The World-Famous Franky Fritz Band

Franky, a youthful big-band leader, driven to succeed after being shunned by his bride at the altar.

Daughter Ariel, who grows up on the road among a motley crew of male jazz players. The child, an unofficial mascot for the band, is adored by the whole gang—and she’s taught by her father never to believe in love. At least the romantic kind, albeit not a father’s.

And Bobbi, the band’s one-of-a-kind female vocalist. Franky and Bobbi front the band, filling the air with sexual sparks onstage and mixing like oil and water off it.

Sometimes comical and always poignant, The World-Famous Franky Fritz Band travels through eras of change, starting with the intertwined adventures of a post-war touring jazz band and a single father with his growing daughter. The story chugs into the late 1960s, when Ariel has become a headstrong young adult, pulled by the forces of that turbulent decade, and Franky’s jazz livelihood is dying at the hands of rock ’n’ roll.

The World-Famous Franky Fritz Band is about the music of generations, and the nature of love—familial, friend, romantic. It’s a different kind of jazz novel, one that examines the evolution from one musical form to another, and the transition from everything old to all that’s new. The World-Famous Franky Fritz Band follows the path that starts at innocence and leads to a universal choice—the one between bitterness and wisdom.

Ladies and gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to—straight from New Orleans, Louisiana, the birthplace of jazz—The World-Famous Franky Fritz Band.