He's Missing... Find Him

HE'S MISSING... FIND HIM

This story also involves Mr. Goldsmith's 1974 music score for a Paramount movie called Chinatown. He built this score around a solo trumpet, which is featured throughout the soundtrack. Since Mr. Goldsmith wrote the score with Mr. Rasey in mind, he will accept no other trumpet players, period.

The fictional problem is that Mr. Rasey has disappeared and no one knows his whereabouts or if he is even still alive. Mr. Goldsmith asks Paramount to hire a private investigator to find Mr. Rasey, but his request is denied. Being adamant that he get the services of Mr. Rasey, Mr. Goldsmith orders his assistant, Jim Swanson, to mount a one-man search for Mr. Rasey. But finding him is not enough. Swanson must also convince Mr. Rasey to come and be the solo trumpeter for Mr. Goldsmith. To make things even harder, Swanson must complete both tasks within 8 days. Swanson begins his search knowing only that Mr. Rasey contracted polio at age 5 and became the principal trumpet player in the MGM studio orchestra in the late 1940s.

By following Mr. Swanson's search, the reader will learn a great deal about Mr. Rasey including how he overcame the effects of polio and how he taught himself to play the trumpet. The reader will also discover how Mr. Rasey ignored all the nay-sayers who prophesied that having a disability would prevent him from achieving his dreams to become the world's best trumpet player. The search will also take the reader through Mr. Rasey's path to finding love with a girl who was a fellow polio survivor.

This book is unique because it offers the reader the ability to gain a sensory connection to the story and to Mr. Rasey. This will be possible if the reader takes the time to sample some of the music actually created by the mega-talented Mr. Rasey.