Translator’s Note
1. A Polish Prelude
2. You Can Tell Just by Listening, Can’t You?
3. The Faintest Idea
4. Geniuses of the Right Hand
5. A Port of Transit
6. As Melancholic as a Sunset
7. Which One of the Three?
8. Oh My Sweet Darling, Spare Me
9. The Virtuoso Nomad
10. An Island of Defaulters
11. The Passion for a Great-Great-Grandfather
12. A Wrong Modulation
13. The Palms
14. Your Tempi!
15. Every Child Brings Its Own Bread
16. Celebratory and Elegiac Waltzes
17. Shon May and Shon Max
18. Sensuous Movement
19. Max and the Shark
20. The Rebels
21. The New Woman
22. Curfew
23. My Sister the Negress
24. Spy
25. Fifteen Hundred Out-of-tune Pianos
26. Music Everywhere
27. Chick Corea
28. Dirty Jim/Mighty Bomber
29. Mazurka Erotika
30. The Tumba Queen
31. End of an Era
32. Bal Colonial
33. The Pilgrimage
34. The Trade Wind in My Ears
35. The Bastard Son
Glossary
Sources and Bibliography
Discography
Index
