The musical duel between the two men is at the heart of Alessandro Baricco's monologue, a neatly turned, self-consciously musical piece that riffs on the complications of desire and an original life lived out to the music playing in your head rather than the constraining choices of the real world. Further even than Jelly Roll Morton, the man who claimed to have invented jazz. He might not have been able to bring himself to disembark, but his mind and his fingers could go anywhere on the 88 keys of the piano, and then a little bit further. Novecento never left the liner, and so never officially existed, but when he played the piano his imagination had no limits.
It's about a jazz pianist called Danny Boodmann TD Lemon Novecento, who was found on the first day of a new century in a cardboard box atop the grand piano in the ballroom of a grand ocean-going liner. I f you turned the rumpled, care-worn trumpet player standing in front of us upside down, nothing would come out of his pockets, but he has a rich story to tell.
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