Now's the Time

Now's the Time is a novel with the drive and surprise of the music it celebrates. Red Sanders, born in Ottawa in 1932, gives up everything to go to New York City in the early 1950s to play the music he loves, yet scarcely leaves a mark on jazz history. David Gant, born in Victoria 30 years later and now an assistant professor at an Ottawa university, has never risked anything for his music, or for anything else. But as he researches the life and music of Red Sanders, Gant makes discoveries that change everything.