IN PURSUIT OF A MELODY by Joan Cartwright is a light review of this jazz vocalist and composer's brilliant career and travels. It is dramatic and humorous and contains Joan's poetry and songs, written over the course of 28 years. There are photos of jazz greats - Hugh Masekela, Betty Carter, Gloria Lynne, Quincy Jones, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Sandy Patton and Dizzy Gillespie - and friends of Joan, in the United States and Europe. It has essays to enlighten new and upcoming singers - So, You Want To Be A Singer? - Joan asks, as she guides singers through the intricate details of making it in the music industry. There are 35 poems and 40 songs in this book that is bound to please even the most frivolous music lover. Also, in the book is artwork by painters, Michael B. Mattox, Charles Mills and Anthony Evans, all of whom were exhibited in Joan's gallery, Motherland Bridge, in Fort Lauderdale.  Don't miss this best-seller!