David Solbach: From Jazz Musician to Novelist — Stories from a Remarkable Life

Today’s guest has lived several lives in one lifetime. David Solbach has been a jazz musician, carpenter, taxi driver, poet, memoirist, and novelist—and each chapter has fed the stories he tells.

From growing up on the Kansas plains to navigating the cultural currents of San Francisco and later turning decades of experience into fiction and memoir, he brings a perspective shaped by music, history, reinvention, and human complexity.

His books—including In the Shadow of the Plague, First There Was Music: Reflections on a Life, and Stonepacker’s Gold—explore memory, identity, family, and the forces that shape us. Get ready for a conversation about storytelling, creativity, music, unexpected turns, and the many roads that can lead to a writer’s life.

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