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The Lineup: The World's Greatest Crime Writers Tell the Inside Story of Their Greatest DetectivesIt was my decision to make him a lover of jazz. (DulanБЂ™s tastes leaned toward high opera and the songs of Richard Strauss, with a strange but understandable penchant for Dusty Springfield.) A long-term listener to jazz myself-and, for a short period, a less than moderate practitioner-I wanted the opportunity to write about the music I knew, to try and give the reader, as far as it can be achieved in words, a sense of what Resnick is hearing when he listens, be it to Billie Holiday or Charlie Parker or whoever, and to describe as accurately as possible the actual sounds. More than that, I hoped I could make ResnickБЂ™s sympathy and enthusiasm for the music say something about the man himself; it might suggest-as, in another way, I suppose, do his culinary appetites-an imaginative richness not otherwise apparent. I also wanted, if I could, to draw a connection between ResnickБЂ™s appreciation of that listening experience and his understanding of people and their emotions, the things they feel and do. Writing in the Chicago Sun-Times some years ago, the critic Lloyd Sachs was kind enough to state, БЂњOne of the things Resnick draws from the music is the ability to sense deeper possibilities in people, criminals as well as victims of crime ...» |
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