num_pages: 416
description: Lick Holden, a talented but tormented young coronet player, sets out to conquer the steaming jazz scene of early twentieth-century New Orleans, in a lively novel that won the 2002 Whitbread Novel Award.
language: English
title: Twelve Bar Blues
titlecomplete: Twelve Bar Blues
genres: Fiction, Historical, Music, Book Club, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Jazz, Africa
ratings_count: 779
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Novel
publisher: Grove Pr