Flying High: A Jazz Life and Beyond Piers Amodia ca (with Ottawa poet Stephen

ca (with Ottawa poet Stephen Brockwell)

The Patron for the first year of the Banipal Prize is Mohammed Ahmad Al-Sowaidi

Rich in historical insight

and this talent is easy to see

A cosmic event is here depicted: The earth begins to turn

Flying High: A Jazz Life and Beyond Piers Amodia ca (with Ottawa poet StephenForeword by Benny Golson. Peter Kings book ranks among the great jazz autobiographies. One of the world's leading alto saxophonists, he tells his story with searing honesty, revealing the obsessions and motivations that have driven him and the dilemmas of surviving as a top creative musician in an often inhospitable world. With unsparing self analysis he describes the traumas that accompanied his brilliant career for many years. Internationally