UnConvenience NoMo is the sequel to Too Much UnConvenience, which is book one Chicago memoirs. Adventure, romance, risk, and creative collaborations are at the core of Beau’s thinking, hence his recollections are exciting, stimulating, and unexpurgated.

Welcome to Chicago Beau’s world of Jazz, Blues, itinerancy, and passion for living from Paris, to Nairobi, to Brasil, to Dakar, to Montreal, to San Francisco, to New York, to Copenhagen, and on, and on.

The life of Chicago Beau is in these pages. His family, his loves, his music, his writing, and his understanding of the world are all there. How the Civil Rights Movement in the United States had an impact on the world is in these pages. How a man can be shaped by culture even as he works to change it is in these pages too. However, perhaps the biggest lesson he leaves regards embracing change rather than fearing it. Wouldn’t America be better off with more people like that? I’m happy to be able to collaborate with him at various times and whether you have the opportunity to know Beau or not, his life will enrich you.

From Foreword by Scott Cashman, Ph.D.

Author Biography

Lincoln T. ‘Chicago Beau’ Beauchamp is committed to the literary side of Blues culture. In 1988 he founded Literati International Publishing Company that published literary magazines: Literati Chicago and Literati Internazionale, publications dedicated to multi-culturalism. In 1989 he founded The Original Chicago Blues Annual, the first Black owned, Blues-Afrocentric, yet culturally inclusive Blues publication dedicated to preserving an original artform created by Blacks in the Americas. Since 1998, Beauchamp has combined all of his publications into one entity, L.T. Beauchamp Publishing that has published over one hundred writers and artists including Gwendolyn Brooks, Alejo Carpentier, Cadex Herrera, Barbara Barefield, Eugene B. Redmond, Ásta Magnúsdóttir, and Hart LeRoy Bibbs.Beau has been a professional performing musician since 1969. He has recorded several solo albums, and collaborated with the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Archie Shepp, Julio Finn, Memphis Slim, Mario Donatone, and many others.

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