(W/A/CA) Blutch In this freewheeling collection of short stories and vignettes, the famed French cartoonist examines not only the music, but the nature of the jazz subculture. The grumpy festival goer, the curmudgeonly collector, and many other fan 'types' are the targets of his unerring gimlet eye, drawn in a range of styles as improvisational as Coltrane and Mingus.