Now's the Time Audiobook

Part mystery, part adventure, completely heart-felt, “Now’s the Time” follows jazz trumpeter Didi Heron as she searches for the lost tape of her father’s last gig before his tragic death. A celebration of family ties and musical legacies, “Now’s the Time” is a meditation on jazz and jazz players. Drawing inspiration from the lives of musical giants, Strauss has created a fictional work rooted in historical fact, jazz rhythms and harmonies and emotional reality.

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“Narrator Kim Fields pulls out all the stops portraying a sophisticated young jazz trumpeter and the many gnarly characters she meets in the urban jazz scene…The versatile Fields captures the heroine’s longing and determination, as well as the edgy dynamics of African–American jazz culture. It’s a story that reveals the challenges of making it in the music business, but the novel’s hook is the heroine’s quest, not only for the sound of her father playing his last gig but also for the piece of her musical soul that went missing when he died in a car crash in his mid-20s, just after that performance. This is a must-hear audiobook. Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”

— AudioFile