SIDEMAN BLUES He played in Vegas. Then he died there--his body found at the edge of the desert with a broken neck and a bloodstream full of smack. Now, thirty-seven years later, Evan Horne is looking into the death of tenor sax player Wardell Gray...
The sound and the fury...
On a dark night in Pennsylvania, a jazz legend met his death. But now, in the heat and light of Las Vegas, the sound of Clifford Brown's soaring trumpet is coming back to life. Because a man named Evan Horne, wh...
THE DEATH OF COOL A string of murders hits the jazz community like a sour note. Its victims are those musicians who've traded the traditional sounds of the greats like Charlie "Bird" Parker for the newer, more marketable "smooth" jazz. But "Bird" ...
NOT JUST A PIANO MAN Pianist Evan Horne's European interlude lands him a gig in Amsterdam, where the old jazz clubs are alive and well. But here he unexpectedly finds himself reliving the last days of legendary blues trumpeter Chet Baker, who died...
After several months of successful work in London and Amsterdam with American expatriate Fletcher Paige, musician Evan Horne returns to the states and settles in the San Francisco Bay Area. There he reunites with his girlfriend, FBI agent, Andie Lawr...
Jazz pianist Evan Horne, settled into the San Francisco jazz scene, takes a gig in Los Angeles, where he’s offered his most unusual job yet. Mega movie star Ryan Stiles hires Evan to teach him to look like he’s playing piano for an upcoming film ...
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE MAN IN RED SQUARE In the grand tradition of unforgettable Cold War spy thrillers, Bill Moody's The Man in Red Square sends you on an exciting journey into history, politics, and deception as Washington and Moscow jockey to pull...
Mood Swings offers the reader a behind the scenes look into the world of jazz through the eyes of nine musicians. Like the music itself, the stories range from humor, joy, and success, to failure, and at times, even danger and darkness, as each music...