"This book speaks for itself. Read it, and be transported to the smoked filled jazz clubs of the nascent bop era, and hear its music as you follow the roller coaster career of the trumpet-playing protagonist." -David Shire Jazzman is the vivid tale of Lance Willliams, a brilliant, innovative and troubled trumpet player in a golden age of jazz in the '40s and '50s, back when such musicians as John Coltrane and Charlie Mingus...