About the book: 2009 / Anton Soya's new book "Jazz Band" is a phantasmagoric story, an amazing mix of an exciting plot, brutal humor, musical and cinematic allusions and lyricism, seasoned with a dose of bloody action. The author’s imagination is sometimes cynical and truly knows no bounds. In the city of Yuzhnomorsk, the “Merry Brigade” has long been in charge, a jazz band trying to instill good musical taste in the townspeople using very gangster methods. But don’t be surprised - this team consists of authoritative repeat offenders who literally pray for jazz. Driven by one idea - to put the capital's show business on a jazz track - the jazz band, led by their leader, the hardened man Kostya Shepherd, decides to return the singer Dulina to the glory of a jazz diva and overnight conquers the musical Olympus. The novel is not recommended for reading by persons not over 16 years old.