Velvet Lounge
Troubled urban neighborhoods and jazz-club havens were the backdrop of Gerald Majer''s life growing up in sixties and seventies Chicago. The Velvet Lounge, an original hybrid of memoir, biography, and musical description, reflects this history and pursues a sustained meditation on jazz along with a probing exploration of race and class and how they defined the material and psychic divides of a cit...
Troubled urban neighborhoods and jazz-club havens were the backdrop of Gerald Majer''s life growing up in sixties and seventies Chicago. The Velvet Lounge, an original hybrid of memoir, biography, and musical description, reflects this history and pursues a sustained meditation on jazz along with a probing exploration of race and class and how they defined the material and psychic divides of a cit...
