Jimmy Jazz - by Roddy Doyle

I wanted a quick read and have not read anything by Roddy Doyle for a while, so when Amazon offered this on Kindle for free, I grabbed it. Here's the blurb:

Jimmy Rabbitte hates jazz, always has. But his wife Aiofe loves it, and Jimmy loves Aiofe. So when, in attempt to convert him, she buys him two tickets for a Keith Jarrett concert he decides to take Outspan, former member of Jimmy's band The Commitments, who has come back into his life after a chance meeting in the cancer clinic. Jarrett is famous for being intolerant of any noise at all - a cough, a sneeze, a wheeze - from the audience, stopping playing and shaming the perpetrator. And Outspan's diagnosis is lung cancer, it's pretty bad, and he needs an oxygen cylinder to breathe properly.

It is a nice simple story, which is set up well, has a good definition of context and a nice subtle twist at the end. If I have a criticism, it is that Doyle could probably have made more of it than this short story.