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When jazz pianist Evan Horne's mentor, Calvin, dies and names him as sole heir, Evan stumbles upon the musician's dark secrets when he investigates why Calvin had handwritten notes of jazz hits that he was never credited with.

Losing herself in her music to escape from her divorce, jazz pianist Carolee Burns encounters Max Wolfe, who restores her faith in love, but when a tragedy threatens to tear them apart, Carolee must find the strength inside to find happiness and love.

The author is in top form in this gripping tale of menace and revenge. A concert/jazz pianist becomes a prime suspect when an old love is murdered. To prove his innocence, he seeks the real killer, and both he and his new love find themselves the targets of a vengeful murderer.

A jazz musician stages a comeback in 1970s San Francisco. After five years in the wilderness because of problems with drugs, trumpet player Ronnie Reboule receives a visit from his estranged daughter. She is trying to make it as a singer and her example spurs him to resume his career. A first novel.

After dying, a jazz musician in Scotland is discovered to be a woman. The novel describes the way Joss Moody, a black trumpet player, manages to maintain her charade as husband and father.

Jazz pianist and sleuth Evan Horne probes the mysterious death, 40 years ago, of Wardell Gray, a famous black saxophone player. Horne ignores threats by the mob to lay off and the reader is given a tour of the jazz world as it exists in Las Vegas today. By the author of Solo Hand.

""Nicole Mones conjures up the jazz-filled, complex, turbulent world of Shanghai just before World War II. A rich and thoroughly captivating read."--Gail Tsukiyama, author of The Samurai's Garden Sailing to Shanghai in 1936 to lead a black jazz orchestra, Thomas Greene goes from being flat broke in segregated Baltimore to living in a mansion with servants of his own, and from the classical piano pieces he was trained to play to the toe-tapping swing...

"In the summer of 1925, along Washington, DC's "Black Broadway", a malevolent entity has begun preying on Negro residents. Twenty-three-year-old Clara Johnson is determined to discover what's going on in her community. Using her natural ability to talk with spirits, she begins to investigate, but a powerful spirit tasks her with a difficult quest: steal an ancient, magical ring from the finger of a wealthy socialite. When Clara meets Israel Lee, a...

"Carla is a talented jazz singer nearing forty. Maxwell is a renowned tenor saxophonist, the man Carla deeply loves and wants to marry. But Maxwell, who is black, finds himself increasingly at odds with the notion of lifelong togetherness with a white woman, as he yields to group pressure. While they are visiting his parents (whom Carla hopes to win over in her struggle to keep Maxwell in her life), scenes from Carla's past play out against the present,...