When real estate agents start calling West 106th Street by the trendy nickname Duke Ellington Boulevard, it's a good sign that living, breathing jazz musicians can't afford to live there anymore. That's bad news for clarinetist Ike Morphy. In Ellington Boulevard, Adam Langer's third novel, Ike returns from seven months at his dying mother's bedside in Chicago to find Ikea boxes in his hallway, fancy French wines in the recycling...
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