http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/03/arts/03bourjaily.html?hpw
"Mr. Bourjaily was an avid outdoorsman, a jazz aficionado and an amateur cornet player. (He bought his first instrument when he left the Army with his mustering-out pay.) His novel “The Great Fake Book” (1987) has an amateur jazz cornetist as a protagonist, and at Iowa he was known for organizing jam sessions (and parties and pig roasts) at his farm, Redbird, outside of Iowa City."