When Charles Quinlan, an academic obsessed with jazz, starts exploring the life and death of Jackson Payne, a fictional tenor-sax player, he can't imagine where his research will lead. Told in a series of dazzling riffs by everyone from Payne's lovers to his fellow musicians, The Best of Jackson Payne is a novel that swings unlike any other.
- ISBN10 0375405356
- ISBN13 9780375405358
- Publish Date 13 June 2000
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Out of Print 12 November 2014
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Alfred A. Knopf
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 321
- Language English