Side man
By: Warren Leight.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 82
Subjects: Jazz musicians -- Drama.; New York (N.Y.) -- Drama.
Description: Side Man is the comic and tender story of Clifford, a young man who looks back on his family life. Prior to leaving home, Clifford reconciles the role that he has long played as parent to his parents. Smoothly gliding between present and past, it tells the story of a time before The Beatles and Elvis, when jazzmen were as heroic as ball players and there was no shortage of Saturday night gigs.

Side Man is both a tribute to the men whose lives were their music and a sober look at a family drama left in the wake of that passion.