com
“Nicholas Christopher's new novel, Tiger Rag, is a New Year's treat that lovers of good music and good writing should not deny themselves. . . . Nicholas is a master at building a rich story populated with vivid characters on the bare foundation of historical record. Although no recording of Bolden and his band has yet surfaced, his sideman Willy Cornish, a trombone player, died claiming a recording session took place. Nicholas has imagined a satisfying and engrossing tale about what might have happened. He has fleshed out the lives touched by the wax cylinders that stored three versions of “Tiger Rag.” From the musicians who played with or followed Bolden, to the recording engineer and his assistant at the fateful recording session, Nicholas has created a colourful cast whose stories draw readers into their lives. . . . Nicholas is a poet as well as a novelist, and the book sings, thanks to his compelling descriptions and use of imagery. . . . [C]ompulsively readable.” —The Toronto Star
From the Hardcover edition.
- Sales Rank: #904511 in eBooks
- Published on: 2013-01-01
- Released on: 2013-01-01
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Booklist
Poet and author of several novels and a well-received book on film noir, Somewhere in the Night (1997), Christopher here offers a novel based on the life of early jazz cornetist Buddy Bolden. Although little is definitively known about Bolden and no recordings survive, this is territory explored in fictional form before, by Michael Ondaatje in Coming through Slaughter (1993). Told through accounts of Bolden and his contemporaries and alternately of a present-day mother-daughter duo, the story hinges on the possible existence of an Edison cylinder recorded by Bolden’s group in 1904 New Orleans. Though the pacing occasionally lags, this generally compelling story should appeal to jazz buffs eager to read about Bolden, Bechet, Bunk Johnson, et al., however imagined; to the coterie of readers of Bill Moody’s similarly themed jazz mysteries; and to fans of the talented and prolific Christopher. --Mark Levine
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Praise for Tiger Rag
“The structure here is like a long and complex jazz arrangement. There is a comparatively simple theme set up against what might be thought of as distinctive chord changes. And then, against this main story, the author sets up what might be seen as highly individualistic solos. The themes of the male performers and the female audiences come together, separate, then come together again. If you love the world of jazz, if it’s a little like a religion to you, you’ll love this ambitious, thoughtful novel.” —The Washington Post
“Describing music in a book is a bit like trying to describe color to a blind person; it rarely goes well. The opening stretch of Nicholas Christopher’s latest novel Tiger Rag, however, paints a picture of a jazz recording session so vividly that the reader might want to keep a towel handy for mopping his brow James Brown-style.” —GQ.com
“Nicholas Christopher's new novel, Tiger Rag, is a New Year's treat that lovers of good music and good writing should not deny themselves. . . . Nicholas is a master at building a rich story populated with vivid characters on the bare foundation of historical record. Although no recording of Bolden and his band has yet surfaced, his sideman Willy Cornish, a trombone player, died claiming a recording session took place. Nicholas has imagined a satisfying and engrossing tale about what might have happened. He has fleshed out the lives touched by the wax cylinders that stored three versions of “Tiger Rag.” From the musicians who played with or followed Bolden, to the recording engineer and his assistant at the fateful recording session, Nicholas has created a colourful cast whose stories draw readers into their lives. . . . Nicholas is a poet as well as a novelist, and the book sings, thanks to his compelling descriptions and use of imagery. . . . [C]ompulsively readable.” —The Toronto Star
“Full of outsize charm and drive . . . a moving, page turner of a story that spans a century . . . [P]arallel stories, well-syncopated in Christopher's skilled hands, soon begin to merge, at times in fascinating, unexpected ways. . . . With Tiger Rag, Christopher has reached into jazz history to produce a novel that enriches the Bolden story and is a suspenseful modern drama about a fractured family as well.” —Associated Press
“This book is a threefold success: a compelling family drama in the sections set in the present day, a well-controlled piece of historical fiction in the others, and a worthy tribute to jazz music and all its attendant liveliness and messiness throughout.” —The Daily Beast
“Poet and novelist Christopher mixes fiction with jazz history in this delightful dual narrative. . . . [an] intriguing yarn.” —Publisher’s Weekly
“Compelling . . . should appeal to jazz buffs eager to read about Bolden, Bechet, Bunk Johnson, et al., however imagined; to the coterie of readers of Bill Moody’s similarly themed jazz mysteries; and to fans of the talented and prolific Christopher.” —Booklist
“Based on a legend that jazz pioneer Buddy Bolden made a long-lost recording in 1904 New Orleans of a song that came to be know as “Tiger Rag,” Christopher has created a pair of compelling contemporary characters who search for the old Edison cylinder. Dr. Ruby Cardillo is an anesthesiologist who’s taken to wearing only purple after her doctor husband dumps her for a 26-year-old. Her jazz-pianist daughter, Devon, is a recovering addict. Together, they try to uncover the secrets of — and family connections to — the Holy Grail of jazz.” —New York Post, *Required Reading*
About the Author
Nicholas Christopher is the author of five previous novels: The Soloist, Veronica, A Trip to the Stars, Franklin Flyer, and The Bestiary; eight books of poetry, including his new and selected poems, Crossing the Equator; and a book on film noir, Somewhere in the Night. He lives in New York City.
