When cleaning out the house he has inherited, Evan finds a note and photo of Hughes taped to the bottom of a drawer, and finds aging, handwritten sheet music which might have been the original composition of two famous Miles Davis recordings.  Evan questions whether Calvin had been the originator of the music rather than Davis.   He begins to track down the mysterious photo and attempts to determine the source of the music.

Jazz aficionados will especially enjoy this story with its frequent references to legendary jazz musicians and its references to jazz history.  The story is entertaining and holds the reader's interest. Evan's own musical career is intertwined with that of the legendary characters.