The shrine thief : finding wisdom in a life of music : a memoir /

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The expanding present -- Human family: dad -- Human family: mom, Grandma Clara, Sister Sue, Uncle Milton -- A young voice: nine to nineteen -- The old man -- The interloper -- Just one more -- Chicago gives me a dollar -- The journalist -- Theater music -- Murshid -- The Canada journal -- The Holy Ones: message and messenger -- The izness bizness -- End game -- Bali journal -- Writing it -- Music at the core -- Teacher, taught, and the recognition of wisdom."In this entrancing memoir, timeless questions about music and life are explored by a master musician in his 88th year. The stern father who built an empire of words; the solipsistic uncle whose hypnotic voice calmed millions: these are just early glimpses of Mathieu's memory. Soon he is crimped into an overhead baggage rack in Stan Kenton's tour bus as scenes of scotch-soaked melancholy play out below; he is sharing late-night quarts of ice cream with Duke Ellington in his hotel room; he is co-inventing improvisational theater at Chicago's Second City with Alan Arkin and Mike Nichols; he is receiving the title of Sufi sheikh from an heir of Inayat Khan; and he is gleaning wisdom from a woman bundling firewood in Bali." -- From the publisher's website.