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Kay, Jackie Trumpet
Picador August 27, 1999 0-330-33146-9 / 9780330331463 Paperback Very Good+
A Scottish poet with a fresh and resonant voice makes her fiction debut wit h a novel about the life of a famous jazz musician, born female, who masque rades as a man. Like the real-life Billy Tipton, Scottish trumpet player Jo ss Moody has a wife, Millie, and a domestic life. No one except Millie know s the truth about his sex, which is revealed by the medical examiner only a fter his death. The issue of sexual identity is only one aspect of Kaye's i ntense and poetic narrative. Joss is black, and both he and his adopted son , Colman, suffer from pervasive racism in London. Kaye prismatically reflec ts Joss's life in vignettes from almost a dozen characters, some of them en dearingly quirky, but the principal voices are those of Millie and Colman. Angry and bitter about having been deceived by his adoptive parents, Colman is a sour young man, without talent, drive or purpose, and his cooperation with a sleazy reporter who wants to write a tell-all book about Joss grant s the narrative its main tension. Rather than sensational revelations, Kaye is interested in motivation and emotion, and her portrait of a distraught Millie is an incandescent study of grief. In conveying the nuances of an un conventional but passionate marriage, Kaye creates her own kind of prose mu sic akin to the bittersweet melodies from Joss's trumpet. Once into the rhy thm, however, Kaye cannot abandon its cadences: all the characters speak in the same short, lilting sentences and emphatic fragments, beautiful to the ear but not sufficiently differentiated. In the end, the mysteries of Joss 's life remain ambiguous, but his courage in maintaining the sexual charade
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