Blue Notes Under a Green Felt Hat
by David Ritz
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Danny Klein, 23 years old in New York in 1948, loves three things: sex, hats, and jazz. He is heir apparent to his father's hat business and the pawn in his parents' games. In the jazz clubs on 57th Street he meets Cliff Summer, a great undiscovered blues singer. This Bildungsroman tells of Danny's declaration of independence from his parents and his establishment of his own hat and record shop, but the character doesn't really grow. At the novel's end, he is still the same child-prince. His show more chauvinistic attitude toward women will offend 1980s sensibilities, while the parents' vulgar discussions of sex don't seem to fit the 1940s milieu. Slang terms from the present are anachronistic; more successfully conveyed is the musical scene. The author would have done Danny a greater service by loving him a little less. -- Library Journal. show lessMembers
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David Ritz has collaborated with Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, B. B. King, Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Smokey Robinson, and Don Rickles. He co-wrote the song Sexual Healing with Marvin Gaye. He received the Gleason Music Book Award four times. (Bowker Author Biography)
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