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Harlem jazz trumpeter Pete Peters was murdered in 1933 just hours before the birth of his son. Twenty-four years later, now a young man, Horatio Peters believes he's only chasing his father's genius rather than following in his musical footsteps. A remarkable jazz trumpeter in his own right, Horatio struggles with playing original pieces left behind by his father. The works play perfectly in his head but become a muddled mess when sounded through his earthly horn. Seeking his father's music teachers, Horatio's journey will take him to Clarksdale, Mississippi. There he will meet the grand music…mehr

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Harlem jazz trumpeter Pete Peters was murdered in 1933 just hours before the birth of his son. Twenty-four years later, now a young man, Horatio Peters believes he's only chasing his father's genius rather than following in his musical footsteps. A remarkable jazz trumpeter in his own right, Horatio struggles with playing original pieces left behind by his father. The works play perfectly in his head but become a muddled mess when sounded through his earthly horn. Seeking his father's music teachers, Horatio's journey will take him to Clarksdale, Mississippi. There he will meet the grand music instructors Jackson and Gaston Fable and all their wondrous tricks, rich history, and thumping music. Horatio's melodic odyssey will collide with the stories of three generations of women from Water Bug Hollow, Louisiana, a seductive and wicked woman of fair beauty, and the proper keys to unlock the endearing story of another lifetime hidden in the mysterious notations of his father's music. Author Justin Thomas' grand conjure series, THE FABLE AVENUE SAGA, begins at the mystical, Mississippi crossroads with a tale of music, magic, and murder…
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Justin W. Thomas is resident of Newburyport, Massachusetts, and a collector, researcher and writer about American pottery production from the seventeenth through the early-twentieth century. He had studied at archaeology departments, museums and private collections across the country, publishing many articles about American potteries in regional and national publications. Thomas was a guest curator at the Custom House Maritime Museum in Newburyport, assembling a temporary exhibit of locally made pottery from the Colonial period through the early-twentieth century. He also helped to write the exhibit catalog, Potters on the Merrimac: A Century of New England Ceramics. He is also the author of The Beverly Pottery: The Wares of Charles A. Lawrence, The Moses B. Paige Company: The Last of the Peabody Potteries and The Dawn of Independence, the Death of an Industry: The Pottery of Charlestown, Massachusetts.