In the triumphant concluding volume of the trilogy that began with <b>Whistle Guitar</b> and <b>The Spyglass Tree</b>, Albert Murray gives us what is at once an African American coming-of-age novel and a pitch-perfect evocation of a touring jazz band at the height of the Swing era. Murray's hero, Scooter, graduates from an Alabama college and becomes a bass player in an ensemble headed by the legendary Bossman. As Scooter criss-crosses the United States, he and his bandmates find themselves retracing Sherman's march to the sea, the Underground Railroad, and the conquest of the West. <b>The Seven League Boots</b> is nothing less than a jazz epic, so vivid, high-spirited, and infectious that readers will tap their feet to the music of its prose.<br><br><br><br>&quot;A work of joy, of celebration...a great work of art, a rich and moving song of the human spirit.&quot;--Los Angeles Times<br><br><br>&quot;A fictional tale spinner in the grand Southern tradition.&quot;--Washington Post Book World