Zoe Elias, who longs to play the piano but must resign herself to learning the organ, instead, finds that her musicianship has a positive impact on her workaholic mother, her jittery father, and her school social life.
Nanette Hayes is a former child prodigy with a Master's degree in French, but earns her living playing saxophone for spare change on New York's funkiest, meanest streets...Suddenly, the law is on her case, a jazz-loving gangster is making moves on her heart, her buppie boyfriend wants to tie the knot, and Nanette finds herself on the trail of one of the music world's greatest mysteries.