Both wonderfully eyeopening and hugely entertaining The humour extravagant language and vivid details make all the more impact because through them shines the authors warmth and humilityBC Reviewone of their top picks for 2024

With personality to burn he was in the very best sense a character He lived a big life eventful ambitious full of travel It was the sort of life that generates stories more than a few and were lucky he set some of them down for us here in his own confiding humorous inimitable voiceBill Richardson writer and broadcaster

For touring musicians and eager audiences alike these On The Road stories from a masterful raconteur ring true and evoke the old maxim the show must indeed go on and on and on and onJon Washburn CM founder and conductor emeritus Vancouver Chamber Choir

George Zukermans memoirs reveal a fearless enthusiasm boundless energy and endless intellectual curiosity all in the service of his superb natural talentChristopher Millard president Council of Canadian Bassoonists

George Zukerman has been a Canadian institution since shortly after WWII Hes lugged his bassoon coast to coast north to south and in nations around the world Returning to Vancouver he launched his own community concerts first locally then around BC on to the prairies Atlantic Canada and eventually clear across the remote North What unlikely tales his book has to shareSubterrain Magazine