Black Pearls: Improvisations on a Lost Year

by Sascha Feinstein

Sascha Feinstein grew up on Manhattan's Upper West Side, the only child of parents who were both artists. While he was still in high school, his mother was diagnosed with cancer and died less than a year later. It was during the trying period of his mother's illness that he became consumed by jazz, both as an emotional salvation and as a necessary form of escape. Later, during his college years, he discovered the crossovers between jazz and poetry,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1597660477
• ISBN13: 9781597660471
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Eastern Washington University
• Length: 171 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"