[Dixielandjazz] Novel with OKOM

[J. D. Bryce]

I don't know whether this would be of interest to members of this list, but I had a novel published last year called "Four Bar Tag."  Set around 1980, the book has a slue of OKOM history mixed in with a story about a reporter researching a story on trad jazz. In the course of his work, he discovers a college student who plays trad on soprano sax and sounds remarkably like a legendary jazz musician who died in the 1934 Morro Castle disaster.  The reporter finds that the kid was taught by his grandfather and he begins to suspect that the grandfather is the legendary jazzman who escaped the disaster and has been hiding out from a murder charge for 40+ years. 

The book has been no challenge to "The DaVinci Code" but it is available on Amazon and Borders Books on line. I used the pen name J. D. Bryce when it was published.

I debated with myself about mentioning the book to the DJML, but Dave Littlefield (El Sheik) said it would probably be okay to do so. So................

Jack Bryce