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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
"If you only see what you want to see, you're doomed."
By Amelia Gremelspacher
"Tiger Rag" brilliantly pursues two sets of characters who fell prey to this very truth. The first group is King Bolden and the band mates and producers that accompanied him in his fabled only recording in 1906. Three of Edison's cylinders were recorded, only to disappear into the misdemeanors and accidents of history.
In alternating chapters, Devon and her now manic mother Ruby pursue their own pilgrimage. starting in South Carolina and meandering through the South, they travel to New York City. Ruby's mother has been left by Devon's father, and her estranged mother has died. In their travels, Maria shares with Devon her own history, linked deeply with the ragtime of the South, jazz that Devon also finds in her blood. Finally in New York City, the two story lines begin to dovetail.
The history of Boden as a starting point is a true one. He is credited with linking early ragtime to African beats and was known for his remarkable playing of the cornet. He was felled early in his life by schizophrenia. The search for his cylinder continues. This book takes us to the world of the ragtime at the turn of the century, The characters come to life in their struggles. I was not familiar with this age of jazz, but this fictional account is vivid and inviting.
Related through the years, Ruby's mania bears true marks of this illness. Her history has a line of fascinating women, most memorable to me being her aunt. This woman knew about the uses of herbs and the vagaries of fortune. Marielle is a "wise woman" who imbues the story with a light touch of mysticism, but what would music be without that? Equally present is Ruby's daughter Devon struggling to deal with sobriety while not losing her passion. The women are drawn with passion and lucidity.
I found this book to be that rare find, a wonderful book off the trails of the heralded releases. The characters have moments of luminous understanding. The plot is developed beautifully, with skillful segues. Ruby's grandmother told her that "life is a story you can write yourself or other people can write it. ....Something outside of you, that you can't explain will push the pen...and all you can do is hope...you can finish it the way you like.". I feel this story illustrated this for me. Please read it and join me.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Compelling Jazz Mystery
By The Pie Dude
Tiger Rag is a compelling jazz mystery. Christopher presents two parallel stories: a speculative tale of what happened to the three wax cylinder recordings of Tiger Rag by musician Buddy Bolden, and the road trip of an estranged mother and daughter reconnecting with family history. Along the way we get engrossing tales of New Orleans in the early 20th century, and the surprising connection between Buddy Bolden and road trippers. Good stuff.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Closer to the Whirlpool
By booknblueslady
I wanted to like Tiger Rag by Nicholas Christopher much more than I did. One for the shallow reason, that has one of the more striking covers and was calling for me to read it and secondly the story of Charles "Buddy" Bolden the band leader musician who is often credited with creating jazz music and is still so widely respected despite being institutionalized for schizophrenia at around 30 years of age. Like Robert Johnson the great bluesman who came after him, Bolden is a myth and a legend and it seems his story is waiting to be fleshed out. Writers as well known as Michael Ondaatje and I hoped that Christopher would succeed.
It starts out well with the reader sitting in on a recording session of Bolden and his band. It seemed as if we would be given real insight into Bolden with him first beginning to slip into psychosis:
"He filled a tin cup with red whiskey and wandered into the bedroom sipping it, the fumes filling his head. When he met his wife Nora, she told him he moved like an alley cat. slow then fast then slow. Always in rythm. But lately he had been freezing at odd moments, startled by movements--darting shadows, flickers of light--that he caught out of the corner of his eye. He soon realzied that no one else saw them. And that each time it required more willpower to regain his bearings. Most nights he was afraid to be alone. He imagined he was like a ship spinning, unsteerable, as it neared a whirlpool."
With Bolden spinning toward the whirlpool the recording session is finished with three cylinders recorded. From this promising start, we moved to anesthesiologist Dr. Ruby Cardillo who is traveling with her daughter, Devon, a jazz pianist to New York City. Cardillo's life is falling apart with a recent divorce and she is falling apart with it and like Bolden spinnng closer to the whirlpool. The novel slip slides from Cardillo to the tale of Bolden and the three recorded cylinders.
I quite love a book which shifts from a modern story to one of a historical mystery, but that admit it is not easily done. There were bits and pieces of this novel that fired my imagination and tied to my heart, but there were others which had no impact. The relationship story of Cardillo and her daughter left me less than thrilled, perhaps it felt a little too touchy-feelie, I'm not sure.
I really loved the story of Bolden's trombonist Willie Cornish, who kept one of the cylinders for him. He was a man of great sensitivity and loyalty.
I think this is an interesting novel and for those that like a shifting story this may be appealing.
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