THE GOLDEN JONAHS

The Golden Jonahs A Reality/Fiction/Music/Romance Epic That Chronicles The American Jazz Scene From 1900 New Orleans To Chicago Then On To New York Featuring The Big Band Swing Era Of The 30S And 40S. It Details A Succession Of Tragic Heartrending Love Affairs Throughout The Lifetimes Of Three Talented Musicians Who Each Are Plagued By A Jonah Curse. Famed Cornet Player Dixie Harte Along With Friend And Mentor Shadow Manion A Prototype Of Hoagy Carmichael Enliven The New Orleans Jazz Scene In The Early 1900S. Dixie'S Romance With Gorgeous Cajun Belle Maria Lecaire Ends With Her Death During Childbirth. The Ravishing Actress Nita Morgan Is Slain By A Jealous Husband. In 1930 Dixie Is Summoned To New York In 1930 By Renowned Bandleader Paul Whiteman To Replace Alcoholic Horn Man Bix Beiderbecke. Enroute Dixie Is Killed In An Automobile Wreck. Dixie Had Often Referred To Himself As A Jonah One Who Is Cursed And/Or Bears Ill Will To Others. Dixie'S Reincarnation Danny O'Neal Is Born A Year Later. As A Promising Young Trumpet Player In Love With The Bewitching Beauty Becky Martin Danny Is Sent To Korea In 1950 And Later Reported Killed. As A Prisoner Of War He Contracts The Dread Beriberi Disease. Upon His Return Home He Discovers That His Precious Becky Has Bore Him A Son Danny O'Neal Jr. But Also Has Remarried. When Danny'S Death Is Eminent He Arranges To Be Hypnotically Retrogressed Back To The Year 1930 To The Bedside Of Dying Dixie Harte In An Attempt To Re-Enter And Assume The Life Of His Previous Entity. The Revived Dixie Harte Has No Memory Of His Previous Lives As A Featured Trumpet Player. Dixie Along With His Beautiful Wife Talented Vocalist Kathy Kay And Lifelong Friend Shadow Manion Co-Mingle With Famous Bandleaders Musicians And Celebrities Of The Big Band Swing Era. Dixie'S Untimely Demise On A Disastrous Plane Flight From London To Paris In 1944 Also Claims The Life Of Famous Orchestra Leader Glenn Miller. Dixie'S Wife Kathy Goes On To A Prominent Movie Career While His Son Dixie Harte Jr. Inherits His Father'S Trumpet Talent In Addition To The Jonah Curse. Ed Starkey The Author Of Nine Novels And Thirty-Six Books Of Poetry Is An Accomplished Storyteller. Both The Stirring Love Sequences And His Knowledge Of The Big Band Swing Era Are Aptly Manifested In This Poignant Tale.