Intermission

Intermission begins the story of The Bill Evans Trio, featuring twenty-five year old Scott LaFaro on bass, who play a series of concerts at the Village Vanguard that will go down in musical history. Shortly afterwards, LaFaro is killed in a car accident, and Evans disappears. Intermission tells the story of what happens next. Martell explores the pianist's devastated reaction to the death, told through the perspective of four different people, his brother Harry, and once fellow musician, his Mother Mary, Father Harry Sr (Senior), and at the end, Bill himself. 

The book is based partly on the true history of Bill Evans; however Owen Martell has imagined the intermission. Distraught after LaFaro's death, just days after recording the seminal Sunday at the Village vanguard, Bill Evans disappeared, and it is in this time of disappearance that Martell has based his book.

Based upon factual events, the book dissects family and how important they can be in a time of crisis.I felt that each family members section inspired compassion in me, the fact that these are real people Martell writes of, yet it is not a biography.

This is a beautifully written novel by Martell, especially with it being his first written in English, with his last two releases in Welsh.