Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje
"On his last night Webb went to hear Bolden play. Far back, by the door, he stood alone and listened for an hour. He watched him dive into the stories found in the barber shop, his whole plot of song covered with scandal and incident and change. The music was coarse and rough, immediate, dated in half an hour, was about bodies in the river, knives, lovepains, cockiness. Up there on stage he was showing all the possibilities in the middle of the story."
page 43
Published by House of Anansi
1976
(*) Library Book checked out from Free Library of Philadelphia. Pencil highlights, now erased, were made by unknown persons.
Note: This Work of Historical Fiction is highly recommended