Frederick Turner on 1929: A Novel of the Jazz Age

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Frederick Turner is the author of “1929: a Novel of the Jazz Age.”  Turner reads from the book and talks with Steve Paulson about its central character, Bix Beiderbeck.  Bix was a coronet player, pianist and composer from Davenport, Iowa who was a brilliant jazz player, but died very young of alcoholism.